The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-10-23
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5 fOngholl of the outlaws.

Voliquet was a cook for a time at
the stronghold. He got there by ac-
cident. Having been discharged from
a hotel in the Bitter Root valley, he
undertook to beat his way east, and
the trainmen to teach him a lesson,
put him off in the badlands. 40 miles
from a water tank. 1t was while in
this predicament that he had the for
tune to meet Billy Longabaugh and
another of the gang, who We're TAX
ing some stolen horses to their rend-
ezvous.
On learning that Volquet was a
cook they hired him to work for
them.
After riding As miles from the
place where Voliquet was discovered,
the men came to narrow canyon,
across the opening of which were
stretched huge chains. On the way
there the party met number of Cree
Indians, who saluted and rode silent
ly by. The new cook was hardly in
stalled in his new position before he
became aware that he was having
the adventure of his life, and that his
employers would shoot him without
conjunction if he attempted to es.
cape. Billy Longabaugh, Lonnie and
Bob Currie, and Cherokee youth
generally known as Dalton, were the
only white men on the place. There
were Cree Indians ranging in number
from 20 to 40, about the four cabins
and four corrals most of the time
These Indians were all splendidly
mounted and armed, in that particu-
lar differing from the rest of their
tribe, for the Crees are the Ishmaels
of the plains.
They are nominally wards Of the
Canadian government, but their res
ervatiOn is so bleak and cheerless
that they sneak across the forty-ninth
parallel oftener than they can be tax.
en- back The men are the most muir
derously inclined and the women the
prettiest of the northwestern tribes.
The Indians live in their own to-
PEGS and do their own cooking, al
though their supplies are furnished
from the general storehouse.
One feature of the everyday life at
the camp is the practice of rifle and
pistol shooting. The canyon is
blind" or one which has but sin
gle opening. At the upper end of the
gulch the Indians and white men en-.
gage in shooting. Their favorite
method is firing while riding, or run
ming away. The accuracy with which
| they shoot over their shoulders and
the celebrity of their aim is wonderful
Every one about the outlaws place
seems to know that it is the intention
to defend it against any posse thai
might try to capture them.
The place is admirably adapted fol
that purpose. There is no way o.
getting to the cabins except by the
entrance barred by the chains, an(
day or night, Indian scouts are al
ways on watch. The CT ees come ant
go, 10 matter how many there ma!
be 10 feed, the whites making no oh
lection. All of the white men, inclul
ing the new cook, have sweetheart
among the Indian women, and mat
tiers progress smoothly.
To reach the place posses will hav'
to cross miles of desert. The Onl,
water within a radius of 60 miles i
at the springs of the outlaws.
! tOIlQueI, dIlcI otdylA6 l"O SCNI
in the camp, persuaded them to lie
him go on visit to his old mother il
France They paid him his wag
promptly, and with threat that hi
life would be the penalty if he eve
divulged the hiding place OF the gan:
| cop< hin, ~ Tho CT otipn
The cook kept his word never t
| talk about the life there until shoI
time ago, when, upon first hearing c
the train robbery, he fell the victir
to inducements offered by detective!
got drunk and told the whole stor.
> THE idea of posse of men nun
bering less than 500 trying to captur
, those outlaws is MURDER" said d.
tective who has been working ON tn
7 case. THE government will have