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Show CATTLE THIEVES" BATTLE WITH POSSE POUraf. Okla.. Mar to. Standing m the doorway of hit home here. Pony Starr, aatlatea by Joe Davti killed one man and danaeroualy wounded five othero of a naaakad poaae, auppoaad to have bean composed of thirty member of the Antl-Hortethlef aaeoclatlon, yenterday. Durin the confll.t starr'e wife atood by hie aid, loadlne; Ma aunt. The poaee rode up to Blmrr'i home to take Starr and Pavla prlannera on ohirgea of cattle and here ateallnc. In th etrutaie which followed starr'a T-yearld dauehter, hearlnc the flrlng, cam runnlna aero a field from a nlh-bor'a, nlh-bor'a, acraamlna at th top of her vole that bar mother waa being killed. In thia Seld were a number of the poaae, keeping up a eonetant ft re on the bouae. but the ehlid waa unhatieedV . Tha dead : Oeora Maawell. a well knoera atock man. ... . ?he wounded: , lifford Heater, eon of a ranch owner. Miot ttiroue-h the etnmarh: will die. B. A. Maxwell, a hot tnrouch the arola: will die. Jeee Mekwell. deputy eherlft of Mela-toah Mela-toah county, ehot tnrouaii right arm. Peter Orabam, a farmer, ehot through right blp. Two other men. unidentified. Poay Starr alao waa reported to have been abot through the breaat, but after repulalng the poae be and Davie mounted mount-ed their horeaa, nouriehed. their revotvere and boldly rede through 'the at reel of forum for th mountain eouth of town. Their horeee were aaddted and bridled by Mre. Starr during the fight. While aha waa leading the horeee from the bani to the bouee one of the poaae Bred four ahota at her. Becoming angry be-f be-f ue he mlased her. he finally threw the gun at her. Mre. Starr caught the gun and fired twlo at the owner, wbo rode away aa faat aa hie aorae could carry car-ry him. A apertaj train brought Sheriff Wleener. twelve depmtee, two doctore and one nuree to Porum from Muekogee. Laat night the etreeta t4 Porum war patrolled pa-trolled by aeputlce and aearrhlng partlee are looking far Starr and Davie. |