The doctor and sheriff arrived late next day.

Peg's injuries were found to be quite serious, and it was a full week later before he could be moved to the county jail where he was a prisoner under treatment for two more weeks.
Hippy accompanied Peg, and while at the county seat swore out warrants for Dusenbery and Chet Ainsworth.

At the December term of court both men were found guilty and sentenced to serve terms in prison.

Peg Tatem, according to agreement with the complainants, was released and advised to seek other fields, which he did.
In the meantime a new dam had been built by Tom and Hippy, and a sawmill established twenty-five miles further down the river.

The sounds of the "swampers'" axes and the "saw-gangs" were now heard in the forest from daylight until dark, where huge logs were being felled, trimmed, skidded and rolled down into the new dam, to be "boomed," and released after every thaw in early spring, and sent on their way to the mill.
The Overland girls still lingered.