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Show Psmoiis Haunt of , Western Desperadoes Beginnings of the "Wild Bunch" That Has Made the "Holo in the Wall" Notorious. In that chapter of "The Virginian" immediately im-mediately following tho ono called "Superstition Trail," Owen Wlster has skotched tho rendezvous of the Wyoming "wild bunch" which Is known locally as "Tho Hole In the Wall," and also as "Jackson's Hole." It Is high up In the Teton range of mountains. After the drumatio scene among the cottonwooda. when Stcvo and Ed were hanged to expiate expi-ate tho high crlmo of tho cattlo country, "rustling," It will bo remembered that the Virginian and his companion struck oft through tho hlllo and up to tho higher peaks. After a long climb up a rocky trail tho two gained tho basin, whore Shorty's final tragedy was played. Out ot thai green rolrcnt only Trampas eniergcu his norao'B hoofprints wore followed by the two: i "Somewhere at the eastern base of the Tetons did thoso hoofprlnto disappear into a mountain sanctuary where many crook- I od paths havo led. llo that took another I man's possessions, or ho that look an-othor an-othor man's life, could always run her If tho lav.' or popular Justice wore too hot at his hcolH. Steep ranges and forests walled him in from tho world on all four sides, almost without a break; and every entrance lay through Intricate solitudes i Snake river camo Into tho place through canyons and mournful pines nnd marshes, to tho north, and wont out at tho south between formldablo chnsms. High Among High Peaks. "Every tributary to this stream rose among high peaks and ridges, am1 descended into tho valley by well-nigh Impenetrable courses: Pacific creok, from Two Ocean pass, Buffalo fork, from no pass at all, Black Rock, from tho To-wo- go-too pass all these, and many more, wero the waters of loneliness, among whoso,-thousand hiding places H was easy to be lost. Down In tho bottom was a spread of level land, broad and beautiful, with tho blue and silver Totonp rlsilng from its chain of lakes to tho west and other heights presiding over Its sides. And up and down and In and out of thlc hollow square of mountains, where waters wa-ters plentifully fiowed and game and natural pasture abounded, there skulked a nomadic and distrustful population." It was to "The Hole In tho Wall" that Trnmpas and Shorty, with but one homo between them, had lied. Trampas got there, and was swallowed up; and Shorty, a victim to "necessity." was left behind. In tho real life of Wyoming scores or "rustlers" and murderers nnd train robbers rob-bers havo found refuge from oagor pur- onlf In fVi "T-J1n ' ATinp tlm rntil nn the bank at Cody two weeks ngo, whose only result was tho killing ot' a brave cashier, it wns to the "Hole" in tho Tetons Te-tons that tho raiders fled, nearly a hundred hun-dred miles southeast. Tom Horn Hanged. Tom Horn, hanged last year after a plelureaquo career as a caltle-thlcf and bad man, know the "Hole " ; "Black Jack" Tom Ketchum, hanged nt Clayton, N. M.. wns known as tho original leader of the "wild bunch" that used tho mountain refuge of Wyoming; Harvey Logan, who killed himself a few months ago at Parachute. Para-chute. Colo., when surrounded by officers, and hnlf a score of othors, knew thoso gloomy. Inclosing mountain walls. To the northwest tho Toton range has boon what tho Algerian mountains nrc to tho people of Tanglors, a safe hiding placo for whatever what-ever Ralsull gained their shadows. If It were possiblo to go straight northwest north-west from Chcycnno toward the Yellowstone Yellow-stone reservation, "The Hole In tho Wall" would be found to lie almost dl-icctly dl-icctly In the way, and less than a hundred hun-dred miles from the southeast corner of the great National park. Once upon a time, as a geologist would describe It. this hugo cup in tho mountains was evidently evi-dently a lako. In Ihe courso of centuries (a geologist always scorns to speak loosely) loose-ly) tho waters of the lako gnawed their way out In a narrow stream whero It was easiest to break through. Waters Subsided. Later the outlet became a deep gorge, and tho waters of the lake foil lower and lower until the once wide and deep body of water becamo but an Interrupted chain of small pools and a rapid little stream that Is a veritable torrent when the snow melts In the Bprlng. It was the receding lako that left tho "bleak, crumbled rim" that ran ''like a rampart between the towering tops," and under that rim subterranean sub-terranean passages and