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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-12-14

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REprRII-
, fof the purpose OF running down robbers
cf banks. railroads and express companies.
a protective committee. with more than ION
banks and railroads represented, has been
HORNED.
: Pinkertur. the noted detective. IL at fine
Fhead OF IT. and the Union Pacific and the
Sreat Northern lines particularly Interested.
although this "aatioutlaw trust" COM
hlnrs the resources of all the banks. ex-
,gress companies and railroads of the great
west. has been in existence only a Short
lime. It Is Eaid TO rapidly freeing the ro,n-
sary OF Train robbers and safe dyne niters.
Al the request Of the Sunday Herald Mr..
'oooert Pfnkerton yesterday gave some in
tkeTesting figures on the subject.
At the recent convention of the america,
Association 1t was shown that this
organized hunting down Of the mos; dies
peTate and dangerous criminals in the world
Gosts In The nneighborhood OF 80. 90 q wear
me entire Rocky Mountain region. from
me Canadian border TO Old Mextcr has
Been secured sby experts shadpwiuy mem
osTs OF the gangs from state to State
through nearly twenty degrees OF latitude
sahe trails often leading into The wildcat ana
,1nost inaccessible haun;s of outlaws ana
Ibesels OF prey among mountains and mains
1t Is a dark and thrilling story Of Row
Uuief, unscrupuiocs cowboys. apparently in
Significant men, sift themselves oGt of tn.
society OF their honest fellows and become
N-bSS PiGitutIlng banks. Blowing M rail-
way trains, Spreading terror over III. isra
Heavy overland express trains rich in
treasure. thunder through canons. viii,
expert fFontiersmen among the passens.rs
Yet all are helpless as babes when a couule
OF these robbers hold up the train I'm the
mountains, blow open cars and safes. with
passengers and train crew looking on
frightened and paralyzed.
Half an hours work end the Job.
The bandits mount horses and vanish into
the wilderness.
Then all hands hurry aboard the cars.
the engineer puts or steam. and at the
first town reached a posse Is raised.
With bloodhounds and fast horses. pur-
suit begins.
Usually the result Is failure.
Then Pinkerton is telegrapieG. and his
agents appear.
Starting from fhe scene of the hold-up.
they get on the trail Of the fugitiyes, with
orders to keep at 1t until they are success
full. be ii a week. a month or twenty years
hence.
Said Mr.. Pinkert0n the other day:
AS a rule, train robbers are originally
cattle thieves.
They begin life posing as cowboys be-
cause they think II an easy life.
BY nature they are too lazy to work
Learning the business. they take to
branding stray calves on the plains before
The owners employees can find them and
drive them 10 the herds.
Next they begin stealing sattle, altering
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-12-14

I med = as in the days when tho we're
/ l~.-.l.i'Ug success.
~ i, Mr.. Hays became = clerk in III" :.
! Louis Offices OF the oil Atlantic and Pa
elf. Railroad. now the Frisco.
( lie was Il native of Rock Island. II. H
| entered the St. Louis Office in Novemh.r u
| 49,.
In March Of the following year he was
promoted. to 8" a month. with a position in
the aud tors office.
! Within. a year ne went into the general
SUPERINTENDENT Office as Z clerk 81 S1 Il
month.
III 1871 he became the private secretary OF
the general manager of the Missouri Pa
clfc at St. Louis at si@l a month. and re-
manned in that position seven years. his
salary to $3.50 a year.
Iii 1$A Mr. HAYS became the private eac-
Rotary of the general manager o: the Wa
bash. and two FEARS later was made as
sistant general manager OF the road a: a
salary of $500 a month.
A year later he became general manager
with IA salary Of $1,000 a year.
After a long service with the Wabash,
Mr.. Hays went with the Grand Trunk at
$500 = year. under 2 contract to serve at
that salary fur five years.
l: was during his service with the Grand
Trunk at this time tina. Mr.. Hays assured
his friends in ST. Louis that he would al
| ways remain = citizens of the United States.
and that he would never submit to knight
hood.
Within three years after Mr.. Hays went
to the canadian Railroad he was raised in
salary Of SG5.GI = wear.
coils Z. Huntington died.
The Southern railroad WAS without 4
president.
Il was tho second largest railroad in .he
United States \ big man was needed.
! As II" Grand Trunk had violated It's cor
. tract With Nj. HAYS in raising his salary.
, y. -a- -.v- F-r. =. ,.izJa,a a.. a,f -, - A..
! Southern Pacific.
: An offer ot &55.ca2 i year was msde and he
! accepted.
Nov that Mr.. HAYS has returned to the
Grand Trunk he proposes to undertake the
construction OF a new railroad TO the Pa
cific coast. which will give the Canadian
Government two transcontinental lines.
one OF the most widely known a. M;a-
sourians in executive positions in canada
t is Mr.. F II. Michigan. manager Of main
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-12-14
LOENy LOGAN.

Who was killed while resisting arrest.
and muStache. color somewhat lighter than
hair"
Marks has gr;ushot wound on wrist:
talks slowly: IS of qr.et. reserved manner.
Harvey Logan is a fugitive from justice.
having murdered Fike L-anGusky. at Lam
duSEy. Mont. December -. lX9l- and since
then has been implicated IN a number Of
rOhb"Ti.S. among them the robbery Of a
Union Pacific hallway tram at Wilcox,
Wy.
June .. 1888. q posse overlook Logan and
his band near Casper. Wy. and III an at
tempt TO arrest them Sheriff Joseph Hazen
of Converse County. Wyoming. was as
sassiEatsd.
Nov. this gentimanly assassin and train
robber. once a modest Cow puncher in old
Missouri. developed such daring in boiling
up overland trains that he became a leader
Of the famous Wild Bunch gang. of less
than a dozen members. but equal TO a whole
regiment -: ordinary dcsparadoes in terror
iZinS the far West.
The folloHins .nI" narrative OF some OF
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-12-14
HARVEY LOGAN.
LEADER of Wild Bunch Gang"

LEADER OF WIG ENnCh bans-
Losan's deeds gives an IDEA of the re-
sources and Operations.
-Ir. Pinkerion says:
Harvey Logan was arrested near Knox
vile. Tenn. December =. 1891. and Is now
in Jail AT Knoxville. awaiting trial by the
United States Court.
After the hanging of Black Jack Ketch-
am by the Authorities in New Mexico and
the killing of VIII Carver by Z Sheriff's
posse in Texas. Logan became the leader
of the Wild Bunch.'
"On December u. 1901. when hiding in
Knoxville. he had an alteration in a sa-
loon with two habitues OF the place, at
tracing the attention Of two policemen
They attempted to arrest him, and in
the fight following he shot both officers. in
juring them so seriously that their lives
Were despaired az.
Logan then held up the proprietor. his
employees and other in the saloon who
tried to assist in his capture. and, backing
out of a rear door, escaped by %vaulting
over a fence into u railroad cut thirty feet
deep.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-12-14

the greater part Of whose early career was
passed in Missouri.
One of these men, r. s. Logan. assistant
TO the second vice president and general
manager. OF the Grand Trunk. was secre-
tarv to Mr.. Hays when the latter was on
the Wabash.
The proposed undertaking involves build
ing SEQ to $3.50 miles of line. which.
equipped. will cost perhaps as much as
$40. V.0O1.
The line will be built by a new corpora
ton. the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Com
rany. and it is hardly necessary to say that
it will be a highly modern road. with the
loves; ohtainable grades
II will probably leave tie Grand Trunk
road at a point between Toronto and North
Bay and will connect with the Cergue Ioad>
at sudbury and reach Port Arthur.
1t will run through Northern Ontario.
Manitoba, Saskatchewan. Assiniboia and
Alberta
The project has been under consideration
for 4 long tine. and was finally agreed to
during i recent visit to England by Mr..
Hays. and tn. directors are now ready to
push the project with the view OF finding q
terminus on Butte Inlet or at Port Simp-
son.
Port Simpson is 80 or co miles north Of
Vancouver. the Pacific terminus Of the Ca
madam Pacific.
Underlying this colossal project Is the
feeling OF the great Importance OF getting
into the rich territory Of the Northwest.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-29
Wanted His Share.

THE treasury department runs
across many funny things in the
course of days business" said an
official of that department. THE mails
are full of curious epistles, but, as a
rule most Of them receive. polite atten-
tion and answers are returned. Just
before the close of the year that ended
with December 81 Secretary Gage gave
an interview, showing the splendid
condition of the country in financial
way, and the full purse of Uncle Sam.
In his statement he showed that four
years ago or little more the per cap
ita circulation throughout the country
was only S23.14, but that although the
population has increased the volume of
money has more than kept pace, so
that the per capita at the first of tho
year was S2S.73. A man named Schmidt
in New York saw the statement. and
the day after New Year wrote a letter
to the treasurer saying that if the per
capita was so much he certainly did
not have his portion of it. He inclosed
a draft on the treasurer for the amount
that he considered he was entitled to.
The draft was presented to Treasurer
Roberts with great solemnity but he
declined TO honor it, and directed that
no answer be sent to Mr.. Schmidt,
whose letter was well written and the
handwriting good.'
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-29

