Mr. Stearns next showed me three or four telegrams that had been sent to him from Cheyenne, Wyoming, one of which read: “Please send party by next train, if possible.” When I saw the telegrams there was but little doubt in my mind but what the whole business was crooked. Mr. Stearns told me that money would be forwarded to me from Cheyenne or else a man would come from Cheyenne to Nampa and explain matters, if I thought I could go to Johnson County, Wyoming. I told Mr. Stearns that I could go and to have his man, who Mr. Stearns told me would be H. B. Ijams, secretary of the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association, meet me in the course of three or four days in Nampa, Idaho. I told Mr. Stearns that I would be back from Boise City by that time. I then went to Boise City and came back to Nampa, Idaho, where I was introduced to Mr. H. B. Ijams, of Cheyenne. Mr. Ijams and I then went over to Mr. Stearns’ office to have a talk about the cattle business. Mr. Ijams talked very freely about matters pertaining to the cattle business in Wyoming and especially in Johnson County. Mr. Ijams complained bitterly about the depredations he claimed that were committed upon the bands of horses and cattle by the rustlers in Johnson County and vicinity; he said that the stock growers’ association would either have to put a stop to the thieves or else sell out or gather up their stock and drive them to some other state. Mr. Ijams said the stock growers’ association had owned stock on the range too long to be run out of the country by an outfit of thieves, and if it was necessary the association would fight the thieves until the last one of them was wiped out of existence. Mr. Ijams said the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association had paid out thousands of dollars for hiring men from different parts of the country to kill off the horse and cattle thieves in Wyoming. Mr. Ijams said the methods of the stock association were expensive, but he knew of no other way to keep the thieves down. Mr. Ijams spoke of the hanging of a man by the name of Waggoner, a horse man, and the lynching of Averill and Cattle Kate, and about the killing of Tisdale and Jones last fall and the assault on Nate Champion and his partner on Powder river last fall. Mr. Ijams said last fall the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association made a contract with certain parties to kill off 15 men who were considered by the stock association to be the leaders among the stock thieves in Johnson County, Wyoming. Mr. Ijams gave me to understand that the men who were employed by the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association to do the killing last fall in Johnson County, Wyoming, were Frank Canton and Joe Elliott and Tom Smith and another man whose name I forget, who Ijams said got off all right to Montana. Mr. Ijams said our men got Tisdale and Jones all right. The next job they tried after they attempted to do up Champion and his partner, on Powder river, they went into the Champion cabin about daylight and