The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-09
ROUNDINGUP RUSTLERS
Cattlemen Closing in on the
Bands of Outlaws.
SEVERAL MEN KILLED ALREADY
Mrs. Johnson, of Tacoma, Tries to
Follow Her Husband, a Suicide.
Fire at tAnacortes-Murderer Miller Held
for Trial at Colfax-Edward Bronson.
of Tacoma, Taken to Wisconsin to BE
Tried for Murder.

CASPER, Wyo., April S.--A courier from
the seat of war arrived here today and re-
ported that an army of Pinkerton's cattle
men. who are after ''rustlers," are in camp
at the narrows, about seventy miles north
OF here. The army is well supplied with
ammunition and supplies. The ''rustlers"
have made the small ranchmen believe it
to be to their interest to oppose the
army, and if a fight occurs it
will be desperate. 1t is believed fight
will take place on Saturday, as the rus
tiers are prepared, and they think the army
will show no quarter. Another army of
cattlemen are reported to be on their way
to reinforce the first one. No one doubts
that cattlemen from Texas and Montana
are combining in an effort to crush out the
rustlers. If they unite they will undoubt-
edly win the battle, but the rustlers will
defy the parties if attacked by but one at
time.
BUTTE, Mont, April Especial. i
Meager news has reached here to the effect
that the cattlemen and range rustlers have
had an encounter; that the attacking
party was repulsed and that the thieves
killed eight men and wounded several
others. 1t is also stated that the robbers
lost heavily. Owing to the isolated char
acter Of the country, definite news can
not be obtained for several days. Sheriff
Rose, OF Dillon, brings this news, which
he heard at Lima, Idaho, few days ago.
News of an engagement had been daily
expected. as the men are marching in on
the rustlers from all sections. This en-
counter is supposed to have occurred on
Green river, where the outlaws have win
ter quarters.
News comes from Billings. Mont, that
the body of man, as yet unidentified,
was found Wednesday evening in Sc
cluded place about ten miles from there.
He had been shot in the head and had
been dead, it is conjectured, about ten
days. Two dead horses. also shot, with
their brides on, were lying near. There
have been two other mysterious disap-
pearances of Wyoming rustlers who were
en- route to Canada within the past two
weeks.
This band of horse and cattle thieves
was incorporated under the laws of Wyom-
ing under high-sounding name. Plans
ofa war of determination have been in
process of formation since last fall. Be-
sides the party of twenty-five that started
out from Billings, it is learned that party
ASie DiS 4iAireI ou 4hdICu L. uHueI tne
leadership of Sim Roberts. The party
comprised thirteen men, all OF them
frontier and mountain men. They loaded
two cars with riding and pack animals,
guns, ammunition and food supplies.
Their departure was kept secret as far
as possible, the newspapers being asked
to withhold all information for the pres
ent. It'll now known that 100000 has
been raised for this expedition and that
the men are paid 81 900 each to go out and
fight, the leaders each getting $500.
Bloody work is expected, as the outlaws
are determined not to yield to arrest.
There is still great deal of snow in the
mountains and it may be slow work for
the cattle men to reach their headquar-
ters, but they have the satisfaction of
knowing that the thieves VIII have no op-
portunity of getting away from their
mountain fastnesses and the snowbound
basin. Every road from the basin is
guarded.
1t was in 1884 that the last expedition of
this kind was formed. The men started
out in June and cleared out the last of the
thieves in December, on the day before
Christmas. They hung sixty men at that
time and followed some of them into Can
ada. The biggest killing took place at the
big bend of the Missouri, where the cattle
men had pitched battle with the cattle
rustlers. Marquis de Mores figured in
that raid. He contributed $1,000, and I'M
mediately after left the country on a vaca-
ton.