Rancher Tom Ross enters the lobby of the Gaines Hotel in Seminole and shoots two cattle inspectors who caught him rustling 500 steers. The wife of one of the victims returns fire with a .25 caliber pistol, but the bullet hit Ross's belt buckle. The manuscript was discovered in a tin box among his possessions. Four years earlier there had been no more than 5,000. At the Summer Games in Paris, the United States won the team title for the eighth straight time.
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