to ride around the gulches and bunches of brush. Tabor said that the settlers seemed to think that the stock association had a man hired to stand behind every bunch of brush or rock in the country for the purpose of taking their scalps for the bounty that was offered by the stock association. Tabor said his business in Johnson County was looking over the country and keeping cases on rustlers. He said that a liquor or dry goods drummer could not come into Buffalo without the settlers thinking that he was in the employ of the stock association and had his valises loaded with dynamite for the purpose of blowing them up. This is the substance of my interview with Morrison and Tabor the first night I was in Cheyenne. On the morning of the 3rd of April I met Ijams on the street. I told him that I was looking around town to see about getting me a Winchester. He said he had just bought me one that morning, a 45-90 Browning Brother’s patent. He said the outfit would get all their guns at one store, and that the stock association would foot the bill. I went over to the store to look at my gun. I saw a number of stockmen getting guns and ammunition, among whom were H. W. Davis, D. R. Tisdale, J. N. Tisdale and others. The next day I got me a saddle and the rest of my rig. The day I got my gun I saw a man in the gun store April 3rd, when I was looking at my gun. His name was Fred Wombold. He said he used to scout for the government with a man by the name of Ketchum, brother of the man that was lynched by the Olive outfit in Nebraska. We had a long talk about mob law generally, and Wombold said he had been watching things around the gun shop, and that the stockmen had already bought over 20 guns there that day, and that they were organizing a mob to come to Johnson County to kill off the rustlers. I told Wombold when the mob would leave Cheyenne. He gave me to understand that he would come ahead of the mob and inform the authorities in Johnson County. There was a good deal of excitement at the gun store when the mob got their guns. Ben Morrison and Tabor told me that the whole town was onto the racket of the mob going to Johnson County. They said that all the officials in Cheyenne were friends of the stock association, and we would not be molested on that account. I asked them if the soldiers were not liable to hold up the train when the mob got opposite Fort Russell. They said that Governor Barber had the running of the soldiers and he would not allow them to molest the mob; that Barber had helped plan the raid the mob was about to make, and that the officers at Fort Russell were friends of the stockmen.