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Show WHAT ROBBERS SECURED. Superintendent of Express Company Says It Will Not Exceed $500. ST PAl'L. Dec 17. Officials at the Northern Pacific Express companj head-qua head-qua Iters In this city are still without definite defi-nite details concerning the hold-up of the westbound North Coast limited at Hillside Hill-side Wash., last night. Thev have received re-ceived rep.uis mat both the through and o. 1 1 s if. s . T' dvnainlted and their contents con-tents scattered and destroyed, but whether wheth-er or not the bandits secured any great amount of booty they do not know. w. s. Hay, superintendent of the Northern Pacific ESxpresii companj is inclined to believe that not over four or five hundred dollars was secured. "This Is the same train that has been h.d up once or twice previously." said Mr. Hay, "and our previous experience Induces tho belief that little If any booty ins been secured. The fact Is that'we do not carry much money on this run, roost of our business being In checks. 1 am unable to give you even an approxlmato estimate of the value of the contents of the through saf", but am positive that th- re was little In it uion which tin- train robbers could realize. The content? of the Ibca safe was not valuable." The Northern Pacific ruliroad has a standing reward for the capture and conviction con-viction of hold-ups and the otlleials set m Confident that arrests wjl follow. |