Show I I Co to MOSBY'S WARFARE ON CA TILE KIN KINGS GS Conviction of Tom Horn a Great Aid to Government Inspector in Ill His Undertaking CHEYENNE E Wyo yo Dec 4 The Th The recent conviction of Ot Tom Horn scout Cout and Indian lighter fighter on the charge of or murdering Willie Nickel Nickell in the Iron Mountain Wyo W o k co country marks a 3 dramatic chapter In the story stor of oC the new Wet West Weta Westa a a chapter that deals with the last efforts of ot the tIme time old-time cattle kings to keep the small rancher ranchel from front the open range For man many years ears th the tho cattle kings have hn been heen lighting fighting against t the advent ent of or the homesteader and have ha made efforts desperate to keep tho great grazing country countr of the far West cst from small ranches orns orn's ease case a demonstrates to what lengths these rattle cattle kings will go for tor according c to tho convicted mans man's confession he was paid 2100 tor for assassinating young oung Nickell and had been heen paid similar rums for 01 Qt killing other men who threatened to Invade the broad range which the catt cattlemen cat cat- t men tle-men men have ha come come- cometo to look on as their own on Col Cot John Mosby the veteran Confederate Con Con- federate cavalry c leader cader hR has been concerned In this great fight during Ing the last few ew years cars He holds a Government Go Inspection office and It Is his duty to see that public land Is not fenced in for foe private use Co Cot Col l Mosby has hns Incurred the enmity of or man many Western estern cattle kings by hy ordering order order- lag ing down hundreds of ot miles of barbed wire fence which has ha been Inclosing th the public domain In defiance of Uncle Sams Sam's orders order Mosby's life liCe has been threatened threat threat- t- t ened but hut he ho has been ben undaunted In his war on the cattlemen and now the startling features of or the Tom Horn case have ha arou aroused d public sentiment In the cattle Stat States to such euch an extent that it Is probable that the death knell of the time open cattle range has been sounded I |