Show utah state news report has been received of a very serious shooting shoo tinz affray on dry fork canyon about twenty miles north of vernal Uintah in county the shooting occurred about daylight thursday morning and was the result oi a dispute over a mining prospect or claim it seems E B coleman of salt lake and another man named robert swift had a ramp on a bill a little north of the canyon and dave milton and two stanton boys of vernal had another camp near by swift was at his camp and miller and the stanton boys at theirs thursday morning when matt warner william wall and E B coleman rode up and the shooting commenced but from which side first could not be learned nor the nature of the dispute after the firing ceased which was kept up on both sides tor some time it was found that one of the stanton boys was shot in the neck milton had been shot through the breast two or three time and the other stanton was shot in the right leg it was thought that dave Mil tons wounds would prove fatal but the stanton boys injuries were not serious the sheriff being over in browns park prospecting marcellus pope deputy sheriff and T T holddaway Hol idaway coroner left or the battlefield with a spring wagon to bring in the wounded about noon |