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Show B Roads Anxious About m Their Cash, Hr;'s Distinguished Citizen of H I 'f Vernal to Be Warmly. ' Received. Hri! ) Armed Guards Placed on :he Rio ' 'V ,- Grande, Union Pacific; and Other Western 'Beads. H !!'. Hj j l, i lirMBLE citizen of Uiali. modest j A and retiring and averse to all pub- Hj J; J llcity. is inadvertently causing Sn- J ' somnla and apprehension among the olllciaJs of various "Western roads. ') " Since th hold-up of the Rio Grande I ! passenger train at Parachute, and the j Hj i - Kiiuseiuont robbery In Washington Statb the name of Mr. Hutcher Cassldy M has. been "bandied." as Judge Powers would say, about In a way which must he anything but pleasing to its owner. J Without any authority from Mr. Cas- ! I sidy himself he has been suggested as a k , possible aspirant for the greenbacks j ' anil specie transported from time to thl i ' time by the common carriers. Mr; i. He has been prominently mentioned ' Jn this connection by me secret sorvlec men of the Rio Grande Western and. fl j'i'j 'I i as a result, the Rio Grande. Colorado ! Southern. Colorado Midland and Union I Pacific are putting armed guards on . i " their train?. In additJon to the sawed- 'A off shotguns which the express messen- n gers have btfen carrying the guards who ( accompany them have been armed with li , i , Winchesters and Colts revolvers. It is Iji ' .said that four men are carried as I guards on each train, one on the engine H' ' li and three in the express car. The latter nrc to be loop-holed, the report goes, ( , and negotiations are on whli the in- ventor of a dynamite-proof car. All these preparations must be ex- J ccedlngly objectionable to Mr. Cassidy, I i " -whose pleasure It Is to slip in unex-, unex-, i pectedly and so avoid the pomp and dls- I1 ) hiy which would otherwise greet his I 1 appearance. Owing to his dislike for h ' ' notoriety he had been living In rctlre- i , ment, presumably In the vicinity of , Vernal, for somu time past, in fact ever since he relieved R, L. Carpenter of several thousands of Utah Fuel com- Jf , pany cash. V) ' He Is said by an afternoon paper to 'i have been in Salt Lake at the Fourth of Ht1 J J' July celebration two years ago. but. with B"l li tj his usual modesty, he declined to be In- Hl )' l ), terviewed. Had he been more com- municatlve he would probably have " ' explained, that for several years he has Hj i been irrigating his lucerne patch, doing ' i t1 a llttlp hunting and fishing and attend- II ! , ng to the branding of his and other folks'tf cattle. i Those who know Mr. Cassldy well as- H J ' I sort that he has not the" slightest am- ii ' bltion to serve the people of the State t jjr in a public capacity and that he would ,) y take' the time to do so very unwillingly. .It is conceded, however, that no citizen f ' ' of this State could make a better run I it or be more certain to distance his oppo- ' nents. I I |