East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-09-22
"LET FRBUCK, /" BY CHARLES WELLINGTONFURLONG

) Goldfish had been carried away. In a
+, muddy spot at the spring nearby tell.
tale Footprint was identified by one oi
the posse as corresponding to that OF
a shoe worn by Owens. Thus was the
z first clue obtained and bloodhounds
! were placed on the scent.
, THE heavy brush In the deep cam
: yons and the extreme dryness Of the
rocky hills greatly hampered the
hounds. When the trail was hottest, a
hurry call came from 80 miles west of
Pendleton. requesting all available
men TO help close in the fugitives who
| had been surrounded. There was no
time to debate the matter, and much
against the will Of the officer in charge
of the dogs, the whole party of man
! hunters was streaklng down the noun
tain toward Pen6leton. The report
proved false and the chase was again
up in the air
THE courthouse in PendIeton now
saw the hunters gathered In and new
plans were systematically laid, maps
OF creeks, canyons. springs cabins
and every possible point where the
desperadoes might go were made;
stations were established at all points
and telephones taken to them from
which reports were phoned hourly. w.
/ r. Taylor, links Taylor to those who I
knew him, brother OF the murdered |!
sheriff, prominent rancher Of the |
county, was appointed by the court to |
fill the unexpred term of his brother. I
while posters announced a total re-
ward of $4,000 for the capture Of the
fugitives, dead or alive. Invaluable u
assistance in the planning and or
ganizing was rendered by two addi-
tional Oregon experts in this line OF
work, Asa Thompson of Echo and Il.
B. Wood of Portland.
THE search was now re-planned in
scientific manner. All traffic was
stopped through the country; business
houses closed down and allowed their
employees TO join the posses; sheriff,
deputies, government detectives and
railroad officials joined in the hunt,
indians OF the Umatilla Reservation
loined the friends of the dead sheriff
as they rode horseback over the hills.
rhile on all possible trails scouts were
placed.
Not until after four days of ex-
effort did any of the posses
get within sight of the outlaws; then
two men were seen at a distance and
shots exchanged. Reports of various
committed in the nearby
cabins indicated that the fugitives
were in the vicinity, and after three
lays Of the hardest trailing, some-
lines by tracking, sometimes with the
I'D of bloodhounds, over rocky hills
ind into deep canyons heavily masked
With brush and almost impossible of
a posse of Pendleton ana
"a Grande men under Sheriff Lee
Narnick came to deserted campfire.
Reaching a telephone they noti-
led posse from La Grande on the
'ther side of the mountain to head
he bandits off. In response the La
irande posse, securing the hills for
solated sheep camps, came upon the
arkened tent of a French sheep
erder, who lay soundly sleeping in
he dark and obscure interior.
Hart and owen Taken I,
Have you seen any strange men in D
his section?" they called loudly. v
THE man reused himself mo, ] 8,
ave mott he responded, rubbing his
leepy eyes. Meantime, however, he |,
'ointed significantly toward figure n
sleep on the floor to one side of the
DOR of the tent. Again the French
lan raised his swarthy arm, this time ~
oint:ng to a sleeping man on the M
ouch beside him. n
"Carbines were quickly unlimbered, n
lit up the scene and be-
ore they could awaken from their N
oughly jerked to their feet in no uh- n
ertain manner. There stood owen N
nd Hart. In
Search EN-, and as they went N
thoroughly and quickly through the n
,aptives, big gun slipped from N
lwens' holster and fell to the ground. N
With the quickness of cat he reached n
or it, and as he stopped to sieze it he n
an plumb against a rifle which one n
# the possemen jammed square in his n
ace. IN
Move another inch and I'll shoot N
-ou dead in your tracks, he threaten n
ID. In
ITO hell with you: shoot and be n
lamned," muttered Owens but showed n
lis hands up as the gun came into N
Dlay. In
"Half-starved and exhausted from n
heir flight over the mountains, cheeks n
funken from loss of food and sleep, N
eet bruised and blistered from six
lays OF incessant hiking, the two were n
hen with scant ceremony bound to- n
;ether hand and foot. In
"Thus, after six days of trailing N
footprints and following with blood n
over some of the roughest n
Sind of country, the two most desper- n
tie of the quintette were caught like N
ats in trap, in lone sheep-herder's N
,abn six miles east of Toll Gate on N
he top of the Blue Mountains" IN
Two other of the "thrillers' in Col N
mel Furlong's book are the stories of N
he rides of Jackson Shutdown and Lee N
caldwell, great riders of bucking
'ronks, In his story of Sundown, Col n
mel Furlong says, in part: IN