all the courts were on their side; he spoke about Frank Canton being arrested for killing Jones and Tisdale, and said the evidence was very strong against Canton, but that Canton’s friends were obliged to prove an alibi for him; said the affidavits in regard to Canton’s proving an alibi had been gotten up to fit the case, and were false as far as the truth of the matter was concerned; that it was no trouble for the stock association to procure affidavits to fit any case. Ijams said that if the raid came off that it would come off before the cattle round-up; he said that when about 30 of the thieves were killed off that 300 or 400 people who were in sympathy with the thieves would get up and leave the country the best way they could; that the people who were in sympathy with the thieves would leave their stock on the range; that before the raid was over the stock association would have a round-up of the cattle in Johnson County and take possession of all the cattle on the range that belonged to the cattle thieves and their sympathizers; that the stock association would ship the beef and brand over the rest of the rustlers’ cattle. Ijams said that if I and my friends were willing to work with the mob on the same terms that the stock association were hiring the rest of the mob in Texas that the stock association would be glad to have us join the mob in Cheyenne at some future time. I told Ijams that I thought his terms were very liberal. Ijams said there would be no trouble about any of the mob getting their money according to contract. I told Ijams that I was willing to take the stock association for my pay. Ijams said that it had not been definitely settled yet just when the mob would leave Cheyenne or just what action the stock association would take about the matter. Ijams said it would be necessary for him to return immediately to Cheyenne and confer with two other men who were officers in the stock association, who, with him, had the management of affairs in regard to recruiting a mob of men to come to Johnson County, Wyoming, and kill off the cattle thieves. Ijams said his propositions to me were made as an agent of the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association. And before the association knew just what they would do about the matter it would be necessary for the association to hold a meeting at their headquarters in Cheyenne, and before the mob could start from Cheyenne to Johnson County, Wyoming, to kill off the cattle thieves, that it would be necessary at the stock association meeting for every member of the association or his representative to endorse the general plan of campaign of Ijams and the other two officers of the association who were connected with the recruiting of the mob to come to Johnson County, Wyoming, for the purpose of killing off the cattle thieves and rustlers. Mr. Ijams said he would write me a letter once in a while after he got back to Cheyenne and keep me posted in regard to affairs. I then left Ijams in