Show BANDITS TRICKED BY CLERKS train robbers overlooked mail sack and are poorly paid for trouble spokane ono one ortho of tho most daring holdups hold ups upa ever attempted on a transcontinental train befell northern pacific no 3 almost within the city limits of spokane after midnight saturday night two wo masked mashed highwaymen stopped the train at otis oils and boarded uie the engine after a brief encounter with the emigine efi engineer gine er and fireman the mall mail car next to the engine was detached and one of the highwaymen taking charge of the engine the party came oniest on west to trent where the trainmen were dismissed by the robbers the bandits then proceeded to within a mile oi of yardley where they proceeded to io rob the mall mail car the baggage car and the express car were untouched and none of tho the passengers was molested tricked by tho the quick wit of mail clerks cl erlis little plunder Is believed believe d to have been captured by the two men 4 warned that the robbers were coming the clerks took advantage of tho the time after the train had been cut in two and threw the local registered packages geB into VC a newspaper sack where they were not noticed |