THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



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It was then waiting trial and on the way from one county jail to 

 another, ostensibly for their safer keeping, that the two homesteaders 

 were waylaid and lynched. They had been taken first to a county jail 

 to the south. It was argued that they were likely to be attacked 

 there. Tradition has it still that an official who had authority over 

 their movements was in league to turn them over to the ranchmen 

 but, however that may be, the men were started north for lodgement 

 in the Custer County jail at Broken Bow 



