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Show MURDERER HIDING IN ROUGH COUNTRY SPOKANE. Wash., June 0. Hiding in the rough, thinly settled country around Mica peak, William Byrd, the double murderer, has baffled all pursuers pur-suers today. Armed with a 30-30 rifle, he is expected to put up a hard tight. After fatally wounding John Manski and O. H. Whipple, whom he attacked without warning Thursda' afternoon. Byrd fled from the eastern suburbs of tlio city pursued by citizens. During the chase he put a bullet through the lungs of C. W. Meisner. a justice of the peaco. Bloodhounds tracod him to the vicinity of Saltose, where the trail was lost. This point is only about fivo miles from tho Coour "d 'Alone .Indian reservation. |