Powder River invasion : $b War on the rustlers in 1892Mercer, A. S. (Asa Shinn)
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Powder River invasion : $b War on the rustlers in 1892
Mercer, A. S. (Asa Shinn)
Cattle trade -- Wyoming -- History -- 19th century; Johnson County War, 1892; Wyoming -- History
In about half an hour after they had run the wagon against the house
and set fire to it, a man ran out of the south end of the house and
continued running south. The mob at the stable and vicinity kept up a
continual fire on the man that came out and was running south. After
the man had run about 200 yards and was nearly opposite a part of the
mob who were concealed in a gulch south of the house, the mob at the
stable and vicinity quit firing, and the part of the mob who were
concealed in the gulch south of the house raised up and began firing
and killed the man who came out of the house at the K. C. ranch. The
man that was killed in the gulch south of the K. C. house the leaders
identified as Nate Champion. They said they were mistaken about the
first man that was shot in the morning. They said that when they
captured the teamsters, Jones and Walker, that Walker told them that
there were only two men at the house, Ray and Champion. The mob said
the first man shot in the morning must have been Nick Ray. Tom Smith,
of the mob, went through Champion’s pockets and found a memorandum
book, with sketches of the fight at different times during the day.
One of the mob took Champion’s six-shooter and belt. After Champion’s
pockets had been rifled, Sam T. Clover, at the request of some of
the mob, Tom Smith, Joe Elliott and others, wrote upon a piece of
paper, “Beware, Cattle Thieves!” and buttoned the piece of paper upon
Champion’s vest. Tom Smith, Elliott and others of the mob said they
wanted that piece of paper left on Champion’s body so that when his
friends found him that they would know what he was killed for, and so
that his friends would know what to expect if they stayed any longer in
the country.
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