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Show A Demand on Governor Barber 1st Cattlemen. Chyenne, Wyo., April 28 -- A formal demand has been mad eon Governor Barber by deputy shefiffs of Johnson county for the catttlemen confined at Fort Russell, assuring him they would receive a fair and impartial trial. Governor's Barber's reply to the the demands of the the shefiffs of Johnson county for the prisoners at Fort Russeil is not ready. He will, it is said, positively decline to turn over the prisoners at this time. Matters will remain in status quo until ao information against the stockmen is filed by the proscuting attorney. Attorneys for the defendants will then apply for a change of venue on the gound of the excitement that prevails in Johnson county. Reports from the loyality indicate a lawless condition of affairs. Two newspapers opposed to the rustlers have been suspended. Later this evening the governor sent a written reply to the deputy sheriffs, in which he says no criminal proceedings have yet been commenced, and he deems it an unnecessary expense and labor to hold a preliminary examinaton in this manner. Neither does he believe order is so retored and the excitemen so abated in Johnson county as to render it saft to take these prisoners there at this time. |
