of this gang upon their property during the…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

of this gang upon their property during the past three years? Enough to impoverish any persons engaged in a less profitable business. The many crooked things discovered at the recent round-up on the Gila and Duck Creek bore fruit on Sunday last. No longer able to endure the wrongs put upon them, the cattle owners determined to bring the criminals to account before the proper legal tribunals. At 3 o’clock p.m. Deputy Sheriff John Johnson began to summon a posse to aid in making the arrests. After considerable annoyance by rea- son of excuses offered by several who through fear of, or sympathy with the rustlers, declined to serve, he at a late hour secured a force of thirteen men well armed and willing to enforce the service of warrants of arrest which had been sworn out before the nearest Justice.