Being reasonably assured of the official support of the state authorities and important outside aid, as early as January, 1892, a systematic effort was made to create public sentiment favorable to their hellish work, through the press outside of the state. During the holiday season a long article appeared in the Washington Star abusing the people of Johnson county, classing them as rustlers and bad men generally. It made a great story out of the wrongs suffered by the cattlemen, and was evidently inspired by some person informed as to what the spring months would usher in on the plains of Northern Wyoming. Omaha, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia papers also contained frequent articles calculated to make their readers believe that a reign of terror existed in half a dozen counties in the state that could only be overcome by a resort to arms, especially as all the court and peace officers of these counties were said to be open and avowed rustlers or acknowledged sympathizers therewith. This class of reading matter was uncommon for the papers publishing it, and could not have appeared so uniform in character and even in dates without some inspiring hand behind it. The only rational conclusion, therefore, is that the invader managers had a literary bureau charged with the duty of creating a public sentiment in the land to which they could point as a moral backing of their future developments. This work was carried down to the day of entering the field, and even after the capture of the outfit. For weeks before the start the Denver papers fairly bristled with blood-curdling stories of the outrage, committed by the desperate homeseekers north of the Platte River against the poor cattle kings. These preliminary arrangements had all been so easily and successfully worked that the stockmen seemingly actually believed they could capture the state, run its country people over the border and return to the conditions present when there was no man in all the north country save the festive cowboy and he a law unto himself. As evidence that they had arrived at this frame of mind, the following interviews with H. B. Ijams and George W. Baxter of Cheyenne, given in Denver, Colorado, while the expedition was in the north, are cited. The first is copied from the Cheyenne Daily Tribune, one of the invader’s most trusted organs, of date April 12, 1892, and we give it as it appeared in that delectable sheet, headlines and all. It shows very clearly how the ex-governor felt at that time, and what his hopes were founded upon. It is good reading at this late date: “WIPE THEM OUT “All Honest Citizens Are in Hopes That the Cattlemen Will Exterminate the Rustlers--Governor Baxter Is Interviewed--What Northern Cattlemen Have to Say About the Warfare--Other Questions Discussed.