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Show HERD OF GOATS SLAIN Animals Are Killed by Twelve Masked Men. OUTRAGE IN COLORADO Handsome Flock of Angoras, Owned by Mrs. Nancy B, Irving of Grand Junction, Which Wcie drawing Along the Tlnon Mesa, Butchered Herder and Two Trlends Tied Up While the Slaughter of tho Animals Occurred Threaten to Kill Kcmalndcr If Not Removed. Oratid Junction, Colo , July 5 Mrs N'onc n Irving lecintly of Chicago, and who has btioine quite well known to many of our clfticns ns the owner of a htyidenmo herd of Angora goats ranging along tho f-wthllla of l'lnon iMesi was Immeasurably nstonlshcd sesttiday near this city when ono ot her hcrdeis named Llosd Kellogg came down from the Monument Springs ranch, Intolv purchased by Mrs. Irving, Irv-ing, and Informed his emplojer that tho night previous a band of masked and armed men had "sloo I him up" In his cabin nnd nfterwnrd gono to the corrals and killed over four hundred does nnd mans kids IIOl'ND HY MASKED MEN. Kellogg was thoroughly f lightened nnd said the affair hippened just ns ho sat down to supper, to which he had Invited two friends, Smith brothers broth-ers of the lower vnlle, whu had Just driven up one hundre 1 hdd of entile ent-ile onto the range. They had begun tho inenl when the eloor of the cabin opened and a man wealing a blick mask nnd a gunns-snek hnnglng from neck to shoulders entered with drawn revolver nnd ordered them to fnce the wall, which they did. Another mm similarly disguised then entered nnd together the) bound the trio. riVIJ HUNDItED ANIMALS SLAIN. Tho men then went outside nnd pro curing ciuus nuu using nxes tney nnu brought with them repaired to tho corrals In which the goats had been penned with their jounir for tho night. The work of stnushter was soon over and nearly flvc hundred old and soung Angorns lny bleeding, dslng or gasping on the ground Some had broken backs, others were scalped, others hnd their throats cut and miny were hor-rlbli- mutllnted. ANOTHER UAln THUEATENED. Before leaving one of the night raiders raid-ers enme Into the rnbln nnd ordered Kellogg to notify his employer that It she failed to rcmovo every single goat she owned from the l'lnon Mesa range by the following day nnnlher visit would be paid nnd thnt tho remainder of the goals would be slnughtcrcd. Kellogg Kel-logg thinks ho recognized some of the crowd, who numbered twelve masked men. AITEALB TO COUNTY BOAHD. Mrs Irvlns wns In town this morning morn-ing She took the affair quite calmly nnd discussed the matter ln n dispassionate, dispas-sionate, businesslike manner. She sass she merely wnnts to know If the county gov eminent anil the people of the community com-munity will tolernte or Indorse such methods ns thos used to ruin her business; bus-iness; she savs she will get out quickly If they shall do so. She appeared before be-fore the county board this forenoon nnd asked that vigorous steps be taken to arrest the perpetrators of this out-race. out-race. Tho commissioners told her they could do nothing In the premises, nnd that the sheriff would douhtlesn take up tho matter and run down the lawbreakers. law-breakers. Mrs. Irving estimates her mones' loss nt over 10000. SLAUOHTEft NOT NECESSAEY Mrs. Irving will have the sjmpathy of the cntlro community ln her great financial loss. This slaughter does not seem to have been necessary, ns Mrs. Irving contends sho never received nny notleo thut violence would bo resorted to In nn effort to keep goats off the ranges of this counts'. She Is a woman of keen business Instincts nnd would not obstinately contend against tho Inevitable. |
