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Show ,a haa the right of way over everything. But, as a matter of fact ao thor-cugh- ly do the bandit-fightperform bi er ri 1 .1 ' 00,000 -- t? Il their duties that they have little active service. Their first battle was In 1400, soon after they were organised and before their name had struck terror into the hearts of evil doers. The waa as follows: Train Xu. 4 had pulled out of Hugo. Colo., on August 4 late In the evening. Shortly after midnight the Pull-nu- n car conductor heard a noise at the doors and, thinking a oin- of tramp was inside the vestibule, unlocked tlte door to find himself covIn the hands ered by four of a pair of masked robbers. With a revolver pointing between his shoul-o- ,i blades the conductor was forced in go down the aisle of the car, arousing the passengers while the bandits robbed them. One of the passengers, m.iiud of producing hia purse, brought tnrth a gun. He was shot through the head und instantly killed by one of the robbers, who then pulled the and both men leaped from the NEVADA BEST STATE Grand Opera House Monday Night, Dec. II THE UNION TODAY 11 oc-al- oa WHEN THAT IS WHAT GOV. SPARKS THINKS OF HIS STATE. JOHNNY COMES - Dolls andToys u 1 wmamas Now Ready for Your Inspection at, six-shoot- bell-cu- rd train. The bandit -- hunters were 00 miles a nay. at work In Wyoming. They ' rushed to the scene, and eighteen hours sfter the hold-u- p they were on tlie trail, with Chief Cannada and a posse gathered from the surrounding The fugitives were trailed country. into Kansas and brought to bay at a deserted ranch house. After a desperate battle. In which many of the were wounded, the house was lsae tired. The posse stood back and waited for the flames to drive the outlaws out. Just before the roof caved in one of the thievee sprang from a window, and with a pistol In either hand, tried to shoot his way He was picked up two to freedom. minutes later completely riddled with bullets. The second robber, realising that hla end had cotne, commlted suicide and was cremated. Since then the Union Pacific trains have run unmolested in the bandit belt. For the bandits know there is no chance to escape. Not only are the bandit -- fighters always ready, but each train is heavily guarded and a fierce fight must necessarily ensue and many lives be lost before a robber could ever enter a baggage or mull car. The ban dll train is not always at its home in Cheyenne. It is at any place along the road, waiting to be called. Oftentimes u man and horse are dropped here, uii- other mun and horse there, where sus pleiuuK-luokin- g characters have been seen. There Is no doubt the bandit train has made Wyoming a safe country :for travelers. It broke up the much-feare- d Butch Cassidy gang that waa the terror of all northern Wyoming. Ttefore It was organised Butch Casaged to escape and live In security. sidy and his gang reigned supreme. Every one of these men is a crack Now Buch Cassidy and Harry Long-bauUNION PACIFIC are the only ones of the gang shot; hue lived all his life on the "frontier, cares nothing for hard- of twenty who are at large all the ships; will risk hia life without a mur- others are either dead or serving time. mur, but will sell it dear, and la ab- Butch" Cassidy and Harry Long BANDIT solutely honest. liaugh are In Bouth America, where Joe La Kora la a Texan by birth. they went after holding up a bank In and a stock Wlnnemucca, Nevada. Ha waa a detective, has been deputy sheriff In The origin of the bandit rule Which Texas, Montana, Idaho, Dakota and these men have stamped out was In a READY AT A MOMENT'S NOTICE Wyoming, and haa been deputy United sort of vendetta, which started back Htatea marshal In Wyoming for the In the early '80'a, when a man tried TO STEAM AWAYi last four years. He haa the reputa- to hold up a train In Wyoming and tion of being the sureat and moat waa mortally wounded In escaping. to reach a long hut which rapid trailer In the United States, He Eight Man, Bandit Hunters, Triad being able to trail hie man or beast had managed for many years been used as and Tma, Malta