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Show KILLING IS JUSTIFIED Slayer of John Ellis at Laramie Proves Self-Defense. Special to Tho Trlbunn. LARAMIE. Wyo. Nov. 20 Harry Reed one of the men engaged In the pistol duel Thursday night, when John Ellis was so badly wounded that he died yesterday, was today held to the District court for felonious assault. The ivironer's Jury returned re-turned a verdict that Ellis came to Ids le.ith from the effects of a plRtol bullet, fired by .Takn Hawkins In eelf-defene. and Hawkins was discharged Reed shot six times at Hawklne, only 1 one shot taking effect making a slight wound, but Ellis attacked him with a knife, cutting him a dozen times. Farming Expert Sanguine. H W Campbell, the dry farming en- H pert of Lincoln. Neb., sent here to look pH over Laramie plains by the land department depart-ment of the Union Pacific, tonight delh -ere.l ,.n address at Carnegie library, gluing glu-ing the result of his Investigation!. Ho believes that much can be accomplished here In the matter of growing gTaln without with-out Irrigation, raising one crop every tw i |