Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-08-09


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 hone
OF lnterceptng him. They are cut off
practically from telegraphic communi.
cation.
AT 10 o'clock Saturday night man
was two horses, one of which he was
riding and the other of which was used
as 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 tn
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 - 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 .orses from the heat. He volun-
teered no direct information as to who
he was. Mrs. Sterett told him where
the Davenport road was. It 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.
Int l.
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 a good look at
the wanderer.
Along the road for a distance of IS
miles north of the Sterett home sew
eral people saw the man with the two
horses Saturday night. He passed sew
eral farm houses, but so far as could
be ascertained did not hail any one.
He was riding a sorrel horse and was
driving a gray pack horse in front of
him.
One reason that makes the officers
believe that the man with two horses
/ NIiolu tH0S dlC pursuing Is lidty 10 d
conversation which the man had with
two campers not far from Coulee City
/ Friday night. He ran into the camp
and almost knocked tent down. One
of the campers said:
"This is a pretty time Of night for
man to be travelling"
Quick as a flash came the reply:
&c ooo1 Joo1 baftar foy. mo ~
travel at night than in the daytime"
The man volunteered no information
as to who he was, but got away in the
darkness with his two horses as quick
ly as possible. Sheriff De Bolt met the
two campers on his way from Coulee
City to A1mira Saturday morning, and
they told him the foregoing story.
Grandfather Dies.
Pittsville, Wis, Aug. Al. G. Sew
ems, II years old, grandfather of Har-
ry Severns (Tracy), the escaped Ore
gon outlaw, who has for weeks evaded
capture by many posses and killed
many men since he broke from prison,
died in this village upon hearing of his
grandson's murderous career.
Since he commenced his bloody
career it has been the constant effort
of the grandfather's wife, children and
grandchildren to keep this fact from
him, as Harry had been his favorite.
The fact of Mr.. Severn's death re-
calls to many minds the outlaw as a
boy in Wisconsin, bright promising
youngster, and his career of crime,
which commenced in Colorado. The
old man died of broken heart
Reardan, Wash, Aug. 5.-The pur-
suers of Tracy are proceeding on the
theory that he is somewhere between
Reardan and Sprague. Figuring that
he is travelling at night, 1t is believed
that he has had time to pass east
ward on a line between Sprague and
Reardan since he left the Sterett
house Saturday night.
Sheriffs Cudihee and De Bolt and
their deputies, who came over the
road toward Davenport from the
Sterett home, distance of so miles,
arrived at Reardan early this morn
ing, having followed the trail from
Steretts until daylight. Later in the
day they left for Edwall. A telephone
message from there stated that they
had gone south again, and it Is pre-
sumed that they left for the Crab
Creek country. There is a rumor that
Tracy was seen near Odessa at $3.50
o'clock Sunday night. If that be true.
Tracy, If it is he, turned off some
where on the road that Cudihee and
De Bolt pursued to Davenport.
A special from Granite, Mont, says
that Albert Gregor, who is well