Before I left Idaho I tried to get Bob Gunnall to come to Cheyenne with me. I was satisfied from what I heard that Gunnall was well acquainted in Cheyenne and had relations living there who were well fixed and could let Gunnall have the money to come ahead and inform the authorities in Johnson County in case we had reason to believe the outfit that was to leave Cheyenne was a mob and were coming to Johnson County with the intention of killing off the rustlers. I told Gunnall that I was confident that we would capture enough of the criminals in Cheyenne to pay us handsomely on account of certain parties I expected would be in Cheyenne with the mob about the time we got there that had large rewards offered for their capture. Gunnall said he would like to come, but I would make it all right any way, and that he was badly in debt in Nampa and could not leave the country until he had squared up; that he had to go to Delamar right away and run a foot race; that it would be $1,200 or $1,500 in his pocket to run the race. I arrived in Cheyenne April 2nd, 1892; I came in on the 5 o’clock afternoon train; I was in town five or ten minutes when I met Ijams on the street. He said he was just looking around and was expecting to see me and a party from Idaho. He asked me how many men I had brought along with me. I told him that I was obliged to come alone on this trip, as I and my friends were expecting a good deal of trouble in my part of the country, and it would be necessary for every one of my friends to get to the front if matters took the turn that we expected they would. He said that we would get along nicely any way; that Smith had no trouble in getting the number of men in Texas that he wanted at the rates the stock association offered, $5 a day wages and all expenses paid by the association, and $50 bounty to be paid to each hired man for every man that was killed in the said raid made by the mob in Johnson County or vicinity. I said the terms were the same as we had talked about at Nampa. Ijams asked me if the terms on which the stock association had hired the men in Texas were satisfactory to me. I told him I thought the terms of the association were very liberal. He said if I chose to remain in the country after the raid that the stock association would be able to offer other inducements to me. He then asked me if I had brought my bedding and saddle or my guns. I told him that I brought nothing with me but my revolver. He said that he would go around town with me tomorrow and show me the stores where the stock association generally did their trading, and he would make arrangements for me to get anything I needed in my line, and have it charged to the stock association. Ijams said he would have plenty of time, that we could not start as soon as he thought we would when he sent me the letter to Caldwell. Ijams said the stock growers’ association had not held their meeting yet, and that the men from Texas would not come from