| Show I I Browns Brown's brow n s Park Paris ParkIs Pariss I Is s Scene of I Early Shooting Deep Basin on Shores of thel the Green River Shelter Out Out- Outlaws Outlaws laws From the Law in the Early Days of the West WestIn WestIn In the issue of The Vernal Ex Express Ex- Ex Express press Friday Irida July 9 1009 1909 John Jan Jarvie Ie a resident of coun coun- county county county ty for over oser thirty sears was mur mur- murdered murdered murdered dered on the night of July Jul the body placed In a boat and set adrift down don Green rivet rivel I The first word of the murder came to Vernal Thursday after alter afternoon afternoon I noon in a telegram to Sheriff J JRIchard IJ JRichard RIchard Pope from a Rock flock Springs bank Sheriff Pope ImmediatelY I telegraphed back for tor further In-I In in- in matlon in-matlon but not receiving anything he left In the night for Drown Browns I Park Today another telegram came cameI all three of which i here h are re given Rock Roc Springs Wyo 7 09 74 ShEriff Uintah County Vernal John Jarvie murdered at Bridge Bridge Bridge- Bridgeport port body adrift In boat Two Tao young oung men suspected Heading this way ay sheriff here notified First National Bank M Rock Springs Wyo 7 8 hert Uintah County Murder committed on night nigh t of ol I Continued on page five Browns Brown's Park Scene Of Early Shooting continued from page one July Murderers supposed to have ha come on here but not yet located First National Bank I Rock s Springs rn s Wyo W 0 8 8 09 8 Sheriff Vernal Utah Doing all In my power to ap- ap apprehend apprehend ap apprehend murderer of Jarvie Janie Matt McCourt Matt I This is all that is Ls known m of the sad affair up to the time of goIng to press pres It is presumed that the boat was wae seen drifting down the they I river and upon being caught by b the body discovered ered I I John Jarvie Jan ie has lived on the II banks of the Green Oreen river over In I Browns Park for over o thirty years ears i and with the exception of ot the last 11 ear or two has run the only ferry ferry ferryboat I host in that part of the country II and therefore had a wide aide Ide acquaint acquaint- acquaint I acquaintance acquaintance ance and was universally liked What the mothe motive could have hate been I lis is a m mystery to the people here I as he was not supposed to be the possessor of any money I This gripping ne In m the th files files of the Vernal Express heark hear hearkens I ens even een further back into th the rO ro-I ro romance mance manse of Browns Brooms Brown s Park which VI nestles beside winding Green river far off the beaten trails in the I little frequented northeast cO corner of Utah some fifty miles Vernal I The murder of John Jarvie and I Ithe the fruitless chase for the murder murder- murderers I IThe ers rs which led officers Into three states Is now written history and I only suggests to readers the wealth v I of unwritten hL history tory which that picturesque country retains his retains his I tory more fascinating than fiction I Bro n Browns sPark Park itself Is a scenic I Ivalle valle valley bo bot boc cannoned can above and below belm ome some five rive bv by b fifteen miles In size It is surrounded by rough peaked I peaked mountains which I tower some come two to three thousand I feet above e the rh river er It is a pleas pleas- pleasnt pleasant pleas pleas-int I ant nt place to use live in winter inter shel- shel sheltered shel sheltered as it is from frigid blasts shel-I shel and 1 wanted anted absconders over four dec dec- decades dec decades lades ades found it practically safe from I c civil 11 or Of military es- es especially es especially during winter Inter months when hen s-I s II snow piled pled to Impassable depths outside I Twentieth Tw 1 century runners rum rum were playing no new game v when hen they the trafficked Illegal megal liquor through fEderal des blockades during the 1920 30 30 decade Two o score sears ears before outlaws with Browns Brown s Hole asay as way way- way station station and hideout were ere engin engin- engineering engineering engineering large pack hor horse e trains ains of liquor from Rock Springs Wyo I the nearest railroad to Drown Browns s sPark Park From that point It was trans trans- transported transported ported to locations at usually Little and I Brush creek where U Uintah and I Ouray reservation Indians gladly exchanged ed their th Ir ment ae ac- ac funds for itI It I And the liquor traffic v was as pAr nos ivr-nos r- r