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FOUR-EYED JACt FOOT, A Story of an Exciting Cha Robbers in Montan U. S. Marshals Around the table in a Montana J ranch house a circle of weather-tan-; ned faces bent in perplexed contem- J plation one night in 1894, is the set- ! ting of a story in the Spokane | Spokesman-Review. The lamplight | gleamed on steel work of revolver! mimri'nor frnm h fll Und i UUISTB V.U1 ? 1U5 ? vua ? flickered along rifle barrels set handily against the wall. Spurs jingled as the men occasionally shifted position. Rain beat heavily on the roof and glistened down the illuminated square of window pane. With their big, dripping hats pushed back several of the men eagerly sorted scraps of paper from the *? ?c ~ "n latfor niloH in I remnants ut <x ium*up icwvi the centre of the table. Painstakingly and not altogether in tame silence another of the number tried to match these scraps on a short piece of board, pinning the pieces in place when he found what seemed to be a fit. They looked like a roomful of rough, healthy men absorbed for the moment in freaky pastime, but each face remained fixed in purposeful expression until the man with the board announced his success by reading out the name of "John Chapman" as the person to whom the letter had been addressed. Then each looked at the other in comical query and everybody laughed. "Four-Eyed Jack," they chorused, with the emphasis that resolves the most solemn proposition into absur' dity. But the letter piecing went steadilv on and the gayety simmered down into a hum of shrewd question and speculation. The ranch house was situated near Judith Gap, between the Show and Belt mountains, and it was occupied by J. C. Farrington, now a business man of Spokane. His guests that night comprised a posse under the leadership of Sheriffs Ramsey, of Yellowstone, and Conway, of Park counties, each with a following of resolute, impatient men from Billings, Livingston and Big Timber, hurriedly impressed into the pursuit of three uncommonly nervy hold-ups who had robbed the Northern Pa/ cific train the night before just east of Reed's Point. The robbers were masked and the smallest of the three, a boy in build and manner, held dozens of passengers under the muzzles of his revolvers while his companions gathered in a harvest that amounted i to several thousand dollars in cash * ?1?- fnftlr o nncric ana jewelry. iiicjr aiov W-?X?. a. tered mail sack, proceeding leisurely in the taking. Many of the passenv gers were as heavily armed as the hold-ups, but the little fellow with the big guns looked altogether too business-like to trifle with over a mere matter of being robbed. With an expert trailer the posse had followed the tracks of the flying three up into Judith Gap and there they lost them, exactly as if the trio had taken an aeroplane at this point. In the search for footprints, however, the keen-eyed riders noted torn scraps of a letter scattered in the grass, and these they gathered. It had been windy the day before and the scraps must have been dropped since then, they reasoned otherwise they would have blown away. As no other tracks led up to the place but those they had followed, hence the letter must have been discarded by one of the gang whose trail they ? ? ?* C* ATT were sure tney were uu. ou mc; j came together that night at Farrington's ranch to put together the letter and confront themselves with the ridiculous possibility of "Four-Eyed Jack" as a train robber. Chapman had come into the country some time before. He brought his spectacles with him and wore them constantly, by reason of which he quickly acquired the nickname suggestive of quadruple optics. It was always used hilarously and never had it aroused a symptom of resent merit from Chapman, it resentment, | resistance or any other human trait j useful in Montana had been includ-1 ed in Jack's disposition no one had | yet found occasion to suspect it. In! carriage and conversation he was the typical misplaced refugee from some divinity school, cast by heartless circumstances into the cow country. The range roamers used to take a j look at his smooth, boyish face and ! then theorize exhaustively on how j and why Jack ever escaped from his j mother's apron strings. It was a standing bet at big odds with no: takers that Jack would faint dead away if a bloody nose ever assailed j his vision. He couldn't stay in a saddle with anything under it that j moved perceptibly and his state of i mind in the presence of firearms was j similar to that of a wild pony observing a train collision at short range. In brief, Jack passed, pitied C, TENDERREAL BAD MAN.1 ? j se and Capture of Train ' a.?Battle Between < i and Robbers. \ and protected, as the mildest and t most hopeless form of tenderfoot t imaginable. To find, at the end of 1 a hard, wet, determined day on the < trail nothing of more consequence as ? a clew to train roDDers uian ms name ^ on a torn letter possibly proved as I fatal as anything to the pursuit. It 1 appealed to the posse as about the i same thing as discovering a pussy * cat in the man-eating tiger's cage at the circus. 