Up tha Little through the roughest country with hla hiding place for bad men, and here Army Abaard. horse at a gallop. He la the beet shot Kid" Curry nursed him and triad to In Wyoming and a man absolutely save his life. The bandltaMoaly without fear. thoughts were of revenge; he cursed bandit-fightEight professional It was Joe La Furs who for years hie pursuers and exacted an oatb- atand ready to atart at a moment'a no worked to find a murderer who had bound promise from Curry that he email would move heaven and earth to tice for any point on tha llna of tha put terror InInto the hearts of all wa Joe avenge the death of his friend. and stockmen it Wyoming, a Union Pacino railroad from which Kid Curry was true to hi promise. who succeeded In having Tom La For "hold-up- " may ha reported, and a Horn hanged as that murderer. It In the country ha aidwa Joe La For who entered the collected as deseprate a band of bad rpeclal train walta on acme hidden a the region had ever known, ; men ing, with ateam up, ready to take Jackson Hole country with fifty armed There were twelve of them, each with cattle the around and camped amtheir arm, theae bandit-fighte- r, a time long enough a clrlmlnal record that had driven him there for rustler the munition, ratlona and Home, to to atarve them, and. without a shot into the wilderness, each knowing that Thu unique little being fired, made the thieve give up he was hunted and that capture meant acene of action. rail-ma- d TOO head of cattle army la called by official ot the they had stolen. It hanging. To them Kid" Curry told of the bandit train. waa the same Joe La For who carried the death of their pal, and all took The following atory will ahow why 120,000 a month to a fiarty of Ameri- the oath to revenge. In execution of It la neceaaary for the Union Pacific cana who were mining In South Amer It they planned the famous Wilcox to have a bandit train, but It will be ica, when there was no other way to robbery. Intereating to tell, first of all, of the get the money Into camp and when On the night of June 2, 1899, thirteen bandit-fightethemselves. There are to go unarmed there was almost cer- armed and masked men held up the Tim of command the under men, eight tain death. La Furs went alone each Union Pacific baggage and express Kellher. He waa In charge of the month 250 miles, sometimes disguised rars Wilcox, Wyoming. They divisaecret service of the Wyoming an a native, aometlmes as a iieddler, forced the coupling between the bag- ion of the railroad in 1900 when W. T. ami sometimes as a medicine man, gage and mall cars and the rest of Cannada, chief of the secret service, But through all hln varied experience the train, ran the cars up the track home at hla move from aalced him to has nut showu a bit of fear and he about a mile, blew open the safe and North Platte, Neb., to Cheyenne, nays laughs when asked If he hua ever vanished into the darkness with the the New York World. Kellher le known It. was teleWord of the hold-u- p booty. 224 but pounds, and weighs feet tall There I Bain Lawson, an graphed along the line of the road, and Is lithe as a cat and has not an ounca old-tiof lie ' by daybreak fifty men were after the Wyoming, trapier of superfluous flesh. His work has has also been of hard guide and scout and bandits. After many day without and done been silently always Inch of the country, be- chasing the posse tracked two of tha knows every hU selected waa he who any fuse. It one of the best shots In the robbers. One was wounded In the fight sides assistants from among the coolest, state. being that followed, and turning a run to hla bravest, hardiest of the men who know Good-bhead, called, boys, I'm all cowa Thomas a started near Meggesnn wild the of Inch regions every In. and will rid you of a burden and rough-ride- r, waa and Into lie and boy deputy which the railway paasea a chance to escape. Ha which train robbers had always man- - sheriff in Utah and his reputation in give you that state is one any home man might pulled the trigger, and by the time tha pursuers reached him he was dead. be proud of. man wa K!d