At the Powder river camp there was trouble, but it was so plainly the result of viciousness on the part of the soldiers that no action looking toward martial law could be taken by the authorities. Two of the colored troops got into a row with a depraved white man over a lewd woman at a bagnio in the village of Suggs, a mile from the camp. The night following, between 10 and 11 o’clock, a squad of 44 colored soldiers marched into the town and opened fire on a saloon where a number of men were assembled, playing cards and drinking. The attack was unprovoked and unexpected. The citizens, however, rushed for their guns and pistols, and charged the black soldiers, driving them out of town, killing one and wounding five. It was claimed that some of the friends of the white caps were in the soldiers’ camp at the time, and the responsibility was charged to them. No further trouble occurred. As confirmatory of the impressions that the sending of troops into the state was the result of the misrepresentations of the interested stockmen, and that they hoped it would turn out to be a move in their favor, the following statement of an officer stationed at Omaha, and made to an agent of the Associated Press reporter on June 11, 1892, may be quoted, as follows: “It is believed by the military authorities that the presence of a large body of troops in the cattle districts will have a quieting effect, and in case it becomes necessary to take active steps to quell another outbreak, the troops will be close to the scene of the disturbance. The department is convinced that there are a number of thieves in that region who are agitating this bitterness and are at the head of this lawlessness that has terrorized portions of the state. These thieves will be watched very closely, and about the first break they make they will be taken in by the powerful arm of Uncle Sam. “One of the officers at the headquarters was asked today if he thought the State of Wyoming would be placed under martial law, and he replied that he did not think it would be necessary to adopt that measure. ‘There is one thing you may depend upon, however,’ he said, ‘the government is not going to put up with the lawlessness out there any longer. That business has got to come to an end, and my opinion is that if you watch matters closely you will see an emigration from Wyoming of some of the parties who have been busy stirring up the trouble.’” The last remark quoted above has proven true--some of the stockmen who were “busy stirring up the trouble” have “emigrated,” and others are likely to follow suit, but the settlers who took up arms to defend their homes remain, and no hired assassins can drive them out. The soldier quartering scheme failing to produce the desired effect, some occult influence was brought to bear on President Harrison, and he issued the following: Proclamation