The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-02
LAST STAND
OF THE ROAD. AGENTS OF THE
 WEST.
They WIIl be Extcrminated-WaF Has Been Declared by the Union Pn- cIac-COstIy Army Main
 tHined.

To clean up the worst bandit belt in the country is the task to which the Union Pacific Railroad has set itself. The fiat has gone forth from headQuar- ters that the organized band of train robbers that have operated in the bad lands of Wyoming are to be extermi- mated. says a Denver letter to The Chi cago Inter-Ocean.
 To secure the result Tim Keliher'n company of mounted rangers has been formed to patrol the tracks of that railroad in the outlaw storm center Ee- tween Medicine Bow and Green river. Armed guards ride on every passenger train A special car and engine lie in the railroad yards at Cheyenne ready at a moments notice to transport fast horses and hardy riders to the scene Of action. The industry of train roobine Is to be suppressed at all costs
 The suggestion that armed guards ride on every passenger train was made first after the Wilcox and Tipton hold ups in 1899 and 1sOU. This plan was shortly afterward put into force In Ne braska. The result has amply justl- fled the precaution. From that day to this there has not been a hold-up in the protected territory.
 But the road proposed to mako as- surance doubly sure. To that end Tim Keliher's ranger company has been formed to patrol the bandit belt,
 which stretches from east of Rawlins to Green river, through rough. sparsely settled country favorable to the operations of train robbers. This conpany is composed of picked men
 Every one of them is a dead shot, good rough rider and as nervy aS they make them"
 Ride on Every Train.
 It costs about S1.000 month to maintain its ranger service, put the trains go screaming through the bad lands of Wyoming without fear of ban dIts. For on every passenger train guards sit nursing deadly Winchesters. and somewhere along the line between l C,hevenne and Green river is the rang CTS car. loaded with fast horses ano l determined officers. ready to- take up l inc trail as soon as electricity faS | flashed the message of the hold-up.
 The extension of the long distance | telephone to the ranch lands. folloW;nS
 as if did the settlement of the COW l country, was the first shock 10 the 1 fourishing industry of train roooing' 1 Since tbe whereabouts of the escaping | desneradoes could be telephoned from noint to point in advance of their ar | rival If became necessary to aoandop | inc more settled portions Of the couh-
 try for their fields of operation
 | There were established what became
 Lrovn as bandit belts. One stretched 1 across Texas to Arizona along the l Southern Pacific line. Another Ns-
 gagged through the Coloraoo Hloun ii
 tains to the country aOou' Ss "a
 known Robbers Roost. A thlFo-aho
 tbe most dangerous of all-belted Wy
 omtnq in the rough COW country where
 Iio Tockson's Hole and the notorious | ITo,e-In-tbe-Wall Here, among the
 Tetora as the Big Horn mountains are | callad far from civilization and th~ | long arm of the law, lurked strange
 population composed of cattle rusIiets' 1 highwaymen and fugitiYes rom Jus
 ,,o natural fortlfication. and. what
 was oF more avail to the desperadoeS
 ,,,to S1,estad 1t. every settler was at i outs with the law.
 | CouId Not Capture Bandits Mo sberjff's posse could invade Its
 ..ored nrecincts and haul forth a crim-
 ,nai 1he news of the pursuit would ! he whispered apparently on the wings of inc wind, and long before the daring ! sheriff had reached the spot ms quarry l had hunted cover. If the ofncials got ! hscl, to civilization alive they were ln | luck. .,. mated on a branch of the Powder river, ! In inc western part of Natrona County. l It Hes among the foothills southeast of the southern extrenities of the Big l Horn Mountains. One hundred miles l to the southeast is the nearest rall- 1 roaS point, Casper, which is on the | Frsnoont, Elk Horn and Missouri Valley Railroad. The nearest point of contact on inc north of the Hoie-in-the-walI l is Cody. the terminus of the Burlington l branoh that runs from Toiuca. This is 900 rnIles away across the mountainR