Show ONCE ahil IN bic HOHN CUT y 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 wagons are fired cheyenne wo another chapter to the bloody iange war between the cattlemen and sheep men for control of the ranger for grazing was written in big horn county late on the night of april 2 according to information just received here fifteen masi mast ed horsemen raided the camp of alle mand and hinge and murdered in cold blood joe allemand and joe emge wealthy and prominent sheep men 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 te road 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 was roused by the approach of the raiders as his body was found fully twenty feet from the wagon where he had been cat cut down by a rifle ball the wagon had been soaked in oil and fired about thirty sheep were killed all telephone wires were c cut ut and news of the affair did not reach basin until tuesday morning allemand is an old time emge was wag 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 1000 1 reward for the capture of the raiders and this will probably further be increased by tha state au les ties |