The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-23
IHe WYOMING MAP

BUFFALO, Wy, April 22--There ara
about l50 armed men in town, organized
as home guards. The organization was
established last Sunday night. The mer
are under command of Frank Smith o.
Powder river, and are divided into squads
| OF ten men each under command OF ser
geant. The streets are patroiled by &
strong guard at night, and all travellers tc
and from the town are inspected. Ru
mors are current of other bands of lnvad
ers coming from Montana aud elsewhere
to aid the stockmen. Thd outpOstS of the
organization will give timely warning OF
the approach of any such party. Fears
are entertained by many that the attempts
of the stockmen will be renewed
A few citizens here suspected OF having
! been favorable to the stocSmen are in fear
of violence from the other party. The
streets have been quiet, but full OF men:
| business is almost at Il standstili. Sheriff
/ Angns has turned the prisoners i'll the
| Jail over to Capt. Van Horne. Violence is no
| apprenended at present, but If the
rumored invasion should occur, or if some
vicious rumor should gain credence, in
the present state of excitement, one can
| not fell what might happen.
BUFFALO, Wy, April 22.-The following
message, in reply to the appeal from the
people of Buffalo TO President Harrison,
asking an investigation into the cattle
trouble in Wyoming and that justice be
done to all concerned. has been received:
''WAsHINGToN, April -.
&C. ]. Hagerson and others:
The governor of your state made cali
upon me, in conformity with the constitu-
tion of the United States, for aid in sup
pressing domestic violeucs and threatened
bloodshed. could not know anything of
the situation, except as IL was stated by
him, and could not refuse the aid OF troops
to preserve the peace. The prisoners Will,
as soon as the state authorities are pre-
pared TO receive them, be turned over TO
the civil authorities. and my connection
with the matter will end, unless further
called upon to aid the state authorities in
preserving the peace.
81 do not doubt that the executive and
judicial authorities of your state viii,
without fear or favor, bring to trial and
punishment those who have violated the
law, and by orderly methods. Nothing
should be done to shield any guilty person.
Ny counsel. as your fellow citizen, is to
use every effort TO allay the excitement
and to proceed in all things peacefully
and upon lawful lines.
Il will, of course, see any representa-
tiyeS you may send, but you VIII see that
can do nothing except to act with the
state to prevent violence. Everything else
rests with the state authorities
[Signed "BESJ. HARRISON"
IDS peO3sc VI tuiS pidCC dtO picdScu WIN
the presidents reply, and are satisfied
that Il thorough investigation will be made
and justice meted out Immediately.
CHEYENNE, Wy, April 22-Jim Dudley,
alias Gus Green, of Paris, Tex, AN in-
vader who was wounded in the fight with
the rustlers. and who had his leg ampu-
puted at Fort Mckinney, died Saturday
and was buried in Buffalo Oh Sunday. A
man named A. G. Dunning, hailiug from
Idaho, is now in Jail ut Buffalo. He was
one of the party of regulators, but in the
forward march from the A. L. ranch con-
cealed himself and escaped to Buffalo. He
reached there on Friday and was arrested
on suspicion by the sheriff on Sunday,
after having been kicked and cuffed about
the streets of Buffalo as one of the invad-
ing army. He states that he was hired by
the secretary of the State Stock associa-
tion, and the plan proposed was simply
blood-curdling i'll its atrocty. Dunning
had letter in his pocket directed to an
Idaho friend, in which he gave away the
whole story. This letter is now in posses
sion of the sheriff, among IL vast lot of
other evidence. He says that Champion
and Day had been warned, and that they
would not have been killed if they had
needed the warning The hired assassius,
be says, were to get 26 n day and $50
piece for every man killed. He says that
1t cost over So 900 to get Champion and
Day.