Show two prominent sheep owners of wyoming murdered in the night by masked raiders employed Emp loyes of murdered men are told to leave the country and not re turn under threat of death after wh ch the are fired cheyenne wio another chapter to the bloody range war between the cattlemen and sheep men for control of the range for grazing was written in big horn county late on the night of april 2 according to information just received here fifteen masked horsemen raided the camp of alle mand and emge and murdered in cold blood joe allemand and joe emge wealthy and prominent and joe lazier herder allemand and emge had located their camp at the mouth of spring creek fifty miles southeast of basin where they were guarding 2 sheep the raiders came upon the wagon on the south side of the creek in which two herders were sleeping these men were escorted to the load and told to leave the country and not look back under threat of death A volley fired into the wagon on the opposite side of the stream result ed in the death of emge and lazier evidently allemand roused by the approach of the raiders as faia body was found fully twenty feet from the wagon where he had been cut down by a rifle ball the wagon had been ed in oil and fired about thirty sheep were killed all telephone wires were cut and news of the affair did not reach basin until tuesday morning allemand is an old time emge was formerly a cattleman re bently entering the sheep business there Is great indignation through out the big horn country the big horn sheep growers and the state wool growers associations have each offered 1 reward for the capture of the raiders and this will probably further be increased by the state au les |