New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-05-04
Rustlers Defended at Rapid
City by a Cattlenan Of
Experience.
4 Rustler in Wyoming IS Not a
Thief as Understood in
the Dakotas.

ably III as good position to give the true
inwardness of the recent Wyoming cattle
war as anyone who took part in it. He had
just returned from the scene of action, and
talked freely on condition that his name
was not to be mentioned. His reason for
making the condition5is obvious when it is
stated that is himself cattleman, hay
ing cattle both on the Sioux reservation
east OF here and also over on the disputed
Wyoming ranges. He said:
The men who are now called 'rustlers'
are of the better class of cowboys, with
many of whom I worked the ranges years
ago. They saved their money, got few
cattle and started small ranches, but were
#black-balled by the big men, The imme-
diate cause Of the war which has Just ended
was the action taken by the State Stock AS
iation last year in preventing the small
men sending their cattle to market and
also the killing Of Jones and Teasdale three
or four months ago. / knew the latter fit
teen years, thought him nice fellow and
BELIEVE HE WAS SQUARE. IS
Whether or not men We're hired to kill
them | do not know, but statement to
that effect is generally believed out there.
There has, of course, been some rustling
and nd mavericks were overlooked by the
smallmen, but the proportion Of what we
cali rustling or stealing has been no greater
there than in any other cattle country.
Take the district around Crazy Woman,
Pney and the upper Powder river There
are forty-tive cownen and I don't believe
more than five Of them have done
any rustling but they are all classed as
rustle.s by the big men and by the papers.
Most Of the papers have only given one side
Of the story, and make out good many
honestmen to be thieves. They have not
given the small men fair shake. 1t was
not tue best class of cattle men Of either
kind that started this war There are lot
Of Englishmen Of no experience in the cat
tie business who made most Of the trouble,
the old cattle men who opened up the coun-
try not taking part in it. The employees
otthe big companies have not gone back
on them or been playing into the hands of
rustlers. That is q libel on the COWBOYS
that some Of the papers have published.
II is very rough country and rough coun-
try makes mavericks plenty, as many COWS
are missed at the roundup but the BOYS
have always worked well for their EN- ploy-
ers. The sympathy OF all the people in
Johnson county and all around there in
Buffalo and other towns is with the rustlers
ARE SQUARE MEN
who have been blackballed and driven
from one part Of the country TO another by
the big men. [ suppose Fat the men ar
rested, now that they have been taken out
of that county, will get off, but if tried in
Johnson county they would have swung
Tor the five or six men killed.
What effect will this last trouble have?"
"A good one, I think. The newspapers
will publish the facts when they get then,
and show up that the so-called rustlers are
simply small cattlemen that the big COM
panies. aided by some Of the state
and other authorities, have been for
years trying to drive out Of the
country. Alter this the small men will be
treated with more consideration and l look
for matters to run more smoothly in the
future"
The gentleman was assured that his re-
marks would be given publicity through
the PIONEER Press, the correspondent being
'erustler" in Wyoming has a different mean
ing from that given it in South Dakota and
other cattle countries.
TO RESTRAIN RoUND-UPs.
. CHEYENNE, Wyo., May The attorneys
for large herd owners Of ] ohnson county
will apply to Judge Riner OF the United
States circuit court tor a temporary injunc-
ton to restrain the small ranchmen and
so-called husllers from proceeding with the
mence immediately. ] f the injunction is
granted the United States marshal and his
deputies will enforcethe order OF the court.
Residents Of johnson county now in Chey-
enne assert that the roCnd-ups i'll question
have been abandoned by the projectors,
and that no necessity exists for any int err
ference by the authorities.