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Show SHKKI'HKHDKUS HAVE SQC.AHBLK NEAR MOAB i Disputes over range in the Book mountains, which have raged all spring and .summer, culminated in a Knn play the last of the week, when a Greek sheepherder, whose name is not known, brandished a revolver! at l.oren Wilcox and forced the latter, to leave the portion of country where the Greek was herding his sheep. The Greek, it is said, leased some: range land from A. M. Myrup and took a herd of sheep onto it. Recently , he moved his herd to land owned by ( Carlos Wilcox of Green River, also a sheepman. l.oren Wilcox, son of Carlos Car-los Wilcox, when he discovered the Greek's sheep on his grazing land, told the foreigner to move off. In-staed In-staed of complying with the request, the Greek pulled out a revolver and ordered young Wilcox to leave the vicinity. Wilcox came to Moab and swore to a complaint charging the Greek with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to do bodily harm. Sheriff D. C. Miller left yesterday morning for the Book mountains, where he will arrest the foreigner and bring him to Moab for a hearing. The trouble occured on Wagon ridge, about forty miles north of Thompson's. Moab Independent. In-dependent. I |