Show WITH OUTLAWS NEAR ALMIRA almara WASH cue desperado to I 1 ld dead while iiii III partner it Is at larg barf hut but in I 1 wearier a lair of f one of the most desperate battles balt lea ever eve r fought in the northwest between officers of ane law and desperadoes occurred sunday at almira wash As an a result billy gibbons one of the do desperadoes pera does lies dead and his partner Is at large though handcuffed about two weeks ago age gibbons and wild rounded up a band of horbes hor sesto to ship to wyoming deputy Nl chell of okanogan Oka nogan county followed the thieves for two weeks through okanogan Oka nogan coun ty locating them at almira and constable phillips of almira almara captured wild ina in a livery stable wild drew his gun but the deputy 1 covered him and the constable grabbed tile ali e weapon the prisoner was handcuffed and turned over to a group of about twenty men in the hotel office gibbons was seen entering a saloon and the officers found their man in a side room nickell di diew ew his gun and ordered the desperado to surrender gibbons jumped behind a bystander Ly stander a and nd shoved him toward the of officers ficera at the same time drawing his revolver and starting for tile the side door raised ills his left arm to shoot and shot the fugitive in tile the side aide under ills upraised arm gibbons bullet went wild and lie started for liis his saddle horse two blocks blacks away firing as he ran while ho he was mounting ghe lie was again hit bit in the hip and arm and his horse we was a shot through the hips the animal notwithstanding curried carried its rider a quarter of a mile ta to where a horse was standing tied with a halter balter the wounded horse was discarded for the fresh one meanwhile had secured lila ills mount from the stable and he soon boon came w irbin gunshot of ills his fleeing man A running fight was kept up eleven miles when gibbons throw threw down ills his gun and dismounted dismount eI the den perano had but two cartridges left having used a belt full of ammunition lie he was brought brou glit to almira and died at midnight in tile the pre presence senco of his bis father a and rid mother wild meanwhile guarded and handcuffed was kept la in tile the hotel office in tile the presence of about twenty men suddenly late at night might a face a appeared P on oil the outside of the window 1 and wild smiled and dashed through thedoor the door it Is supposed he escaped a on n horseback and no trace of him has been found |