Show I 1 R reported aporte d W wanton anton kili ling I 1 ing of 0 f sheep sh beep by b y colorado C 0 I 1 ora d 0 cattle C a fil e men M an A vernal was thrown into a state ot of loit tuesday night when johnsona Joli neona two sheepherders dealt leonard Hinard Li and william Willi ant mann rodo into town with ith stories ot of a moat most lutna tragedy enacted in moffatt 11 rout ity colorado about sixty miles nilles vacit of the state line fc it ie Is the story of a midnight raid y by on oil defenseless sheep V holders and the wanton destruction of ot property pro porty it appears tho tile cattlemen arrived lt 11 the tits o camp about twelve monday night and ordered the herd ans out of the camp wagon they wale told to kol got a inove on oil them w 11 Leon eonard leonard l artl was sleeping stooping li near nea ortt the door lo orso so was the first one aup up ito 0 o it vau as gome some one iry try to play a joke on theal so was not the tile hit bit concerned As he se topped out of the camp door on to the tho wagon tongue undressed be he wa was covered with a rifle 1 in the tile bands hands of a mail mai who nab as in ili hiding lie IN was told to throw up rits hands which he promptly tild then two other men grabbed him and blindfolded him tying his tits handa hands behind him they did the same with alth the other horder 1 1 hey then proceeded to drese dress tho the young men inen they were then told they thoy wore were gouig to burn up the camp and other property and it they had in ili the tile camp anthina an thing belonging to them they had hotter better got it out the men replied they had some clothes and and also two guns 1 I hese things were thrown out of the camp wagon and the tile herders were led a short a way away and stood there blindfolded with their hand hands in the air leonard claims he lie could hoar hear them chopping at the waon wagon and was of tho the impression thoy they chopped the spores spokes out of the wheels and ared these at clubs with which to laughter slaughter ho the sheep after what about an all houis timo time iho the bolso stopped and they were ere put on horses and taken about a nillo from tho the camp and left there with their hands tied behind them thorn and blind folded loli lod when they succeeded in freeing thern salves all they could eco see was the camp and wagon tho tile hei derti rode ratio to vernal anh and gor bere iere i tuesday evening it Is a estimated that there were alve hundred sheep killed which with ilie pro properly perfy de deal alid al id ye d imo unis to about leonard utti jala that he lie could rould not toll tell how anany 4 in abon on uco theio were but it ie is thought i b hat fiat the herders said there were hout bout altogether sheriff daon Is sick in bed but ho ito cent word through deputy banic warden win to jen oil johnson Joh and the uintah county wool growers that be he would deputize deput izo as many men an they thought hought necos necessary jary to go and look up tho tile matter and got 1 all the evidence ovid lo 10 turn over to tho the colorado it being out of his ilia jurisdiction d I 1 ato n sinco since the ther above w waft writt written en snellon Ja Johi linson ison and others have gone to tile scolie of trouble tio uble but no word ord has been received from them yet so the atory awaits confirmation |