a deputy United States Marshal in Texas; and that a number of deputy United States Marshals would come from Texas with Smith. Ijams said Smith had been engaged in the business of killing off cattle thieves for a number of years, and was the most successful man he knew of in his line of business. Ijams said Smith was the man who put up the job to hang a horseman named Waggoner. Ijams said Smith and party read a bogus warrant to Waggoner and took him a short distance from home and hanged him. Mr. Ijams said the stock association were hiring the men that Smith would bring from Texas on the basis of $5 a day for each man hired and all expenses would be paid by the association; and the association would pay each hired man $50 for every man that was killed or hung by the mob on the raid. Ijams said that most of the work would be accomplished in a month, but he intended to divide the mob up after the first month’s work and have five men in each squad, and have them ride over the country for several months and kill the thieves whenever they run on them. Mr. Ijams said the mob would probably kill off about 30 men in Johnson County while on their raid; that the stock association wanted to kill off more, but that a good many thieves would escape. After the mob got through with Johnson County they were to visit other parts of the country. Mr. Ijams said the mob would have three or four months’ work and it might take them all summer. When the mob got through with Wyoming, Ijams said the association had raids planned for other parts of the country. Ijams said the stock association had 25 or 30 friends in Buffalo and vicinity who would join the mob when they got in the vicinity of Buffalo; said the friends of the stock association in Buffalo were determined men, and that the mayor of the town (a man I believe by the name of Burritt) was at the head of their organization. Ijams said the governor and Judge Blake were back of this movement to wipe the thieves in Johnson County out of existence. Ijams told me about the United States Marshal helping him plan the raid and said that the stock association had some very warm friends in Congress and the United States Senate, among whom he said was Senator Carey, a man of great influence and wealth. Ijams spoke about the sheriff and his deputies in Johnson County, and said they were in sympathy with the cattle thieves, and that he would rather have the sheriff and one of his deputies, a man I believe by the name of Rowles, hung than any two s-- of b-- he knew of. Ijams spoke of Rowles as the affidavit fiend; said Rowles had caused the stock association a good deal of trouble by getting out affidavits against some of the parties the stock association had employed to kill off the cattle thieves in Johnson County. Mr. Ijams said the stock association had a great many influential friends all over Wyoming; he said the association paid no attention to the courts in Johnson County; that