The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-28

same cartridge as a Krag- Jorgensen army rife, besides which he is equipped with pair of A Colts revolvers and a hundred rounds of ammunition in his belt. The horses are native ,Westerners, like their riders, but they are the fast est and most enduring to be found, The cost was about one hundred dollars each, and each of them Is corn fed and carefully tended. They are strong legged and wiry apparently as tireless as their riders. From one to four guards ride on every train on the road, dependent in number on whether the train carries treasure Nobody is al- lowed to ride 'hainh baggage.n Ho- boes especially are Farl,stiizstto E tto keen away from the cars. The orders Of the "shot-gun' guard are to ride not al- ways in the same place, but to travel sometimes on the engine, sometimes in the express car and once in while in the coaches.
 Every man in the guard has areeord as good man with a gum .ssssi'' Funk was formerly sheriff of Buffaio county Nevada; George Hiatt is an ex-deputy sheriff of Carbon county, Wyoming; Pat Lawson and Tom Meggeson are both celebrated western scouts and guit es. Sheriff Wharton, of Rawlins, and Sheriff Young, of Green River, both typical western frontiers men, are enlisted to aid the rangers whenever there shall be a call for their services. While the headquarters of the rangers are at Cheyenne, the men and horses are kept in constant requi- sition to patrol the line and look out for suspicious characters. The car is loaded with men and horses, and is run down the line to Medicine Bow or Point of Rocks. Here the rangers and their horses go on reconnaissance, riding along the line and watching for suspi- cious characters, of whose movements they may have been informed.
 Meanwhile the car follows a parallel course, keeping in touch with the men and picking them up at a point agreed upon. Never do the men get more than a few miles from their wheeled base of supplies, unless on an actual chase. The worst parts of the line are, of course, patrolled most. It is we'll
 known by all residents of Wyoming that Red Desert, which is a sheep graz ing country, is not used by herders ill the summer. A gang of train robbers could ride swiftly through the desert and reach the railroad without being detected, were 1t not for the precau- tions of the rangers. Three weeks ago the rangers were riding along the line at various points when word reached Cheyenne that an attack had been made at Wilkins pump house. Frnk Utley, night pumpman, had been wounded by robbers, who had thrown the switch at that place, but he had succeeded in driving them away. That was the report which sent the ranger special whirling through the black night past side-tracked flyers and mall trains. By morning Keliher's men were on the ground, and the trailers were examining the trail. The affair turned out to be a fiasco. The pump man had broken the switch and wounded himself in search of notoriety. But the promptness with which the rangers reached the scene of action; which is nearly three hundred miles from Cheyenne, shows what bandits may expect should any be foolhardy enough to defy rim" Keliher's rang CTS. Denver Post. aS