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Show HELD UP THE STAGE ROBBER LOOTS COACH RUNNING FROM BOISE TO IDAHO CITY. Registered Mail Was Taken and the Passengers Compelled to Line Up and Hand Over Their Valuables. - The stage which left Boise, Idaho, Thursday morning for Idaho City, was held up by a masked highwayman a mile and a half beyond the half-way house. The passengers were compelled com-pelled at the point of a rifle to turn over their valuables and the registered regis-tered mail sack was rifled. The lone highwayman then retreated to the hills and disappeared. The stage had reached the mouth of Muller gulch when the highwayman highway-man stepped from the brush with a rifle in his hands and commanded the driver, Charles Sullivan, to stop and throw but all the mail sacks. The highwayman quickly ripped open the registered sack and pocketed the contents. He did not touch the other pouches. He then turned his attention to the three passengers, whom he lined up and ordered to hand out their valuables. valu-ables. However, he secured only $1 In money an:l a rifle The passengers were all greatly excited, and no good description nf the bandit can be secure se-cure from them. Sheriff Agnew and his deputy of Ada county have joined the sherMT of Boise county in pursuit of the robber. rob-ber. Postmaster Fenton of Boise, Inspector In-spector Ball and two guards from the penitentiary are also on the trail with bloodhounds from the penitentiary. |