The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-07-16
BLOODY RAGS FOUND At
SMOKING CAMP FIRE
Engineer Cavanaush Believes That he
Met the Convict at the Eastern Outlet
of Stampede Tunnel-Not at All Sur
prisine II Tracy Had Finally Succeed
ed in Doing What He Boasted he
Would-Probaby Headed for His Old
Montana Stamping Ground.

Seattle, July I6.-The only interest in
the Tracy hunt today lies in the myster-
ious disappearance Of Sheriff Cudihee,
who severed connection with his officers
and the outside world in general yester-
day 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. Near by
were the ashes of camp fire. He says
the rags looked as if they have been used
in dressing wounds. A little later, two
railroad men saw a mysterious man car
rying 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 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 tip 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 strange country
and the only way in which he can 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 south
west by the White river, running from a
point north of Auburn to Buckley, dis.
tance of IS miles; on the north by the
Palmer cutoff Of the Northern Pacific, 2r
miles long and running cast and west
through Souice Creek canyon, and on the
southeast by the old line of the Northern
Pacific from Buckley to Palmer, a distance
of Id 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 triangle and the whole
scheme since Friday has been to keep him
OH the move.
In the territory covered by the triangle
above described there is an area of 282a,-
400 acres of land, but of this vast area it
Is safe to say that there are over 1000 900
acres of land that no human being could
travel over.
Guarding this vast section of country
there are fully 200 officers, including
sheriffs and special deputies. These Of
fcers are making it point to carefully
guard all the trails that are passing
through this country in the hope that the
fugitive may pass along somewhere within
sight OF the officers.
AS soon as the officers have picked out
place which is considered worth guarding
two deputies go into concealment and they
never show themselves only when being re-
lieved or in halting some passer by.
story told by John Cavanaugh, loco
motive engineer, who handles ono of the
big helpers" between Easton and the east
approach to the Stampede tunnel would
make it appear that the man who is so
badly wanted has really succeeded in
throwing everyone off his track long
enough to pass over what might appear as
all insurmountable barrier to his escape
Cavanaueh's Story.
II had just helped freight train up the
hill, yesterday morning, and returned to
Easton," said Engineer Savanaugh, 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-o ofway is but light
growth of scrub pine.
"If the man had walked away coolly I
would have thought nothing whatever of
the circumstance, but just as soon as he
left the right-of-way he went towards the
forest in hurried strides. He would con-
ccal himself behind little scrub pine for
an instant, look backward towards us and
then by quick move seek another place
of concealment further removed from the
railroad track.
When my attention was first directed
towards the man | only gave him casual
glance, but there was something in his ap-
pearance that caused me to look again and
it was then that thought of Tracy.
Through the Tacoma papers had been
reminded that Tracy had followed railroad
work for time and then it came back to
me that knew him when he was en-
ployed as switchman in the Tacoma
yards.
Had No Friends.
Il never was really well acquainted with
the man. There was something repellant
about him and he had no friends among
his co-workers. had frequently noticed
the death-like, cameo appearance of his
face, and the features that seemed devoid
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