staring caves were left, too, where a cautious man, familiar with tho basin, might hid and be safe from capture for any longth of timo. Tho enlranco to tho "Hole," and Its oxlt. aro narrow, steep, rock-bottomed gorges through which tho prehistoric lako found Its way to lower levels. Tho end of the "wild bunch" has been announced to a relieved Northwest moro than once. When Logan was found self-killed self-killed an enthusiastic Sheriff wired to a Chicago dotectlvo agency whoso work had been onerous In Wyoming and Colorado: "Dead robber nbsolutoly Identified as Logan. This means the end ot the Holc-In-the-Wall gang." In tho minds of tho thlef-takera and men-tamers of tho We6t. Harvey Logan, who was better known as "Kid Curry," the leader of that band; -"tho Holo-ln-the-Wall" without Logan would surely becomo but a memory mem-ory of wickedness. To that versatile outlaw out-law had been credited tho lendorshlp of tho "bunch" that robber tho Butto County Coun-ty bank at Bello Fourchc, S. D., In 1897, that held up a Union Pacific train at Wilcox, Wyo., In 1S99; that robber another express car at Tipton; that looted tho First National bank at Wlnnomucca, Nov., of moro that 530.000 in 1W0. and that got S35.CO0 from a Great Northern train at Wagner, Mont., In 1901. wiia iiuncn jjwincuea. By tho time he wns run to earth' It was thought that tho "wild bunch" hud dwln-dlel dwln-dlel to "Kid Curry" and two othors. It wns know that "Butch" Casaldy (a sinister, sinis-ter, fitting name) and Harry Longbaugh, the "Sundance Kid,'1 wore at large, but It wns thought that they had deserted "the" Hole-ln-thc-Wall" forever. Now, with Col. Cody nnd his Indian scouts on tho trail of tho men who killed Cashier Mlddaugh. and with tho trail pointing again to tho Toton range retreat. It is not ao certain that the rognancy In outlawry lapsed when Harvey Logan killed himself at Parachute. It Is oven hinted that the great "Bill" Cruzans, v. ho was reported to havo been killed In a fight with officers, ia still alive and a leader of tho sorties from tho "Hole" For fifteen years, at least, "tho Holc-in-thc-Wall" has been known and used by tho outlawed among the cowboys and gamblers of the Northwest. It was In 1592 that Its secrots were revealed to the world. In that year a Northern Pacific train was hold up near Big Timber, Mont., and tho express car plundered. The "Job" was well done, and the posse formed to run down tho robbers had a long, atom chase Ono man, Camilla Hanks, was captured. Ho was tho "Deaf Charlie" of tho gang, and from him tho officers got the first trustworthy information concerning con-cerning tho "wild bunch." Ho wns from Texas, as was Ben Kilpatrick. tho "Tall Texan,' 'who was neatly trapped by .detectives .de-tectives while on a drunken spree In SU Louis. After serving a ten years' acn-tence acn-tence at Deer Lodge, Mont., ho returned to tho old life, to be killed two years ago by a posao at San Antonio Went by Secret Ways. Tho outlawed went to the "Holo" by secret se-cret ways, ono by one, they gathered there to plan tho next raid, sending out couriers to collect the news that would bo likely to bo of vnltto to them Tholr arrangements ar-rangements made, thoy slipped out of the "Hole" one by one, to meet perhaps two weeks later and, three hundred miles away and carry out a raid. Whon a robbery rob-bery had been committed and tho plunder was distributed every man had to dofend himself. He might go southwest Into Arizona Ari-zona or Into southern California, tho whim might take him down into tho Rio Grande country or Chicago or St. Louis might draw him. But when the chaso i?rew stern and tho money grew scarce tho "IIole-ln-thc-"VaH" was the final refuge. Even thoso men, who, for ono reason or another, gave up the Robin Hood existence and became as Mr. Wlster described thorn, "the honest citizens of the Hole. ' were always ready to furnish food and-news to the hunted. It was when tho refugees left tho "Holo'" and put aside tho tremendous advantages" ot Its fastnesses that thoy woro "plucked." Thus "Flat-Kosed "Flat-Kosed George" was killed In a fight with Utah officers; Snm ICotchum was wounded wound-ed and captured near Cimarron, N, M. ; '"Blaclc Jack" Tom Kotohum, another brother, wns also taken In New Mexico; Bob Lee, Tom O'Day and Elza Ray foil victims to tho law far out of sight of the Tetoufl. Thero was nothing In tho "Hole" worth having except safety, and that was worth risking when a man had money and a six-months-old Uesire to spend It on a glorious carouse. New York Post i |