You are hereby requested to deliver at once to Colonel Van Horn, commander at Fort McKinney, the men belonging to the invading party, who were arrested by you before the surrender and are now confined in the county jail at Buffalo. This is done because the excitement and hostile demonstrations in that vicinity require it. AMOS W. BARBER, Acting Governor. Cheyenne, Wyo., April 15, 1892. Colonel Van Horn, Commander Fort McKinney, Wyo.: Angus, Sheriff of Johnson County, asks that the men who surrendered to you be delivered to the civil authorities of that county. I have declined to make the request for the present for the reason that there seems to be too much danger of the civil authorities not being able to give the men adequate protection against violence. AMOS W. BARBER, Acting Governor. Cheyenne, Wyo., April 15, 1892. Governor Barber, Cheyenne, Wyo.: I am assured by the telegraph company that my order of 9 P. M. of the 13th to Colonel Van Horn reached him last night. Under that order he will hold the Walcott party until he gets orders from me. The line from Douglas to McKinney ceased working about 2:30 A. M. today. JOHN R. BROOKE, Brigadier General, Commanding. The fear that the culprits who had deliberately and in cold blood killed two of their fellow citizens might be turned over to the civil authorities where the crime had been committed, so preyed upon the governor’s mind that in order to make assurance doubly sure, he wired the secretary of war to instruct the commander at Fort McKinney to deliver the prisoners at Cheyenne, nearly 400 miles distant, and at great expense to the state. To this he received the following reply: Washington, D. C., April 15, 5 P. M. A. W. Barber, Governor of Wyoming: Orders have been sent to General Brooke to deliver to you as soon as he can do so, the captured party under Walcott. S. B. ELKINS, Secretary of War. These several dispatches show very clearly where the executive heart was, and to the unprejudiced mind explain, in a measure, the lack of official action at an earlier stage of invasion proceedings. CHAPTER VIII. BUFFALO DURING THE “T. A.” SIEGE--GREAT EXCITEMENT, BUT ORDER PRESERVED--BURIAL OF CHAMPION AND RAY--DEATH OF CORONER WATKINS