Jim Kinney, the veteran ranchman and attorney of Kimball county, lived in one, and in the other dwelt Will Gaws, the hunter and trapper, surrounded by his simple wants -- his traps, his guns, his few handy untensils, and the skins of animals slain.

Campbell secured employment with the Circle-Arrow ranch, then operated by Mead, Evans & Company. Jim Shaw was foreman.

Shaw and Campbell became intimate friends, and when Shaw was arrested for the murder of Collins, the bartender of the sod saloon at the north end of Camp Clarke bridge, Campbell firmly believed and maintained that he was wrongfully accused.

The events which led to the killing are partly lost in the shadows of the past, but there was a witness to the tragedy, who told the following story.

Shaw, Campbell and others engaged in the drive, bad gathered at the famous crossing of the river, and according to regular custom, Shaw was engaged in a social game of poker, with four or five others, including a gambler b\ the name of G illins.

Of those present, few knew of any hard feelings existing between Collins, the gambler, and Collins, the bartender, yet there are those who maintain that such an enmity existed. Shaw had had a few words, not at all violent, with Collins the bartender, but that had passed with no lingering sulkiness.

The game had proceeded with • the regular grind, without premonition of trouble. Shaw sat facing the bar, with Collins, the gambler, directly opposite. Collins, the bartender, came along and stood behind Collins the gambler, when the latter, with deliberation took his sombrero from his head, and with a downward sweep, extinguished the lamp. There followed a flash and report. My informant believes that Collins the gambler swung his left arm backwards and discharged the weapon.