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Show oo CATTLEMAN , I IS ROBBED Smugglers Take Cash After Fierce Battle; Nine Men Killed. i lenca-Uo-Mlnho, Portugal, lan A daring band of smugglers on the Portuguese-Spanish tromi' r carried off $90,000 in c ash today aflei a tierce battle viib a cattle raiser and 40 of his herdsmen in the course of which nine of the cowboys were killed and lourteen severely wounded Jose .Murllhaes, one of the best I known cattle breeders in the provinct of Minho. had been for several weeks i passing from fair to fair and had disposed dis-posed of three herds of hulls. He then started lor home, with the Port- guese equivalent of $90,000 In bank notes and cash with him. He was guarded bj in of his herdsmen Early this morning, while he was passing close to the border between1 Portugal and Spain he wax suddenly' attacked by a large baud of smugglers, smug-glers, who fired frorti behind rock.-, and thickets The herdsmen returned the fire with visor, hut were finally ion i.-d to flee They carried off Mu-irilhaes, Mu-irilhaes, who had been seriously wounded, but left the whole of the money and 23 of their comrades on Hie Held, nine ot them dead and most of the oiheis fatally injured The civil guards of the entire province prov-ince have been called out and are searching for ihe smuiiU.-rs and the treasure, but no trace of them has been found. |