Show THE TH MUM S DEAD WHITE HITE EAGLE OF WYOMING TELLS HOW THE LAW MAKES LIFE UNHAPPY FOR THE MEN WHO 1 4 FOLLOW D DISHONEST 18 0 14 CALLING IN THE GREAT HORSE AND CATTLE STAT STATES over ile 11 ran ranges go a 0 r m montana am wyo ming 19 and the dakota dakotas are moro than at six million borscs I 1 these are round ed ad up once a year by their owners ur aud ad th those a I 1 in shape hope are sold old the rest ot of the herds herda or are left to roam a at will the wide lit ranges a an until the next found bound up N lumbers bar of the these 11 range rang horses raes are r often stolen but t not at BO frequently a one might at fire first to the moto horseman 3 protective ot 1 I association A a v very y st strong n g ma with mem br madsan hers m scattered t t over or I 1 all range aul states and money or to back it Is a over ever active in attending to a abe he it ot ad thefts of range stock besides aides the standing landing res reward ard of the association of hes eve hundred dollars for far the capture of thieves the rancher who whose stock is state always offers an additional additional ta T toward a d sh er uffa stock inspectors with fth fre A pa posse of cattlemen nd timar arn are tile the thief bull hunters to the sheriffs are a al waa as old almo a cowboys who know the country rod and can shoot boot thin ride and stand exposure with the best beat ol of them and ad I 1 it t la seldom in that a thief gets get tay ca clean I 1 an away with ap a bunch of stock horse thieves are still tall listed hated in the V a but as are not so dealt vt with till now as in earlier daa dais a when the jails bud and courts court of law were few then the thief generally made do a swift exit sit train rom earth at a ropes rope s suit end but law has long ago found ita way tuto into cat heland telephones and telegraphs carry swift messages and automobiles it bile make swift trips and the thraves get gen rally land in elate ta D prison have however there I 1 is one man who for far the last six years h has 8 not at only stolen re almost when hen and where h a he be pleased out but 6 sold li lit stock back to the owners a owner a after the brands brand had been worked iced over at which art he to is a past master this amm H am mccracker McCrac ken kea a T tn texan n has baa repe repeatedly sit eluded and de fled fied sheriffs b ariff bud and p ceases r sent out to v capture him ile he fire came to belle fourche B D in the spring of 1901 1904 belle bell bourche at that time was the larg largest shipping fohir tor br beef cattle 1 in the orld rid shortly after his or ar rival mccracken mccracke got a lob job punching patching cows cowe tor for the 3 V butr then tile the larg est eat in the ft A est eat ho he we was a ley quiet voting man of good arance and ad education a good cow nand amid and well liked by his bosses and the riders liters of tilt tile outfit working for the outfit at this time was thomas T tait a it a young man an since at cad sheriff iff of campbell county wyoming from the time of me cr kat a arrival r i v al and until his arrest far by I 1 T farrell j j t then hen sheriff of arn crook it county wy wyoming 0 ming on mArrou information natt trout from texas tait tail and were ere a good deal t together as cow a buy boya in the same eme loutit since being elected acted aheren tait tad has led I 1 in the chase base after h his friend bud and co corn rade do several times on a recent trip to sabr sturgil 8 D with ith stock bisp inspector 1 chuck lack ritch fire I 1 of gillette and the or life of miles city mont blurt and sun bun D danca wyo wy to in plot a bunch of horse in that ills tret the parts arrested three men th the holes belonged to H J ch oil of gillette gilletta and T W matthewa mat t how ot of spearfish S J P the men ar arrested ested as the thieves were member bembera of me cranden a gang ears and now ow await trial at after hla his arrest it in 1907 by sheriff parrell farrell mclane en atas as taken back to texas here are he was wanted anted for far rhefta of ad stock bank robbery bond ja jumping bud and other crimes he was helid out of these trouble by his father and so soon after returned to tell fourche accompanied by his it ife a very intelligent allig at woman and ad their little littie bo boy and tor far a while con can ducted a road bouse base at al aliada alda da mont but bill later took up a I 1 claim let on t he bead ot of thompson Thoro peon creek and started in the eeoc 5 soon after mccracken located the tha ch horse corbea I 1 in the vicinity began to lupin lu pin by onea once twos two then and ad F T I 1 ti t i Z n X in whole bun bunches chin and he was suspect ed ad at once 1 ho he had gathered around gathered him a but bunch ch of old cowboys bill whose base reputations were as aa unsavory avory as hla his own they were bobby Short bandte bob babe ellis poker jim roberts and garlic garfield M mccoy c coy two dp deputy ty sheriffs after skulking about among tile the bills and brush near the mccracken ranch by the use tile ot of strong spy buy glasses saw mccracken take a bunch ot her horses a from a pasture int bud and d arne r in th them in to a corral that was hid I 1 in a mashouf th the of officers ficere tot fol its lowed ad and lust just as mccracken flaa about to run the brand on a bar horae which he had just roped raped from th the bunch batch and thrown they rode up and covered him with their guns guna the outlaw hesitated a little when ordered to put his hand bands up as it ha be ft as 8 measuring chances but 4 as both guns were leveled it at him h he obeyed the tha of officers ficere then disarmed him and as he be seemed to be perfectly willing to go with them they did not act handcuff him or restrain him 1 in say any way A AB it was almost night nigh th the officers docia decided e it to go to I 1 the he mccracken ranch and remain until morning on their arrival afro mccracken Cracken