Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-08-08
H. TRACY BOBS UP AGAIN

Krupp, Wash, Aug. 4.-Sheriff De
Bolt of Douglas county and Sheriff
Cudihee Of King county are proceed
ing on the theory that outlaw Harry
Tracy has taken an out of the way road
to Davenport. They believe that Tracy
is travelling at night, and have hope
OF intercepting him. They are cut off
practically from telegraphic communi-
cation.
At 10 o'clock Saturday night a man
was two horses, one of which he was
riding and the other Of which was used
as a pack animal, rode up to the house
of Rancher John Sterett of Connewai
creek and "halloed the house." Mrs.
Sterett answered his summons and
stood in the door while she talked to
him. He inquired the way to Daven-
port, and said he had lost his way COM
ing from Almira. AS a matter of fact
he was at least 10 miles away from
the direct road between Davenport and
Almira.
In shouting conversation carried on
with Mrs. Sterett the stranger said he
was travelling at night in order to save
his horses from the heat. He volun-
teered no direct information as to who
he was. Mrs. Sterett told him where
the Davenport road was. 1t was a by
road about six miles from the Sterett
house. She referred him to a hired
man who was in the bar for more ex-
plicit information. He and the man
talked, but they were some distance
apart. He told this man he was a pros.
pector from Virginia City, in the Okla
hogan country. He then turned up the
hill from the Sterett house and appar
emily went the way he was directed
Neither Mrs. Sterett nor the hired man
was close enough to get good look al
the wanderer.
Along the road for a distance of 1:
miles north of the Sterett home sew
eral people saw the man with the two
horses Saturday night. He passed ssv
eral farm houses, but SO far as coult
be ascertained did not hail any one
He was riding q sorrel horse and was
driving a gray pack horse in front O.
him.
One reason that makes the officers
believe that the man with two horses
whom they are pursuing is Tracy Is ;
conversation which the man had will
two campers not far from Coulee Cit!
Friday night. He ran into the cam
and almost knocked a tent down. On,
of the campers said:
"This is a pretty time of night for
man to be travelling"
Quick as fash came the reply:
at is a good deal better for me Il
travel at night than in the daytime"
The man volunteered no information
as to who he was, but got away in tn
darkness with his two horses as quick
ly as possible. Sheriff De Bolt met tn
two campers on his way from Coule
City to Almira Saturday morning, an
they told him the foregoing story.
Grandfather Dies.
Pittsville, Wis, Aug. Al. G. Sc,
ems, II years old, grandfather Of Hal
ry Severns (Tracy), the escaped Or
gcn outlaw, who has for weeks evade
capture by many posses and kille
many men since he broke from prison
died in this village upon hearing of hi
grandson's murderous career.
Since he commenced his blood
career 1t has been the constant effol
Of the grandfather's wife, children an
grandchildren to keep this fact frol
him, as Harry had been his favorite.
The fact Of Mr.. Severn's death r
calls to many minds the outlaw as
boy In Wisconsin, q bright promisin
youngster, and his career Of Grim
which commenced in Colorado. tn
old man died of broken heart.