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Show Fred Hesse, D... Tisdale, George Elliott, Ell-iott, L. Parke J. M. Benfore., B. C Schaltze, A. P. demson. The prisoneray be taken tt Lara-mio Lara-mio aud demiisau immediate hearing. They have relacd the most prominent lawyers in th state to take cars of their iuterest3,nd backed by enormous capital, they onfidently and reason, able e.peet a cjck acquittal. On the other hand, tinHon county declares that it will iead the last dol ar it poses?es to eonct the outfit. In any event the stattias Buffered a terrible blow from the sr. The big cattlemen will have to rave away, as they have from Texas ad Nebraska. Then the rustlers, havik; no big herds upon which to lay tllr branding Irons, will quit the coutry. It will leave the land to small anehmen, who are unquestionably un-questionably he bone and sinew of the state, but te loss of eapital by the enforced figh of the cattlemen, and the fear of outidi rs, to invest money in a state wich permits a body of prominent ciizens to ride over the country killirr people for fancied cr actual grievaees. will check any advance Wyorrug might have made in the next five yars. Governor Beber has official lnforma' tion that hit. prisoners of war will reach Fort Rrpell near this city, at 2 o'clock tomofow afternoon. Major Freher, in coujnand of the pariy. wired this evening, j The officer added that all were fatigfcd, but in good health. A mistake iu the train arrangements caused a delasof twenty four hours and the trip was lengthened a day by a compulsory com-pulsory halt f( rest. The three companies com-panies of th Seventeenth Infantry. United States;army detailed to escort tie invaders tdFort Russell, were last evening takei to Fetterman, ten miles west of DouglaJ, to receive the prison ers. j U. E. Snyderan old timer of Johnson John-son county, and one of the leaders on the outside daring the T A seige, is here. He is eigaging counsel to assist his district attorney in prosecuting the white caps. Judge U. C. Brown of Laramie has keen retained. THE WYOMING WAR. The Retraat Uuder Arrest to Douglas. Under date of April 23, a special to the Sau Francisco Chronicle says it wonld be difficult to imagine the bard-ships bard-ships the soldiers and prisoners have experienced since thry left Fort Mc-Kinney. Mc-Kinney. The march is almost as famous fam-ous as that made by Major Ewer, when he took a band of Cheyennes from Tine Ridge to Fort Keogh through a succession succes-sion of blizzards one winter. Besides ""nnnnn ,V.8ifir ffplr'"" '' r him several cattlemen of Buffalo, who aie eager to take the protecting hand of the army in order to get out of ihe country. Ever since Champion and Ray were shot, cattlemen who have interests in-terests iu Johnson aud Converse counties coun-ties have been pulling tneir freight as fast and as secretly as possible. "Hard Winter" Davis is one of the cattlemen who are significantly classed as lost after the shooting. Rnrd Winter struck not ing but high knoils on the Ogallala trail to Nebraska and has not been seen since. The Sheriff of Converse Con-verse county got information that the fellow was on board the train which was to arrive here in the afternour, and an additional tip that "H trd Win i ter" was in tho raiment of a woman. When the train stopped, the sheriff searched the cars until his eyes fell on a woman with a strong masouli: e face. There is not much ceremony out there in matters reiating to ti.e effite of sheriff. The officer as Koon as he beheld the face of his prisoner on a seat, with big hands, prepared to take her out ot the cars, when the woman's husband appeared. The sheriff said he was looking for "Hard Wintet" Davis The husband said that she might look like "Hard Winter," but that so long as he was around he gues?ed he would look after her. The sheriff then disappeared. disap-peared. "Long Tom" Bird of Glen-Rock Glen-Rock is in town. He came ia last night to seethe prisoners. When Major Ma-jor Wolcott's band of regulatois started start-ed to clean ont the rustlers two weeks ago, "Long Ion:" was on the death list, although it is said he uever stole a hoof in all his life. The fellow is bix feet seven, and is slender and sallow. When he got here last night he had two six-shooters six-shooters and a long knife. Before morning he had lost otre of hifl guns in a poker game and toinebody had stolen his kuife; with the other gun he quiekly but firmly guarded a bottle of whiskey which a bartender was playfully play-fully trying to take away from him He wants to see the man who had him marked for death. The prisoners, who are on their way are no ordinary meu. Two thirds of them have served in the legislature, some of them are government officials and others have been juJf3. as judge? go in Wyoming. They have or represent repre-sent big cattle interests in Johnson aud Converse coonties aud are backed by at least $25,000,000, of invest d capital. The names of the most promicent men now held as prisoners are: W. H. Tabor, C. Brook, T. H. NcMally, W. J. Clark, Buck Garett, Alex Hamilton, J. N. Tisdale, Tis-dale, H. E. Taschemlr, l'hil Duffran, G. ' D. Mynett, C A. Campbell. S. S. Tuekor, J. Plckard, A. 13. Clarke Charles Ford, M. R. Tncker, B. W. Morrison, Bob Martin, J. A. Garrett, F. II. Oadrtjoux, F. L. Cauton, W. B. Wallace, W. E. Guthrie, William Little, M. Siionsey, J. Darling, D. Willoy. F. Woolcott, E. W. Whitcomb, A. R. Powers,' . A. Wilson, W. S. Davis, Will Armstrong, J, J, Johnson, W. C. Irvine, R DebillerJ |