Show RAIDERS SLAUGHTER TER BAND OF SHEEP IN WESTERN COLORADO WITH CLUBS AND KNIVES FIVE FI C AVENGERS SLAUGHTER WHILE LONE KEEPER OF THE FLOCK SLUMBERS FENCL AND TELEPHONE WIRES CUT OWNER AWAY TO BUY MORE SHEEP last saturdays craig colo j empire says that there are arc some people in this country bitterly opposed appo ed to any man attempting to ta make a livena by raising sheep was unmistakably shown saturday night when five men so far unknown killed almost the entire band of rams owes ewe and lambs woolley brothers were wintering on the george woolley ranch southeast of craig clubs and were used with deadly effect and when the lad in charge discovered his h Is band in the morning ninety of the head were dead and all but a half dozen injured so that they died later the men used caution although the died ded was committed on a moon light night wire fences were cut in order that entrance might be made far bioni the public road and before on oil their mission ints sion of sl slaughter they put tile the telephones out of commission there was lit tle tie need for precaution however ar the of the place was in den vcr his family in craig and the only person on oil the place a 16 year old bo louis aberle the latter had bad been awake a greater part of the previous lous night having haing become at tile the mysterious actions action of two men 1101 who rode near the lanch in the evening rearing a night laid louny eberle got lew roster to sta eta etli with him that night saturday night being exhausted from the previous ill lits igil lie he failed to hear the noise slaughter was commenced within thirty bards of the house but later the sheep were driven into a smaller small L r corral farther away even the baru barn was searched and hero one ewe with inith a lamb three das old ft as killed although the lamb escaped george woolley was in denver denier buy ing about sheep which it was proposed to lit at the ranch and take to the forest reserve in the spring and the act of saturday night was doubtless intended to induce him to alter ills his plans ahe county TV was as stirred up last beir when hen the woolley brothers fed head at the ranch duding the winter and brought in another big bunch in the s spring pring to range on the forest reserve As it appeared that his sheep had ha d damaged noone and made him money it was thought 11 at radical sentiment against the sheep industry so bo far as it applied to home le men was a thing of the past consequently the act of saturday night came as a shock to the community it Is claimed that at the big stock meeting early in march woolley promised that if not bothered with the sheep lie he had on oil hand band lie ho would get out of the business after clib Posing of them in tile the tall fall but this is denied without considering consi ciering the actual or claimed rights of the cattle sheep dogle skunk or rattlesnake industries going into a mans home and destroying his property Is an all act of lawlessness that will scarcely meet the app approval roial of ancone an one and the empire Is pleased to state that many of the most radical bell believers eiers in tile the inherent rights of the cattle men ar ard loud in ili their denunciation of tile the deadly raid of last saturday night I 1 I 1 it was the intention to ship the new purchase of sheep from denver tuesday but mr woolley finally concluded to feed them in denver denier for a few days while he came to person ally investigate the situation I 1 mr air woolley came in yesterday and is sizing up the situation with iii ina a day or two a meeting will pro j bably be held to take action in the matter of offering ott ering a reward tor for the arrest of those implicated in tt tte e j ruthless slaughter |