people, and all agreed that the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association of Cheyenne had been importing assassins from Texas and other places to Wyoming for the purpose of shooting people from ambush whom the stock association styled rustlers or cattle thieves. After I had my conversation with Gunnall and others in regard to the cattle business in Johnson County and vicinity, I began to think that Ijams might have been in earnest, to a certain extent, in regard to his propositions to me. I was convinced of the utter hopelessness and foolishness for the stock association to ever send a mob to Johnson County, if Ijams meant anything by his propositions to me. I supposed he meant to recruit an outfit of men and have them go to work in Johnson County in his cow outfit, and then see, after he was well acquainted with his men, how many men he could select out of the outfit that were of the same stripe that Frank Canton had been represented to me to be. I began to think Ijams was in earnest. I stayed in Boise City several days and tried to get my pay for my work in the 79 mine, and tried to get money from other sources, and spoke to some of my friends, Henry Dement and Frank Speelman, about rustling money for one of them to come to Johnson County, Wyoming, and let certain parties know about Ijams’ proposition to me. I could not get the money to send a man ahead in time in inform the authorities in regard to Ijams’ proposition to me. It did not use to be any trouble for me to borrow a few hundred dollars in Idaho. I most always had money when I was engaged in the cattle business. But during the last few years that I have been mining and doing other work, I have gone broke on pretty nearly every project I have tackled. I had $1,484 coming to me for my work about the 79 mine. I have not got any of the money yet. I soaked my revolver in Caldwell in a pawn shop to get money to go to Boise City on, and try to rustle money in order to send a man ahead to let certain parties in Johnson County know what propositions Ijams had been making to me. I never got my six-shooter out of soak until Ijams sent me the money to come to Cheyenne. I left the letters that Ijams sent me with Henry Dement of Caldwell, Idaho. I talked the whole matter over with Dement and others, so that if the mob came into Johnson County or were captured on the way they could not make any bull story stick in regard to their coming to Johnson County with peaceable intentions. Ijams always represented to me that the first thing the stock association had to do was to kill off the rustlers and then the stock association would have a round-up of the cattle in Johnson County before the mob left the County, and that the stock association would appropriate all of the rustlers’ cattle and horses and all stock that belonged to the sympathizers of the rustlers.