White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-07-01

dead. Ii proved in the morning that
it was Norris and that he had died
instantly.
Word was sent to Hamilton the
county seat, and Judge Reeves, Bob
Cavanaugh and Sheriff w. II. Swee-
ney went out. They were told the
story Of Wheeler and Cassidy, which
they were convinced was the truth,
and instead of further ado, inquest
or formalities of any kind they
wrapped Norris body in a blanket,
with his clothes on, dug a hole and
buried it but a few rods from the
spot where he fell, and there it
rests today.
No arrests were made and no trial
held. That was all there was to it.
After that Wheeler was involved
in a feud over cattle rustling with 4
man Of his OWL kind-both bad
men-known as Little Tex. Deputy
Sheriff Billy Gri3wold had arrested
Little Tex for cattle stealing and
was taking him to Elko. Wheeler
ambushed himself by the road they
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shot at Little Tex, intending to fin
ish him right there. Instead of kill
ing him Wheele: merely wounded
! Little Tex by shooting him through
the shoulder. Probably because
Griswold already had one bad mar
in custody and could not cope with
two, Wheeler made his getaway and
left the country. He went to Idaho
Little Tex vas incarcerated in the
Elko Jail for several weeks but final
ly cut himself out and vas never
returned there. He had said that
he would &c 10 Idaho and bring back
one of Wheeler's ears. True to his
threat he pursued Wheeler to his
rendezvous. shot and killed him and
the famous eastern Nevada gunman
Proposes under Idahos sagebrush
with a bullet hole made by Little
Tex,
1t was not Ions until Little Tex
came back and hen he met the man
to whom he made the threat to
bring back the ear he opened his
purse, drew out a human ea! and
displayed it.
1t must have been fully twenty
years later that Little Tex contin-
ued to flourish and rustic cattle and
horses in that region. Finally about
1906 he rustled the wrong horse.
He stole one belonging TO Joe Tog-
noni, the Duckwater pioneer, and
was convicted by a jury in the court
of Judge Peter Breen at Tonopah.
Breen gave Little Tex a sentence of
twelve years at the Carson peniten-
tiary. He served several years o.
this sentence and died in prison.
Cassidy afterward died. of the bull
let complaint. His slayer still lives,
being a resident of Eureka county
The recollection of old-timers
, here is that these numerous cattle
rustling tragedies, and others closely
akin to them, if they did not actu-
ally give north Robbers Roost its
name, had Il lot to do with perpetu.
ating it. At any rate, the rustlers
made it their roost for years, it be
ing their hangout when they feared
trouble and felt the necessity of
hiding away.
brated principally for a stage rob
berry at B~ullwhacker summit, the
stage going between Ward and Cave
valley by way of Single springs.
The robbers were not captured
They ~retreated into seclusion over
the ridge somewhere in the southern
end of the Ward mountain range and
they are supposed to have secured
their water in the night at a spring
a few miles southwest Of Bull
whacker summit.
Perhaps the most noted Robbers
Roost in the southwest is in northern
Arizona, in some of the recesses of
the southern rim of Grand canyon,
in sight of the Colorado river. Il
was long the home of q big band of
stage and train robbers. whose in
dividual hauls would run $4,000
and more. 1t is a peculiar place,
fitted ty nature as If lone to
order. 1t consists of a bold
jutting, hard to approach, nature
having 1f1due VeTJlcdl Wills tIOuS-
ands Of feet high on several sides.
and from this great table the dwell
ers could see the coming of any
body attempting to approach for
more miles than they could travel
over that rough country in the day
light hours of any one day, and they
could not be crept upon for obvious
reasons in the night 1t was fairly
impregnable, amounting to a great
fortress erected by nature. 1t well
earned its name and could be doing
service yet in it's old usefulness so
far as anything the hand of man
could do to change it's aspect. This
Robbers Roost is known far and
wide. Those of White Pine are
/ small sideshows in comparison, am
pie and notorious as they are.
:, The Robbers Roost Of the Pana-
, mint range, OH the west rim of
Death valley. in California, is noted
principally because of the manner
|, in which Senator William NJ. Stew
ort u,ho had a r{ch u;uo pno. tboro