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$500FOR M’KINNEYORArizona Governor Makes the Offer.No News From the Posses in in the Field.Sheriff Kelly today received papers vllle Linn’s Valley and Porterville, he)from Arizona announcing that Governor Brodie will pay $500 reward for McKinney’s capture dead or alive,he can better operate from there. Report From San Bernardino.From the reports sent from San nothing being said about arrest and j Bernardin0 t0 tte San Franclsco andconviction. It is universally believed that McKinney will be captured dead,Los Angeles papers it is learned that Sheriff C. A. Collins of Inyo county has joined in the pursuit of Murderer McKinney. This makes five sheriffsif at all.There is no further news from theoutlaw. Sheriff Kelly has received some messages from those in the field wh° are iQ the field against the outlawbut there is nothing beyond what has While he has not so far as yet learned already been published. The posse entered the borders of Inyo county Mc-following the outlaw from Randsburg i Kinney’s trail is taking him very near is probably far from telegraph or tele-1 the line and the sheriff evidently phone offices in the mountains and it thinks it his duty to act accordingly, may be several days before It is heard The San Bernardino Sun has thefrom again. The only communication following in regard to the pursuit ofwith the country there is by the pri vate telephone line from Caliente to Kernville and it is not likely that thethe murderer in Southern California: “Now the chase is one that must be carried on without sign or signaloutlaw will venture near the town, so from the outside world, for the path that the officers in following may not that McKinney is following will lead get an opportunity to communicate; him into the Wilds of Death Valley, with Sheriff Kelly here for several ■ into a portion of the great Mojavedays.It is pretty definitelydesert where there is no railroad, and ascertained j the telegraph is unknown. From Man-that the murderer has left Randsburg vel to Randsburg is a distance of 136 and is thought to be going north. Some miles, though in making the ride be* express the opinion that he will go tween these two places it will be nec-over into Nevada instead of to Porter- essary to travel considerably further, ville or Kernville. If so he will be in owing to the many mountains and the a country where communication is al- scarcity of water.Inmost impossible, there being districts The work done by Sheriff Ralphs removed a hundred miles from tele- and his deputies has enabled Sheriff graph or railroad. Others, however, • Lovin to gain considerably on McKIn do not believe he will venture that j ney. The outlaw is riding horseback way, as, being better acquainted with I and the desperateness of his flight the country and people around Kern- may be judged when it is known that%111ii(11£lt;£11I t SIIShe rode from Kleinfelter to Manvela distance of eighty miles, in one dayinformation from the local officers that McKinney had been seen at Manvel he did not stop to ride across the country but boarded tlfe train, and thus savedconsiderable time besides gaining a rest for himself and horses.Sheriff Ralphs has notified Sheriff! Lovin that he can call upon him for all the assistance desired, but Lovin does not believe that a posse larger than he now has, five men, would be of any more service than the present one. The local officers, though they do not know Lovin, are begin-(Contiaued on Page Five.)I—!♦*!—I—J—{--j-
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The Daily Californian
Bakersfield, California, US
Fri, Apr 10, 1903
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Kern C.
CA, USA 14 Oct 2020
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Kern County Californian
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