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

men and their railroads. The decima-
ton of the buffalo was followed by the
Introduction of vast herds of cattle
The rangemen, with their cowboys,
ruled supreme. That supremacy is now
broken. The settlers holding lands in
the valleys are too numerous, and both
rangemen and settlers must come with
in the open view of legaIiZed authority.
The great herds will be divided into
smaller holdings some time, and it
seems as though that time is near at
hand, for 1t would take great areas of
unsettled range lands to keep up the
system of running cattle at large helter-
SHELTER, whittier they will, year after
year.
A serious warfare has been waged an
nually III the cattle range district for
many years and it may continue a few
years longer in the states and territories
adjacent to the Rocky mountains. 1t
has shown record of at least ten, and
probably sixteen, men killed this season
in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. How
many unrecorded deaths have occurred
through these conflicts no man will ever
be able to tell. In this Western warfare
bat little is ever said about those who
are wounded. 1t is claimed that this
warfare is carried on by representatives
thieves, who are called 'ruStlers," but
it is also claimed that ranchmen who
have small herds of cattle are fire.
quently unfairly classed as rustlers,
and this word has been used so much of
late that it is now applied rather indis-
ultimately. These ranchmen would
be called farmers, or grangers,
in the East. They are the
new settlers of the Great West. and
they are an eyesore 10 most of the great
cattlemen whose policy would naturally
be to keep the ranges clear of small
farms. In few cases the settler, by
selling his products at very moderate
prices to the cattlemen and by catering
to their wishes, can get along without
much trouble. but just as soon as ques-
tions arise concerning the right to
springs and streams, on the one hand.
and to the herding Of stock over the
country, wherever the large cattle own
ers wish, on the other hand, then the
danger of trouble and annoyance to the
settlers begins.
The extent of this warfare can be
imagined when such assertions are
made as the one below, which appeared
in the Daily Drover's Telegram OF Kan
sas City, Mo-, OH April 9 last. las follows:
1t was IN 1884 that the last expedition of
this kind was formed. The men started out
in June and cleaned out the last thief in
December. They hung sixty men and fol-
lowed some Of them into Canada. The big
gest killing took place on Big Bend of the
Missouri river. Marquis de Mores figured in
that raid. He contributed S., 0Go and after
ward left the country on vacation.
Along the MuSSellShell river, in Mon
tana, ana eastward to the big bend of
the Missouri, it is we'll known that more
than thirty men (classed as ''rustlers'0
were lynched in 1884. Ever since the
range cattle business grew into PROM
inence In Wyoming and Montana each
year has had its raid or raids, and the
history of these fights would fill vol
umes. Much of that history
can never be written, for the
data will never be known.
The Wyoming war. as it has been
called, was begun early in 1892 by the
lers," but it has also brought about the
troubles between the cattlemen and
settlers to focus in that state. Thus
far this season the recorded results of
that war have been as follows:
April Z, 100 regulators. headed by
prominent cattlemen, left Casper, Wyo.
On their way north toward Powder
river they held two sheep men captives
for six hours. The names of the sheep
men were Bert Lambert and Oscar
Lamar. Other companies of regulators
were also on the move from various
points in Wyoming, Idaho, South Da-
kota and Montana, all working toward
the Big Horn mountains as a common
center.
April S.-Fifty regulators attacked
Nolan's ranch on Powder river. The
ranch was burned. Nate Champion
and Nick Ray, so-called rustlers, were
shot to death. Jack Flagg and others
escaped and notified the citizens at Buff
falo, Wyo. 1t is believed that the regu-
lators lost couple of men in this en-
counter.
April 10, Sunday.-The regulators,
encamped at the T. a. ranch, near Buff
1alo, Wye, were beSleged by residents of
that district. They stood the siege three
days, strongly entrenched behind their
rifle pits. Then a detachment of the
regular army arrived and made forty
four of the regulators United States
prisoners. thus saving them from the
vengeance of the prisoners. A Texan,
who called himself ''ldaho,' was taken
to Buffalo and placed in Jail by the
settlers. In this siege Senator Tisdale,
of Wyoming, was slightly injured by a
bullet, Lieut.. Will Irvine was shot in
the left foot, and Texan regulator.
named Lowker, received severe bullet
wound in the grain. Tne arrested cattle
men included very prominent and
wealthy citizens OF Wyoming.
April 9-PreSs dispatches reported
the body of man, unidentified, found
ten miles from Billings, Mont, on April
6,sh OF in the head and supposed to have
been dead about ten days. Two dead