Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-04-02 | Page 12 | Stewart to Probe Poisoning Rumors

STEWART TO PROBE POISONING RUMORS Will Investigate Trouble Between the Flockmasters of the Arizona Strip. C. B. Stewart, secretary of the Utah WoolRrowers ' association, left Salt Lake last night for Washington and Kane counties and the Arizona strip to investigate inves-tigate the recent poisoning of 700 sheep which are reported, in a letter to him, to have been killed within twenty-four hours. One sheep caHip was also reported re-ported burned in connection with the killing of the sheep. The trouble is supposed to have been started about a year ago as the result of litigation in tbe courts of Prescott, Ariz., between cattle and sheepmen concerning con-cerning the availability of grazing lands on the Arizona border. Tne flockmas-ters flockmas-ters were t-uccessful in the trial, and it is known that the cattlemen have since been dissatisfied. Mr. Stewart said that he could not, give any information as to the parties involved in the range feud and knew nothing about the manner in which the sheep were poisoned, although he expressed ex-pressed the opinion that the water holes on the ranges had been poisoned.