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. Mr. Dymond would not accept their money nor any part of it.

Upon careful investigation, Mr. Dymond found that he was wrong in his contention concerning his boundary line and that he had been trespassing upon Mr. Yeast's land.

Meager and highly exaggerated rumors concerning the Yeast-Dymond skirmish rapidly spread in every direction and within a day or two it must have been the impression in manycities that there was a state of war in existence. At any rate, several persons here received telegrams from city papers asking for daily detailed telegraphic reports of the war between cattlemen and homesteaders.

On the whole, the attitude of old timers and cattlemen toward homesteaders has been uniformly kind and neighborly, despite the rank and disgraceful school of fiction which represents the cattlemen as being wild, hostile, unreasonable and cannibalistic.

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

As Between Counties

The territory now organized as Garden county was in early times the northeastern part of Cheyenne county and, from the year 1888 until the year 1910, it was the northern part of Deuel county. The eastern boundary of Cheyenne county was defined by the legislature to be the 25th degree of longitude west from Washington. This 25th degree was hard to find, but soon after the creation of Deuel county, there was some dispute between Deuel and Keith counties concerning the boundary ; so the commissioners of the respective counties surveyed out and agreed upon a boundary.