Show THE WYOMING difficulty ALTHOUGH actual hostilities have ceased for the present in the war in wyoming between cattlemen and rustlers rustler the feeling of hatred is ia as intense as an ever especially on the part of the people of johnson county toward the invaders when the troops reached the scene of the late conflict sheriff angus informed col van horn that all that was wanted was that after surrender abe cattlemen should be turned over to the civil authorities this was agreed to A flag of truce was sent into the ranch and the stockmen stoc kmen were informed of the presence pres euce of the troops and that if they surrendered they would be protected from mob violence after taking time to consider tb the stockmen stoc kmen sent out a messenger to say they were willing to surrender to the troops the latter then entered the barricaded barricades barrica ded enclosure and surrounded the house with n R line of pickets the anver news contains the following details associated with the surrender the sheriffs forces then withdrew to some distance while he with his assistant arapaho brown went forward with colonel van horn into the ranch and a list of all the invaders was made there were forty six in the party were texans the others permanent wyoming stockmen climen stoc sto kmen their names how ever were not given out b by the commanding officer or sher ft angus each was armed with several revolvers and a rifle and two bolts belts of cartridges the line of march was taken up with the captives guarded on all sides aides by the troops there was intense curiosity manifested by the besieging force as they crowded to see the invaders march by but there was no dispo disposition sidon shown to do them any violence most of the captured stockmen stoc kmen were known personally nally to many of the ranch men who formed the sheriffs posse pose and intense bitter bitterness new was manifested toward some of them who were known to have ve been the lead leaders in the invading forces the arrival of the troops was a god 7 send to the stockmen stoc kmen the besiegers had bad worked hard throughout the night and had bad worked nearer and nearer the ranch with an encircling system of rifle pits and were surely narrowing the circle in which the stockmen stoc kmen were prisoners to small proportions aby by noon today they would have been in position to have compelled the surrender of the invaders but it is certain it would not have been accomplished without bloodshed for the besieged still had a good supply of ammunition and would have fought to the last man it the affair had come to a showdown the captives when taken in charge by the troops were ha haggard ard looking and worn they had been on the march and ab shut at up in the ranch for four days and had but little sleep or rest one man in the party named lowery of texas was struck in the groin by a bullet during the siege and fatally wounded it is reported that major henry wolcott and william 0 irvine manager of the 0 ogallala allala cuttle cattle company had been killet killed during the fight but both came out unscratched when the prisoners reached port fort mckinney they were formally placed under arrest while they are under charge of the civil authorities of johnson county they will be kept at the fort under charge of the commandant the entire party will be indicted for the murder of champion and ray bay whom they killed in the attack on the K C ranch the desire among mapy of the people of job neon county for vengeance upon the stockmen stoc kmen is in so great that the governor has very ethely directed that the prisoners should not dot at present be delivered into the hands bands of the author aties of that part of the state it is in also directed by governor barber that the two stockmen stoc kmen arrested before the surrender be turned over to the military authorities these precautions are taken in order to prevent a wholesale massacre of the men in custody the captured stockmen stoc kmen are shortly to be taken from fort mckinney to douglas it to is feared eared that this intended movement if carried out vill ill result in blood setd as it is claimed that a thousand armed men headed by a belligerent methodist preacher are prepared to attack the escort on the way and annihilate the stockmen stoc kmen it is probable however that this rumor is ie little else elee than a mere sensational report there is not I 1 much likelihood of an attack being i dg made ny the rustlers on the federal troops that would be a step too glaringly suicidal for mue men to take |