, 1904-06-23
TROUBLE
ON WYOMING DIVISION BY TRAIN
ROBBERS SAID TO HAVE
BEEN ARRANGED FOR.
Blood CurdIing and Black Type Story
Given Prominence in the Denver
Positive Special Cars Kept Run
ming Between This City and Green
River Filled With Guards.

The following blood curdling story
was printed in yesterdays Denver
Post, the paragraph relating to the
special cars between Laramie and
Green River being printed in black
type:
Watch for the train r%obbers."
This oft-repeated admonition to
trainmen, Il especially those of the
ed. because of the Parachute affair on
the Denver and Rio Grande road re-
Gently.
The Globe and other express com
panies have armed guards on their
cars nowadays, as told last week in the
Post. but the Union Pacific has made
the most elaborate preparations for
trouble along the main line. the scene
of many such encounters.
Between Laramie and Green River,
in Wyoming. two special cars are kept
running continually. Que is a tourist
sleeper fitted out for the constant oc-
cupancy of a dozen q expert plains
measure of shot and unerring at fol
lowing a trail over barren country.
The other car is of the palace stock
variety and in it are 1G horses. togcth-
cr with saddles and fun equipment for
service. There is armament III plenty
in each car.
These two cars are kept continually
Oh the move through the Wyoming
bad lands" stopping only long enough
daily to exercise the horses. The head
of the party is always in communica-
ton with the division head quarters at
Cheyenne, and is ready to respond i'm
imediately to a call at any point along
the line.
Although there has been no such
trouble on the Colorado and Southern
for some years. precautions are TAX
en- in the open country in New Mexico
and the Texas Panhandle. The Rio
Grande and Globe arrangements are
contemplating the adoption of the I'm
ion Pacific system by reason of the
Parachute robbery.
The local authorities have learned
that the dead bandit was not Keith,
as supposed, as that individual is In
Jail at Omaha. From clews recently
brought to their attention, it is now be-
lieved that the oft-accused Gates
gang of three men conducted the
Parachute affair. The dead man is
supposed to have been James Arnett,
a half Mexican, concerned with the
Gates brothers in California robberies.
This gang consists of George Gates,
alias Guy Lecroix, Guy Edingscourt,
Bruce Van Drake and other names;
his brother, Edwin Vernon Gates, alias
Ed. Lee, Edwin Wallace and Arthur
Reed, and Arnett.
George Gates was concerned in the
attempted hold-up lear Trinidad, at
Beshoar junction, on the Colorado and
Southern. Nov. IS, 1902. when he went
by the name of LecroiX. He escaped
and the next heard of him was the
Southern Pacific train robbery at Cop
ley. Shasta county, Cal, March 81 last,
when he, his brother and Arnett are
said to have killed a Wells-Fargo ex-
press messenger named William
O'Neil, and to have secured consider
able loot. More than 81 900 in rewards
is offered for these men.
AS a removal from the Pacific slope,
where all are well known. was neces-
sary, it is learned the men started east,
but the trail was lost in Nevada.
George Gates or LecrOix could not zen
ture in southern Colorado, being
known in the coal mining districts,
but he could entur in the western
part of the state with comparative i'm
punity.
The dead man is now thought to
have been Arnett, and the Gates boys,
escaping as they did toward the north
west. may be now with the Utah gang
OF Butch" Cassidy and Harvey Logan,