Show " 4B OGDEN OGDEN UTAH SUNDAY MORNING MAR 3 1963 4 I ? STANDARD-EXAHNE- R "it & f V - ' I TV f Pa " " j ' t - ' f ' - r - f ill Av' f i - - - fcr- it 1 cscr?i L p s-TT- i II Jm£: f"WiTn mnvrrH" Inntpd lilrn a urniin nf nrosnerous v k i i i WW salesmen Sittine fleft to Ben Kilpatrick (the Tall Texan) right) Harry Longbaugh (the Sundance Kid) and William Carver Butch Cassidy Standing Harvey Logan (Kid Curry)— (Photo copyright Pinkerton National Detective Agency) FACIAL TISSUE i BURIED STRONG-BOX- ? By Famed 'Wild Bunch of Outlaws' Added to tore of Weber Canyon (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the third and final article about Weber Canyon and tells of some dramatic events that took place at the mouth of the canyon in September 1896) of white pink or low Some of them took jobs on ranches baugh argued that the best move and did such disgusting work as would be to get out of the counherding honest cattle and shovel try and try South America One day the leaders went on a ing manure Montthe Cassidv "cased" spree bought fancy clothes and By Bob Age Weber Canyon the path of the pelier bank and in early Septem ber the gang knocked it oti tor trappers ihe emigrants and the about $7000 first transcontinental railroad Thev headed back to headquar was also a road for some shady ters waysmmthe 1 cash By devious mm chciTcic tcrs to aeiena went nired td attorneys In the 1880s and 1890s Utah Matt Warner and the other two Colorado Idaho and Wyoming were plagued by an extraordinary gunmen Head defense counsel was Douggang of bank and train robbers las V Preston later Wyoming attorustlers and w : J cattle just plain thieves Members of the gang changed but there were periods when more than 100 experts with a 45 Colt 0 rifle were connected and that came to be outfit with the Wild Bunch" known as "The was Butch of leaders their One in Sevier was born He Cassidy son of 1865 the In Utah County an LDS bishop He was christened George LeRoy Carver He took the name of Cassidy in admiration of a Mike Cassidy a rustler and bandit who hung around the Sevier country when George Parker was a kid One of the gang's early headquarters was "The Hole in the Wall" a remote valley near the present Kaycee Wyo So arrogant was the band they wouia post handbills giving the date of their annual roundup of stolen cattle rney-general Meanwhile back at Vernal pub lic! feeling was hot Many citizens had "rope fever because tne two murdered prospectors were well known and liked Also there were rumors that the Wild Bunch was all set to ride into town and rescue the three bandits The Vernal sheriff outsmarted d citizens both the and the Wild Bunch Late one night he handcuffed the three bandits and and with five deputies headed on horseback over remote trails He delivered the three chained men to the sheriff in Ogden and they were locked up Formal charees of first degree murder were lodged against the three The trial began in late Septem ber 1896 The bandits didn't have any defense and it was evident SECOND HEADQUARTERS that the jury would find them The Wild Bunch roved far and wide Another headquarters was a guilty BUNCH RIDES ranch in Brown's Hole near the Cassidy heard the rumors He junction of the Wyoming Colo- and a bunch of the boys saddled rado and Utah borders loaded their rifles and rode ud In March 1889 Butch Cassidy out the from headquarters ranch and some of the boys held up the Weber Canyon down came First National Bank in Denver They mouth the near and camped and got away with about $21000 to Matt note a Butch Val-lev smuggled They hightailed it to Star officers but alert Warner police Wyo and gathered at a sa it intercepted loon owned by Matt Warner who Matt read it while officers was also the son of a Mormon watched Butch wrote: "The boys hishoo and a native of Utah here If you say the word The saloon was an interesting are come and take you out"- we'll spot The walls were papered with Matt wrote a reply to Butch bonds taken by "Don't do it The boys here have the gang in bank and train hold- been mighty good to me and I ups Right in the middle of one wouldn't want them to get hurt wall was a $10000 treasury note ays they can't convict taken in the Denver bank rob Preston usi do we'll be out in a If they bery and which could not pos couple of years Don't take the sibly be cashed anyway" Matt Warner was a character chance Thanks sent last note: "If a Cassidy He ran the Star Valley headquar than two more tpr- - fnr the Wild Bunch for a num they keep you take the and come we'll ber of years and then got himself years as sure hell" place apart into a mess Butch and the gang rode back to He and two companions Walter ranch the Wall and E D Coleman snot ana trial was tense the public The Ver killed two prospectors near on were jittery nal Utah The miners was charged with their way to a rich silver loae One witness of the "diarrhea jawbone" they had discovered earlier TO PRISON SENT nabbed were The three gunmen Warner and Wall were senand lodged in the Vernal clink tenced to five years in the Utah VISITS JAIL prison Coleman was acquitted Butch Cassidy never let a friend Warner served his term and down DisguiseThe went to the later became a respected law ofVernal jalTand had a talk with ficer There is an ironic twist to the Matt Warner do "Matt you story of Butch Cassidy3 Cassidy asked a In 1900 an attorney talked to for have any money lawyer "broke was he Union admitted Pacific authorities and Warner a made as hell" proposition: Hire Cassidy ux wen umi an as express car guars Cassidy said The attornev argued that train Butch and some others of the Wild Bunch went up into Idaho robbers would be hesitant about holding up a UP train if the mighty Cassidy was guarding it