In the night he drove up in front of the Lynch hotel, and observing a light in the office called to men there to come out and help him "unload a dead man." During the journey, the preacher had slumped over against the driver, and he believed him to be in a drunken stupor. He called him a dead man in attempted jocular manner, but imagine his surprise, when they came out and carried him into the hotel, to find that he was actually dead.

It created quite a sensation, and while each of them felt in a measure guilty of wrong doing, there was really nothing that could fix any guilt, or even guilt on any of them.

Six or eight months later. Carthage was down at Sterling, when he received an express package. He opened it and it was the plug hat which he had left at Pine Bluffs. When he saw what it was, he went white, and several days were required to steady his nerves to normal condition.

The event served to sober down all those present. After that they were less inclined to "turn themselves loose," when the unexpected happened. Each felt the message : "Am I my brother's keeper." with new force.

PAXTON'S OGALLALA COMPANY -- HALL'S FAMOUS DRIVE TO PINE RIDGE DICK BEAN'S DEATH -- GUN MEN AND FRANTZ'S COMICAL EPISODE

The organization of the Ogallala Cattle Company, was contemporaneous with that of the Two-Bar and the Bay State, and while Alex Swan was buying the big herds of Wyoming, and G. W. Simpson, at Antelopeville, W. A. Paxton was buying those from Sidney to Ogallala. Among his lieutenants in Nebraska were Eugene A. Hall, Mac. Radcliffe, and Dick Bean.