The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1894-04-21
Shooting ARRAY.

From the Pendleton East Oregonian we
learn the following particulars of the shoot.
ing affray near that city, an account oi
which was publls he'd yesterday:
The msn who did the shooting Is 10
Saiste. sheep herder. He has been ID
this county several years. Last Friday
while driving along the Vnson road coming
to Pendleton Mr.. Thompson saw Susie sit
ting beside the track. He spoke to the
man, aud the latter demanded pay for
thirteen months sheepherding wages which
5SuIste said had been due for u long time.
= had Suiste IN his employ. After parleying
| some VT hat, he learned that reference was
made to work done for a gentleman who
several years previously had taken 2400 of
Mr.. Thompson's sheep on shares, ami that
Suiste had been in that eentleman's employ
The latter had failed in business and Suiste's
wages, SO he alleges, have never been paid.
Mr.. Thompson remarked that he could
hardly hold himself responsible for other
mems debts. whereupon Suiste began to
abuse Mr.. Thompson and applied oppobri-
GUS epithets. Mr.. Thompson's ire was
aroused, and he made preparations to get
out of the wagon. when Susie partially
drew pistol from his pocket and said he
would ''tix him aud get even yet"
Wednesday morning little before noon.
Mr.. Thompson started out to look the |
range over and according to custom among |
sheep men, carried Winchester rife. He
was passing over land leased by him fromJ.
Goss. as sheep range, when Suiste's dogs
came running toward him. With no thought
OF doing violence to any one, Mr.. Thompson
fired among tn, m twice, aua then saw
Suiste, distant he thinks, l25 yards with
mis- rifle In position to shoot. Mr.. Tho up
son ran so as to get behind the hill out of
range, when Susie fired. Thompson fell
On spot where the ground was covered
with rocks, and was at first afraid Suiste,
who hal disappeared after shooting. would
be reached for his rife and fire
% let Suiste know that be was able to Keep 6
IN the watch. Soon thereafter he caught
lght of Suiste about quarter of mile
way. and then saw him no more. He at '
rst tried to bind up the wound, but grew |
ick. 1t was IL o'clock, nooo. From that @
ime until he lay on the rocks, while v
old searching wind blew across the range a
lie had no overcoat and was soon chilled C
nd faint.
Suiste went Immediately to T. B. Wells / C
amp, five miles distant, and told him OF a
he circumstance. asking him to go to town Il
'ith him. Mr.. Wells instead told Suiste i,
, go to Pendieton himself and to his "
Wels') house. Mr.. Well. quickly saddled 8,
horse and went to where the wounded q,
ian was lying, returned to his camp. pro- F
lred wagon and assistance, sent word by ir
horseman to town, and MIR. Thompson C,
as put in the conveyance. al
Suste related his story to MIR. Wells and o.,
le officers, aud it differed in nowise from al
lat Of Mr.. Thompson, except that he al I'll
ges that the second of the bullets fired tr
nong the dogs glanced upward and came ii
close to his neck. Then he a,
'ew bead and fred, He claims that the q,
stance was not more than fifty yards. He tr
sists that he was positive Mr.. Thompson
as shooting in bis direction with intent to a
t him. cc