the conclusion that as far as Ijams’ proposition to me was concerned, that the whole business was a fake. I could not conceive how Ijams could imagine that I and my friends were composed of the right material for a mob. I could not think of any circumstance that any of us had ever been accused of that would justify Ijams in arriving at his conclusions. After a couple of weeks I got two letters from Ijams, saying he would keep me informed when he wanted me and party to start for Cheyenne, and he would let me know the number of men to bring with me. When I had my first interview with Ijams I knew nothing about any of the troubles in Johnson County, Wyoming. After I got my second letter from Ijams I began to pay some attention to his stories. After I got my second letter from Ijams I went to Boise City to see about getting my pay for my work about the 79 mine; on my way to Boise City and in Boise City I met several men who had lately come from Johnson County or vicinity. I inquired about the state of affairs in Johnson County in regard to the cattle business. One of these men I had a talk with was Bob Gunnall, a noted foot racer, and bartender at the Wilson Hotel in Nampa, Idaho. Gunnall said he was just from Johnson County and vicinity; came from there about six months ago. Gunnall told me about the killing of Jones and Tisdale, and about the state of affairs generally in Johnson County, Wyoming. Gunnall was very bitter against the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association, and said the association had spent thousands of dollars for the purpose of hiring professional assassins in Texas and other places to come to Johnson County, Wyoming, and vicinity and shooting law-abiding people in the back. Gunnall said the people of Johnson County were wild with excitement on account of the murders that had been committed upon peaceable and law-abiding citizens in Johnson County by assassins in the employ of the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association. Gunnall spoke well of the people of Johnson County and vicinity; said that, as a rule, they were as law-abiding a class of people as could be found anywhere; that he believed there was less stock stealing going on in Johnson County than there was in most any county where there was as much stock as there was in Johnson County. I asked Gunnall if he did not think the stock association would attempt at some time to hang up some of the people of Johnson County the way the stock association of Montana hung up the so-called thieves in that state eight or nine years ago. Gunnall said it would be just as good a thing as the people of Johnson County would want for the stock association to turn a mob loose in Johnson County; that a mob of 2,000 men could not intimidate the people of Johnson County. The other men I saw and had conversations with seemed to have about the same idea about matters in Johnson County, Wyoming, that Gunnall did. They all spoke of the people as a law-abiding class of