After taking in the town, the writer accom-…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

After taking in the town, the writer accom- panied Charley Stevens to his room, and had hardly lain down when two pistol shots rang out only a block or so from the room. With true newspaper instinct the writer wanted to go down town and see what was going on, but Charley, with more experience, suggested that we wait awhile, as the fun might not yet be over. After a few minutes we went down to a little tent saloon, and found the corpse laid out on a bench, with a handkerchief tied round its head. Drinking was going on at the bar as usual. The victim was the railroad man who had testified against the rustlers. He had been shot in the back of the head. No one knew who did the shooting, and no arrests were made. It was the way the rustlers got even with men who dared testify against them.