Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1915-05-07 | Page 2 | Oregon Range War Has Been Renewed

OREGON HANGE WAR HAS BEEN RENEI V III V L 0 FOUR MASKED MEN RAID SHEEP CAMP AND SHOOT PART OP OF FLOCK attack Is outcome of bitterness between Sheep men and cattlemen fostered by an attack upon a sheep ranch prineville neville ore appearance of four masked men on wednesday on the ranch ot of isidore D meyers ot of on crooked river near pauline butte crook county and an attack by them on meyers sheep marked the renewal of an old range war between sheep men and cattlemen meyers reported to the sheriffs office that the nen men had entered his bis range burned his sheep camp stolen the guns and ammunition and then shot and killed at least thirty head bead ot of sheep and wounded many others air montgomery sheepherder said hel he was ordered to stand aside while the men fired shots at the flock belief that the attack is the outcome ot of bitterness between sheep men and cattlemen la Is fostered by an incendiary attack a few days ago on the sheep ranch ot of J N williamson a former ormer representative to congress at tons of nay the majority of ranchers in the pauline butte district are are cattlemen