Show ia HANCHER 16 bield FOR HANSOM PAYMENT OF SIX DOLLARS GOLD DEMANDED FOR HIS PELEASE LEASE taken from ranch forty mile filles east of idaho falla falls by bandit be lieveld to be headed by no corlous hugh whitney idaho falls fulls idaho bandits MB are bolting for or ransom E A empey one bof 0 o the wealthiest ranchers in eastern idaho whom they captured on an july 17 on a lonely mountain road forty ralles mil east of here six thousand dollars Is the price the bandits name as the ransom for their prisoner it this sum Is cot not paid the bandits announce empey will in bu killed under the leadership of the sheriff ot of bonneville county scores of cowboys and cattlemen of eastern idaho aro are scouring the hills bills in the rough country on the wyoming idaho search searching ng for tic tle rendezvous of the raed leval bandits empey was captured just at dusk saturday evening hb was walking along a mountaha mou moun atala tala road goerg froin the timber tops ranch in long valley to his home ranch accompanying him were his 10 year old sou rind and a boy named carson about 17 years old prom behind P a boulder in a turn hi lit the road a man nan stepped out in front of them holding a pistol in either hand aiming both pistols at the trio ho he commanded them to throw up their hands they obeyed the bandit then ordered them to march in front of him after they had bad turned around another bend the bandit banded to the boys a letter which had been prepared in advance he told them to take the letter and go home without stopping to look back from prom the cool coot and deliberate manner in which the bandit captured empey and the peremptory demand he made for ransom many of the cattlemen la in this section assign the crime to the long list already charf charle ablo to hugh whitney the intrepid deeper desper ado murderer road agent and train robber whose name has long terrorized the people of this section of the country |