Show TETON AND TARTER TALE OF TWO GENTLEMEN OF tha FAR NORTHWEST the judge I born wyoming tell ft buffalo Hc portor about the market lak oien cans jackson ii a nail man aa eara cant hold hlin he was white hubred blue eyed fa and pudgy he sat on ono of the big sofas in the rotunda of alio iroquois gently swaying his big felt hat to and fro in fiant of bis face he was down on the hotel register as hailing from wyoming the clerk had written in front of his name yes bo said speaking very slowly im judge judge who bead tb register yon cant make it out then im just the judge ive been reading your papers here powerful lot of new yon print seems to me such a busy peo pie cant find time to read all yon print murders and suicides and robbe you have a fine streak of humanity hum antty bere it reminds me of the human nature of teton jackson who ia jacksone Jack sont well well out in our country said the judge after a moments pause theres a fellow called toton jackson he was on of the worst outlaws and desperadoes I 1 ever heard of after a series ot violations of the law jackson was caught in may years ago in the big horn basin by sheriff canton of johnson county wy he was taken to blackfoot ida and given 14 years in the idaho penitentiary A sigh of relief floated over wyoming utah montana and idaho when he was landed 1 I tell you sir ho was a corker he led as bold and reckless a hand of outlaws as ever rode through the shades of night the haunts and headquarters of the band were in the innermost recesses of that great mountain watershed from which spring the waters of the green the wind and the snake rivers on that continental divide is a saries of deep and remote mountain basins in these basins hid jackson and bis gang high above them rose the towering peaks of the three betous these peaks look over four states jacksons hole market lake olen and teton basins are well known as outlaw resorts jackson hole is where he outlaws bung out principally in the midst of a vast morass that only thu initiated can reach is a strong fortress of logs palisades ded and provisioned the gang always retreated there market lake glen housed bob tarter the fence of the gang tarter took the stock they stole changed the brands and kept the until they could be driven off and sold tarter himself was a notorious criminal nine timea was he arrested and nine times did his captors fail to hold him on account of lack of e aidem e ho and teton were closest friends betous Te tous capture seven years ago wa due to an expedition he and tarter planned with only one of his men blacky starly teton rode down from the mountains and went deep into idaho on the limits of the blank foot indian reservation the two men rounded up 45 bead of mares and colts from the ranges of hinos and stout they started with them for western wyoming pursuit was prompt and the trail was easy to follow along the route taken by jaclson and marks tho pursuers found alie bodies of horses strangled to death by tho outlaws because they could not keep up with the other horses the robbers reached the southern slopes ot the lintl mountain buforo their pursuers who lost abo trail there kunrt were forced to to blackfoot A couple of took up the lout nj guessed that tho robbers would strike pretty close to johbson county wy they telegraphed to sheriff canton who kept a lookout tor the and sure enough they turned up in johnson county canton set a paco in the chase accompanied by only one deputy he ran the thieves to earth in the dusk of an evening he surprised teton in a hunters cabin of the big horn mountain jack eon waa and canton brought him and the stolen stock to buffalo tho county seat of johnson county blacky had skipped away two days before and was not caught at buffalo canton turned jackson over to honiford Ho siford one of the two men who divined the outlaws course hosford took teton to blackfoot where hia trial was wound up in short order teton said at the trial that he would not serve his sentence but would get out and do up carteri whom he accused of swindling him out of a the proceeds of a sidle of stolen stock whilo teton was in custody a marshal and posse started tor jacksons holo bill thompson lieutenant met them half way with his gang and drove them back aiko wind playa with chaff they went back to blackfoot where they found a message from saying ho was still about and would like to peo them they go back teton kept his word he slid from out the bars of the baiso city penitentiary like an eel through a sleeping darkas fingers he soon let every ono know lie waa at large tarter got it first I 1 think where aio tarter and toton now god and themselves alona enow sir s ir no citizen out home is ever going to try to flud oat buffalo ex aia |