St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-21

mysteriOusly disappeared.
April 9 = Sheriff Rose, of Dillon.
Mont, reported an engagement near
Fort Lehmi, Idaho, in which there had
been losses on both sides.
April 27-The Drovers' Journal, of
! Shlcago, said: Wyoming cattlemen
hunted down two horse thieves Monday
and killed them" 7
April 26-Press dispatches say that
posse from Fremont county, Wyoming,
mad shot and killed two horse thieves
| qamed Cat Spencer and John Burnett at
jackson Hole, Wyo., near the Idaho
line. during the preceding week. :
May United States court at Cheyenne
| granted injunction against thirty-three
residents OF Johnson county, Wyo., en-
| joining them from participating in
round-ups other than those authorized
by the Wyoming state officers. This in
Junction was disregarded and the
small cattle men proceeded with thelr
! round-ups on May 6.
| May 25-The Miles City, Mont, Stock
| Growers Journal says:
| The United States marshals deputized TO
| serve the Injunction on the round-ups are in
hard row. Two have disappeared and a
| third has been shot and wounded.
May 14-Press dispatches from Gill
| cite. Wyo.: deputy United States
| Marshal Gibson was shot on May Is, the
ball passing through his shoulders. He
was serving injunction notices against
"SmalF' ranchmen.
May 13-Tbe Northwestern Live
| Stock journal, Cheyenne, Wyo., says:
A special from Buffalo. Wyo., to the Dem
yer News says that Charles Carter, who was
| sent north to take charge of the 7 A ranch.
has been waited upon by a committee and
| requested to move on. two days time being
granted for ARRANGING his toilet and securing
| transportation.
May 9-.George Wellman was shot
! and killed on the road near Buffalo,
| Wyo. He was prominent cattle fore
| man. and had been ordered away from
the Hoe" ranch on Powder river.
June Jack Bliss, king of the rust
lerS. was killed on the south fork of
Sinking Water creek by Deputy Sheriff
| Trey and a posse from Fremont county,
| Wyoming.
While Bliss undoubtedly deserved his
| fate, it should be noticed that the news
paper sentiment, including papers that
| represented the range cattle industry,
| showed that they did not believe that
| lawlessness was INDUCED in TO the great
| extent claimed by the leading cattle
| owners.
June 6-Nellie Drake, Jim Fleming
| and Charles Drake were arrested at
| GreenhOrn Gulch, little south of Hell
| ena, Mont, charged with extensive
| horse stealing.
June IAN unauthenticated report
| from Buffalo. Wyo., reads thus: -Four
| human bodies, dressed in cowboy style
| and dried and shriveled so as TO be I'M
| recognizable, were found swinging to
| the limb OF a tree by roundup party
| which has just returned. 1t is believed
to be relic of the April conflict"
First the newspapers changed their
headline from .'Thieving Rustlers"
and ''Rustlers, - Thieves" "Villainous
Desperadoes" to sSo-Called Rustlers,' ~
for they had found that good many
| legitimate owners of small herds of cat
| tie were subjects of enmity from the
great ranchmen. So the headlines
changed to Small Cattlemen," "Rnach-
ers," Farmers" etc. for this reason.
A spirit OF consideration for the
claims of owners of small ranches and
small herds of cattle grew out of the
| high-handed manner in which the cattle
barOns. backed by laws made by cattle
kings. had sought to rule the ranges.
In like manner they have endeavored to-
rule every range of the West, especially
during the past twenty years, but this
appears to be the beginning of the end
for those who have usurped the free:
| grass territory of the new West.
June ga special telegram from
Red Lodge to the Helena (MOnt.) In
| dependent reports the killing on the
Big Horn river in Northern Wyoming
OF 2. Z. Lovelle, one of the most ex-
| tensive cattlemen of Montana. His
home was at Billings, Mont. In this
case the trouble seems to have been
with Ira Avant, a cowboy, over the
ownership of ranch.
June SCATTER arresting two men at
| Johnson's hole, Wyo.. one of them OBJ
tanned freedom by strategy and shot an
! officer through the heart. The two
| thieves escaped.
President Harrison issued proclama-
ton on July 80. 1892, commanding all
| persons engaged in resisting the laws
| and the process of the United States
courts in Wyoming to cease, and to dis
| perse and retire peaceably to their
| homes on or before Wednesday, Aug. 8.
The round-ups being completed, the
mandate was respected, excepting in
| exceptional cases where friction may
cause new troubles. The government
| sent fourteen troops of cavalry from the
| department of the Platte to the Wyom-
ing ranges, and lawleSs acts by either
cattlemen or rustlers will be restricted.
| The Omaha Bee said:
| Doubtless some lives sacrificed in recent
ptlNSSQ lQeSe men might nave
| been saved il the troops now ordered into
Wyo ming had been on the ground few
| weeks ago. The force that has been ordered
| there ought to be fully adequate to meet all
| emergencies.
An amusing feature of the rustler's
| racket came in connection with the
newspaper men. The Stock Growers
Journal, of Miles City, Mont, On April
| %. said:
Neither of the Buffalo, Wyo., papers is
| sued last week. The editor OF one was out of
| town and the editor Of the other claimed to
have been on guard duty SO continually
| since the rustler trouble that he could not
do editing" The press was not muzzled 1t
| must be understood. but circumstances over
| which it had no control made it advisable
| not to stamp that week.
And on June s, the Omaha Stockman
said:
| Thomas j. Bouton, ex proprietor of the
| Buffalo (Wyo.) Echo, is in Omaha en- route
| to Salt Lake City. Mr.. Bouton says Wyom-
| ing wasn'ta healthy country for him after
| the stand he took in the cattle question and
| he left at the urgent request of some of his
! friends who didn't want to be forced to lay
| him out and bury him at their own expense
He says he lost $500 III property by being
| driven out of the country.
The above might we'll be called serio-
amusing.
Wyoming and Montana papers claim
| shat several settlers have suffered with
| out cause, and the cattlemen with their
| hlrelings from Texas are looked upon
| as the aggressors. Their intrusions
were not acceptable to the general run
| of citizens. who believed that their laws
| and officers were sufficient for the MAIN
tenance of good order, and that lynch
| Ing was not necessary for the public
| good. The entire question is summed
up in the Chicago Drovers' Journal edi-
| torial of Aug. 2, thus:
| The conflict between the IMAM with the
hoe" and the large ranch men is an irrepres-
| sible one. Slowly but surely the big ranges
| are being cut down
The Drovers' journal is the leading
| live stock paper of the United States.
1t had previously made, editorially, the
| declaration which follows:
As the march of empire takes its way west
| ward the prairies and plains of the great
| West that were once the boast of American
| pioneers are gradually cOnYerted infn farms