told Champion and his partner to give up, and at the same time one of the party fired his pistol at Champion’s head; Champion then shot one of the party up the coat sleeve with his revolver and another through the ribs. The party then left Champion’s place, leaving their grub, blankets and several horses and overcoats in the vicinity of Champion’s place. Mr. Ijams said that the failure of their men to do up Champion and his partner, on Powder river, and the killing of Tisdale and Jones last fall put an end to the killing business for the rest of the winter in Johnson County. Mr. Ijams said that after the assault on Champion and his partner and the killing of Tisdale and Jones last fall, on the Powder river, there was a good deal of excitement in Johnson County, and people were getting on the war path; that the stock association thought that if they had some of the thieves killed off that it would terrorize the balance in such a manner that the most of them would leave the country. Mr. Ijams said the stock association were mistaken in regard to the effect produced by the killing off of a few thieves by men who were hired by the stock association; that instead of terrorizing the rascals that the thieves were becoming more bold in committing their depredations upon live stock, and that the thieves were getting more on the war path every day of their rascally lives. Mr. Ijams said that the course the stock association had been pursuing for a number of years in regard to killing off the thieves in Johnson County and vicinity had bitterly prejudiced a great many ranchers and business men and other people who never owned any stock, against the stock association; that he had thought the matter over a great deal and had lately come to the conclusion that the stock association had not gone about the killing off of the thieves in the right manner. Mr. Ijams said that since the assault on Champion and his partner and the killing of Tisdale and Jones, on Powder river, last fall that the stock association had another scheme in view for doing up the thieves and he thought it was the proper one under the circumstances, and that this last scheme would meet the approbation of a great many law-abiding citizens of Johnson County, who would shudder at the idea of the stock association hiring men in Cheyenne or Texas to come to Johnson County to shoot the cattle thieves in the back. Mr. Ijams said that the latest scheme of the stock association was to publicly wipe the thieves in Johnson County, Wyoming, out of existence; the way he said the stock association of Montana did in that state eight or nine years ago. Mr. Ijams said that after the assault on Champion and the killing of Tisdale and Jones that one of the stock association’s best men, a man by the name of Tom Smith, had gone to Texas to get 25 men to join the rest of the outfit in Cheyenne whenever the stock association saw fit to make a raid on Johnson County and kill off the thieves; said Smith used to be