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Show FLOCKMASTEll SHOT. WYOMING SHEEP CAMP INVADED BY WHITE CAPS. Three Hundred Animals Dynamited and Wounded Man Left to Die. A. band of masked men raided the sheep camp of William Minnich, thirty miles northeast of Thermopolis, Wyoming, Wyo-ming, shot Minnich through the lungs, dynamited and slaughtered 300 head of sheep and burned the outfit wagons. The herder escaped and brought the news of the attack to Thermopolis. Dr. Schuelke and a posse of officers left at once for the scene. At last accounts Minnich. was alive, but there is little hope of his recovery.. There is no zlue to the identity of the raiders other than the report that tne sheep and cattle men of that section have been on uie verge of war for some time. . |