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Show TOURISTS MEET wrvunns New York Party Tells Thrilling Tale of Encounter in Wyoming SALT LAKE, Aug. 23 Threaten- ed by supposed ditto bandits, wet ; by sheets of rain, almost swept from the road bv high winds and lost in j the Wyoming wilderness when com -I pelled to make long detours from main road, were the experience which befell Mr and Mrs It A White and R. C. Hagen. automobile tourists en j route from New York to San Francisco. Fran-cisco. on ROAD MONTH. The party arrived in Salt Lake last night, having been on the road from New York one month, The last sin tch ot the Journey into Salt Like was delightful the tourists declared. 'lh.- toads were good) and the scenery, scen-ery, especlalli thai which Parley's canyon affords, was inspiring, but when they recall dorli nights along bad roads, heckled by strangely acting travelers, who sometime followed their car. and at others moved slowly slow-ly along In the lead, frequently stopping stop-ping them with unusual requests, a ;1 finally chasing ; hem io:- many mile j In the dark, with iiic cf the strangers strang-ers clinging tu ti;e running board of 'their car, they s,re glad that they .n J securely housed in one of Salt Lake comfortable hot. 'Is ( COS! I l Bl STR Wt.l.RS. The encounter with the supposed holdups took place between Wamsut-ter Wamsut-ter and Stony I'omt, Y o. Earlv Friday Fri-day they were no osted by two strangers stran-gers traveling In a Ford, who sought to know their destination, from where they had come and other information of a nature which aroused Mr. White's suspicions Later in the day. when the White car had become stalled on a batl stretch of road, the Ford car overtook over-took and passed It. At the same time a Kansas City tourist parly approach-1 ed In another ear, and Mr. White related re-lated an encounter with the Ford occupants, oc-cupants, the main Incident of which WOS the necessity of one of the Kansas Kan-sas ity party compelling one of the Ford drivers, at the point of a gun. to remain out of the Missouri car A few miles further on the Ford car was encountered again, at which time one of H , n. .up. nits insisted on I riding In the White car, already ovr-j crowded, giving as o reason for the) change, the unpleasant disposition or1 his companion On Mr. White's declaration dec-laration that there was no room in in- Mir, the stranger pleaded for permission per-mission to ride on the running board, which was reluctantly given SIGN Ls rr. sni-.n i i As soon as the car resumed Its lour-, lour-, ney the Ford fell in close behind. Growing suspicious, Mr. White drove ! his car at full speed, the Ford nun aged to keep nrjthin sight and began flashing Mgnils with lis spotlight, whli h were answered by the man on the running board with his cap. In the meantime Mrs. While man- 1 aged to. locate a suit case in which wa.t :i revolver This she managed to pa - to Mr. White unobserved by the man on the running board. She undid un-did her hair, and. removing her Jewels Jew-els from a hand bag and her person, braided them In her hair, which she colled on top of her head, and ihen finding in the bottom of the car an i hi. rgem y starting crank held It ready to strike at the man on the lunnlng board in the- event he made a threatening move. CAR AHEAD WAITS. The car of the Kansas City party, Whiph bid gone ahead sarllei in the evening, and on which the White car had gained, noted the signal-like flashes of the Ford; and, surmising that the New York party wa9 In danger, dan-ger, drew to the aide of the road, whore it awaited the approach of the two pars. As Mr. White drove, up, a member of tho Kansas City partv, a former secret service agent, took in the situation at a glance, and covered cov-ered the stranger clinging to the Side of the car with a revolver As the lone driver In tho Ford drew up. he, too, was covered. Both were then ordered Into the Ford and told to move on. The Kansas Cltv and Nfew York parties combined their forces and '.imped for the ulght The Ford went to tho top of a hill and later returned, but wutchful members of ihe united party halted them, and under un-der the muzzles of their Runs, for the second time, turned thorn awaj That night the tourists Instituted a sentry service, and not until daylight did they relinquish vigilance. |