Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-15
OUTLAWS PLAN BOLD RAID IN
 YUMA
Had Water Barrels Placed Five Miles Apart Between South enn Pacific Railroad and h. ternSionaI Boundary Line.

Lieutenant Wheeler, of the Arizona Rangers, believes that in the capture of J. Alexander a few days since at Yuma, that he has partially broken up gang of outlaws who have been holding forth in the vicinity of the Yuma country for some time.
 Wheeler recently received a letter from the United States authorities at Denver, asking what had been done with Alexander, stating that they wanted him on a charge of counter feiting. He informed them that he had been turned over to the Graham County authorities, who were holding him on the .bigamy charge.
 It is definitely known that Willis Wood, who is wanted in this county for several offenses, and who has been indicted by the Unted States grand jury of this district on a charge of robbing the postoffice at Turner a few years since, has been the con- panion of Alexander for some time, and they were frequently seen togeth- CT or the streets of Yuma, and in fact Willis Wood has been in the office of Sheriff Livingston at Yuma on several occasions and talked to that official who was unaware that the man was a much wanted criminal, and it was not until after Lieut.. Wheeler had been tCld by Livingston about Alexander's partner and described him to the Ranger. that Wheeler told Livingston whe- the outlaw was. Besides being wanted in this county, Wood is known to be one of the men that recently held up a saloon at Silver Bell and killed a Mexican who resisted
 Alexander. after his arrest, made several admissions to the officers as to some of his companions and that Wood and Burt Alvord were two of them. but would not reveal who the for some time that there were five or six men in the gang.
 The officers and Lieutenan: Wheel CT in particular, about the first of this month discovered a plot of the gang in Yuma county to make a raid, but which of two objects the outlaws had in view has not yet been determined. One was to hold up a Southern Pacific train at Monbank Summit or else to rob the Wells-Fargo office there when the gold bullion from the King of Ari- Zona mine arrived there about the first of the month. The officers dis covered that there had been strung from the station to the Mexican line twenty whisky barrels. placed about five miles apart, evidently 10 be filled with water by the outlaws, so that they could water their horses on the way to the line. This discovery was made on July 29. and for four or five days thereafter there was a posse of five or more rangers on the Southern Pacific trains passing through Mo hawk Summit The gang evidently found ou. that thev were being watched and gave un he nan.
 Lieutenant Wheeler, after waiting fer several days. had the rangers go out and destroy the barrels so that they could not be used. The feuten- ant states that it must have taken the outlaws some little lime to collect the barrels on the desert. and it was evident that they had onlv been placed there the day of the discovery, as they were beginning to dry up when thev were destroyed a few days later.
 There is not the slightest doubt in the mind of the lieutenant that the Woods gang were preparing to make raid of some kind and were fixing up things so as to make good their escape by having water for their horses across the desert. where their followers would be without.