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Show t badIienIn abizona.' EXPLOITS OF WILDUn-KLKINB HTAOE-RODUINa OANO. to lleilecinlac Fralnres la Iltllete Their WlUlnj After m ting Career The Here Sl.ot Down I lorn illihlDd I.Ik. Uon by lllrnl ..chrk't r " (Special Utter.) n - HE death ot Esta ln rD A. Davidson at Ills ,. L ranch home near P i US Kl Mon, Cal" ,h0 ftWOJxJciaKr vlved the memo-B,- -jjxw' rim 0f people who rSZCCW lived In Arliona frj(Lr and New Mexico Cg'vCSij and Southern Cal- 5AJir ifornia 18 yeare agu concern I n ft th famoua gang ot desperadoes, ot which (leorge Wilbur. Dan l'.lklni, and Hill Howard were leaders lor several years, at tho lime ot the Tombstone mining excitement In Southeastern Arlxnna. Mr Davidson was tbe officer who laid out the plan ot capture ot Elklns and Wilbur, and ho wns paid by aubscrlpllons, 12,000 for his share In ridding the territory of two of the most reckless, daredevil, and murderous men In Arliona. Among the men who went to Tombstone Tomb-stone In the summer of 1178 were Dan Elklns, Hill Howard and (leorge Wilbur. Wil-bur. They rame from the vicinity of Hoslon originally and had lived In the mining ramp ot Colorado and Idaho for 12 to If, yeara. Howard, after af-ter a checkered career of crime, fled to Mexico, never tn return. Elklns and Wilbur remained, and became the holdm highway robber ever known In Arltona. (Inmbllng and mining too slow for them ns way of making money. They hluted that the con-lent con-lent of only one. ot the strong boxes of gold bullion that went away every week or 10 day from the gold mine In Tombstone to California and El Paso would make a roan Independently Independent-ly rich. Elklns and Wilbur went front the mining town to Tucson In th spring of 1179 and engaged themselves as worker about the livery stable, ; where trains that drew the coaches ' from the mine arrow the alkali des- ' erta to Lo Angeles, In Southern Cal- 1 Ifornia, rested Aa time went on they DAN ELKINS' EXPLOIT. H gave out that they had by clianco come upon rich-looking ore In tho Santa Itlta mountain canons, some V) miles southwest from Tucson, and across the sandy waste. Once every week or two the two men rodo away from the Isjy old Mexican town, apparently ap-parently for visit of a few day to their newly found mining claims In the fall of 1878 highway robberies began to occur along tho lines ot the stage from Tombstono to Yuma and Kl Paso, They were always done by Iwo men who wore white masks. They stopped the stage to California three times near Florence, and then the next wceU tho El Paso stage waa robbed rob-bed 260 mllea away In another direction. direc-tion. The driver was killed In two Instances, and another tlmo a miner troni Tombstone, who was slow In getting out ot th coach with hla bags of gold dust, was shot dead. One attack, at-tack, was mad In the night, and the others at different time at daylight The government offlcere watched Elkln and Wilbur and wero satisfied that they wero the highwaymen. The suspects realised this, and left. For some months tbe stage llnea wero unmolested, un-molested, and then suddenly the bold robberies wero resumed. These were tho work of Elklna and Wilbur, who captured many a big prlx In thla way. They knew that their Identity was known all over Arlxona, and that rewards aggregating 18.000 were out for their capture, dead or alive. They were cold-blooded murderers and had not one redeeming trait They would even rob women on their way to their families at tbe mines It was a common com-mon trick of their to shoot through a rnan' hat or between hi leg merely to enjoy hi terror. One time one of them shouted to tho passenger! In the singe It rolled away: "You fellow may go and telt all tho sheriffs this sldo of hell that you havo been held up by Dan Elklna and George Wilbur. Wo defy them all." Dan Elklns Is remembered as the original lone bandit of tho Southwest. H because, single-handed, he once held H up a stngo load of eight passengers, H bcelde the driver, all ot whom wero H armed. For weeks the exploit was the HJ talk ot men in and about Tombstone. Hl For some reason Wilbur wa not along HH with niklnt on a raid one day when ! the stsgo wns rumbling along through San Miguel pass, and It seemed a (It IHJ opportunity for Elklns to make tn HH other ralso of money, so he robbed HE th stage single-handed. After be bad vHR cleaned out the eight passenger and Hug the treasure, box ho said: jJHH "Now, gents, you can brag that ffflGl you'va been held up by n single- mSM handed man In the profesh. I fon't H9 mind telling you that I'm all alone WE today, nud that I need your money Hfl awful bad. Tell them Tombstono fel- Hffi ler that Dan Hlklns has got n new fS3L trick In his Una o' business " HH During the winter at 1870 and IliO JO) tho reeklee nnd bravado of Elklns HB and Wilbur became unbearable, nnd HBj people began to see that tho stage HH robbrrle were hurting tho name ot Hj Arliona, nn uniisunl effort was mada to get the rascals An extra reward HJ for their rapture was offered, and two jHJ or three detectives from Los Angeles, HH Cal, liegnn work. Several halt-bretd HBJ Apache and Indian trailer wero hired, HH and tn it few weeks the trail to tha Hl bandit waa found Hb "We're trapped! We're trapped!" shouted Elklns, as he Jumped from HJ his couch ot leave and saw tho horse- HH men encircling his hiding place. HJ In a second he and Wilbur were behind two great oaks and were pre- pared tn fight for their lives, They HJ forgot tho Indians In tho rear, and HJ no sooner bad they turned their fate HH toward th advancing posse than they HI were shot dead In the back by lh HI Apncho trailer H |