One circumstance at last brought to a sudden close Gov.

Geary's term of office.

When he had disbanded the three thousand "Law and Order" militia that were to attack Lawrence, that part of them known as the Kickapoo Rangers were returning home by way of Lecompton.

One of this number went into a field where "a poor, inoffensive, lame young man" named David C.Buffum was plowing, and demanded his horses.

Buffum protested against this robbery, but the wretch shot Buffum and took the horses.