"I am says 1, suspicious like, and
thinking he would put me up on a
cart horse. But twas too late for
choosing. He called old Frinzie and,
says he: 'Frinzie, saddle O'Shanter for
Captain Blakely, and lead him round
behind the dairy till the captain is
ready
"And then he told me, 'O'Shanter
may suit ye, and then he may not,
but, anyhow, he's the speed of ghost
an the spirit of forty imps. Kape
him away from the dogs, and If ye
value yes life kape him out O the
timber. And wathever ye do, Munster,
don't try t. lead yer field. If ye do
mind what tell ye-they'll be Imply
commission in the Rifles
"Well, with that he left me and 1
got into tn buckskins and went out
behind tn dairy, where, sure enough,
Frinzie was walking up and down be-
fore the finest bit Of thoroughbred
horse-flesh 1 ever saw in Ireland or
out Of it. 1 didn't like the way he
was bitted-curb and snaffle like a
iddS . L uluu llhe tlle
saddle, deep seat with a horn like
a new moon, fit only for curate 60
ing to mission, but Frnzie swore that
horse and trappings was the last in
the stable, and so there was nothing
for me but to throw leg over O'Shan-
ter and try his mettle.
''By the Rock O. Cashel, Trevelyan,
twas like riding Aeolus. He hardly
touched the ground. He'd the mouth
of vestal and the manners of lady
in waiting. In two minutes was
telling him what to do, and he did it
like soldier of twenty battles. stood
him before the five-barred gate lead
ing into the meadow. and he took it
like cat over the rung Of a chair.
l didn't see how big he was till 1 was
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-29

Transvaal and the Rifles were on six
weeks waiting orders at Queenstown,
that got five days leave and went
down to Kildare for farewell chance
with the hard-riding gang that rides
with Phelim Ormonde once year. He's
my uncle, you know, though he isn't
any older and hasn't a haporth O.
sense more But he's a demon for
hunting and keeps as many dogs as
would send many man to the poor
house.
"Well, down I goes to Ormonde
house without SO much as by your
leave l didn't mistrust his welcome,
mind We, for twas I knew he was the
game sportsman and n rale Irish gen
tleman in everything but his dislike
for me. Well, sirs, niver such a howl
ing hallooing, swearing, snarling mob
Of dogs and hunters ever was seen as
that / saw when 1 got down at his
front stoop. The lawn was alive with
the knowlngest hunters in Kildare. Old
Jimmy Fair, the Galway whipper, with
n pack of fifty keen imps-he's come
sixty miles-was sitting in :. window
plating lash and talking to his dogs.
The house was full of dogs and men
and not the sign of petticoat about
the place. | found me uncle at the
breakfast table, red at tue face, all
In his corduroys and swearing away as
natural as life.
"'Have ye mount for me, PhelimE
says l, grabbing his hand and grlnning.
"I have an 1 haven't says he,
looking at me kind Of mysterious. Are
you bent on folleylng the hounds this
mawrnlngT
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-29
7 was at Colonel Trevelyan's

T was at Colonel Trevelyan's
4 smoker in Picadilly that O'Brien
of the Royal Irish told his story
about the horse he rode at Omdur-
man and how the beast insisted on
galloping rough-shod over every heath
en- corpse on the plain. Grafton, who
had been there, too, said such q horse
was treasure and that two Of his
subaltern surgeons had been knitted
by the heathens at the very moment
when the Christian sawbones were
seady to minister to the wounded.
Most of the yarns We're dreary enough,
for they related to the passage of the
Tugela, the siege OF Ladysmith and
lot of recent passages in British
military history that make poor enter
tainment for an officer Of his majes-
tvs army. The talk was getting a bit
scandalous. Dunlevy was railing at
the war office and Trevelyan himself
had let fall a few hot ones at the
Sldar, when Blakely of the Rifes-they
call him Munster" Blakely in the
army-started off on a tangent about
cross-country hunting that gave the
smokers a chance to forget their griev-
aaces. You can't express Blakely's
way Of telling story in print because
he's as full Of gestures as a French
man and has way of talking "horse"
that nobody can remember quite as he
gives it. For registering chap, he can
get as serious as any man, and, with
laugh in between his frowns, can
carry a grave tale with conviction.
Anyway here's the story he told at
Trevelyan's:
"O'Brien's Omdurman horse reminds
me Of the quarest thing that ever hap
pened me, and that's saying a deal,
for tits every one here knows I've
been in many. Twas just before Bobs,
God bless him, went down to the
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-29

