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Show INDIANS SLAUGHTER SHEEP; , SAY SUPPLIES ABE SHORT. LANDER, Wyo.. March ll.-As a party of Indians from the reservation was returning re-turning home after a visit to Lander yesterday yes-terday they espied a large, fat buck, in a field on State Senator Madden's sheep-feeding sheep-feeding ranch, two miles, froa town, and decided, to kill the animal and take it along with them. While in the act of putting the sheep tn their wagon after . killing it they were surprised by a party of employees of the ranch, who arrested them and brought them to town and turned them over to SherlfT Stough. who placed them In the county Jail.- They will be given a preliminary examination next Friday. The Indians claims they were hungry, did not aet enough to eat from the agency and were compelled to rustle for food. They say there are a) any more on the reservation in the same fix. |