with his 45 Also he said Butch would become a model citizen if he was guaranteed regular eating money The railroad agreed and a meeting was scheduled with railroad officials the attorney and 45-9- non-negotiab- lynch-minde- leg-chajn-ed le Deseret Industries Meeting Set LDS special meeting to alert local LDS Church leaders and workers to the activities and aims of the LDS Deseret Industries will be held Thursday at 7:30 pm in the Ogden Tabernacle" Those expected to attend from the Ogden Northern Utah and Wyuta regions are stake presidents ward bishops and stake and ward Relief Society presidents Guest speakers will include Henry D Taylor managing director of the LDS welfare program Robert L Simpson member of the presiding bishopric Howard Barker chairman of the general Deseret Industries committee Donald M Bagley office manager for the general welfare committee and J S Grant field representative for the Deseret InA Butch was on time but the other group was delayed and finally Cassidy rode off in a rage A few days later a telegram went to railroad officials: "All agreements off Cassidy just held up train at Tipton" Cassidy and some of the Wild Bunch had stopped westbound No 3 at Tipton Wyo in Sweetwater County They got a measly $50 from the express car safe The next westbound train carried $100000 in gold consigned to the Philippines t The Wild Bunch picked the wrong train - Prescription Choice had their picture taken It proved to be one of the most famous pictures of western bandits ever to be put on film The photograph shows five- of the Wild Bunch in discreet suits t and white shirts All five died outside the law 1 Ben Kilpatrick (the Tall Texian) was nabbed in Texas after a bank robbery and was sentenced to 15 years in prison He died there Bill Carver was shot and killed by a Texas law officer m 1902 His claim to fame was that! he "stunk like a skunk' On the way to a bank robbery Carver was sprayed by a skunk and the bank tellers held their noses while he and his pals stuck up the bank Harvey Logan alias Kid Curry robbed a bank in Grand Junction Colo in July 1903 Cornered in a canyon by a vengeful posse Logan shot himself In February of 1901 Cassidy and Harry Longbaugh alias the Sundance Kid and Longbaugh's mistress Etta Place sailed from u - u Choice of fine quality pillows Grand Central prices r fit yel- w box 400-cou- nt 1 S ? DELUXE ACRYLIC FIBER PILLOWS 2 21x27 inches or Full II king ka-- continental i pok in giant 23x29 inches Reg 1269 SUPER GIANT RESPITE Their South American venture lasted six years All three were killed by Bolivian cavalry in 1907 when the two men attempted a holdup of a mine Etta Place a willowy and sexy brunette is reported to have been an intelligent and refined woman who for some reason "threw her hat over the windmill" and took up with the Sundance Kid It is said she often held the horses while the Wild Bunch held up a bank or train That is the story of the Wild Bunch who once threatened to invade Ogden There is one last footnote to the Weber Canyon story Capt Roberts Carver head of the Weber County Criminal Investigation Department says there is a legend of some buried stolen treasure in the canyon! 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Reg- - Weber Canyon had its pic- turesque stories GARMENT BAG PILLOWS ACRILAH tfjjrcanyon" So5 for rOj at low New York City of (01 and sometimes tragic First were the traoDers who sought the beaver so dandies in London and New York City could sport tall fashionable hats Then came the emigrants wagons down the tortuous canyon headed for Zion or California Then the canvon echoed to blasting powder explosions mule skinners' curses and the wnisues locomotives as g of built down the was the railroad gorge And for a time the outlaws used the canyon for routes to and from — contour fit site Full — size 108 Reg 92c Reg I n ( Ui A jab (0) 21 L V 4 ish hrowuLS C Extra absorbent Birdseye weave Large 26x30 inches Reg 29c wood-burnin- for WW hold-up- s The canyon has had a rich tory his- Large size Deluxe honeycomb weave ' Adult Class Registration Due Mo nday the spring quar Registration W A l dustries' School '' The three regions include all the trail j'' to Butch and some of the Wild Any adult students desiring stakes and wards from Malad Layton inclusive and east to Bunch leaders went to Ft Worth more information may call EX Tex Cassidy and Harry Long Rawlins Wyo j£ ' ' ' i Full 17 inches for ter of the Weber Adult High School night classes will be held Monday at Bonneville High School between 7 and 9 pm Classes in English history algebra mathematics science shorthand typing bookkeeping office machine practice and psychology will be available Other courses in electronics speed reading and Spanish are being offered according to R Glen Miller director of adult education for the Weber School District! The charge for each course is ACTIVE DETECTIVES H $10 for the first one and $5 for In 1901 the Wild Bunch was be- each additional class ing chased by some dogged men This is the final quarter for who were equally adept with re- any adult to qualify for graduavolvers and rifles Pinkerton de- tion this year Mr Miller said tectives hired to stop train rob- Graduation exercises will be held beries and cattle thefts were on May 21 at the Bonneville High for Reg 17c FANCY BLE COVERS Choice of heavy vinyl back plastic or rayon and plastic laminex in assorted j prints and colors 52x52 inches 52x70-inc- h 52x52-inc- h Reg T93 159 to 1H Reg 4 for 25c 42 8ATH SPOM' Soft and pliable in assorted bright colors Handy round shape Pack of 3 Regular 98c piieysiHiiiois New! Hat shape in luxury velvet Reg 21 9 to Regular 149 298 PLASTIC SWEATER! 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