The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-17
SENDING FOR RIFLES.
The Wyoming Rustlers Look
for More Fighting Soon.
cATTLEMEN IN GRAVE PERIL.
They Are Held Prisoners by Troops. and
II Turned Over to Civil Authori-
ties They Would Be Lynched.

PHILADELPHIA, April 16.-State Senator
Boise Penrose returned here from Wash
ington City tonight and exhibited tele-
gram from his brother, DR.. Charles Bing-
ham Penrose, whose arrest as a cattle
bandit was recently reported from Wyo-
ming. The dispatch says: 81 am safe
at Cheyenne. and have lawyer. The
newspaper stories up to date are untrue"
DENVER, April l6.-A Ners special from
Douglas. Wyoming, says: The feeling
against the perpetrators of the johnson
county outrage is hourly growing more
intense. The refusal of the governor to
order the prisoners to be delivered to
Sheriff Angus to be arraigned and tried for
murder is losing the stockmen
all the friends and sympathy they
had. 1t is doubtful if there
are today dozen men in the country who
would not volunteer to go at their own ex-
pense to Buffalo to assist Sheriff Angus in
maintaining his rights and enforcing the
law if they needed it. The ranchmen are
preparing tor the worst. There is not
ride in stock in hardware store here or
at Glenrock, and several have been tele-
graphed for to be sent by express.
CHICAGO, April 16.-An Inter Ocean
special from Cheyenne, Wyo., says: News
today received from Johnson county pre-
diets another outbreak of the rustier war.
The rustlers are greatly excited and very
bitter against the cattlemen imprisoned at
Fort Mckinney. They threaten to lynch
them If they can capture them. The pris-
oners are to be moved to Fort Douglas,
near Salt Lake. Colonel Van Horns
troops, fearing they will be attacked en-
70 Co,
II the Tustlers make an attack there is GER
tain to be sanguinary battle. The rus
tiers, who number over 1000 and are all
well armed, insist that Hesse, Ford and
Elliott, imprisoned cattlemen, be deliv-
cred to them. If they get the prisoners
they will certainly be hanged. Colonel
Van Horn hesitates to remove the
prisoners, fearing the troops will be
overpowered. The leader of the rustlers
Is NJ. A. Reader, q young Methodist
preacher, who possesses the absolute con-
hdence of his followers. Acting Governor
Barbour, of Wyoming, is much concerned
over the situation, and has telegraphed
the sheriff of Johnson county that under
no circumstances will the prisoners be de-
hvered to the civil authorities till safety
and affair trial are guaranteed, and has also
ieduestcu an horn 10 OBTAIN the custody
OF the five cattlemen now in Buffalo Jail,
and ordered Sheriff Angus to deliver them
at Fort Mckinney. Governor Barbour is
determined to check the warfare even if
he has to call on the government for
troops. Everybody familiar with the stu
alton is apprehensive of another outbreak.
OMAHA, April 16.-Colonel Van Horn,
commandant at Fort Mckinney, Wyo.,
telegraphs for permission to transfer
Sutherland and Carpenter, invading cat
tlemen captured by the sheriff and
rustlers before the fight at the I.
A. ranch. from the Jail at Buffalo, Wyo.,
to the guardhouse, and he fears an
attack on the Jail by rustlers. The prison.
ers at Fort Mckinney are anxious to be
taken to Cheyenne under military escort
as they are afraid that if not they will not
get out of Northwestern Wyoming alive.
There is great activity at the head.
quarters OF the department of the Platte.
General Brooke has made arrangements to
stay up all night He refuses to give any
details, but it is known important news
has been received from Wyoming.