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Show MEN IN RANGE ! WAR CONVICTED Cattlemen Are Found Guilty of Raids on Sheep Flocks I'tiCATELLO. Ida. Oct. 20. Cul-! mlnatlon of the Custer county rang! war, which resulted a c.ir ago in the shooting of Pete Iphar following an al- I leged raid of eattlemen to drive the flocks of sheep and their nerders from the public ranges near Mackay, camel last night In the federal I ourt when a verdict of guilty w;i returned, against Chrles McKelvey. Charles j Warren. K. J. Bates Uinlolph l.ehman and Kmmc-tt Donahue. The men are charged under federal statute of using us-ing force and violence to obstruct the ree use and occupancv of publi, lands DEI I MDANTS PROMIX1 N l The CSBf) which has occupied the at. j tentlon of the court for five days hai attracted wide attention due to the prominence of the defendants and the sensational features surrounding the trial. Iphar. who wns shot while herding sheep for Pete Bldcgain. testified thatj the defendants had visited his sheep camp on three different occasions in September, 1919 and bad threatened v folence If the sheep were not taken from the range. 'n t:ic third visit, according to the testimony, the de-l ft ndantM ordered Iph.ir and tin- camp; tender to throw up their hands and, then started shooting. SHf1 in BACK Iphar stated that while his hands were in the air he was .-not tnrougb the back after the defendants had find the second volley. The defendants defend-ants contended that Iphar stooped to get hi.s gun from the ground and vvas hoi while In that position. Dr. Karell of Mackay, wbo probed for the bullet, said that the wounded man could ot have been stooping and must have been standing up while shot as shown by the course of the bullet after entering the body Considerable sympathy was shown for Donahue, a former soldier, who claimed he shot ii Belf-defense The government used fifteen witnesses wit-nesses and the defendants thirty during dur-ing the trial of the case The case Is the outcome of n dispute over the status of a strip of range near Mackay. The question came up as to whither il was an exclusive cattle range under the state priority law. OLD SETT! EES 1 ESTHW One feature of the case was the wide difference of testimony on this point given by old settlers In the Mackay Mac-kay country A number of vvitn ses for the defense contended that the range was lusively used for eattlr and a number testified for the government govern-ment that sheep had used the range since 191" Jointly with cattle. The maximum punishment provided by federal statute is one year and $1111111 line The case of the L'nlted States against F. J Herwlg charged with operating a still. Is being tried today. |