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RUSTLERS FIGHTING.Desperate Conflict BetweenWestern Ranchmen.Crazv Woman the Scene of the Cattlemen’s Invasion.Peculiar Dondition of Life on the FarWestern Frontier.Buffalo Wy., April 13.—Th© first full particulars of the t at the T. A. ranch have just been received.The first information m Buffalo of the intended invasion by the cattlemen was a letter received from Douglas by Sheriff Angus of Johnson county, saving that a special train of armed and mounted men had passed through Douglas, unloading at Casper.The information was soon circulated among the rustlers and small cattlemen, but they had little time to prepare to defend themselves, for the invaders arrived soonafter, and at once attacked what is known as th*- K. C. ranch, in which men suspected of being rustlers were living.Early on the morning of April 10 a ranchman named Smithy, living on the north fork of Powder river, heard firing at that ranch.He rode rapidly in that direction, and discovered that the invading cattlemen had the house surrounded, and that a desperate fight was going on between them and the inmates.He at once rode to Crazy Woman and started a half dozen men to the rescue, after which he got a fresh horse and came toBuffalo.Hero he informed Sheriff Angus of thefight, and the latter Immediately gathered a po se and started for the K. C. ranch, where the battle had been fought, arriving there about daylight on the morning of April 11.The cattlemen, however, had done their work and left, for when the rescuing partyreached the K. C. ranch they foundThe House Burnedand the dead bodies of the Inmates, who were discovered to he Nate Champion and Dick Kay. half burned in the ruins.When the fight was in progress, Jack Flagg, whose name is notorious on account of being a leading rustier, drove up to the K. C. ranch. He had been elected a delegate to the i emocrstio convention, and was on his way to Cheyenne, intending to stop at the ranch all night.Nearing the building he saw several mounted men about, but supposed they were a fneudly cow party, and when theysuddenly ordered him to throw up his hands he Jokingly replied: “Go to h -11,”One of the party fired at him.Flagg had a rifio in his wagon, but had nohis w•ay, while a boy who aecompanle Kim cutf—• W • ^ » • « * mm* m m m - ■ - - *arms on his person. Springing toagon arty atP _ ,he grasped his rifio and kept th the traces attaching the horses to thewagon.Then the two leaped on tho horse and fled safely through the fusillade. They werefollowed a considerable way, but unhtt* They reached the ranch at Crazy Woman and started north, joining the sheriff’s posse from Buffalo,None of the attacking party wrero injured.After Flagg escaped the cattlemen fired his wagon and running it against the bouseIn Inritnn Fi% ill ion,set flro to the building, burning up the two men. Champion and Kay, who had fought them all day.The cattlemen then started toward Buffalo and the rustlers organized and went forth to meet them.The cattlemen learned of the advance o!the rustlers, and took shelter In the T. A. ranch, 13 miles from Buffalo,About 2 o'clock Monday morning thlt;jinjured cannot atrustlers reached the ranch and surroun the invaders, and at daylight the latter opened firo upon the besiegers. *Shots were exohanged all day long, but the number of killed and injured present bo learned.The cattlemen, with their horses, are safely barricaded Inside the ranch buildings, but one of them escaped through the attacking party, presumably on the w ay for reinforcements,The results of the day's battle at the T. A. ranch are as yet unknown.Couriers are scouring the country for reinforcements for the rustlers, and they arerapidly coining in.they claim they will be 200 or 300stronger tonight, and able to handle any force tlie invaders can muster.The acting mayor of Buffalo has called onthe Governor for a company of the Stateiniiittft at Buffalo, to be given to the sheri to quell the disturbance.FEDERAL TROOPS OUT.Soldiers from Fort McKinney to Suppress the Cowboy War.Chbyennb, Wy„ April 13.—Gov. Barber last night received a telegram from President Harrison in answer to a request for United States troops to assist In the settle ment of the trouble between Wyoming rus-i Urn ik vi/1 oaft vfuti nor tliuf. Ha ;«AYIapparently going somewhere, but are quiet, and no information can be obtained from them.WALKING ARSENAL.Wyoming Greatly *tirred Up—SheriffsKill 28 Men.Casper, Wya, April 12.—Last night a man from Riverside reported that the 150 deputies of Sheriff Angus attempted toarrest the invading army and killed 23 of them; also that 18 of their own men were ,killed. M IGreat excitement exists here, and no one knows who the armed force is after nor what moment they mav sweep down uponthis community.The town Is a walking arsenal.This section will turn out if any miscellaneous killing takes place around hen* Neveral newspaper representatives are here, but fear to go to the scene, as every stranger is looked upon with suspicion.RUSTLERS PUT TO FLIGHT.ILater Reports from Wyoming—No Stockmen Killed.Denver, Col., April 12.—Another special from Douglas, Wy., to the News, in regard to the fight between catlemen ami rustlers says;Kid Donnelly of Powder River Crossing brought word last night to Antelope Springs. 30 miles from Douglas, that the stock men w ore camned on the Casper road on North Powder river, 60 miles north of Casper.Two rustlers Nate Champion and a man named Kay, were killed Sunday on Powder river.Donnelly reports the rustlers are dying in every direction, and attempting to escape from the country.Three of them passed through Antelope Springs yesterday.When Donnelly left Powder River ( ross-ing there had been no casualties in thestockmen’s party.HOLE IN CIVIL SERVICE BOARD.Commissioner Thompson Resigns Because He Has Been Hired by a LifeInsurance Company.Washington. April 10.—BTr. Hugh S. Thompson called on tho President this morning *nd formaliv tendered his resignation aR a membe** of the civil service commission, to take ettoot May 15. He has been appointed comptroller of tho New York Life Insurance Company.BOTH EYES RUT OUT.Horrible Accident Befalls Prof, Campbellof Ann Arbor.Ann Arhor, Mich,, April 13.—Dr. Edward Campbell, professor of chomistrf| while making some investigations yesterday afternoon in quantative analysis, had both eyes put out by the explosion of two bottles filled with gfts.Dr. Campbell is ono oi the greatest scientists In the university.GEN. SHERMAN'S PAYMASTER.Death of Lieut.-Col. Nicholas Vedder, | I S A., Retired.Washington. D. C.. April 16.—Nicholas Vedder, brevet lieutenant-colonel and paymaster V. S. A., died last night in this city.Col. Vedder was in his 74th year and on the retired list the army.He leaves a widow and one daughter, thewife of Col, Robert I. Flexing, one of the most prominent citizens of Washington.“SWEET 16’* VARIETY.Lasell Girle at the Capital on Their Annual Variety,Washington, April 16.—A local paper prints the following complimentary paragraph today:“People who happened In the Normandi lingered about the office and corridors as if loath to depart.“The attraction was in the presence ofover 60 beautiful young school girls, mostly of the sweet 10’ variety.**Thev belong to Lasell seminary at Au-burmlale. Mass.. and are here on the regular annual sight-seeing tour that the girls of that school enjoy. They are under thesupervision of Mr. W. T. Shepherd and Miss C. J. Chamberlayne, and will spendfive days at the capital.”BANK NOTE PAPER BURNED.Serious Results of a Fire at the Government Paper Mill.Pittsfield, Mass., April 14,—The government paper mill at Dalton, owned by Zenas and W. Murray Craue. was totally destroyed by fire tonight. The fire was first discovered by the watchman, Martin Kelly, who discovered a glimmer in the rag room, and he at once telephoned the Pittsfield tire department, who responded as soon as possible.The government mill was engaged in the
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