2 Farrington was one of those who 1 couldn't get the mental focus of gen- ? tie "Four-Eyed Jack" holding up 1 trains. . He was not the only one J there thus handicapped, and the 1 chase "bogged down," as they ex- ? pressed it. But they did some fig- ? uring before they quit, and by a pro- 1 cess of elimination deduced that if * Jack was one of the robbers Charley * Jones must be the other. Jones ap- * pealed to Farrington as a pretty fair 1 hold-up probability on account of * previous experience. He had drifted * in from nowhere in particular, so ap- * parently poverty-stricken that he was c willing to herd sheep. Farrington < gave him a job at it and found that 1 Tnnae moc tho cnrt rtf man ahppn in- ' stinctively placed confidence in. * Such creatures, whether human or * otherwise, are worth keeping around 1 a sheep ranch, but Jones got up and * vanished one midnight with a cocked 1 revolver in his hand. He heard the dogs barking around the tent where he and Farrington were sleeping. Farrington ran after him, but Jones ^ explained that he couldn't stay where c the dogs barked at night, like folks ] were prowling around. If Farrington had a dollar or two in change ( he would accept that on his two- g months' work, but a check would be no use to him. He acted in all re- ^ spects like a gent with something on i his mind and his trail, and Earring- j ton remembered him as such. Yet Jones appeared to have import- ? ant business thereabout, for he came j back presently, and about this time \ "Four-Eyed Jack" developed an unaccountable fondness for his company. \ In fact, Jack seemed to seek it. Rid- ( ers came on them frequently together, and they appeared to be uncom- ? monly interested in whatever it was ; they were discussing. All these things i were recalled casually at Farring- t ton's ranch house after .they had 1 pieced the letter together. i But the trail had vanished. "Four- < Eyed Jack's" advent had given the s expedition a farce-comedy turn and t the posse gave up the pursuit, with i one exception. That was Jackson. He c looked as much the desperado pur- I suer as "Four-Eyed Jack" looked the desperado. His weight didn't drop a i notch under 250 pounds, and he car- s ried most of that in front, under his t belt. An amateur getting acquaint- 1 ed with his first gun could have hit c Jackson at the mile, and a one-legged i man ought to have left him in the g stretch. But Jackson had an eye t that glowed like smothered fire under \ his shaggy brows, and his face, fring- 1 ed with glossy black whiskers, was c intelligent and unfearing. He said i little in the debate at the ranch house 1 over the pursuit, but every time he a got the chance he voted to go on regaraiess 01 aiscuuictgeuieuc ui mo- u comfort, although in the latter re- a spect he must have been the worst s sufferer in the posse. q Nobody evinced any particular im- d patience with Jackson because of this persistence, for he was known to pos- a sess the disposition of taking criminal s catching rather seriously. Previously i he had, single-handed, captured a p particularly desperate character, the latter ceasing to be such in the course d of the capture. He mistook the ac- r curate and swift capabilities of Jack- a son's avoirdupois, becoming a corpse ? thereby, with utter amazement left t engraved upon his features. \ The posse at Farrington's ranch r took note of Jackson's exceptions to t going back and voted to leave "Four- i Eyed Jack" to him if he felt that he 1 wanted Jack personally, together i with Charley Jones, if the latter hap- i pened to be included. It developed that this was what \ Jackson did want, for he went out in 4 the trail alone, working on the theory ( that "Four-Eyed Jack" and Jones t were the right men to look for. Men c used to meet him here and there and ] ask him solicitously if he had the \ terrible tenderfoot in his pocket. < But Jackson eventually discovered 1 that three men were traveling to the < Blackfoot reservation, up in the northern part of the State. Then he i went down to Helena, secured an ap- ; pointment as deputy United States 1 marshal, picked out a posse of seven , men and also headed for the reser- ( vation. Jackson appeared to have become i fairly well posted in the course of his HYDE WANTS TO DIE. Disappointed that He Must Wait Until May to be Resentenced. Anderson, Jan. 25.?Samuel N. Hyde, the young white man who killid his wife and her father last July, md who was sentenced to hang on Dctober 20, but whose sentence was stayed pending an appeal to the supreme court, expressed himself as Deing a little disappointed because ;he clerk of the supreme court failed J *-* ?kin oon/v I ;o sena me reiuiunui m m? wbc jefore the January term of criminal ;ourt adjourned. Hyde has expressid his willingness to die for his hor ible double crime, and his disapjointment is because of the fact that le cannot now be resentenced to hang intil the May term of court of general sessions. Hyde's demeanor has been a puz:le to everyone. He seems to have ; 'epented for his atrocious deed and teems anxious to hurry to pay the i jenalty, yet in the meantime he is i iovial, enjoys a good joke, spends 1 lis time in a pleasant state of mind md is perfectly cheerful. He has itated from the night of the double nurder that he expected to "have ;he rope" around his neck, and when alking about it, with death staring lim in the face, he is a great deal nore unconcerned than the person o whom he