would be to hang them up as they came to them. Morrison and Tabor said the mob would have its hands full in Johnson County; that last fall the Wyoming stock growers had employed four men to kill off a number of rustlers; that these four men made an assault on a man by the name of Champion and Gilbertson, on the Powder river; said these four men intended to hang Champion and Gilbertson in their cabin; that they went into the cabin about daylight and told Champion and Gilbertson to give up, that they had get them this time; that while these four men were holding their revolvers on Champion and Gilbertson that Champion got his revolver and shot one of the party up the coat sleeve and the other through the ribs; that the party then retreated leaving their horses, overcoats, bedding, some grub and a Winchester, that Tom Smith had at one time made Frank Canton a present of. I understood Morrison to say that the parties to the assault on Champion and Gilbertson were Frank Canton, Joe Elliott, Tom Smith and Fred Coats; they said that last fall after the assault on Champion and Gilbertson, that there were two men killed near Buffalo by the name of Jones and Tisdale; they said that the party that killed Jones and Tisdale was in the employ of the stock association; they said that Champion and others knew who these men were that were in the employ of the stock association, and that the mob would do all witnesses up that knew of any facts that would tend to criminate any of these parties who had been in the employ of the association for the purpose of killing off the rustlers; they said the stock association had offered these four men in their employ for the purpose of killing off the rustlers $1,500 for each man killed. They asked me what arrangements I had made with Ijams in regard to my wages during the raid of the mob in Johnson County. I told them I had not made any definite arrangements yet, but that I would work the same as the rest of the mob. They said that the stock growers’ association had told them that they were hiring the Texas men on the basis of $5 a day wages and all expenses paid by the association, and $50 bounty to be paid to each hired man of the outfit for every man that was killed by the mob; they said the stock association told them they would give them the same rates, but if any of the mob were getting more, that they wanted the limit; that they did not want to work cheaper than the rest of the mob on account of having been in the employ of the stock association for a number of years. Tabor said he was in the Powder River country, in Johnson County, last fall; that the men who were in the employ of the stock association for the purpose of killing off the rustlers had terrorized Johnson County to such an extent that everybody carried Winchesters and six-shooters wherever they went, and that when the settlers were going to Buffalo, if they were on horseback, that they hardly ever traveled the main roads, and that they always tried