The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-24
TRACY HAS A MEAL.
Outlaw Drops In on q Farmer, Dimes
and Is Shaved.


ENUMCLAW, Wash, July 15-Word
has just reached here this evening that
| Tracy had dinner Sunday Afternoon
| with Morris Garner. on what is known
as the Galnon farm, ON Boise Creek
three and a half miles southeast OF
| Enumclaw. Gamers story has up to
| the present time been kept quiet by him
| through fear of the outlaw, who. he
says, threatened him when leaving.
| Garner says that at or near O'Clock
| Sunday afternoon a man entered the
house without knocking and announced
himself as Tracy, saying:
Gentlemen, am Tracy, and want
something to eat quick"
The Carriers, father and three sons,
had just finished dinner so they told
him to sit up and help himself, which
he proceeded to do, first ordering the
two eldest sons to go to one corner of
the room, directly in front of him.
where he could keep them covered with
his rifle. At the time of his entrance
the younger boy was shaving, but after
the man announced himself as Tracy
he ceased the operation and was unable
to proceed, even when told by Tracy to
so ahead and finish the shave. After
eating his dinner Tracy saio:
young man, come here and shave
me-
the grounds of not being an adept with
the razor, Tracy said:
That's all right, I am not partic-
ular, and if don't kick, you need not"
whereupoh young Garner lathered his
face and proceeded to remove his
beard. They state that he had at least
two weeks growth of beard with which
he was very glad to part. After being
shaved he helped himself to a pair of
trousers that We're hanging on the wall, !
putting them under his arm, and went
out
This win materially change the the !
cries of Tracys pursuers, as it has been
thought all the time that he came to |
Enumclaw from Palmer by working !
along the side of the mountains south I
OF the Northern Pacific Railroad. and
was first seen by Clarence Burk just
east of the town. 1t seems though that !
he came down the line on the north side {
of the track until he came to or near
the White River, when he worked his ,
way south along the river, crossed the
track near the White River bridge and |
continued up the stream to the Garner
home.
The railroad company keeps a watch
man at this bridge, and he says he saw
4 man come up on the grade and cross
the track shortly after the noon hour,
and he is satisfied he carried a gun, s
he could see it glisten in the sunlight.
ascending from a small gully in the
foothills just east of here. AS it has
rained here most of the day, and at
times very hard, it is thought by a
great many of the citizens that the
fugitive is still lurking in the immedi-
ate vicinity. II his past actions are TO
be an index to his future it is more
than likely to be his campfire. as it is
well situated on q slope commanding
good view of the main highway to the
east and also overlooks the town. Any
one in this position could keep a good
watch and be in no great danger of Il
surprise. Looked at through a good
glass at 7:45 this evening it seemed as
if one could detect a rise and fall of
the flames, as if the fire were being re-
plenished with new fuel, and at one
time one or two of the watchers in
sisted they could see some one moving
about. If this is true the man is prob
ably the criminal There is nothing
to invite a camp for pleasure.
SEATTLE, Wash, July 16.-The
only interest in the Tracy hunt today +
lies in the mysterious disappearance of
Sheriff Cudihee, who severed connec-
ton with bis office and the outside
world in general yesterday afternoon
when he vanished from the vicinity of
Covington. The only thing new is the
following special from Ravensdale:
John burlington reports that he dis
covered some bloody rags in an old
shack one mile west of here yesterday.
Nearby were the ashes of a camp fire.
He says the rags looked as If they have
been used in dressing wounds. A little
ater two railroad men saw mysteri-
,us man carrying gun and hiding be-
hind trees in the same section There
Ire no deputies in town.