| Show "s' 11 ' 'it --tr 'Y ' C 4''' — - ro4--'e - "k 17' i F41- 0- -- J 14ey yr:- ' t ' : 'i ka 1! le'" IL :o' '''- :'4' - A v"" i d0)' 7- Allo ' i qt 4 ' —ii0-:4- :i i i to ot ' - ' z7:t: L alt0 t - 0 I tl woo - 11Mgillime00001impaRt1 i 6161111141P!' - - ' t ' fy omPOPOIONOMMINIPIll"1 — - : - 4 ' '' : 4 :01 ‘ v : '''''''''':-V- ': - 01 S 9 fts 1 6:otte '' icrt 431':tt'n fat chsel( t ''' t i - e- by James t half-brok- hid-tim- I train" This he kept up day aUer day for Sometimes he would chat with the engine man but generally he would fool around with his horse or sit on some steps leading from the street to the porch in trent of the store however tie did get very well acquainted with one of the engine crews One day when he rode tO the depot the train was already there He got off his horse and walked over to the engine crew and said 'Have a drink" holding up a flask as he did so Re Took a Drink They would not so he took a drink and as he did glanced 'toward the depot and saw men walking toward him three heavily-armealongside of the train Then he watched them cross the street climb those steps in front of the store go up an outside stairway to some ooms above the store Then be said to one of the trainmen "Gosh semighty what them fellas Coin'?" "They are the guards that bring in the the depot i 1nyroll" "What payroll?" he asked rather hesitatingly "Why for the miners You see they get raid twice a month and the Pleasant Valley Coal Co hired those men to bring the money down since they gotIerind that some day Butch Cassidy is going to attempt to rob them but they are too smart for film for no one knows when it will arrive: Sometimes it comes a week early and sometimes it 's a It always- gets here- Say vhy Welt late-b- ut don't you hook up with Butch for he is in - 4M 1 Sharp 1 ' of the wildest hunch of outlaws the His men ar'e called the charge West has ever known "Wild Bunch" "Never even heard of him but I'll bet there was all of $500 In those sacks the men were carrying" "$500? Why man they never bring down less than $8000 to $10000!" Train Started Out 1:':' 0 the April of 1897 a stockily-builtnrly horse entowtoy tiding a white tered the town of Castle Gate Utah He tied his horse at the hitching rack and entered a salcon had a couple of drinks and then asked the barman if there was any work for a cowpuncher He knew of- none but promised to look around The cowboy sauntered out just as the ere It mind Uen(er and Rio Grande train was he mounted his histling for the station tor e and rode to e(1 jasengers enjoyed the show for that was the tirt train the white horse had ever seen I mi they supposed this was some drunken (441hy in town for the (lay to celebrate but cowmen knew the rider had the thw c oric tneer centrol all of the time and that I t a real horseman Near the Engine He Lept the horse near the engine until it e 111in with much' puffing escaping steam of the bell pulled out rat 14(1 at the saloon the following morning the cowboy had a few drinks but found no sork so again rode to the depot as the noon train was about due No Apparently no one kii'Cw this cowboy one cared 'who he was as they watched him ride into town every morning and then on to almost one week and to those who asked what be was doing he told them "I'm teaching my horse to stand tied to the ground' near a in P ' k ' - ' ' ' N ' ) train started out while the drunken cow punch- er staggered over to his horse andkode slowly out of town A few days later he was back at the depot "Cot your horse broke yet?" asked one of the 110 9 14 - trainmen - "None Want him extra gentle so my sister ‘can ride him any place and know she won't get N hurt" He walked over to the store steps and when the train started out ran jumped on his horse and raced it to the crossing a mile below town This he did for the next few days but sometimes he would race it right into Price the next station down the canyon 10 miles away Then on the 2Ist day of April 1897 be was sitting on the steps leading up to the store when the train came in He was singing to himself Ond with a whiskey flask in one hand seemed to be enjoying himself When the flask was empty he arose and tried to climb steps but his feet would not track neither would they climb steps Some men inside the store were having a good time watching him He sat down again Out of the corner of his eye he Saw the three men approaching so sang a bit louder until they were only a few steps from him when he staggered to his feet and stepped to one side He Came to Lite Then it was he came to life for with a lightning-likmovement he pulled out his and said "Just 'drop your guns along with the money bags and walk up those - f fleet-foote- d - f'11" f : " 1 ' e -- t"' i - aspcte''All ty 7 1 ' I ! A t 0 1100 1 al i'''' ' - wilospossF 41404 t f!'L:44e ifi II atzats 41104 -- 40 '1s ri ott4 II 4 1'-- I - 't i)'i "1'44 ter steps" Too surprised to do anything else the men obeyed Those men in the store who had been laughing now saw something was wrong so the old storekeeper stepped out but was met at the door by a man who held a gun in his ribs Mid said "Grandpa better you go back in your store Mice might be eating your cheese" and then to those three men he said "Just step inside gentlemen please" By this time the cowboy had gathered up the sacks of money and was running toward the white horse but ofie thing he had overlooked that cost him almost one-halminute of precious time which was to train that horse to stand while he ran toward it with a white sack Put once in the saddle he started off down the street on a fast run He with thegun on the store porch jumped on his horse and a man already mounted came from across the street and these two chased after the white horse -- - -- a """ ti 4 4::3 - 1:i'''''1 :'' - :24 3 ' The town seemed that day with strange armed cowboys all with extra-tinsaddle animals but they never took any hand to stop the riders Neither did the town folks as the three men rode out of town without one shot being fired Down at the crossing two horsemen were wailing and when the three rode by thty poll had the telegraph and telephone wires out of commission Now back in Castle Gate to use a common baseball expression there was "action in the bull pen" for as soon as those in the Mort saw the men leave they ran out recovered their (Continued on Part 15) d THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE |
