One day the Texan who had returned, said he guessed he would go to Camp Clarke, and the young man said : "I guess I'll ride along." Some of those about the old ranch said they felt that vibrant tenseness of the old west, that presaged "an event." But it was not the policy of one man to interfere with the "affairs" of another.

The young man came back alone, and they buried the Texan with his boots on near the old ranch. Thus ended another matter where one fellow looked after the fellow who killed his friend. The grief of the mother was perhaps softened by the thought that her dead boy, had a living friend of such purpose, in the far North Platte valley.

A few of the others connected with the Ogallala Company, and of the times are here briefly referred to :

Frank King, who recently died at Broadwater, bought the Brown Creek ranch of the Ogallala Company after they took their cattle to Wyoming. He paid six hundred dollars for the land, buildings and equipment at the place. He was sheriff of Keith county at one time.

Tom Fanning, who lives near Mitchell, came from Saint Louis in 1877, and went to work for Paxton & Wier on the Keystone ranch, which was on Clearwater creek.' Tom Lawrence was foreman. He was afterwards with Wier at Ogallala. when Wier was range manager of the Ogallala company, which he, and Paxton had organized, with headquarters in that city.