St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-17
Uncle Sans Troops PPepaP-
ing TO Fight for Their
Prisoners.
One Thousand RustlepS, 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 rustler
movement:
Cheyenne, Wyo.. April l6.-Today's
news from Johnson county indicates
fear OF another outbreak OF the rustler
war. The rustlers are greatly excited
and very bitter against the cattlemen,
who are now prisoners at Fort McKin-
ney, whom they threaten 10 lynch if they
can capture them. The prisoners are
to be moved to Fort Douglas, near Lake
CITY. Col. Van Horn has been warned
that his troops will be attacked en-
route. He is preparing for, and expects
an engagement The plan of the rust
lers is to fortify themselves in the
mountains. This can be done with
little danger to themselves, and ii they
make an attack, it is almost certain to
be san2uinary one.
The rusters now number over a
thousand, and all are well armed with
Wiuchesters and six-shoOters. They
insist that Hess. Ford and Elliott, the
imprisoned cattlemen, be delivered 10
them. II they get the prisoners in their
custody they will certainly be hanged.
Col. Van Horn hestatcs to remove the
prisoners 10 Fort Douglas, fearing that
Oh tie way his troops will be over
powered.
Preacher Leads Them.
The leader of the rustlers, M. A.
Rider, is a young Methodist preacher
He is the very incarnation OF q warrior,
and has the ability, dash and magndt-
Gus expedition. He possesses the
absolute confidence Of his fol-
lowers He is brusque in manner,
and quotes scripture 10 his men with
potent effect. AS fighter he has
already won his spurs. Last summer
he had fight with cattleman named
Baird, whom he worsted. He can ride
like a centaur and shoots with the skill
of DR.. Carver. The rustlers regard
him as a Col and inylncible in a fight.
The acting governor of Wyoming,
Amos e.. Barber, Is much concerned
over the situation. He has telegraphed
Sheriff Angus, OF johnson county. that
under no circumstances VIII the prison
ers be delivered to the civil authorities
until their safety and fair trial is as
sured them. Angus IS urged to use his
Influence and authority TO restore quiet
and afford his prisoners protec-
ton. Barber has also requested Col.
Van horn to 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, A.
ranch, where the other invaders sur
rendered TO the troops.
Angus is informed that lie 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 it 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 seri-
GUS than the first, and Gov. Barber is
supported by citizens throughout the
whole state.
Van Horn Scents Danger.
BUFFALO, Wyo., April 16.--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
rnStlers before the fight at Il. A. ranch,
and are now in jail-into his posse
and keep them. together with the men
who surrendered TO the military at Il. A.
ranch. What with conflict OF authority
between Gov. Barber and Sheriff Angus,
it is apprehended at Fort Mckinney
that il 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 to 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 10 Chey- |
eBne for delivery under mil |
tarv guard to the civil authorities at |
that 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 "all 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 |
and will not listen to APP |
peaIs 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 ont
fit of prisoners will be taken to Douglas |
for the present under military guard.