The Brookside Kennels, at Kenosha,
Wis, consist of rows of snail, low
buildings, built especially for their
Angora occupants. The houses are con.
structed in such manner that they
are kept at the same temperature from
one end of the year to the other In
order to make this possible a steam
plant has been placed in the house near
the kennels and hot water is used for
heating power. The quarters for the
cats are well arranged one whole side
OF the building being built of glass in
order to give the cats plenty of sun.
light. The walls are painted in soft
tints in order to prevent any injury
to the eyes of the kittens. and tho
rooms are cutained so that the sunlight
may be shut out il necessary. Every
one OF the fifty cats now in the kennels
has an apartment Of its own.
From the time the kitten is born I'M.
til it finds a permanent owner If bos
every care that would be given a babe.
1t is tenderly fed and washed daily.
When it Is old enough to have the
air it is allowed a certain amount of
exercise in little inclosure adjoining
the Kennels, and at the close of the
evening it is tucked to bed in comfor-
table couch.-Milwaukee Sentinel.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-29
Gypsy Methods of Communication.

The ancient rood-signs of the Rom.
any, the ''patteran," takes the place
of sign-boards or maps. The "patteran"
is a little, carefully arranged pile of
sticks, grass or stones, placed at cross.
roads, where none but Gypsy would
notice it, any more than any one but
Romany could read it; but to him it
is as plain as the monday sun, and by
it-a succession Of such wayside tokens
one family or comnany can follow
others who may be days ahead of them
for hundreds Of mile.;.
Though the Gypsy has uses for other
methods of communication besides the
mysterious "patteran, he is not a
letter writer. He rightly cares first
for his own immediate family circle;
the closest ''in-laws" do not travel to.
gether unless perfectly congenial or
unless it Is convenient for them to do
SO, and as the rowing life is not con-
ducive to letter writing, even the near
est relatives do not usually hear from
each other directly more than once or
twice year at most.
In the city livery stables and pawn.
brokers' shops opportunities are afford.
ed for the exchange of news, but for
those who roam in small groups and
rarely strike large city or the great
bureaus of information, summer camp.
ing grounds, where all the gossip of the
year Is retailed, communication of per.
sonal family news is uncertain.-Franl:
Leslie's Popular Monthly.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-29

up, for he was fine drawn, and his
sixteen hands of symmetry, bone and
muscle fit together like u ballet girl
in silk tights. The Lord forgive me,
but 1 swore right then that I'd win
the brush or kill O'Shanter trying. The
company was going when l cleared
the gate, the dogs well up and all
heading for Ramsey's downs, but L
noticed the leer on Frinzie's face as
l cantered across the lawn, and when
| got to the gate his wife, who had
run down to see the start, looked up at
me like a ghost and cries. 'Wirra,
wirra! May the Lord preserve ye,
Master Blakelyv
ITO make a long story short, 1 kept
out of the melee till they found the
fox, and the hounds went away in full
cry toward Ballynaf with forty of the
hardest riding chaps in all Ireland
streaming after them. At first l was
for trailing me field, for l couldn't for
get Phelim's warning, but when
O'Shanter struck his gait and laid
away like flash of rifle artillery me
blood got up and l gave him his head.
He went through the ruck as IL they
We're standing rtill, but 1 could hear
some of them shout, Hold him back!
and He'll kill yen as we challenged
the leaders floundering across fal-
low field. Here Ormonde, on the best
hunter in Kildare, was leading, his
horse pastern-deep in the loan, but
riding easy like the cocksure winner.
His face got green as we swept by
him, O'Shanter skimming the mud
like a swallow, Look out for the tim
| Der. Munsterp he shouted, and then l
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-29

