Show Pitched Battle Dattle With Ith Cattle Thieves Baker City Ore Oct 3 Sheriff Sheriff ulburn and posse engaged in a battle with cattle thieves about 9 o'clock last night on the Lower Powder river About forty shots were exchanged It was dark when the sheriff and h his li posse came upon the bandits who had had with them about 80 head of f cattle Both floth parties opened fire and Fred Tred Fred Hull one of the bandits was shot shot through the arm Both escaped in ig inthe the darkness and Hull rode to this city where he called a Io doctor t to dress his tiis wounds lIe He was arrested in his room om hr the horning in tn Earl Wheeler has has- not yet been ca It was the plan of the thieves to drive the cattle into Idaho and exchange exchange exchange ex ex- change them and then drive the strange cattle back here for slaughter The thieves are members of a 0 gang which has operated extensively in this section |