Wc who h kept perfectly cool coal and seemed not at all worried oer her husbands or ar rest cooked a bountiful supper and all sat down in apparent friendship to eal the off officers era skulking about in the tha hillbo to long cg on all short A rations had bad left them halt half famished they ate brodig bously after which they moed their chairs hack back from the table and lit their that pipes pipe that was a the last they remembered until morning who when they wake awoke rubbed their eyes and looked about stupidly their prisoner was mas gone they looked at mrs mccracken in inquiringly Q and that lady laughingly to told d them that she bill had placed some same sleep medicine ad cum I 1 in their coffee I 1 so that her husband might make hi bis B escape c im without having t to resort to shooting the officers had bad to selnon sel ok non ledge the selves beaten and went away empty handed soon after this word was received that mccracken waa as still till around in the thompson creek country and ad staging t lg with his family moat camet of tile ills time ihen hen sheriffs john thorn ol at crook county V Vy inning bud and hy hance of butte county booth dakota rude rode out it to investigate they kept watch on an the place for far aytch several BB days daya by means of spy glasses glass when shan they saw so one can morning mil me cracker come came out walk around and I 1 then reenter re enter the bumm bouse they then than rude rode up P to the place and the MUG boy bay r came out to speak peak with them say sonny said thorn go tell lell your dad to ema come out be hare and give himself up we know he Is to in there and ad have come to take him dead or alive I 1 horn then the rode ad to the top of ci a hill just in front of the house wh while li hance boije ad to tile the rear 1 sud and took up his position between the house and barn the of officers flears had bad hardly reached thel heir r positions position after boiling bending the 11 little I 1 it boy in i with their message when wh on the door opened directly I 1 in front of mrs stood in 1 the door wa while bite behind her was as her bus band with a winchester Itch outer awe old across buxa her shoulder boulder beat it the outlaw yelled to B thorn thorn th a hesitated whereat barest tile outlaw allow filed the bullet knocking the tha dust beneath the fact of thorn a horse but still the sh shiff sheriff iff hesitated mccracken mccrork 1 fired again get and d tb thal but bul let ct went th through r cash thorn a c coat 1 t I 1 be 1 neath death hla his ann am and ho he b hesitated alt e d n no 0 longer but fled bed hance realizing as had bad thorn that ha be could not shoot mccracken Mc Cracks without the ri risk it of bitting g mrs mccracken turned and nas spurring bia 1 bar coraa tor far the breaks as aa fast a aa he be could go when mccracken ran r round around the tha house and emptied hla his rid rifle at him lit after it the shooting the outlaw went want to the barn got his saddle horse horsa and started away thorn and hance got together and fo followed breed him for several miles but the outlaw was well mount ed ad and they tey could no not or did not wish to get n near car enough to have a shoot ing hig match with him next day a posse was forms no nd od with h a blood hound dude ahoua 1 la that region took up the outlaw B trail agan age the hound followed the troll trail to tor forty miles through that most moat deso desi late spot of land to in all the northwest the badlands of southeastern van mon turn tana finally bringing the tha outlaw allow to bay in a lonely pate patch h ot if pines th the sheriff the then called upon pat him but to in aur or ronder render the answer wa WAS a shot hot fol lowall lowed by another and another tha th ballots whizzing so BO close that th the whole posse were held at bay on until til darkness when mccracken mccrachen made good his escape mrs mccracken bud and her little son still continue to reside ud at the thomp son creek ranch and there are stories that the h husband band and father Is a frequent r visitor there going and coming about se aa he pleases it Is all also stated that the there Is a to tun net 1 from the house houie to the creek and ad that a swift horse fully in 1 equipped to Is kept it tied ad to in t the he creek crack licit bd out of sight old and when hot any all SUB person crima 1 Is sean 1 approaching the outlaw reaches his horse horae through hie tn tunnel mounts not 1 and I is a soon far was into ill the Rad landa horses are am still being at stolen a tho cna country around the mccracken ranch and till officers have tried time and ago again to 0 capture mccracken who they teet feel sure bar 1 ta leafier its of the gang hot bin bae so a fir failed this sang gang ape operates ates over a 1111 portion of V borni coming ni motion montana and ad louth dakota mccracken and ad thus those of his hie x king S mill at liberty it know ever every foot fact of at the desolate country that surrounds mad that head ranch headquarters barters marters at tile the thompson creek crack ranch and have besides worra ore ot at friends who while they would cold tot not steal am thing themselves 1 are I true gelt erners in that they wilt will not I 1 re fill fuse food and shalter to a friend at al though he be be I a thief it in IB the opinion of shariff talt tait who 1 is aa 1 loyal in hs his official cIll duties as he was in friendship when punching imi cowa on 11 the open range that the gang is a bat sate from capture for a long time th tha co country entry to la sparsely settled end ad will so 80 remain a great while I 1 as few a people would b Z d desire ith or r mt attempt 1 to I make a home e 1 in n that t region glint except those of the outlaw a own kind and to anyone who iho craves rave tame films or ad lin venture ital tile the NIC mccracken ranch on an th tha head of Timm thompson inual creek waita lovea tl gatlon |