Deseret Evening News | 1909-04-07 | Page 9 | Bloody Range War in Wyoming

BLOODY RANGE WAR CAB IN WYOMING I Masked Horsemen Murder Two and Their Horder While They Were Asleep I SHOT AS THEY LAY IN WAGON irks I lint oY 1 Over or of tINt the I aeI Cheyenne Chenne W Wy At An chapter t to the blood bloody r bra be bet trim t the hI and 41 pm for far control of the tho ran range far grazing In RII Mg Horn county late lateon on Ih the night of April S J According t te Information n lust received here U it masked horsemen raided the camp of Allemand a Emge Em and murdered Is I blood Joe loe and Joe In wealthy and prominent sheep men and Jo loe Laster Lar herder and Em Emge had their comb St t the mouth of Spring creek 10 0 mil miles southeast of Basin BailIn where hl th they were guarding 2000 sheep heep The rhe raiders came am upon the wagon waon on the south side left nf lit the creek In which Ih the herders were Th These men were ere escorted to tb the road and told to leave th the county and not look hack back under threat of death deathA A volley tired Into the wagon OD on the Id of the stream resulted In the death of and Allemand was roused b by the th approach of the raiders ralden ae aa hi body was wall found fn 21 feet from the Wagon where he had bf been en cut down by a rifle ball tali The wagon had been soaked In oil and fired the bolts be beIn beIng In Ing cremated About 10 0 sheep were killed All telephone wires w were cut and uw news of the elfair did not reach ach Basin until thin morning Immediately Coun County Count t ty Atty P W Sheriff Aaton l ton and Deputy Sheriff Cusick left for the theene scene ene of the outbreak arriving th the night of April I after a Journey through deep snow now They The found the bodle undisturbed nut but ob tamed no clue to 10 the murderers Allemand t was wa an Imp l was formerly a cattleman rr c entering the sheep heep lu 1 Ol There rat indignation the Big Horn country The Ih Ply horn Hurn thee Grower and the State Wool U II I Growers Growe have each aph 1111 d reward for th the of r rhe ho he raiders ralde and this Ihl will 1111 I lu Increased b by the state tie I lee