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Show TWO ARE SLAIN IN RANCH PISTOL FIGHT Three Persons Wounded in Encounter in New Mexico: Draft Cause of the Trouble. MAGDALENA. N. M.. May 11. Two ranchmen aro dead and three persons 6'eridusty wounded as the result of a pistol fight eighty miles west of here late Friday afternoon. The news reached here today. Forest Hungers Simmons and Cnva.jo, who are also deputy United States marshals, mar-shals, went to thc ranch of 0. O. l ooper to serve a warrant on his son. Bruce, an alleged draft evador. Young Copper resisted arrest and fired at Simmons , wounding him. The father came to his son's assistance, and at that juncture Carajo shot and killed the elder Cooper and his son. Homer Cooper, a younger son. then came out of the house and was shot and severely wounded by one of the rangers. |