| Show PAYSON MAH KILLED JOHN SELMAN SHOT NEAR CISCO BY SURVEY SURVEYOR YORE E E CAMPBELL OF GRAND COUNTY grand junction colo march 31 As a result of a quarrel over the right to graze sheep on a strip ot of practically worthless ground near cisco grand county john selman of payson utah Is lying dead la in W 11 Bannis undertaking parlors here and I 1 E E campbell surveyor ot of grand county Is under arrest at moab awaiting a preliminary hearing on the charge ot of murder the disagreement which culminated in the shooting of 0 selman occurred at campbells ranch tanch five miles south ot of cisco at 4 friday afternoon selman and fraak frank D simons both payson boys were in charge ot of rams ram te belonging longing to A L simons the payson sheep man the day before the shooting the sheep had strayed onto campbells land and he had ordered the sheep kept off oft the h gerders herders agreed to respect his wish wishes and it Is said gave campbell some mutton as aa offset to the damage done campbell found the sheep on his premises promises again later and getting his winchester rifle he to drove them off and ahot four valuable rams what occurred subsequently Is perhaps beat best told in the language ot of selman himself AS he related the etory story while lying up upon a cot la in the st marys hospital here bore where he waa was brought for tor treatment the young fellow was suf buffering ferring In intense terise agony while he be talked though thoua be he was partially under the influence of opiate opiates he realized that he waa was beyond human aid but he be spoke calmly paused occasionally racked by intense vain when campbell Oam killed tha bucks on thursday I 1 told him the simons simon boys would make him pay tor for them and he replied that he would kill the whole dd d d flock he also made threats against the herders gerders her ders yesterday afternoon frank simons and I 1 went over to see him about it simons told campbell be he must mua pay for the sheep and demanded 40 at athis campbell scoffed and eald be he would never pay such a sum then simons laid down a gun be he was carrying jerked off his coat and vest and mid threw them on the ithe gun and started at campbell who leveled his rifle a 30 30 win cheater at simon simons and told him hi to stand back 1 I was close to Cain campbell and Ila thought ought I 1 could prevent a scooting snoot ing by grabbing hia bla gun As I 1 ap approached proa chod he turned the gun on me and I 1 ducked the gun as he be shot ile was anore more than fifteen feet from me when he be fired the position of the wound that ca caused u a fid selma mane s death corroborates his statement that he was in a crouching position when the bullet bull rt entered enter ed his body lie ile was struck near the left hip joint and the bullet ranged upward and tto th the front coming out an inch below and to the left of the navel the hip bone was shuttered shattered and fragments of bone were driven through the intestines |
