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Show WESTERX NEWS NOTES. Items BatbcTrd frost Trioaj Iwurres. waomixo. nawlins, Wyo., Oct. S. Georgo B. HenJeron, manager of seventy-one Ranch, seventy mllea north on the Sweetwater, was shot yesterday yester-day morning by an employe named Smith over auuarrel abut .no,5S-Hender-on approved of the Avert!!. Watson lynching last year, which was the probable cau of the trouble. trou-ble. Clay and Forrest, of Chicago, are owners of the ranch, and havo seut a largo portion of their caltle to Montana on account of range troubles. Herald. Cheyenne, Wjo OcL S. "They cot him al last Georgo Henderson killed by one of his employes yesterday." yester-day." Thequotatlon is the text ! a telegram received here this nTUT-nooa. nTUT-nooa. It shocks and startles this community becausu the man was known, admired and loved lit re, and because his wife is a splendid woman. wo-man. But the news is not surprising. surpris-ing. The wonder b that Hendenon has so long survived tho numerous thieves and desperadoes whom he has aggressively antagonized fur nearly sis years and that he has escaped covert enemies mire persevering perse-vering and dangerous than ojicn foes. Henderson has tieen prominent promi-nent in Wyomlog t-ince he came here from -New Mrxlco and assumed tho management of the range interests of tho Seventy - one Cattle company. He brought to the trying position a ripe experience, steadfast determination, Iron nerve, bodily strength and ai-llitr. unerring eve. a hand that never trembled, and the IJea new to Wyoming that a big battle outfit had rights which mavrickers Were bound to respect- In this he was like a touring American trying to teach the French his language Instead In-stead of trying to acquire theirs. His career here has been a thrilling one. Three timea he escai.ied the assassins, till they began to think his life charmed. Once a burse was killed under him from the brush, again a bullet burled itself in tho pommel of his saddle, and atanothtr timea hole wan shot in his hat. Once after he arrested without warrant war-rant three thieves and turned thent over to the therlO". a gang came to the ranch to kill him. He jumped right into the light and routed the mob In short older Even In Cheyenne be was unsafe, for one night two fellowsjumped on him front an alley, but were bested in tho unequal fiaht, for H'-r-was a pugilist. He could look into the muzzle of 6n without wink-Iuki wink-Iuki for he was once caught unaware un-aware and put to this test by a cow ard who had not the nerve to shoot even then. In this city four years ago Hendenon arrested two toughs who had murdered a man and w ho were escaping In a box car. Both were armed, but this daredevil of tile range made them stand and deliver. de-liver. Henderson was doubtless one of Uie men behind the sensational sensa-tional lynching of Cattle Kate and Postmaster James Avcrill, on the awectwaterayearago. He was In Cheyenne at the time, but was In the plot. Kate and Avcrill maintained main-tained headquarters for cattle thieves and were countenanced by small settlers who disliked the big concerns. Henderson's wife was at the ranch with him. COLORADO. Boulder, Colo., Oct-S Three men were killed and one badly hurt at the Humboldt mine, near Jamestown, James-town, at noon today, by the explosion explo-sion of giant powder. The killed are: Harry Atkinson, Hugh Morgan, Mor-gan, Mike Mills. Thomas Itlchard son is the name of the man who was badb Injured, but lie will recover. The men had Just quit work and had gone to the blacksmith shop to cat their dinners. They threw out some giant powiler, and for some unknown reason it exploded. The killed and injured were all well-known well-known miners. Tho corjx-e were horribly mangled Tribune. |