The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-05-13
SUlIY IS MAKING
HIS LAST STAND
The Famous Cattle Rustler and
Gang Once More on,
Ranges.
THEY TRlcKED AN oHloAN
Sold an Eastern Man a Bunch OF Cattle
by Using a Confederate of the
Gang to Guy Half of
Stock.
THEY TRlCNED AN OHlOAN

Bonesteel. $. D., May 11.-Jacll Sully
head of the cattle ruStling gang that
has terrorized this section for twenty
Years. is enthroned again in his erie
between here and 0acoma, making q
last opportunity. the members of the
the range country is forever stopped by
the opening of the Rosebud Indian
reservation TO settlement.
Apparently realizing that this is their
las opportunity the members of the
gang. reaching as tar south as Kansas,
are unusually active. Their plan is
thought TO be to secure as large a stake
as possible II make of before the in
coming settlers.
After Sully broke Jail at Mitchell.
S. D.. last fall, the night the sheriff
died, at an expense reported to have
been 1880, it was given out hat he
went to Canada. AS Il matter of fact,
Sully went to Kansas and has stayed
in that state most of the winter. How
ever. he is back at his old headquar-
ters with his squaw wife, and the dis
appearance of stock is corroborative
evidence of his presence.
Suiiy hVes in a two-story frame
house. painted White, and showing
clearly at the top of a high hin. y
cupola on top of the house is used
for Il lookout. and a stairway runs di-
rectly down from the cupola to the cell
lar, from which. it is generally believed.
Sully has arranged passages for sub
t%erannean escape. The approach of Wis
1tors from amy direction can be seen
when at Il distance of four miles. The
four halfbreed daughters of Sully are
married and live about him. His mar
riase to a squaw Won the cooperation
of the Indians n halfbreeds, and
there are many to warn him of the APP
proach OF the unfiendly.
A Recent Trick.
y trick turned by Sully's gang a few
days ago is being talked about here. A
bunch of stolen cattle was hustled
down across the Nebraska line ana
herded under the bluff of the Niobrara
river. An Ohio man who didn't know a
brand from an advertisement was talk
en- in tow and shown the cattle, which,
he was told, We're for sale. a confed-
crate of the gang agreed to buy the
cattle with him. The confederate put
up a note for his half of the purchase
price. While the other man put up $500
in cash and a $1,000 note. The $1,000
note was Immediately cashed. and the
gang was ahead $1,000. In a few days
the oWne of the cattle appeared, and,
identifying the brand, took them away,
leaving the Ohioan holding the sack.
An attempt was made on the night of
April l6 to bring the Conoyer family
10 justice. The ConoyerS. half-breedS,
are popularity credited with being act
i've members of Sully's gang. John
Conoyer, according to the statements
secured by Detective Wilkie, has beer
secretary of the organization. There
are o brothers. John, wanted in Ly-
man county; Phillip, wanted by the
federal authorities. and Claude and
Charles. ~ deputy sheriff from Eeya
Paya, Neb., and a detective from Lin
coin, Neb.. met at ~Springview, Neb.,
near the line, the night of April 16.
Eleven farmers We're picked up all
armed with Winchesters. The Conoyer
place was surrounded and the party
waited till daylight. when they broke