The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-04-22
The Cattle BarOns Of Wyoming organ.
iZe to Kill or the Ranchers
Of that Statei
THE NINTH CAVALRY 10 The RESCUE
Governor Barber Telegraphs to Wash
ingtOn for the Regular Troops
to Rescue the Murders.

VI SSWAAeNA ~ OShNNA anu III
Cheyenne' Wyo., for the express pur-
pose of discriminating the small ranch
ers and settlers in Wyoming In other
words, that a campaign Of rapine and
murder was deliberately planned and
entered upon by the cattle bafons, and
one, state senator, embarked in
the murderous enterprise-but such
appears to be the fact.
The expedition originally was made
up of tifty-tw6 men; all we'll armed,
and equipped for campaign Of several
months. They were all well-mounted,
had baggage and mess wagon, an
ammunition wagon, commanding
officer and an attendant Surgeon-with
all the necessary instruments for n
regiment in the field
The surgeon turns out to be DR.,
CHARLES Bingham Penrose of 1881
Sprttce street, philadelphia, Pa, an
educated man of wealthy family.
He proposes to turn states evidence.
Major WOlcott was the commanding
officer and State Senator Tisdale was
one of the party.
They surrounded the TX G" ranch
about April IS and killed two men by
the name Of Champion and Ray and
burned the ranch. They were sur
rounded by the grAngers at the "a T"
ranch and capitulated to Colonel Van
Horn of the Ninth cavalry, which was
sent out to the scene of conflict. They
are now held as prisoners at Fort
Mckinney, Wyo., and should be turned
over to the civil authorities to be tried
for murder.
Here is an illustration of what mo-
nopoly will do when they see theil
interests are in danger of suffering ai
the hands Of the people who seek &c
maintain their own rights. These men
called 'rustlers," which they started
out to exterminate were small cattle.
owners and small farmers; and as a
rule, peaceful settlers. There is evi.
dence that there was a widespread
combination Of the "caltle barons" Ia
exterminate the settlers. The parties
arrested were only small detachment
of a widespread conspiracy.
The war between capital and labor
has already begun. The "irrepressible
conflict" between the great common
people and moneyed aristocrats is on.
The field, surprising to say, is John
son county Wyoming. The cattle bar
ons OF Cheyenne, Wyoming, and theil
henchmen and hirelings on one side
and Sheriff Angus with his posse com
itatus on the other side were the host
lie armies. The United States troops
are called in to rescue the murderer
from the strong arm of the civil law
and the governor of Wyoming haSten'
to take them out of the county where
the crime was committed. without
due process Of law. Steve Elkins
Harrison's secretary Of war. who, u
he is the same Elkins, was himself
once member of the Quantrell gang
sends an order to turn over the assassin
to the governor.
All these things show how, from the
head of the nation down through the
governors Of states, capital PUSHES t.
the rescue Of its robber bands ant
murderous friends. Champion anC
Ray. the two cowboys killed at the X
G. ranch last week, by this murder
Gus gang Of aristocratic outlaws, wer
given derent funeral and burial a
Buffalo, Wyo., Friday last. I'll,
body Of Champion had twenty-eigh
bullet holes in it, and the body Of Ra,
was merely charred trunk, the hea,
and feet being burned of, the rancl
being fired by the outlaws to concea
the evidences Of the crime. The pcopl
mourn at Buffalo, while the wretche
who perpetrated the crime onl
undergo the semblance Of imprison
ment, at Fort Mckinney, and are dine,
and wined, the aristocrats eating a
} one table and the hirelngs at another
: while for pastime they play poke
+ with silver dollars for chips. All tn
, prisoners take this gentle confne
ment very nonchalantly, being anon
s their friends and confident Of releas
s on account of their money and inhr
I ence.
] There is one remarkable fact in cor
u