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Show THWARTING CATTLE RUSTLERS. Pouncing ou Thpir sales and Compelling Tticm to Prove. OwuerBhip. Attempts to frustrate cattle rustlers on the western ranges have met with so many failures that the cattle racers have started off on a new- tack with a new7 law in Wyoming that poriuds them to pounce upon the proceeds of tho rustlers" sales in the markets and compel the proving of properly before they ean get their money. "With that protection the cattle men have partty ahandonod t lie expensive methods of proteeting stock on the open ranges and have employed inspectors to watch the rustlers in the markets. I' ruler tlto lav.' which was passed by the late legislature the stock commission commis-sion was organized. Ail of the monoy realized from the sale of all est rays and eattle of unknown ownership shipped to Kansas city,- Omaha and Chicaco must be sent to the commission. Its inspectors in-spectors look after tho interests of the small owners 'and keep the rustlers from imposing on the buyers. 'J he money received is know n as the e.- tray fund, and it has amounted this season to more than titty thousand dollars. The commission holds the fund until proof of owner lop of a share has b. en established. Cattle raisers are siippli-d be each county clerk every six month.; w-ith lists of "esu-ays that hae been sold for which the commission ledds the money, if a cattle raiser can claim any of the etrays he contests w id (he rtisth-vs before the commission. The claim must be 'entered w ithin a year, because the money is turned over tothe general fund of tiie state at tiie end of that period. The commission will not pay any of the money to the rustlers except on the peremptory order of a court. At present all cattle bearing a rustler's brandi or believed to lie of a rustler's brand, according to the information in-formation obtained by the commission, are seized by the inspectors in tiie principal prin-cipal markets and sold as estrays or eattle eat-tle of unknow n ownership. The rustlers swear and threaten, but lliey are ashed in simple terms to shewv clear titles to the stock. The results have been so satisfactory that the commission has taken a bolder step, on tho ground that lish ownership and that any man who buys a bunch of cattle from anyone believed be-lieved to be a rustler is worse than a rustler. Three men who had cattle witli recorded re-corded and recognized brands bought small bunches irom an outtit that, according ac-cording to tiie belief of the commission, tielonged to rustlers, and shipped some to Chicago. They received the money fjor tiie eattle with the proper brand, but the money for the cattle with the suspected braud was sent to the commission. com-mission. Bills of sale from the supposed sup-posed rustlers have been sent to the commission at Cheyenne and suits at law have been instituted, but the commission com-mission refuses to return a dollar of the money. The argument is that by fraudulent bills of. sale and collusion the rustlers might foil the t-i'forts of the commission to prevent them from stealing steal-ing cattle. |