Show THE threatened WAR last season there was considerable trouble between cattlemen and sheep ber gerders belderson derson on the plateau east of grand junction colorado in which there here were many threats against life aud and property and in which the latter Auff suffered ered severely there being a large number of sheep killed the statement was made that sheep owners who reside in utah kept their flocks over in colorado and the farmers in mesa and delta counties in the centennial states state objected it was wa also asserted that the heep adeep did great damage a claim that was denied by the sheep owners now comes the announcement in the denver papers that there is imminent danger of another war on the utah colorado line and the statement is made that unless some action aa taken by the authorities the will be needed within thirty days it to is claimed by the beep farmers of delta county that by the location of sheep by utah men in mess mesa county the headwaters or of the water supply of delta people are re being ruined and that the utah shee pare introducing disease into their midst mr colby of montrose as the representative of the delta county non men has been making i a statement to ahie Ws effect to the fita state te veterinarian pr dr gresswell who will take steps to prevent diseased sheep from being thought blought jut into the tote mr colby and mr king a Mon montrose trope lawyer intend to proceed to washington it Is said to lay jay before the je federal deral authorities a petition signed by 2000 persons asking that the sheep owned by utah men out there is ia no doubt bad blood between the parties in the controversy and it is equally certain that the statements made by bv the Colora doans are exaggerated greatly beyond the facts there is absolutely no danger of the militia being needed if the law officers do their duty in an impartial manner but some people in colorado seem to have a craze just now for calling out troops and threatening bloody work if the sheep owners complained of were disregarding any law they would be quickly arrested and severely punished from the fact that there is ii no prosecution against them it would appear that they have not violated any statute and il if those who oppose them aro kept within legal bounds there will be no trouble it is alleged that the sheep owners are cormons mormons Mor mons MODS and this statement nut is used in a prejudicial manner toward them ass As a matter of fact some of the largest sheep owners complained of are not mormons cormons at all and these are the ones with whom the trouble has been and now is and who have had hundreds of dollars worth of sheep beep shot down by the delta farmers they insist that they are entitled to keep their flocks on the ranges named and tell a very different story to that related by mr colby and his associates As for the trouble on the utah colo rado line it is of the same character as that which exists almost everywhere i in ii the west where the thes sheep beep are herded near cultivated districts or close to streams that supply settlements with water and there are faults on both allep Sheep men are sometimes too careless and the farmers grow angry and want the wool producers wiped out the sheep complained of in this case occupy ranges which the complainants nants want for themselves that Is the substance of the whole matter the difficulties that exist can and should be settled by fair and lawful methods but to introduce into the controversy threats of war and religious prejudices as to is being done on the present occasion is in a place piece of criminality which Colora doans ought to be heartily ashamed of |