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?" '

Bill looked at 'Gene in apparently owl-eyed astonishment, but each had sensed the other's though without the words. Then Nagles said: "I could put my hand on a horse in this bunch that could tell, if he could talk : and John Graham was riding that horse at the time Southers was killed."

So Graham had got one of the four, the vigilantes another, and of the other two there is no report. Graham was later shot and killed by a Missourian. Bill Nagles a little later went to Oklahoma and accumulated wealth, and now they call him William Nagles.

This unwritten law "to get the man who gets your friend" is responsible for one ol the graves at the Seven-U. When Powers Brothers were still at the helm, in 1879. two Texans drew their pay and started for their old range, and both had considerable money. The mother of one of them lived there. A week or two later one of them returned and said that he had changed his mind, and came back to work,