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Show SHEEPMEN FIRE ON CATTLEMAN: KILL MULE MOAJB, .'an .14. Endeavoring to make two sheepmen and their flocks leave his deeded land, A. G. Harris a cattleman, was shot at several times and the mule which he was riding was killed when Ihe sheepherders openea flro on the cattleman. Sheriff Skewes. with a posse of men, is in pursuit of the sheepmen, who topk to the hills immediately after tho shooting. The shooting, it is claimed was the culmination ol a range war of many ears standing. Harris claimed that he ha' repeatedly warned the men against trespassing on his land and that last Sunday they persisted In j herding their sheep on his land He I rode out to drive off the sheep, he claims, One of the sheepmen, he ns-Berts, ns-Berts, emptied a revolver at him without hitting him. He then called upon his partner to fire. The latter opened fire with a rifle. Harris, when his mule Mas shot from under him. 1 took refuge among the rocks and escaped es-caped uninjured. |