Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-08
EXCITEMENT IN CHEYENNE.
Details of n Battle In the Cattle Countr
Hourly Expected.

Details of n Battle In tho Cattle Country
Hourly Expected.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., April o. Special Tele.
gram to The BEE. This city is in copdi.
ton of suppressed excitement over n mysteri-
Gus excursion which started a fow days ago
for Johnson county. 1t Is now being
generally talked of. One train left this city
about $3.50 o. clock on Tuesday evening. 1t
consisted of chair car, baggage car, ca
boose, three stock cars filled with cattle and
horses and one fiat car on which some
wagons were loaded In the car were
probably thirty five Pinkerton men, as
nearly us can be ascertalned, each
armed with Winchester and pair of six
shooters. Each was likewise provided with
saddle and blankets for bedding. The train
was stopped in the east end Of the Union
Pacific yards. To that point fresh
engine was sent, no ono being al
lowed in the meantime to visit the cars,
not even the oilers. At various points IN the
city some fifteen or twenty prominent stock
men, 1t is said, were picked up and the party
then steamed for Casper, which is on the
Northwestern road IN National county and
about twenty miles north of here.
Had Guides In waiting
| Tho stock yards, which are about ono mile
this side of Casper, were reached in the
middle of the night. Several guides who
| had been in waiting there met th
incoming train. Arrangements seem to have
| been complete for in very short time and
| before daylight, Wednesday morning, all the
| teams were hooked up, the horses saddled
| and the party had disappeared Ill westerly
direction. The tram steamed back to Orin
junction, and after short stop there, re-
turned to Cheyenne last night.
| In the meantime some indefinite rumors
! had begun to float about, but these were, for
| the time being, set at rest at Casper, and
| later in Douglas by tho information that u
railrOl1 invaded
| country for work, the main object being
| the capture of certain mountain
passes along the proposed transconti-
mental line. This afternoon the infor-
| nation was circulated in the northern
! Towns to the effect that an armed force had
| entered johnson county with the expressed
| Intention of cleaning out the rustlers and
| that this is but one of three expeditions
which are operating in the state and such
points soems most necessary. The ex-
| citement in that section is intense, but as to
| whether or not any intention OF .he move
| ment has reached Johnson county nobody
| can yet discover.
| Telegraph Lines Cut.
Telegraphic communication to Buffalo, the
county seat Of Johnson county, is secured by
| way OF Douglas. The line north of the lat
ter point is down or has been cut for the past
| twenty-four hours, consequently nothing
| can DO heard except rumors, which
| when traced down, appear to have
| no substantial foundation. 1t is under
| stood hero that spoilers have been at
| work in johnson county for some time past.
| The object has been to definitely locate all
! rustlers. The invading party was TO rem
| devious last night AT ranch on Powder
! river, some sixty or seventy miles from Cas-
| per.
There the reports of tho spottors were to
| be received ana the plan of the
| campaign prepared. Ia general way
| the intention appears to be to swoop
| down on the various rustlers' ranch, kill
| them off singly or in pairs as they may be-
| found, and by series of rapid marches put
| them out of the way before the people have
| au inkIing of what is going on, the rust
| lers and their friends have chance TO get
| together and make a defense.