Yost and Thompson both testified as to young Rogers conduct, and as to what he had said. The boy was justified, according to the judgment of the time, and the others were likewise released in June of that year.

All parties faded out of the ken of Banner county, and the claims were later entered by the MisKimmons family ; thus the land first involved in tragedy, became devoted to the arts of peace and dedicated to the altar of home.

Other Tragedies of Old

Two other tragedies have their interest to old timers on Pumpkin creek aside from the Rogers murder elsewhere chronicled.

Dave Shaw was a horse rustler in the vicinity of Camp Clarke temporarily and a posse were out after him. In the east edge of Banner county territory they had a brush with him, and Rufus Brott, a saloon man from Camp Clarke, was killed. The rustler escaped for the time being, but was later apprehended and brought before the bar of justice by George Laing.

The east end and the west end of the county being fully identified and baptised in the homicidal blood of men it was fitting that the central part should share in a Cain and Abel episode. Jim Walters who resided at Ashf ord had some kind of a difficulty with Lewis F. Enderly, a merchant at Harrisburg. We do not know the nature of their trouble but it became acute. One day Jim was in Enderly's store at Harrisburg, and was leaning upon the show case, when a friend came in and said, "Jim, you ready to go home?" Walters straightened up, and as he did so his elbow went through the glass with a crash. Enderly, a nervous man under any circumstances, grabbed a shotgun and fired with fatal effect.