| Show cowboys overpower sheepherders tie them to trees and kill three thousand sheep frenz ed cattlemen spent almost an entire day in slaughter of sheep after wh ch they cut telephone wires and escaped grand junction colo As a result of a battle between sheep men and cowboys on a contested range near chee colo nearly 3 head sheep were killed and two sheep men were injured but not seriously the sheep which belonged to taylor brothers 0 montrose were grazing on a ranga near the hamlet of carbonero Carbin ero according to the reports received here the cowboys dashed in upon the herders and tied them to trees and then went among the sheep and killed the slaughter ot the sheep re quiren almost an entire day in order to prevent the news leaking out the cowboys cut the telephone wires and made their escape in the hills sever al hours later the sheep herders were discovered and liberated the authorities of garfield county have been notified but owing to tl e fact that the district in which the sheep slaughter took place is in a desolate portion of western colorado it Is not regarded probable that the cowboys will be the range in which the crime was committed has long been a contested range and several murders have re suited from quarrels over it warrants have been issued by the authorities ot both mesa and garfield for the anest fc sixteen raiders several of whom are said to be known to the sheep men |
