Devasher was found to be insane and committed and sent to the State Hospital for the insane. Within three weeks he was discharged and was back home continuing the fight for what he believed to be his legal rights. After several rounds in court and out, Mr. Devasher discovered that he had made

a big mistake in measuring off his claim and that it neither included hay land, the Ballenger buildings nor anything else of any particular value. He accordingly gave up the fight in disgust.

It was also in the year 1910 that William J. Dymond decided that his homestead extended over and through one of Perry Yeast's choice hay valleys. Mr. Dymond and his sons, Golba D. Groves and Mr. H. S. Coulson went to work to put up the hay in this valley. Within a day or two, they suddenly found themselves surrounded by a considerable company of armed men on horseback, Perry Yeast in command. Mr. Yeast told them to take themselves off the place and fix up the fence. As they refused. Mr. Yeast made them an oration in genuine, if not choice cowboy language, emphasizing same with ornate ge=ture and flourish of a six-shooter. The other men proceeded with axes, sledges and knives to break, cut, smash and demolish Mr. Dymond's haying machinery and harness. Mr. Dymond and party were not armed and did not resist.

Mr. Yeast and his party were arrested and tried at the fall term of court on a charge of unlawful assembly. It being practically impossible to prove that they had planned and conspired together to commit the act ; they were all acquitted and discharged. They did not attempt to deny that they destroyed the machinery and cut up the harness and offered to pay the whole damage.