The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-18
cUDIHEE GOES ON STILL HUNT
AFTER OUTLAW.
TRACY HEADS FOR MONTANA
Engineer cavanaugh Believes That
He Met the Hunted Man at East
ern Outlet Of Stampede Tunnel

Seattle, July 16.-The only interes
in the Tacy hunt today lies in the
mysterious disappearance of Sheriff
! Cudihee. who severed connection with
his officers and the outside world in
! general yesterday afternoon when he
| vanished from the vicinity of Gov
ington. 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 yester-
day. Near by were the ashes of a
camp fire. He says the rags looked
as if they have been used in dressing
wounds. A little later, two railroad
men saw mysterious man carrying
a gun and hiding behind trees in the
same section There are no deputies
in town.
For nearly a, week Tracy has been
within the confines of a triangle, the
west point of which is Auburn, the
east point Palmer and the south point
Buckley.
Within the confines of that triangle
he has appeared and disappeared at
his own sweet will, but each time it
was his luck to show up in place
that was not guarded by officers.
At different times he has crossed
the line of his triangle in an effort
to escape. But the desperate is in a
strange country and the only way in
which he cam find out where the trails
or roads lead to is to stop persons
passing along the road to inquire from
them
This triangle is bounded on the
southwest by the White river. running
from point north of Auburn to Buck
ley, distance of Is miles; on the
north by the Palmer cutoff of the
Northern Pacific, 81 miles long, and
running east and west through Sluice
creek canyon. and ON the southeast
by the old line of the Northern Pa
cific from Buckley to Palmer, dis
tance of IA miles.
Cannot Escape.
This triangle is in the foothills of
the Cascade mountains and the river
valleys are very narrow. This is the
reason that the officers feel confident
that he cannot escape from the tri-
angle, and the whole scheme since
Friday has been to keep him on the
move.
In the territory covered by the tri-
angle above described there is an area
of 2,822,400 acres of land, but of this
vast area it is safe to say that there
are over 100000 acres of land that
no human being could travel over.
Guarding this last section of country
there are fully 200 officers, including
sheriffs and special deputies. These
officers are making it point to care
ing through this country in the hope
that the fugitive may pass along some
where within sight of the officers.
AS soon as the officers have picked
out place which is considered worth |
guarding two deputies go into conceal
ment and they never show themselves |
only when being relieved or in halt
ing some passer by.
A story told by John Cavanaugh, a |
locomotive engineer, who handles one |
Of the big helpers between Easton
and the east approach to the STAN
pede tunnel, would make it appear
that the man who is so badly wanted |
has really succeeded in throwing ev-
eryone off his track long enough to
pass over what might appear as an
barrier to his escape. |
cavanaugh's Story.
II had just helped a freight train |
up the HILL yesterday morning, and re-
turned to Easton," said Engineer Cav
anaugh, when saw man suddenly
dart from the track and disappear in
the bushes by the side of the track
The timber is not heavy there and |,
near the right-of-way is but a light
growth of scrub pine.
'If the man had walked away cool
y would have thought nothing what
ever of the circumstances, but just
is soon as he left the right-of-way he
vent towards the forest in hurried
strides. He would conceal himself
behind a little scrub pine for an in
slant, look backward towards us and