Canton was arrested and given a preliminary hearing before Justice of the Peace Parmalee. Two days were spent in the trial, when the accused was released. The people freely charged the court with corruption and declared the evidence ample to justify the placing of the prisoner behind the bars without bail. Only the presence of cool heads in the community prevented the wreaking of vengeance upon Canton and some of his sympathizers. Canton and Hesse left the state in a few days. Some time later new and material evidence was found, and a new information was filed. Canton was in the state of Illinois, and Governor Barber was asked to issue a requisition for his return. This request the governor refused. In March, 1892, Canton returned to Cheyenne to join the invaders, and the papers were served upon him. Laramie City being in the same judicial district with Buffalo, Canton was taken before Judge Blake in chambers, and given a hearing. He was held in bonds of $30,000, for which sum the following named persons qualified as sureties, the bond bearing date of April 4th, 1892: Hubert E. Teschemacher, Wm. C. Irvine, E. S. Rouse Boughton, Fred G. S. Hesse, Lafayette H. Parker, A. R. Powers, Joseph G. Pratt, Elias W. Whitcomb, Arthur B. Clarke, John N. Tisdale, David R. Tisdale, James W. Hammond, Charles S. Ford, Henry W. Davis, George P. Bissell, William E. Guthrie, Ralph M. Friend, George W. Baxter, Hiram B. Ijams, Frank H. Laberteaux and Ranslaer S. Van Tassell. These cowardly shootings in the back from places of safety completed a list of dead at the hands of the cattle barons as follows: Jim Averill, Ella Watson, Tom Waggoner, O. E. Jones and J. A. Tisdale, to say nothing of the attempts to murder, and yet they went unwhipped of justice, to plan and execute other forms of oppression and other methods of murder. No wonder the people of the state everywhere looked upon the cattlemen as being arrayed against them and as the enemies of true progress and development in the commonwealth. The eyes of the masses were opened to the situation. CHAPTER III. ORGANIZING THE INVASION--THE WYOMING STOCK GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION AS A PROMOTER--CHEYENNE THE RENDEZVOUS OF THE PLOTTERS--ACTING GOVERNOR AMOS W. BARBER PREPARING THE WAY FOR THE INVADERS--THE PRESS OF THE LAND HOODWINKED INTO FALSE STATEMENTS TO PREPARE THE PUBLIC MIND TO SYMPATHIZE WITH COMING EVENTS