Curry. That comes Ri" Funk, one of the Next BGT The Union Pacific placed guard on pioneers of Wyoming. He entered all trains running through the Bandit Wyoming in the early 70s as an Indian flghtt-r- . He, too, ts almost In- Belt, and thought this protection one fallible In the matter of trailing. Funk enough, but the Tipton hold-uwas at one time sheriff of Buffalo year aer proved the Inefficiency of county, Nebraska, and United States these guards. The men Curry left be hind him were bound by oath and were deputy marshall of Nevada. Frank Spurlock was formerly dep- again at work. Again the train wa broken, ran up the track for a mile uty sheriff of a western Nebraska and looted. The bandit were never county. Then the Union Pacific realNickel Hi" Davis, who was a soldier In captured. ised that some energetic action was the United States army In the Fldllp- and the Plnes. has Immediate charge of the necessary, Enamel called ftheroad; W- - T- - Cannada, chief of the secret dltion. They have a 1 of the Union Pacific, Into con miles each day under hts direction. ylv,ce with the result mat Tom sultation, Jeff Carr Is railed the terror to was placed In charge of th hobos. For years he was a marshal Kellher at Cheyenne, Wyoming, and acquired Union Pacific bandit train. a world-wid- e reputation among the VERY LOW EXCURSION RATES WITH tramps as a hobo hunter. FOR CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. Two cars and an engine are always One ready for these bandit-fighter- s. car Is fitted up with stalls for the!jTo all points on the Nickel Plate road between Chicago and Buffalo. Dates eight horses tall, wlrty. native horses of sale December 28. 24, 25, 30 and 81, that can cover a hundred miles be- 190.1, and January 1, 1908, with limit tween sunrise and sunset ori the first 3. 190C. Rate of day out. The other car contains a returning January far for the round hlrt store-rootrip. sliowr dining-rookitchen, and " bunks for sleeping. Each man has a! Tna 3 0 ."cheon Winchester rifle, a brace of , " Colt revolvers and carries 100 rounds rte' No ? of smokeless ammunition. t hlcago city ticket offices 111 Adam They are. like firemen, ready to street and Auditorium Annex. Depot start for anywhere at a moment's nn- - ij, Salle and Van Buren streets, the tire, tlie work of putting the horses only In Chicago on the Elevated and supplies on the ear taking not Poop, depot write Mr. Charles E. Johnson, Grcst more than thirty minuti-s- , as has been district Importing Tea Co. passenger agent. 811 Seven- s. vrm! occasions. prov.M 340 29th 8L, Ogden. The en- -' t. ,.nth street, Denver. Cola, for in- gine and the train fouuation. always No. 40 THE NEW YORK RACKET STORE ; Your Christmas shopping will not be complete without looking us over dt If you want a little to go a long way call on us i O. D. Rasmussen i I gh TRAIN cow-punch- er er IloIe-in-the-W- all j il' Talks About the Great Future of vada in a Mining Way te the State Journal. Ne- Governor John Spark of Nevada arrived In Ogden yesterday on hla way huine from Salt Lake City, where he hu been on business The governor, who 1 a great favorite in Ogden, was seen by a State Journal reporter and asked to say something of Interest to hia many friend here. The governor slated that he was not talking lor publication this trip, but he did condescend to aay that he believed that hi atate waa the beat in the union and the reporter did not care to contradict hint, aa he la rather a well developed peraonage physically. Governor Sparks was asked regarding the future of Nevada In a mining way and spoke in glowing terms of the new camp that have recently been u;ened there. He stated that in the Tonopah district alone enough ore had been blocked out to keep the mines running for the next thirty years and estimated that the value of the ore now in sight in that camp would exceed 2U0,0U0,0UU. He spoke of several new camps that had recently been discovered, such aa the Gold Crest, Bone Clara and the Nevada Goldfield, and said that a half Interest In the latter had recently been sold for 200,000. The whole southern country, Including the old