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Show TURN STATE'S EVIDENCE. Two Participants in Raid on Sheep Camp Sihed Some Light on Tragedy. Basin, Wyo. Albert Keyes and Charles Farris, participants in the raid on the sheep camp in the Ten- sleep Country last spring, in which three men were killed, on Saturday turned state's evidence in the trial oi Herbert Brink, first of the se7en Indicted In-dicted cattlemen to be brought to trial, On the stand, both admitted ad-mitted complicity, but declared they Joined the raiders with the distinct understanding that only the sheep and property would be destroyed, and that later the sheepmen would be ordered to quit the country, Keyes denied having seen anyone shot or having fired a shot himself. Karris admitted discharging his rifle and seeing James Allemand, owner of the sheep outfit, killed. He testified tes-tified that Herbert Brink, the present pres-ent defendant, fired the fatal shot. Salt Lake City. Fisher S. Harris, secretary of the Commercial club and for many years one of the most prominent characters in public life in the state of Utah, died at 8:30 Sunday Sun-day evening at his home in this city. Death was due to laryngitis complicated compli-cated with tuberculosis of the throat. Two years ago Mr. Harris strained his vocal chords in his famous speech at Denver before the Dry Farming congress. The speech brought the congress to Salt Lake, but Fisher Harris returned with his brilliant career as an orator forever shattered by the loss of his voice. His health steadily failed from that time until the end. Mr. Harris was a native of Virginia, born in 1865, and was regarded as one of the leading orators and thinkers of the West. |