Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-02-23
F0I1TEES nEN LNNCURD.
Very Successful Campaixs By the
NtebFspa viytuaates.

very s0reeA~y0t Vamp1tx0 0y the
Ssebsasa vigilaateA.
Loss PrNE Neb.. Feb. 4.-The man
who Is keeping tally for the Niobfara
iynching party reports that since they
started ont TO freak up the gangs of
cattle thieves mat iafest this couatry
fourteen have bcsn tvnched, sixty Warn.
cd to leave on pain of death, and one
shot. The season nov neariug its close
has been a very successful one. Snca \
round up Ut thieves and murderers was
never knoIa efore. The reguIatl r.
have not lost man, and they have not
been embarrassed by the breaking Of q
rope. They have gone about their busi
Ness 80 qaietIy that very few know who
they are or where they cons from.
Their movements have been expeii-
tfous and secret. Their arrests, trails.
convictioss and executious havs been
I performed with such ceieri,y that
4 IN most Gases their prs senee IN a neigh
/ bor. ood mas net been knoxn until al
/ Inspection of ihs trees gave unm stak-
ALE evidence that they had come and
gone. Moving and acting quickly. they
have earrled terror to the hearts of evil
I ooers Ia this whole section, embracing q
territery iatger than that of most Of the
States. Hundreds of thieves and cut
laws have by jumping the country es-
| caped well merited punishment, but
others. more careless or entirely icno-
rant OF the fact that the lynchers were
on the trail. have fallen etsy victims.
The i0en vi o make no the party are
familiar with every foot Of ground from
the Eikhorn, I.oup and Siobrara ranges
to those OF the Powder river country,
| and during the past winter they have
gone over all the territory once, and q
good deal of II three and four times
Some OF the men whom they wanted
most were not fonnd, aud others to
whom short shrift WAS gwen were des
peradoes who had almost been forget
ten, or had been supposed to be dead.
he winter has be-n exceedingly fav-
orable for operations OF this character.
There have tvsn few severe storms, and
only two or three bitter cold spells.
During one Of the latter the men suf-
fered considerably, but fortunately es-
capped with nothing more serious than
few frest-bitten hoses, cheeks and
fingers. They had been over In the
vicinity of the Bad Lands after nOto-
rious fellow named Ji,n Petley, known
to his comrades in crime AS Long jim,
but had been unable to run him down.
When about ready to give up the
search and retrace their s:eps they we're
caught IN blizz srd of the most savage
description. Locomotiou became out
OF the question, and picketing their
horses they awaited n cessation OF the
storm. The tempest of SHOW continued
until far into the night, when the
clouds eurst and the atmosphere be-
caine bitterly cold. The horses suffer
h,
better of. 1t WAS useless to stay where
they were, travel now being preferable
to inaction, aud 1t was decided to make
for the nearest ranch without delay.
Toiling YEARLY and painfully On their
way, they encountered at daybreak the
man for whom they had been looking.
lie was accompanied by two desperate
looking fellows who were, however, un- |
known to the regulators but who were,
together with Jim, placed under arrest. |
Ihe thieves were In il pitiful plight from
the Gold. Long Jim WAS suffering from |
frosted feet and hands, aud as the day |
wore on his agony became unendur- |
abb.
"what are you fellers going to do with |
me!' he finall, demanded.
We are going to take you to thu pen |
and try you for your Crimes" SAID one
Of his cAptors.
The pen is a place near here where
the regulators have had their rendrz
vOQs, aud where tuey have tried many |
Of their prisoners, hanging or shooting |
some and banishing others.
"And if you 6nd me guilty, what
then?"
well, we'll probably hang you"
IL thought so,S exclaimed jim dog
gediy. Nov, I'm in a bad condition,
and it's a hurting me TO keep up with
you fellers. I'm not going any further. |
You can finish the job now.'
He had evidently considered the mat
ter we'll. He knew what to expect. |
With a savage look of despair he bound |
ed of as fast as his seriously crippled |
limbs would carry him. He had not got |
more than 100 fest away before half u |
dozen rifle balls overlook him. He |
jumped high in the air and fell fiat on |
bis face, never moving afterward. His |
ragged clothing made a black spot on |
the snow which could be seen mile |
away. il being the only object not Gov
cred by the sitting fakes OF the night |
before The lynchers then pushed on |
toward the town.
Another party of the regulators oper
upon we'll known cattle thief named |
Berber, whom they found in quiet pos |
session of ranch with ten or twelve |
hundred head Of cattle. He invited the |
men to his home. where everything ap- |
peared in as good form as If he were one |
OF the most upright and thrifty Of the |
herdefs of the plains. Tho regulators |
ate Of his store, warmed themselves by |
his tire, smoked his tobacco, drank his |
liquor, aud when ready to depart told |
him they wanted him. His men We're !
not ia the house at the time. and the |
regulators had the drop ou him. Before |
his employees returned, he and his cap |
tors were far away. whether he was |
taken to the pen or not Is not kDown.
He aIs not been heard from since, and
it is not likely that he ever will be. His |
cattl 10 will return TO their original own |
ers in the spring.
A man VINO arrived here yesterday |
from the up-country says that there IL |
a panic among the hard characters |
from one end of the range to the other.
Maay have gone into the hills, and |
others have gone south TO the line of |
ths Union Pacific. Speaking of the
men against whom this crusade has /
been made, he said: Some of these |
fellows-perhaps moot Of thsm-de-
serve hanging, but have known n few
who were as least pretty decent. Two
years ago WAS mp in tue country with
AN engineering parry. One day cow |
ooy came 70 our camp. be had been IN |
some trouble down tue country. From |
what 90 afterwasd learned. the tr-uble |
w..s that he had killed y sheriff. He |
was nearly starved and almost dead
from Jack Of sleep. We fed him and
saw that hs WAS not interrupted while
he sleps for nearly twenty-fonr hours.
and rested has pony. After that TIE
covboys, who we're st f,rst very hostile |
to us, changed their attitude toward a.
Nothing was TOO good for Us. II
ve needed beef, they killed An
animal from the hogd and brought
us the hind quarters. II any infornar
tiun WAS needed. or letters from the |
post oflies. they would ride dav to 40
comm date u.s. One night there we're
tvo Of them in our camp, fell ~
named Stewart and a ool0red man |