Bullfrog, Rhyolite, Beatty, Gold Center, Lida Valley and Kawlch la on the boom and every mine la showing up in great shape. Every one of those districts are producers and they are from one mile to 100 miles apart. The entire scope of this belt la mineralised, and In his opinion it would not be worked out for ages to Cornell Mexico, said he, has been working her mines for more than 800 years, but I believe that tlie mineral in Nevada will excel even their mln-l- u Nevada will excell even their mineral resources. The governor laid particular stress oft the fact that there waa no such thing as labor troubles In the camps, and that everything Is now and haa been moving along smoothly and to the entire satisfaction of everyone. Automobiles are traversing the country in all directions, enabling anyone to reach any point he may desire whether there la a railroad or not. He also pointed to the fact that the railroads have their eyes on the state and many of them were headed for the new gold fields There la an abundance of water there now, which haa to the lieretofore been unknown world, and there will be no more prospectors or people perish for want of water In the newly discovered gold fields. Governor Sparks remained In Ogden until today, when he left for hts home STRANGE EDWARDS BRILLIANT MILITARY COMIC OPERA Week MARCHING HOME .... $l,OOv 75c, 50c and 25c Prices All This A. SEAT SALE OPENS SATURDAY. Utahna Theater ELEVENTH wik WEEK. THE GRAND CIRCUIT COMPANY. TONIGHT AND ALL WEEK FEATURING THE MONTANA GIRL LULU SUTTON AND HER CAPABLE COMPANY IN THE PRISONER of ALGIERS Seats on sale at Theater n weak in advance. Matins Saturday at 2:30. Next Week The Ticket of L.av. Man.'' Prices i lOc, 2Qc, 30c. No Higher hr Glopljiutt Sar anft (Club ffl parlors J. F. SMITH & OX. Prop. ELEGANTLY EQUIPPED And COMMODIOUS 308 Twenty-filt- Sbwf h at Rena Furious Fighting. For seven years, writes Gea W. Hoffman, of Harper, Wash., I had a bitter battle with chronic stomach and liver trouble, but at last I won, and cured my diseases by the use of Electric Bitters. I unhesitatingly recommend them to all, and don't Intend In the future to be without them in the house. They are certainly a wonderful medicine, to have cured such a bad cane as mine." Sold by all Ogden druggists at 50c a bottle. Try them Pandora" Cigar. A Bright Clean Smoke RIEGER A UNDLEY, Distributor. From Salt Lake City. Key WeaL today. ra (Pat) y, fHOLmAY YOU WILL LIKE t SILVER NOVELTIES, COMBS AND X BRUSHES, MILITARY BRUSHES, 4- - SILK UMBRELLAS, FINE 4- - NECKWEAR, SILK HOSIERY, X KID GLOVES. I Spices , '.r ;:l- - it;., BOOKS, Tlie prices are right, too. Ask the women who trade here because they know. OUR CUSTOMERS NEVER WART THEIR WRAPS life LADIES, n b DOLLS, GAMES. FANCY CHINA $ AND t MOREY BACK, X MISSES AND CHIL- DRENS. Customer usually look th fisld over before they buy, but latey everybody says wo hava th prettiest line in town," ao you sas it will save you tim and trouble if you com at once; tomi new arrivals ar her which we have marked very low, extremely low. lt hr l DRESS GOODS Wnt it about tim you had nice pattern selected and In work? It' her for you. Dress Making aen th kind that cornea from this store? Any woman may wall bo proud of it. It'o worthy pride. Aro you on th liot? Hav you -nd drossy that will wear well and givo you satisfaction. Thato tho kind ovary woman want Wa oo.l that kind. Small piece fox $2.95 to 15.00; largo, ologant scarfs, from 18-0- 12,00, 0 (j 25 to 825JJ0. I A SURPRISE IN HANDKERCHIEFS WAIT FOR WAIT FOR IT IT jjjj BEAUTIFUL NECKWEAR NORTH WINDOW m i 30-4- Guaranteed Watch f4 TOYS, JUVENILE i Come right along and let us you how quick and easy you can get a beautiful MECANICAL 4- - Silver Watches Given.... Teas, Coffees GOODS I Gold W.pYrk BASEMT I GOODS p, .Z1 dt THE GOODS AT FREE I dy ?! ohipmont by oxpmo today. Fancy Chiffon and lac affects, 50c to 1.25. Dainty turnovers, 15c, 25o. 30c, 50c and S)c. A g I corns in and aek for it Bosi there might bo aomothing Im you eould substitute No trouble to show you. If it isnt thar : WHEN YOU SEE THE PAINE & HURST STORE AD. READ IT i 8 Jt II iJ |