Tibet is the land of lamas, says Will
lam Carey, in Adventures in Tibet"
What that means is not very easy for
us in our Protestant environment to
understand. The lamas are monks.
A hundred, or thousand, or even five
thousand of them may be herded to-
gether, If not exactly under one roof,
yet in one great building, whose rami-
fications root themselves like a for
tress in the rocks, and whose walls
and windows frown upon the sur
rounding fields.
The rest OF the timid Tibetians hud-
die in huts at the monastery gates, or
till the soil and tend their fiocks that
the lamas may live at ease. Deeper
than the roots of the lamaseries sink
in the rocks has the power of the la
mas lodged in the hearts of the people.
Every family has at least one repre-
sentative in the cloisters. Often there
are two and not seldom three. 1t has
been reckoned that every sixth person
in the entire population is either
lama or a lama novitiate.
The only education is monkish; the
only architecture that of the temples
and monasteries which seem to grow
out Of the craggy heights on which
they are perched; the one universal
and unceasing religious rite the twirl-
ing of prayer Wheel and the num-
bling Of meaningless sentence. The
lama holds the people in the hollow of
his hand and many forces meet in that
magnetic and masterful grip.
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-29
CHAUFFEUR MEANS STOKER.
Good Joke on Millionaire "MobilIsts"-
Fads in Pronunciation.


The pronunciation of the word
Chauffeur" provokes the Great Round
World to an examination into the au-
thority of pronunciation fads. 1t says:
Where polite usage gets it's authori-
ty nobody Knows. Now, it is saying
that valet the final syllable of which
we have learned to give off-hand with
a high-bred "a shall be Anglicized just
as 'parquet' was a few years ago, and
shall appear in polite society in it's
plain English stubbiness. 1t is likely
that we shall all stumble and stutter
and make mistakes at first, but event.
ually fall into a line of cts
There are those who claim that a
polite suburb should have long u
that tapestry should be "a long, and
that the sun never 'shone' politely
with long o. The same authorities
are busy with the new automobile
importation - Chauffeur (shofeur),
which has been called everything that
is polite 1t might be called something
more, for it is not q truthful term. 1t
means, when interpreted, fireman,
'stoker,' and is innocently a good joke
on our own millionaires who speed
their own 'outos.'
Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-05-29

noticed that the dogs had vanished
across the crest Of the hill and were
mouthing away into the dark thicket
before us. My horse was for fol-
lowing them in, but fought him across
the slope till my arms were sore, and
1 wondered if l could lift him at the
stone walls that stopped the road to
our right. He was furious, but needed
no lifting, for he took both walls In
his strides and was out on the moor in
time to see the hounds racing south
and away from the timber.
st was then quare thing happened.
1 felt as if two arms were thrown
around my waist and heard in my
ears woman's voice, sweet and low,
say, 'Ah, O'Shanter! Ah, O'Shanterv
He pricked up his ears and trembled
as if he heard the voice too, and 1
turned in my saddle, half afraid that
some woman was riding behind me.
AS / turned he bolted again for the
timber, but 1 fought him back into the
open ground and gave him his first
touch of the steel. Then he flew as
no horse ever flew. 1ne voice came
again, but O'Shanter raced till the fore
most horn died and could feel the
hot, back-blow breaths of the mouth
ing pack.
Il turned to check him now, for he
was dashing full tilt into the pack.
The trailers fell away in terror. He
went through the Galway hounds like
a ghost and they quit like ours and
scattered. Every dog we passed quit
baying and howled as ii he'd seen
banshee, and then the leaders, in full
view Of the racing fox, turned tail and
SUNK away silent or mourning in dis
NAL, evil yelps, as if their blood had
frozen with some sudden terror.
had not time to wonder at them then;
the voice of the woman was in my
ears; O'Shanter, his eyes on the fox,
his ears aslant his muscles quivering
and alert with the ecstacy of battle,
was bearing full upon the quarry.
of the game. My gorge rose as
saw his head dart down and heard his
teeth click as he snapped them at the
fox. AS we flashed down the hill his
speed increased, and In n hard peat
bed at the bottom the fox, no longer
hearing the dogs, tired and yet de-
fiant, came to bay. O'Shanter leaped
upon him with his steel-shod feet, and
before / could dismount was shaking
him aloft between his barred teeth.
1t was five minutes before [ had the
courage to take the brush. The laugh
ter Of a woman and the Aha, OShan-
teri fretted me like an echo in the
night, though it was early daylight.
But at last Phelim and a few of his
rivals came over the hill scowling, sui
len and silent. Nobody spoke to me
all the way home, and half Of the
company quit Ormonde House that
night.
Il told my uncle I'd leave at day
light, but 1 insisted on knowing more
of the horse. L bought him from Lady
Farleigh of Farleigh, or rather
bought him from her estate said
Phelim. She was the best horse
woman in Kildare. but O'Shanter
killed her in Ramsey's thicket last
Whitsuntide There isn't daredevil
in the county would ride him now"
John H. Raftery, in the Chicago
Record II Herald