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Transcript for "'Road Agents' in Blue," Semi-Weekly Telegraph, 7 May 1866, 3

"ROAD AGENTS" IN BLUE.—On Tuesday last, near the mouth of Emigration kanyon, a young man driving out one of the "Church" teams, was asked by a soldier, accompanied by several other blues, to let him examine his pistol. Upon getting possession, soldier immediately presented the pistol, cocked, at the breast of another driver of a team, demanding his revolver, which he successively did until he obtained three or four revolvers. They then made off towards camp, firing every shot they had at the teamsters whom they had just robbed. A horseman coming along about the same time, on his way from Weber to the City, being informed of what had transpired, procured two loaded revolvers and at once set off in pursuit of the highwaymen. Overtaking them he demanded the pistols they had extorted, which the rascal who obtained them, refused. The pursuer presented a revolver, but to no purpose. Although the soldiers had exhausted their ammunition, they were determined to keep the revolvers. Seeing this, the horseman dismounted, and attacking the man having them in his possession, knocked him down, took them from him and returned them to their owners, leaving the thieving rascals to make the best of their way to their quarters, with a sore-headed comrade.

We give the most reliable version of this occurrence that we have been able to obtain. The teams attacked had become separated a little distance from the body of the train and were straggling along, obscured from each other by the jutting rocks of the kanyon.