Show attempt at stealing by wholesale Who lesle lesie sometime about the uit a band of thieves and robbers made an attempt in the night time to drive off a lot of cattle belonging to miller russell co that were being herded on provo bottom utah county but met with such a warm reception from the herdsmen who were well armed that they were e forced to retire without effecting their object altho aitho they fought bravely and did not leave till two of their horses went off without riders but atvas it was not known whether any one was kil ledor not at the commencement of the attack one of the villains struck one of odthe the herdsmen on his i head with a p pistol I 1 stol or some other weapon and felled him to the ground where he lay insensible till the next morning rumor says that in one of the small towns in that after the a man was I 1 lying y ing at the point of death from the effects ofa gun 0 un shot but ciul when and where he received it he was not disposed to tell it was not k known own to our informant who nar nor how many persons composed the attacks attacking D n party but it would have been a good t hing thing if they had all been served with a ne and the country freed of that many of the outlaws and desperadoes that have for a long time been prowling through 0 the mountains in this thia part of the territory subsisting by stealing robbin robbing and band plundering to fhe the he great annoyance of all classes of community and particularly to those who wh ohavo have had herds of cattle cattie or bands of horses not properly guarded |