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Show 'Rumor is an unstable element, of course, but some time ago there Was a change Of - femininity: two girls came back to one of the Emery Co., towns. iTheygave. the names of all the outlaws except two. The iden tity of. thosex.wo.even.an inquisition could not have wrenched from them. Here is a glaring example of the perversity of ibuman nature. Thinlf of young girls out in the wildest wilderness where nature has turned summersaults, under the benign care of a barfd of r the rot and -scum of border x:iv5Uzatton. These bands 'do exist to the mortal terror of a great many and incalculable incalcul-able disaster to others. The problem prob-lem of ousting them is a grave question. ques-tion. There is nouse in attempting to dislodge them by force a good big military force would be inadequate. inade-quate. The only way would be to starve them out and it is questionable question-able if that is feasible .r-Manti Messenger. Mes-senger. 1 ON THE SAN RAFEL GIRLS AND OUTLAWS. TThere is a carious condition of 'things and .withal an undesirable one over in the eastern part of Erne-.fy Erne-.fy County just at present; sa condition condi-tion which has brought about and iUOW causes consrderableapprehension among the people over the mountains. moun-tains. There seem to be at least 'two fully organized and practically unhampered bands of outlaws in ithat region, whose dominion is as Absolute as Abdtthl Hamid's and whose operations are simply the .unquestioned offspring of their own good will. Parties who have just .been over there have interesting '.things .to relate. There -are two '.combinations finuly entrenched in hose impregnable mountain fastnesses; fast-nesses; "one is located toward the north, the other is southward on the ;an Rafael. Reports say that several herds of cattle have been driven north and -aood many sold, .principally at Price. One peculiar -circumstance, also, is" that "while the severe winter'necessarily has preyed upon the sheep, the poor ones have .'ufared remarkably well and the fat ones have apparently succumbed. The weather has probably not had -so much-to do with this as living, 'moving bipeds, however. fThey eem to do just as-they please, and 'remain as unmolested .as the gentler -Castle Valley freezes. It is a rtypical wild west show realistically '.repeated. The outlaws live among -"breakes", the wildest, most rugged ,.and inaccessible except to the inni-ttiated inni-ttiated aaywhere under the blue fir-ornament. fir-ornament. Tn recesses cut into the side of those yawning chasms, two 'Or three men are able to hold an .army at bay. To such places all who have stolen, robbed or murdered are welcomed so that the -gangs. are "becoming augmented steadily as time goes on. They live in huts .made of raw-hides, thus being pretty nectirely ensconced from the whistling whist-ling of winter blasts and furiously j drifting snow. But they are not confined to one sex. There are females forming .that motley com-'Initiation. com-'Initiation. .It is positively asserted byi parties who are in a position to know that in .the one' camp are two girls who seem to enjoy. that novel existence exist-ence and immensely comfort their male consorts. That smacks of-the .romantic. It is also stated quite emphatically by certain knowing ones tthat.Sheriff Bum's slayers are there. |