The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-11-30
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tpTests Of the toxin and 10 nd the ON
mUuity OF roughs, cut-thrOats and gar
rioters that invest that lively little town.
TIE committee is well organized and
drilled. They have a captain and as
sistaut, aud are all provided with
hreteh-lOadiug shot guns and heavy re-
yOIyers. The organization numbers
about two hundred Of the best citizens
II the place, but il was not until last
week that their services were called
into requi.tiun.
Ever since the town Was started, aud
long before il was laid out, it has been
thu rendezvous Of %murderers, road
agents, thieves, and cut threats who
generally iufest a frontier river town,
aud the first murder dates back to the
days Of &c, when one OF a party Of pill
gTims coming 10 Pierre was killed by n
mnian while camped Mt that place.
The murderer made his escape. The
number Of men killed at that town Is
not less than twelve or fifteen, and In
every ease tile murderers have gone I'M
punished, and allowed To walk the
streets as free as any man. The city
has not yet any government; the county
is not organized, and law and order are
things that are not known Thereon,
have not been known heretofore.
But, however, there is an end 10 all
things, and the time has come when the
outlaw will have 10 observe the law Of
the vigilantes or take the consequence
cold buekshot.
a little over a week ago, a character
named ''Atkansaw," and the man who
killed the kid last summer, with "A
gang Of followers went over, To East
Iirrrc and began making themselves a
little too numerous with their pistols.
Arkansaw would occasionally pull out
lis pistol cock IL, and request some
rcaceablc citizen Ia coine to him, and II
the least hesitancy was obseryey in
complying with his request, the result
would be a yollry Of pistol shots, after
which Arkansaw would put his re
volycr back in the holster AMI resume
Sometimes u shot or two would take
effect, but that didn't matter, II only
gave a little spice To his performances,
Ills entire gang was composed OF just
such men Is himself, and oD one after
nuu last week they succeeded in Great
ing terror wherever they made their
appearance. After creating all the dis
turhance they could, and taking n pris-
oncr away from n United States deputy
marshal. they went To West Pierre with
the ayowed purpose OF returning and
cleaning out the town. They did re-
TARA but were met by two hundred
yigilantcs and two hundred shot guns
staring them in the face. They were
requested Ia return Immediately and
never again show themselves in East
Pierre. The request was complied with,
but Al Thursday night, Arkansas and
gang got on the Val path, and each one
strapping on three or four reyolyers, the
entire outfit, about one hundred and
ifty outlaws, cowboys and bull.whack-
crs, went over 10 East Pierre TO ''clean
ont the town, us they termed it. II
waSahout 10 o'clock when they got in.
and went directly To the dance house,
ow and then shooting out u light in
some store or house rs they passed by.
They shot everything. Windows, lights,
men, horses, aud all had To take it.
Every minute would be heard the sound
OF the pistol, when suddenly those that
took no part on either side, heard the
loud hang" bang OF the shot gun,
and heard the tramp Of two hundred
yigilautes, all marching in line, and
bearing down upon the roughs. In 4
moment II seemed rs il a terrible can
n%onadiug was going on and old soldiers
say II sounded very much like a pitched
battle. The gang was driven down 10
the river, dying in every direction be-
fore the determined lire of the vigil
lanteS. Arkansaw, u little Drawer than
his men, hesitated. than made an at
tempt at resistance. But in hesitating
lie sealed his doom, for, almost in a
momrut, full fifty shots were fired and
the cut-tlroat brigand Arkansaw fell
Ia the ground riddled with bullets. a
review of the grounds showed three or
four wounded, but none others were
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