St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-17
RUSTLERS TALK WAR
The Imprisoned Wyoming
Cattlemen in Danger O?
Lynehing.
Uncle Sans Troops PPepar-
ing to Fight for Their
Prisoners.
One Thousand RustlerS, Well
Armed and Angry, Want
Revenge.
A Young and Warlike Metho-
dist Minister Said TO Be
the Leader.

CHICAGO. April l6.-The Inter Ocean
has this dispatch regarding the rustIer
movement:
Cheyenne, Wyo., April Is. -Today's
news from Johnson county indicates
fear Of another outbreak Of the rusller
war. The ruotIers are greatly excited
and very bitter against the cattlemen,
who are now prisoners at Font Mckin-
ncy, whom they threaten to lynch if they
can capture them. The prisoners are
70 be moved 10 Fort Douglas, near Lake
Civ. Col, Van Horn has been warned
that his troops will be attacked en-
route. He is preparing for, aud expects
an engagement The plan Of the rust
lcts Is 10 fortify themselves in the
mountains. This can be done With
little danger to themselves, and il they
make an attack, it IS almost certain TO
be a san2uinary one.
The rustlers now number over
thousand, and all are well armed with
Wuchester5 and siX-shoOters, They
insist that Hess. Ford and Elliott, the
imprisoned caltiemen, he delivered TO
them. If they get the prisoners iii their
custody they viii certainly be hanged.
Col. Van Horn hesItatc5 70 remove The
prisoners 10 Fort Douglas, fearing that
on tie way his troops will be over
powered.
4 Preacher Leads Them.
The leader of the rustlers, NJ A.
Ridef, is a young Methodist preacher.
He IS the very incarnation Of Il warrior,
and has tie ability, dash and magnat-
ism to quality him for tie most hazard
Gus expedition. He possesses the
absolute confidence Of his fol-
lowers. He is bruaque in manner,
and quotes scripture 10 his men with
potent effect. As a fighter he has
already won his spurs. Last summer
he had fight with a cattleman named
Baird whom he WOrsted. He can ride
like cenlaur and shoots with the Skill
OF Dr.. Carver. The rustlers regard
him as a Col and inVlncible in Il Iight.
The acting governor Of Wyoming,
Amos g. Barber, is much concerned
over the situation. He has telegraphed
Sheriff Angus, OF Johnson county. that
under no circumstances Will tho prison
ers be delivered to The civil authorities
until their safety and Il fair trial is as
sured them. Angus IS urged to use his
influence and authority to restore quiet
and afford his prisoners pr0tec-
ton. Barber has also requested Col.
Van Horn 10 obtain the custody Of the
five members of the invading party now
IN the Buffalo jail, who were captured
prior to the engagement at the L. \.
ranch, where the other invaders sur
rendered to the troops.
Angus is informed that he mist de-
liver those prisoners to Col. Van Horn,
at Fort Mckinney, so that they may be
protected against threatened violence.
Gov Barber says he is determined to
check this warfare, if ii requires all the
power in the state of Wyoming to DO it,
and if that isn't enough he will call on
the government OF the United States for
more troops. Everybody familiar with
the situation is apprehensive OF another
outbreak, and that it will be more Serl-
Gus than the first, and Gov. Barber IS
supported by citizens throughout the
whole state.
Van Horn Scents Danger.
BUFFALO, Wyo.. April l6--Col. Van
Horn has telegraphed to army head
quarters at Omaha that he wishes TO get
Carpenter and Sherman two of the
cattlemen who were captured by the
rustlers before the fight at I. A. ranch,
and keep them. together with the men
who surrendered to the military at +. a.
ranch. What with conflict of authority
between Gov Barber and Sheriff Angus,
it is apprehended at Fort Mckinney
that if Carpenter and Sherman are left
in the hands of the civil author
tiles they will not be heard
from again in this world.
Feeling runs so high that there are
rumors of an attempt 10 take them from
jail and make them pay the penalty for
taking the lives of Champion and Ray,
whose killing and funeral have brought
out intense bitterness toward the cattle
men.
Gen. Brooke has instructed Col. Van
Horn that there is no intention of max
ing the situation worse by allowing the
invading cattlemen to slip away. They
will, he says. surely be brought to JUS
tice. 1t is reported here that several
Omaha and Wyoming cattlemen have
been wired to see Gen. Brooke and
have the prisoners taken TO Chey-
enne for delivery under mil
tarv guard to the civil authorities at
thar place, instead of being put in the
county Jail or released on bail. This
report, together with the dispatches
sent out by the prisoners to their friends
telling them that they are AL right"
does not allay the feeling.
1t is stated at the post here that Gen.
Brooke will be guided by his own
Judgment and by advices received from
Washington, and will not listen to APP
peals from either party. Col Van Horn
has been wired to take the two prison
ers, Sherman and Carpenter, from the
county Jail to the post. The whole out
fit of prisoners will be taken to Douglas
for the present under military guard.