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Show MRS. TOM IITL'I SUOT ARMSTRONG. THE ENGINEER Ralph W. Armstrong, chief field engineer of the Ogden,-Logan &. Idaho Ida-ho Railway company, who was shot f estorday near Brlgham City by Mrs. Tom Chatland, was reported today to be getting along nicely. Details regarding hto shooting were to the effect that Mr. Armstrong and his crow of engineers had gone to work early yesterday morning on tho new line oi uio raiiroaa inrouu uiu farm of R. H. Jones, which had been leased by L. D. Wilson. The property had been a source of dissension between be-tween Wilson and the railroad company com-pany as to the title of the latter to a right-of-way acrosB It, which had boon secured from tho owner, Jones, boforc it was leased. Last Saturday, the district court granted the railroad company an injunction against Wilson, Wil-son, restraining him from interfering with the running of Its lino through the farm. Yesterday, however, wh'en the workmen work-men started operations on the right-of-way, they were met with a fusllade of bullets, said to have been fired by Wilson to scare them off the premises. prem-ises. Paying little attention to this, tho engineers went about their business, busi-ness, and Wilson, handing his gun to Mrs. Chatland, his " housekeeper, approached Armstrong and a moment later the two were engaged in a fist fight Armstrong proved tho best man of the two in the struggle and Mra. Chatland, It is said, seeing Wilson Wil-son getting the worst of it, fired two shots at him, both finding thoir mark. Mrs. Chatland, who was a former resident of Ogden, and Wilson were arrested a short time after the shooting shoot-ing and are now In the Boxelder county coun-ty jail. nn |