The sun., 1910-05-24
TRAIN ROUDHU CHASE BY AUTO
MR LINDIS TELLS OF NEWEST
THING N ARIZONA


the tninigass W thr ursrfA Ihefe'
Lee u. Lands. general manager of the
PhPnix and BuCSeye Railroad. which
IL just being built westward from PhGniN.
. ARR. arrived az the Imperial Yesterday
Mr lands Isft the Arizona metropolis
the day after the fire which destroyed
the Leading hotel In the place. and with
his wife was Ia the hotel when Il began
-Phnnix Is now LETT without a hotel. .
said Mr. lands This was a good sized
one OF lSl rooms with wide verandas
running around,ths building on the level
Of every floor The fire started In a drug
store on the corner. some chemicals hav-
ing exploded They turned the hose from
q small hydrant upon h. but within an
hour and a half tho hotel was in flames.
II happened little before S A. NJ. Just
after most cf the people in the hotel had
gone To bed again after seeing the comet
Almost everybody was sleeping on
the verandns and when the fire alarms
IN their rooms rang they did not hear.
Ny wife and ! Crdwled down a ladder
that the proprietor of the hotel had put
up We were on the third hoor. Gov.
-Sl0an. who was in the building. did not
know how he got out. His daughter. a
girl 10 or II years old. was rescued by a
bellbOy. ! don't believe anybody was
lost in the building
Just ten days ago there took place out
there about tho first train holddp that
has been pulled Oh IN Arizona in about
twenty years. and reckon it will he quite
a. long before another happens.
sYou Sc we have got some folks from
Oklahoma a. times that have besn 40
keen after money that we have almost
come 10 look with suspicion upon any-
body that reaches us from that part of
The country This train robbery was per-
petrated by two men from Oklahoma
and will probably result in renewed vigi-
lance over the movements and actions of
persons from that state who come 20
Arizona prospecting
These fellows were two youngsters
named WOodson who had come out last
fall. and they seemed 20 bring some of tho
desperate idsas that were prevalent
In Oklahoma In former days The Ari-
soma Eastern between Maricopa and
PhGnix was selected a. the scene Of their
exploit, and having made their plans the
men tethered their horses about ten
miles from Msrioopa. Then they went
10 the end % the line ard boarded tho train
they had selected. They gave themselves
time and did not think Il necessary to
put on any masks They just won't
through one car after another and made
everybody give up all the money they had
on them and their watches
Among those " no we're relieved Of
their valuablos were a deputy sheriff from
Globe and J 3 Wright of Tucson. who is
Attorney General Of tho Territory When
the men recognized tho place near " hich
they had tethered their horses they pulled
she bell cord. stopped the train and got
1T was their intention % make for
Port LObOs. down on tho Gulf Of Cali
fornia. but after they had got about
aiNty-hve niles on their wav % tho Mexi-
can line they got into tho desert They
bad compass with tnom. but they made
no allow anCe for variation ~ the needle.
and the needle varies thirtoen degrees
down there The result vas that they
lost their bearings. and getting out Of
water became exhausted aud finding
q tree got on IN rect under II
had not taken long 70 get tho Coun-
Try aroused sheriff Hayden % Mari
copa county Immediately notified Capt
kOsterlitzky Of sonora, whose specially
h catching rogues that pass the border.
aH well a. keeping order in tho mining
dittricts. and the word " a. passed IN every
direction. II was thought they would
head for a mining country, and II they had
they would have beeu intercepted az what
ever mining district they attempted 10
enter
'shsriH Hayden and a part of hin posss
jumped into an automobile. and with ihs
rest of tho posse following reached The
place where thu robheFs left the tram and
started trailing them across the country.
Il was O'Clock In the afternoon when ths
men left the train ana II was not until I
the next day that the auto was really I
on ths chase. But ths sheriff and o few .
u his men in the auto easily distancei I
The rect oi the pursuers. A. O'Clock I.
the next afternoon. a. they approached .
. tree along tho trail. two men got up
from under Il, and walking out asked Il .
the aiTtomObilists could spare them some
water. They thought tho mon IN he auto
we're tourists. They did not discover
thsir mistake until the others threw their
guns on them. Then they wera nut into
the auto and hiked hack o. Jail Whsn
asked Il they had o. ken into account the
variation of the complas they said they
did not know anything about such thing
~ variation
well. you can depend upon IL that
desperadues VINO come out into that
country expecting to put anything over on
li6 had just better try IT, We pride our
selves on being up o. date In Arizona and
guess the idea u catching train rubhsrs
by auto h a little too ultramodsrn % suit
anybody educated in the Jesse James
aohool.
n went out there fourteen year. a 20
lrun New Jersey, said Mr. lands. sand
eKpeet 70 70 hack n stay az least that
4Ilph l0nGer. This road we ara building
y r. 70 Westward toward Yuma through
ihe Salt River Valley. We have five miles
of track laid. The rad was sta rtad hy
goms other land owners and myself in tho
Bnckeys country. whore there IL ampla
water supply frum the Gila River hut
Do transportation. In Consequence there
has been a great difficulty in marketing
bur crops. Our cattle va could drive 10
market. last year 50OO00 tons ~ hav
was sent h PhRniN. though II took "A I
lbirty-hve mlle haul 20 get u there and
he charge for hauling by wagon u "a
md " ton. We have lately sold oar
lagets 70 the Arizona Eastern Railroad.
branch of the southern Pacific. but | {
I'm still general manager n the rad. 4
Business is very satisfactory in Arizona
md the country il getting plenty Il ain
md water. | made n visit n the Ronaa- [
spit dam a wcsk ago. There vas i2O feet
n water hehind ths dam when was
here and tho whole work viii hs com
bleted in about thirty days There are
D tha Buccsye country and the adjoining
NiIeV ab0ut 5,O0O farmers. hut their
sater supply comes from the dam ~ tho