On the 5th day of April I helped to load the three wagons and the three carloads of horses, and the baggage that belonged to the mob; a man by the name of Van Tassal bossed the job. I saw Ijams again on the afternoon of the 5th of April. He said the Wyoming Stock Association had held their meeting; he said the stock association had approved of the general plan of the campaign of his (Ijams) and the other two officers of the stock association who had charge of the arrangements for recruiting the mob and of the general plan of killing the rustlers. He said the mob would get along nicely; that every man that was a member of the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association was backing up the movement; that Governor Barber, Judge Blake, the United States Marshal and nearly all the state officials were on the side of the stock association, and would stay with the mob through thick and thin. He said the mob had some very influential friends in Congress and in the United States Senate, among whom he said were Senators Carey and Warren, whom he said were men of great influence and wealth. I asked Ijams if he thought the outfit might not be arrested at Fort Russell on the way to Casper. He said there was no danger; that Governor Barber and Senators Warren and Carey would manipulate the troops; that the troops could not be called out except for the protection of the mob, and that the mob would be able to take care of itself, and that the officers at Fort Russell were friends of the stockmen. I asked Ijams how about the troops at Buffalo. He said the troops at Buffalo were an outfit of sons-of-b----; that they had been stealing beef from the stockmen for years, and that the officers at McKinney upheld them in committing their depredations; that the soldiers at McKinney would invest the amount they saved by not drawing beef rations in luxuries, and the soldiers at McKinney were able to eat plum duff three times a day.