Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-09-04

SditOWS anu 0iNc 6fo"oS
male to II All.
Could Harry Tracy, VINO kllieo
himself in the last ditch to which ne
had been driven after pursuit ex
tending over two months, all but
three days recently, be regarded as
reasonably representative rather
than as an isolated case OF curious
moral degeneracy we might look up
on Jules Verne as a prophet with
cause. That genial and original 70
mancer, who has lived to see much
of what he imagined for the purposes
of fiction become the facts of scien'
tific and mechanical achievement
recently told an interviewer that the
day is near when the newspaper
shall have taken the place OF the
novel as a means of diversion and
observation-disclosures the reporters
and editors of the near future will
bring to bear upon their handling OF
the days news an art of writing and
literary decoration that shall drive
fiction out of vogue.
But, Allah be praised Harry
Tracy's are few and far between.
His final operations were conducted
many miles from Philadelphia, but
it is very doubtful If the newspaper
readers of this vicinity had expert
enced such exquisite thrills since
they read of Dewey's bold entrance
into Manila bay as were given by the
daily reports that followed Tracy's
escape. from jail June las. He
was, without question, a remarkable
man; but his claims to distinction
were not attractive, however interest
ing were the manifestations by which
they were called to the popular no.
tice.
A wo Months Record.
Our esteemed fellow citizen and
br Their, Aguinaldo, managed to con-
tribute an interesting share to each
days news before he finally came to
terms with our assimilative govern
ment: but he contended against no
such odds as Tracy met and over.
came after killing guards and a fel-
lew convict in the Salem. Ore. peni-
tertiary. Here is an incomplete but
eloquent diary of the Tracy itinerary
from his escape to suicide.
June ESCAPED at z O'Clock In the
morning from the Salem penitentiary
la company with his brother-in-law
David Merrill, with whom he was
serving twenty-years sentence,
three years of which hat been pass
ed. He killed S. r. Jones. Frank
Terrell and B. F. Tiffany. guards, and
Frank S. Ingram, convict.
June 10-Returned before dawn.
robbed a man of his clothing. stole a
team of horses and went with Mer-
rill to Portland. Near Gervais they
robbed two members of the pursu-
ing posse and stole horse and bug
gy.
June 1i-Ambushed d fred on
the posse near Gervais.
June 12-Made their escape oy
night through a Gordon of $50 militia,
men who had been summoned to cap.
;ure them
June 14-Stole two horses near
Oregon City and made their way
through the suburbs of Portland.
June 15-Forced two men TO ferry
them across Columbia river in the
morning. landing within five miles of
Vancouver
June l7--Fired on the posse at Sal.
mon Creek. wounded a deputy sher.
in. and. at Ridgefleld stole two horses
and went on
June 2S--Ro6bed a house near La.
center while the owner was al
church, taking money and clothing.
June 25-Robbed house near Kel.
so. Wash.
June 26--Stole a couple of horses
but dismounted and returned them
on meeting owner,
June 29-Slipped through a big
posse guarding roads near Chehalis
during me night.
July Tracy and Merrill seen on
Northern Pacific, forty miles from
Tacoma. That was the last seen O,
Merrill alive, His body was found
July 10 with a bullet.hole In the
back, Tracy afterward explained
that he and Merrill had fought duel
and that he had been compelled 10
kin in self.defense. Tracy stole an
other horse July l and passed
through Olympia.
July 2-Robbed six men at South
Bay and forced four others. incluo
ing the captain of gasoline launch
to take him on Puget Sound to Seat
tie, where he landed at night. Tolt
the four he would never be taker
alive.
July Met the advance guard O.
the Seattle posse at 2,40 O'Clock p
NJ, killed two deputy sheriffs. wound
ed two newspaper men. and. goin,
back toward Seattle. encountered anC
Killed a policeman and a gam,