Life On The Frontier

Extract f rom a recent letter from Lincoln, Neb. : " The people of Nebraska are greatly pleased to learn tliat the men who were guilty of the inhuman crime of roasting alive Mitchell and Ketchum were arrested in Dawson county yesterday. They are John Baldwin, a hotel-keeper, Myron Brown, I Barney Armstroug. J. P. Olive, John Fisher, the ' Kid,' John Gantlin and William Green. Olive was the ring leader of the dastardly roasting of Ketchum and Mitchell. The men were arrested one at a time, quietly, by a preconcerted arrangement, at the town of Plum Creek. Atty. Gen. Dihvorth, together with three brothers of the murdered Ketchum, and other gentlemen, did the work. Learning that the men were at Plum Creek, they slipped down upon them from Kearney, and arrested them -without firing a shot, notwithstanding Olive and others had boasted that thcre were not men enough in Nebraska to arrest them. Three men had been in hot pursuit of Gillian, the Sheriff who surrendered the nnfortunate men, Ketchum and Mitchell, to the fiends who burned them. This afternoon théy caught him. All the men are now in jail at Kearney, and are securely ironed. The whole city is acting as giiard to prevent an incursión of cattlemen to tk.e rescue. Nearly all the villains are from Texas, holding no citizenship' here. The people of Nebraska rejoice at their capture. "Yesterday a prisoner called ' Dutch Charley,' a road-agent, was being taken in charge of an omcer from Laramie to Bawlins for trial, and, when the train reached Carbon, Wy.,last night, a party of masked men entered the car where he was sitting and carried him out some little distance from the train. They halted at a telegraph-pole, and then informed him that liis time had come, as they proposed to hang him, and, if he had anything to say, he had better say it quick. They succeeded in inducing him to ÖOnfeas that he was one of the murderers of Widdowfield and Vincent. A strong rope was then thrown over the cross-bar of the telegraph pole, and one end was seeurely fastoned around the viliain's neck. The men then took hold of the end, and, at the signal, ' One, two, three, pull ! ' he shot up into th air and was launched into eternity. The end of the rope which they had hold of was then tied around the foot of the pole, and the body of 'Dutch Charley ' was left dangling in the air. The atfair created but little excitement."