The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-08-08

Chase-Tracy Is Headed south.
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 aniraal, 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 II miles away from
the direct road between Davenport and
Almira.
In a 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 by
road about six miles from the Sterett
house. She referred him to a hired
man who was in the bar for more ex-
u.
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 ne 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 10
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
whom they are pursuing is Tracy is a
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
I of the campers said:
- '"This is a pretty time of night for
man to be travelling"
Quick as a flash came the reply:
y cit is a good deal better for me tc
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
IL " as possible. Sheriff De Bolt met the
II two campers on his way from Coule'
City to Almira Saturday morning, anC
they told him the foregoing story.
en- Grandfather Dies.
IS Pittsville, Wis, Aug. Al. G. Sew
III ems, n years old, grandfather of HaI
it. ry Severns (Tracy), the escaped Ore
e. gon outlaw, who has for weeks evade'
capture by many posses and kille
N many men since he broke from prison
ill died in this village upon hearing of hi
to grandsons murderous career.
DIV Since he commenced his blood
career it has been the constant effoI
mt of the grandfather's wife, children an
we grandchildren to keep this fact fro1
him, as Harry had been his favorite.
ii The fact of Mr.. Severn's death r.
calls to many minds the outlaw as
boy in Wisconsin, bright promisin
youngster, and his career of Grim
the which commenced in Colorado. TIL