About 10 or 12 miles before the mob got to Tisdale’s ranch they were met by Mike Shonsey, who informed them that at a ranch on Powder River there were 15 or 16 rustlers. I could not get any information at the time just what ranch it was the rustlers were at, or in just what part of the country the ranch was, but I have since learned that the ranch that Shonsey meant was the K. C. ranch, on the middle fork of Powder River. The Texas part of the mob stopped in the bunk-house at Tisdale’s ranch; the stockmen stopped at the residence. I was with the Texas party. On the morning of the 8th of April we were told by the leaders of the mob that we would lay over at Tisdale’s place that day and wait for the wagons to come up and the men would have a chance to rest. The Texas men were about played out. In the afternoon we were told that the leaders had decided to make a raid on the rustlers on Powder River, about 16 miles from Tisdale’s. The leaders, in the evening, gave orders for the mob to kill every man on this ranch they proposed to raid, and to leave no man alive about the ranch to tell any tales afterward, no matter who he might be. The wagons arrived at Tisdale’s ranch about 5 o’clock the evening of the 8th of April. After the wagons arrived at Tisdale’s we were told by the leaders that it would be the last place we would probably see the wagons unless by an accident the teamsters were able to deceive the rustlers and get through to Buffalo; that for every man to get what ammunition and blankets he wanted to take along with him; that after raiding the ranch on Powder River the country would be full of straggling rustlers, and the chances were they would capture the wagons. About 7 o’clock in the evening four men were detailed to go to the ranch on Powder River and keep off a safe distance and see if the parties who lived at the ranch had left or not. I managed to get one of the Texans, who was detailed for the occasion, to let me go in his place. I had caught my horse and started to saddle up, when Walcott came down from the house and said I could not go along with the party to investigate matters. He said the men that were detailed for the occasion would have to go, and that us fellows would have to learn to obey orders and better ask less questions. If I had gone along with the party of four to investigate matters of the K. C. ranch I intended when we got in sight of the K. C. ranch to get off my horse and empty my Winchester at the rest of the gang and then to go down to the house and inform the parties who were living there as to the state of affairs in their part of the country. Mike Shonsey, Jack Jones, Elick Kinzie and one of the Bookers left Tisdale’s ranch to investigate matters at the K. C. ranch, on the middle fork of Powder River. They were to meet the balance of us four miles south of the K. C. ranch, after they had investigated matters and let the rest of the mob know how everything was running about the ranch.