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in the neighborhood, a peaceable citizen. It is 

 said that during the fight Sheriff Owens never 

 once lifted his rifle to his shoulder, but fired 

 every shot from his hip. 



Another notorious gang that infested this sec- 

 tion not many years ago was known as the 

 Smith gang. Several murders were laid at 

 their door. Finally, after killing a deputy sher- 

 iff and a ranchman, who, with two other ranch- 

 men, had cornered them, they left the country, 

 and are supposed now to be in Sonora, Mexico, 

 though I was told by men who claimed to know 

 them that they had seen two members of the 

 gang in Wyoming during the summer of 1909. 



Holbrook has several saloons, one church, a 

 school, and a weekly newspaper. The pro- 

 prietor of the paper, who is also its editor and 

 publisher, sets the type and prints it by hand 

 with the aid of one assistant. The printing 

 office was in the front room of a three-room, 

 unpainted frame building,' while the editor oc- 

 cupied the rear rooms as living quarters. The 

 editor was absent at the time of my visit, and a 

 native told me he had just "corralled a wife 

 somewheres south." 



Mr. W. H. Clark, local United States Emi- 

 gration Agent, was good-naturedly editing and 

 publishingthe paper while the editor was absent, 



