Show CATTLE SWINDLING IN WYOMING THE cattlemen of wyoming hive have made grave charges of stealing against the rustlers ruBt lera andl and the ismall email ranchers ran chera 1 who are opposed to the cattle kings and there may be good grounds for complaint in some instances but from what we have heard there to is another kind of stealing in vogue ue in that state st te which may account for some of th the troubles that afflict the companies which own large herds berds and fall fail to ie receive expected dividends it is exposed by a gentleman in this city in the annexed communication which no doubt contains an explanation of one of the mysteries of the cattle bu business si n esa it was in the year 80 or 81 that the following took place A young man from utah was cow punching for a wyoming firm on several occasions when ched calves were ere branded the foreman would be afflicted with crossing of the eyes and his book which he dropped was picked up by my informant and to his surprise he noticed that the number had multiplied ayten by ten thus on one occasion they had branded 30 calves the foremans book recorded on another occasion 40 had the iron lip applied plied the foremans vision becoming somewhat tm misty it was recorded the ranch was sold and supposed to contain head of stock when in reality there was but 1800 the rhe price paid was damms As the stock account was kept by the for foreman eman the firm relied on their a agent ent and the purchaser on the firm both bot were deceived you can readily see that the cattlemen expecting a large herd naturally accused some one of stealing chev in reality they never were in possession ot of the amount they paid tor for I 1 suspect this is only one case out of many CATO |