Denver until the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association had held their meeting. Ijams said the coming meeting of the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association would be the most important meeting of the kind ever held in the Western country. Ijams said it would be necessary for every member of the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association to be present at the next meeting or to be represented by proxy, and that it would be necessary for every one of them to endorse the general plan of campaign of Ijams and two other officers of the association who had charge of the arrangements for recruiting a mob of men for the purpose of coming to Johnson County, Wyoming, and killing off the rustlers. Ijams then asked me if I had a hotel that suited me. He said I could stop at the Inter-Ocean or the Metropolitan, and that the stock association would settle my bill. He said that there were a number of stockmen who were going on the raid to pilot the mob through the country stopping at those two hotels. I told Ijams that I had on my working clothes and I would rather stop at some cheaper hotel. He said all right, to suit myself, to knock around town and enjoy myself the best I knew how, and if I wanted a suit of clothes or money I could have them, and that I would want to get me a good rig, that I was now working for a rich firm and that at the figures I would get for my work that it would not take me long to pay for a good outfit, and that one average killing for the mob would pay for a first-class rig and probably more. Ijams and I then parted; I went over to the Dyer House, a 25-cent hotel, and registered my name. After supper, about 8 o’clock in the evening, I met Ijams and two other men on the streets. Ijams introduced the two men to me as Mr. Morrison and Mr. Tabor. He said Morrison and Tabor would show me around the town. I had a long conversation with Morrison and Tabor that evening. They said they had been in the employ of the stock association for a number of years as stock detectives; they said they had worked for the stock association so long that the association thought they owned them. They said they were going along with the rest of the mob when they left Cheyenne to go to Johnson County to kill off the rustlers. They said the mob would first come to Buffalo and kill off what men they wanted in town, that they would shoot or hang up the sheriff and his deputies and would depose the civil authorities and keep possession of the town until the stock growers’ association could have their own officers to take charge of the courts of Johnson County. They said the mob would have to do a good deal of fighting in Johnson County; but when the mob cleaned up Johnson County that it would raid Natrona, Sheridan and Converse counties, and would meet with little opposition in those counties and in Sweetwater County; that the rustlers outside of Johnson County were unprepared to make a fight, and were not expecting anything, and that all the mob would have to do