Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-07-25

had been able to find and not one sign
did he give to anybody until the next
morning.
During the day Tracy had kept the
family on a high hill back of the
house, from which point he could COM
mand the road for miles. He had
been hunted so hard the night before
that he was not quite so jovial as
usual but he read the papers and talked
a great deal. At nightfall they re-
turned to the house and he had the
woman put him up food; when john
son returned from Tacoma he sent out
a little boy to get the revolver and
bring it to him. ..'@1'.
After he had received all that he
wanted, he shook hands all around and
left on one of the farmers horses
which he said he would turn loose in
a little while, and later in the night
the horse came back.
This is really the last that is posi-
lively known of Tracy. The various
sheriffs and deputies could not take
UP the chase until about noon of the
day this Johnson let out the secret, and
although Tracy was supposed to be
seen at various places towards the
mountains, he was not ~overtaken.
There is good evidence that in the
night he made an unsuccessful attempt
to board a freight train and before
daybreak some one who may have
been him, was fired at by deputies hav-
ing shotguns loaded with buckshot,
at a point on the Palmer CUTOFF rail-
way, just west of Covington, but these
incidents are shrouded in doubt. The
outlaw, or some one passing for him,
appeared at the cabin of an old couple
named Portant Friday evening and
pretended to be wounded and ex-
hausted; he remained some time and
was there when four deputies drove
past in a wagon, but while this was
most probably the fugitive, there are
many doubtful circumstances. The
chase went on, however, and every
clew was followed unsuccessfully IN
til the following Tuesday July 15)
when Sheriff Cudihee secured some in
formation that led him to dismiss his
manhunters and abandon the chase.
This was that Tracy was concealed
with two other fugitives from justice
in a cabin neal Lake Sawyer not many
miles from the Portant's house and
Cudihee's action was simply a blind
He picked a dozen of his most trust
worthy deputies, surrounded the house
in the night and made a sudden rush
only to find that if Tracy had ever
been there, he had left just in time
Since then the active chase has beer
abandoned.
No n believes that the outlaw an(
his fellow bandits-for he now ha:
three or four Others with him-are yer!
far away from the dense forests thirt.
or forty miles south of Seattle, and i
is further expected that some big Job
will be attempted, like a train or banl
robbery. A Northern Pacific pay trail
the other day fairly bristled with guns
In the morning of Monday, the 18th
a woman and boy wandering through
the woods four miles southeast of Che
4 halls, came upon the body of Davi'
= NJ o,y,,;11 u,1i1o ricJyiro h1o cRhn1vIsip &C
Tracy's story of his murder of hi
partner was true so far as relates t
his shooting his fellow convict in tn
4, back, for the body showed thre
/ wounds, any one of which would hav
y been fatal, and two were probabl
made after the man was down on tn
ground. Of course the story of tn
duel is not believed and there wa
every evidence of a brutal and coward
ly murder. With any lack of conf
dence between them there could be n
success mol any rest and sleep, so it
supposed that early in the morning (
II. June %. Tracy simply put his con
ls panion out Of the way. But think
I'm his nerve in telling the first ones l
met afterwards about his awful deet
Those who live in the more enligh
:, ened regions where this paper circ1
ed 1ates and where republican ideas al
sentiments are of course supreme, me-
. be disposed to criticise this county
y: King because we have a democrat
liz sheriff. We realize and eyen deplo
this state Of affairs but would call a
tention to the fact that every 9th
county officer is republican and t