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Armed with a warrant, he set out to arrest him, but the fugitive was a little too quick, and slipped away. Pope rode at full gallop back to Vernal, the small frontier town where he lived, and found Cassidy's horse tied in front of a saloon. He entered the front door just as Cassidy beat it out the back and tore off into the badlands. Seeing Pope wasn't afraid of him as many other officers were, he didn't stop, either, until he was well out of Utah. DEWITT TONS MAGAZIN!, SALT LAYS CITY, Several weeks later. Pope received a postcard mailed in Arizona. It read: 'Tope. lay off me. I don't want to kill you. Butch." But after that. gassidy gave the doughty sheriff a wide berth. When law and order first came to Vernal, the opening case was that of a couple of horse thieves. Gunplay Maxwelt:----aloud and disreputable member of the rustlers gang. threatened to kill the prosecutor. But next day. Pope. armed with a sawed-of- f shotgun. stood at the entrance of the court and collected'all the firearms. At the including Gunplay's forty-fivclose of the day he Fons. The'clithate around here's-verunhealthy after sundown." he remarked. as he gave Maxwell back his empty gun The outlaw stayed away from indefinitely. e: returned--theA1,1- . those-part- 0 NE of Pope's most successful feats was the safe transportation of Matt Warner. notorious bandit held for a double murder. from Vernal to Ogden. L'Iah through more than a hundred miles of rough country, beset by gangs of outlaws on all sides who were determined to free their friend. Striking 34. lAda 11 on11.., V POULSON Quick Wear 40000:',40' le.0000 staewallisa loacoodtbminity twareamed . 14 .t ;Ft) :41.11D .. I ' ;:?-- I. out through the wildest section of the Uinta Mountains, over a rough and little known trail, he both outdistanced and outsmarted his enemies, and delivered his prisoner safely for trial. . i 14CY''''' ' )1' : ikBrae r 1101 I ''14:-- By EZRA t - . W?L - . 'I': Ittli , i --- I ti SHOOL Ilintah County p;'..kil IT ar----- Toughest man in . if 1 N., I SINCE Sheriff Pope was the only officer intimately acquainted with the Brown's Hole hideouts, and had courto penetrate this lawless age enough aieL.- he was especially' hated and feared by the lawless fugitives who tried every way to kill him. One day, while he was riding near the bank of the Green River, a shot was tired at him from a thick clump of willows, the bullet ripping his vest open across the .front He dropped quickly into another clump of willows from where he continued the fight Many years afterward, a couple of skeletons were found near the scene of the fight and buried at the expense of the county. Nobody knew how the pair met their death, but people who respected the deadly marksmanship of Sheriff Pope thought they knew the answer. :2"Ctl :,t ! '1 - ' 7,-: 7- v, ' 7p te,772 piclil RE &MOS EtWiliOat ct6451 t:N: ;P - ' . - Balanced Tailoring makes ,, TIAIELI 121141 ci CLOTHES ANOTHER time, when he was drygulched near the Green, a bullet plowed through his leg and several look others killed his horse. But grabbing his rifle from its scabbard while the dying mount was still kicking, he himself behind the animal, and shot it out with the outlaws. When the battle was over, there was one dead outlaw, and the others were climbing over each other to increase the distance between them and the straight shooting officer. In spite of his wound, Pope walked to the nearest ranch, where he bought another horse and went on his way to serve a warrant on some other small fry outlaw living at the time in the Hole. In 1898, when Harry Tracy broke out of the Utah penitentiary and headed for Brown's Hole, Pope's term ot office had recently come to an end, but he was asked to join the posse, and to a large extent his aid was responsible for the final capture of Tracy and two companions. During the manhunt. Tracy killed Valentine Hoy ,. a rancher wed thought of by the rustlers themselves. n, better... longer! 11.111113 bar-moo- ed THIS event brought a change in Brown's Hole. Cattle rustling had long been an industry there, and most of the residents had at one time or another exchanged lead with officers; but they had no use for killers like Tracy. so they began cooperating with the officers from the three states, Utah. Wyoming. and Colorado, which in the region. Thus, law came to Brown's Hole; and the frontier Sheriff John T. Pope, turned to more peaceful pursuits. 7:'4: . 221 South Main Ak169n wag hINA let eetereity , - PURE CASTILE IS THE CEST J SHAMidol ' 1 1014-:11- -, (9 all ,..' p. 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