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Show BARROW ESCAPE OF MAN WITH $15,000 EUGENE, Or., Oct. 29. Louis Zimmerman Zim-merman of Portland narrowly missed being killed by a highwayman and robbed of $15,000 in bullion which he was taking from his mine In the Blue River district to this place. Zimmerman was driving alone. When he reached a lonely spot on the mountain moun-tain road he heard a rush of feet Just above him in the brush and a rifle ball whizzed over his head. Zimmerman whipped his horses into a gallop and made his escape. |