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Show VII1TIJEY Sit ELUDES PURSUERS 0. S. L. Train Bandit Is Ee-lieved Ee-lieved to Be Headed Up Willow CreeK Canyon. ' BLOODHOUNDS WORK ON A FRESH TRAIL Take Scent From Sheep herder's Camp Where Fugitive AsKed Way. ; (Special to Tba Telegram.)' POOATXLLO, Ida, June 20. A poeaa of armed men It done on tha trail f Kngh Whitney, th bandit, along Willow Wil-low creek, fifteen mile east of Ions, ia rremont eonnty, and the report received here glvea hop of an early enptnra. : Tha bloodhounds from tha Montana penitentiary are on the acent and are working fast. Whitney (topped at s aheepherder'a eamp thii morning and naked tha way to rocatallo. Another poeaa ' started from Soda, tpringi today to intercept nay attempt of tha daaperado to reach 'the wild Jadmoa Hoi country. Ia addition to fatallv shooting Conductor Con-ductor Willism B. Ridd, wounding Deputy Sheriff Bam Milton and Ldsar McGill, and yesterday wonnding Reuben Scott, who waa guarding a bridge over the Snake river, the bandit, according to information received in bait Lake City early this morning, haa shot aad wounded Robert O'Lay, a deputy sheriff from Idaho Tails, and an unknown boy. All day veaterday tha tratf of Whitney Whit-ney waa followed by armed posses, but the highwayman and murderer seemed ' to kaow the country through which he waa traveling. When the officers believed be-lieved that they had him aurrounded, they found that he had slipped away and waa still ahead of them. From time to tim yesterday tha man doubled on hia tracka or rode be horse for a mile or more ia streams to throw tha dni, off the acent. At one time one of Uie pneeea eanght sight ef him, but before they eouid eome up with aim ha had disappeared in the brush aad that waa the last aeea of him by tbe posse. Farther press diapetehee from Men an. Ida., show that tbe bandit waa believed to be heading that vray and Scott volunteered vol-unteered to guard tha bridge over the Hnake river at that point. A abort time after ha took an hie etation a maa appeared on horseback. Scott I called oa kirn to halt, aad raiaed his J rifle to (re if tbe command waa not j , obeved. Tbe murderer waa quicker and ' fired at Scott, shooting a finger off the right head. The maa then turned and rode towards the eeat, taking Scott 'a repeating rifle. H also haa an automatic auto-matic revolver. - Idaho Fa lie aad Blaekfoot were no-' tided that the man waa coming that way and poaeae were qnickly formed ' ana started ia tba directioa it waa believed he waa taking. Several other partiea wera formed in various settlements settle-ments in southeast Idaho and started to intercept the bandit on routea he waa supposed to have takes. Other partiea were formed thia morning, but np to noon no word had been received there from aay ef them. It ia aaid that Whitney waa at Mon-ida Mon-ida last week and pawned hia revolver. Later he Is aaid to have secured money from n friend by telegraph from Coke-ville Coke-ville and with it to have taken hia revolver re-volver out of pawn. Thia waa bat a few hours before the aalooa waa held up by two men. What haa become of tba other maa ia not known. It ia believed that shortly short-ly after they made their escape from the Short Line train, after they had shot Conductor Kidd aad Deputy Sheriff Sher-iff Miltoa, they ware separated with the idea that one of them at leaat would be able to make hia escape. Aa far as ia known in Salt Lake City, no trace of tbe second maa has been found. |