The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1906-07-12

pack alone, out AFTER another wal
of few minutes the willows part
ed few feet away and Foot'
emerged. He carried his riff,
cooked and resting across his lef
arm, while his right hand held thu
weapon in position for instant
use, the trigger being ready fol
action. There was a smile on the
face of the outlaw, but it was one
open to double Interpretation. II
said: 81 am here to meet you either
as friend or foe."
On sight of him we of the Pow
ell crew threw up our hands in
playful submission and called to
him that we were his prisoners
Having left all guns on the boat,
all being appareled in rough
shirts and trousers that preclud-
ed the secreting of weapons, we
busted ourselves with the boat
while Foote sat down upon the
bank, rifle across knees, and
watched us for time, gradually
joining in the conversation and ac-
cepting US as what we actually
were-explorers with no design
upon his freedom.
Camaraderie between meni in the
wilds comes easily. We were soon
on good terms with the outlaw
and he invited us to his cabin, laid
down his own gun and busted him
self as host.
Some six months previously
Phil Foote and a woman, while the
opening dance of the elegant new
hotel at the mountain spa was in
progress, had robbed the guests
of the Colorado hotel at Glenwood
Springs of the jewels and purses
they had left behind in their
rooms while engaged in the festiv-
tiles in the ballroom. They had
escaped into Utah with their
booty, and, after realizing on the
gems, Phil, in true outlaw form,
had proceeded to lose the spoils
at a gaming table in Salt Lake
City.
But as his last dollar passed
into the Golfers of the faro dealer
Phil drew two guns, covered the
dealer and demanded his money
and all else in sight. In western
parlance, che made a gun play
for the bank roll and got away
with it," He escaped from the
gambling house, fed from Salt
Lake to Green River station,
on the Rio Grande Western rail.
road, and was stopping at the rail
road eating house at that point
when the United States marshal
OF the then territory of Utah came
upon him with two deputies and
surrounded him in his room i'm the
hotel.
Foote resisted arrest, fred |
upon the officers, wounded the
and, in rain of bullets.
leaped from the second-story
window of his room, ran under fire
TO the Green river, seized row.
boat and put off down stream. He
made his escape by the river to a
point some go miles away and
went into camp on this bottom.
de, like all outlaws, knew the wild |
country, and in choosing the bot
tom ON which to make his camp
lad picked out the one from
which there is egress from the can
1on walls for the $50 miles be-
ween the mouth of the San Ra.
ael and Hite crossing on the
Colorado. A blind, narrow.
almost indistinguishable foot
railhad been lined by game up the
'anyon wall from the river bottom
o the headlands, 1000 feet above,
is a passage to and from water
md the feeding grounds, and so
ormed the only trail in all that
istance by which one might es.
ape from the canyon.
Here FoOte built him a cabin in
he shelter of the willows and the
imber of the bottom. He had
lade an occasional foraging trip
0 ranches far above and meagerly
uthtted himself with cooking
araphernalia TO the extent of
roken parts of stove to build /
round some mud walls, a coffee ,
OF, skillet and tin cup. For bed /
ing he had some skins and blan. !
ct or two. He managed to live
Il the country, killing an occa. i
lonaideeror mountain sheep that a
'und its way to the bottom or /
itching fish from the river now b
nd then. We had our cooking n
itfit and supplies. A trip TO thu,
pat furnished coffee, sugar 4
lnned milk and vegetables. b
OOte had some Vaniaon 90 ,.al i