SHEEEP WAR EXPECTED.
CAMP BURNED AND 4000 HEAD KILLED.
SHERIDAN; Wyo.; March 10 Northern Wyoming is again threatened with a range war between the cattle i,nd sheep men. Closely ''following on the at tack on the Wisuer camp last week, m which four hundred head of sheep were killed, and the camp burned, comes the report of _ a greatei* outrage m Owl Creek, County. .'. \'• -'...: .\-' : : The' Hugh Dickey sheep camp was attacked by a band of twelve masked men supposed to be m the employ of the cattlemen.. The raiders drove off the sheep herders with threats of shooting, fired the camp outfit,, and then began shooting sheep. Out of a total of eight thousand sheep m the band four thousand have disappeared and all are supposed to have been killed.
The cattlemen have marked out a "dead line," and the Dickey cheep were one mile over the dead line. The war will probably spread to other camps.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10963, 4 May 1907, Page 3 (Supplement)
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157SHEEEP WAR EXPECTED. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10963, 4 May 1907, Page 3 (Supplement)
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