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Show SHEEPMEN 8HOT DOWN IN WYOMING. Ila.h.il Jl'n llal I Mi.p (an , Moan I In- llolh liar If r. on I hill Meek. Two herders, V W Lim and lloberl Howard In charge sf sheep belonging lo llutterBetd llrolhcr of I tali, were attacked by twelve masked men June 7, while they were attending to their flock between Hmllh lurk and Henry a lork about twenty five miles southeast of I orl llrldgcr, Wyo say an Kvaniton spcclsl to the alt I kr Tribune Ono of them, William Lim received two bullets through the arm badly shattering the bone He has been sent to the Halt Lake hospital The other herder I wounded In tin th'gli and he Is not conld-red surlous He la at Fort llridger The mob also killed the horses and a number uf sheep and burned all the camp equipment. It It tald that Ilutteruetd and his men have beeu repeatedly warned dur Ing the past ten daya to gel their sheep acres tha lino Into Utah, but did not hied the warning On the other nhnd It Is claimed that the sheep were lambing lamb-ing and could not be moved except slowly, and that Ihey were moving them Just as fast as could be under the clrcumstancis Mr Lim who Is a resident of Pleasant Pleas-ant drove, Utah, is an employee of and Lyman llutterfleld of Hlverton, who own a dock of about 7,000 sheep which have been grazed In Wyoming during the greater part of the past seven yearn According to the atory of the wounded man, tho battle waa simply tho culmination culmin-ation of threats that had been repeatedly repeat-edly made against the llutterfleld and their herder by rcaldenta of Wyoming who objected to tha presmco of the sheep In that atate |