After the episode, Graham quit the range and took up his old trade of blacksmithing at Ogallala, waiting for the opportunity to pay them back in their own coin. He wanted to

get the four together and "clean the whole outfit" at one time. Once he had the affair almost in hand, when Frank King, who recently died at Broadwater, and who was then an officer of the law at Ogallala, got "a whiff of the wind," and took Graham's guns away from him.

Graham stayed there all summer, then came to Sidney, for the four were now drifted their several ways. Graham complained bitterly, saying it "was ad -- d shame that he never got satisfaction for the murdering of his friends." Graham went to work for the H- Three-Bar, or Hunter & Evans.

The deputy sheriff in the Ogallala affair drifted up on the Niobrara and White river ranges also, and the story came down the Sidney Trail that the Indians had killed him. Years afterwards, the story comes out, of a meeting between Bill Nagles. of Hunter & Evans' outfit, and E. A. Hall of the Ogallala, which took place on Box Butte creek, north of Alliance. Nagles was in charge of a bunch of horses when they met.

"Get down, 'Gene, and let's visit," says Bill. And they did, sitting cross-legged on the prairie for a long time. Finally the conversation turned to the death of Southers, and Hall said:

"Billy, do you reallv think the Indians killed him?" '