may be talking. He likes o have callers in his cell, and seems ;o take a delight in keeping up with current events, especially with murlers and other diabolical crimes comnitted throughout the country, iyde sa^s he has made peace with jod, and knows that he has been 'orgiven. He states that he reads lis Bible regularly and spends a arge part of his time each day in irayer. The Missing Ducks. In a country police court a man vas brought up by a farmer accused >f stealing some ducks, says London ideas. "How do you know they are your lucks?" asked the defendant's counsel. "Oh I should know them any vhere," replied the farmer, and he vent on to describe their different peculiarities. "Why," said the prisoner's counsel, "these ducks can't be such a are breed. I have some like them n my own yard." "That's not. unlikely, sir," said ;he farmer; "they are not the only lucks I have had stolen lately." "Call the next witness," said coun sel. esearch, for he led his men promptly ;o a lonely cabin in the wilds of the Indian land. They came up in native ,'ashion and located four men in the iabin. By some certain process Jackson worked out the correct deduc-r ion that three of the cabin's occu)ants had robbed the Northern Pa;ific and met there to plan a Great Northern holdup, as developed later. The seven men and Jackson surounded the cabin and demanded a surrender. Immediately the cabin ^ a 1 aoH )egcin LO UXUUt emu. IV/ cuudui u ivuui Che posse shot at the holes and thinks in the log walls, while the nen inside shot at the flashes outtide. It Was a hopeless fight for the >esieged from the start, and they rould have surrendered but for' their eader. By reckless disregard of his >wn safety and energy in defence he nspired a struggle that was as galant a thing in the way of resistance is men have ever done against odds. They held tfce cabin until toward Lifcht when a bullet smashed through tnd the leader died from it in the moky, dirty muck of the besieged [uarters. And a deputy marshal lay lead in the brush outside. At dark the three survivors made l dash and got into the woods. Jackon and his men looked at the corpse n the cabin and again started in rnrsuit. The finish was not a difficult or tangerous matter. They picked one nan up half-starved and freezing by l pile of ties on the Great Northern. Somebody took the trouble to shoot he third robber and collect the regard. The fourth proved to be a boy ecruit who gave himself up and urned state's evidence. At the trial \ n Helena he told the story of their eader in the cabin battle, a crimilally desperate man, who robbed for )astime and fought to a finish. The capture marked Jackson in jopular estimation as a man who 'would die with his boots on," an expectation he fulfilled by falling through a scaffold into the basement )f the capitol building at Helena. He lad served successfully as the first jnder-sheriff in Sweet Grass when :hat county was created, although he was an ardent Republican and his superior a Democrat. Throughout the range and moun- I tain country he was recognized as an authority on tenderfeet. The robber they found freezing was Charley Jones, and the dead leader turned over in the cabin wore the smooth face, minus the spectacles, of that guileless, timid greenhorn, "FourEyed Jack." s DEAD BODY ON TRACKS. Respected Negro Merchant of Clinton Slain. Clinton, Jan. 24.?A homicide, possibly with robbery as its motive, was revealed early this morning when the body of Paul J. Moore, a respectable and well thought of colored merchant, of this place, was found lying across the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Railroad track, just on the edge of town. The body was discovered by some men on the way to their wprk a short while before the early morning train comes from Columbia. It is supposed that the slayers wished in this way to put the blame upon the railroad. Paul Moore was in the habit of furnishing food to the night section of the sewer diggers, and near him was found a bucket of coffee and an axe that belonged to him. His body was many hundred yards beyond the Bewerage ditch and on the extreme opposite end of town from his home. The doctor's examination revealed a badly fractured place on the back of his head and two wounds on his face. Paul owned some property in and around Clinton and was a prosperous merchant. He was in the habit of taking home with him all the money that he collected during the evening. Nothing was found in his pockets. He never got drunk and did not play cards. The whole of Clinton is considerably agitated. The event is deplored by every citizen and efforts will be made to find the cause and mete out justice. Because of the lack of definite evidence the inquest was postponed. THE STANDARD IS FINED. Required to Pay $55,000 for Accepting Rebates. The Standard Oil company of New York was fined $55,000 in the federal court at Buffalo, N. Y., on Monday for accepting rate concessions from the Pennsylvania railway in 1906. The maximum fine penalty would have been $2,860,000. Some time ago the Pennsylvania was fined $35,000 and the New York Central $20,000. / I Frogs ..JN THE... I Millinery Store I I They do not holler I in rainy weather, if I so they would be I hoarse this week. 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