rans aus ans the tho h leAst romantic of the his his- his tory history which the rugged can canyon on walls ails I of Brown Browns s Park might tell I IAn An Item In the Vernal Express s if A 15 1903 1803 supplies a clue I which hearkens to another blackened black black- blackI black eved eyed ened Industry which flourished hed in Wyoming W oming Utah and Colorado I near the turn of the century century cattle rustling hilt hat edition of t the f E Express pre s des des- des describes I I tribes eribes the tho futile attempt of one I I Tom Horn condemned murderer I of year old Willie Nickel to escape from the Count County sail August 11 1903 I I I na of 1 torY fireside I stories and yams yarns of or grandfathers grandfather and grandmothers make the Tom Horn a Browns Brown's Hole Institution Institution It was vas when Nat Raper na l and Isom Dart the latter o 1 L negro outlaw two 1 of the west est 5 I famous bad men were ere attracting famous bed men were EXe attracting at J I I the attention of 01 the big cattle men 1 of this section that ve e v e hear oP f I 1 I Tom Horn During these years presumably the early 90 sHorn s Horn is saId to have b been en employed by U tJ t e cattle men mens s association at nt Oi fj per head for each cattle rustler rustIer he kilted Under an assumed name namo Horn appeared In the vicinity of or Rock RockSprings RockSprings Springs He boarded at E H fifes I ranch for a II time and picked up what hat information he needed con con- concerning con on concerning 1 the cattle rustling I activities activities I I lUes which cen centered in Bro Bron Browns n 5 I I I Park From the Rife ranch with witha a saddle horse and two t mules Horn 18 the forbidden country And within a short time v was as v working with Rasp r and Dart With the h two 0 unsuspicious of his true mis- mis mission mis mission sion slon he v worked for Cor se several eral weeks departed for a short trip then re- re returned bush re-bush turned and shot Rasper from am- am ambush bush supplying evidence e that the outlaw had 1 been en murdered by his own companion Dart I I I I I I l I 1 I I I 1 I I I horn returned to Rock nock SprIngs collected his stipend then vaco- vaco vaca at Ogden Utah later return- return returning tag ing to ta Rawlins Raw Rn lins W 0 from whIch place he lie again ln enter entered d the Drown Browns s sI sPark Park country This time he waited at dawn in front of Isom Darts cabin and as Dart gr greeted ted the morning sun in the doorway a 30 closed his long career as ns an outlaW These two deaths from ambush cleared the atmosphere around the famous out hide and spelled keep keep- out keep out to the dozens of 01 other less pro pro- prominent pro prominent cattle thieves Questionable hIstory has it that Horn recklessly killed many man v others There can be beno beno beno no doubt about his name being us- us used used us used ed to terrorize cattle rustlers in the whole country Ho However ever v when hen he v was as suspected of the ambush murder of Willi Nickell year old son ron of 01 Kelsie Nickell Wyoming sheep shep I man the tide of pubic opinion opinions s swept against this boastful and no- no no notorious killer Despite the thousands thousands ands of dollars used by wealthy cattle men to secure an acquittal the he heas was as Incarcerated In the Laramie jail failed In a desperate attempt to escape cape andas and was as hanged Novem November ber her 20 1903 I Chilling tiles some seme true might be tOld of the part Browns ns Park pIa played t In the half halt dozen doen train rOb rOb-I rob rob- robberies rob robberies t berlt's which took tool pace pice soon after I the Union Pacific pushed its WA way the continental divide down within a hundred miles mUes of the ta- ta famous fa famous mow retreat and on into Ogden Utah I Names familiar in connection I with Ith those escapades were ere those of Dutch Butch Cassidy and Harry Trac Tracy t I The former became the RobinHood Robin RobinHood RobinHood Hood of eastern Utah from Pa Pan Pan- Pan gluitch on the south BOuth to Dagge t county on the north Pillaging from the wealthy and Ith a n tent tender ten- ten der heart for the poor the great outlaws outlaw s name Is being perpetuated ed today as 9 timers old-timers ely el christened their sons Butchas Butch as a of ot their good will Even in Ver- Ver vei-nal vei these same old tuners and Dry Dro Fork will tell Inal nal Ashley you that there s 8 good in them hills hidden away Il by bandits when the west vest was young |
