The daily sentinel., 1909-05-20
of cruelty and bloody work.


Mr.. Tawney reached Grand juno
tion last night from Mack and no.
titled Sheriff Schrader.. He stated
that he believed that the crime had
been committed in Garfield county,
very near the Mesa county line. He
consulted with the sheriff and a num-
Der of friends, and on No. this
morning left for Glenwood Springs
to swear out warrants
This afternoon on delayed No. 8
Mr.. Tawney returned to Grand June
tion, accompanied by Sheriff Will
moth of Garfield county and Under
sheriff Divilbress- The officers have
warrants in their possession made out
in blank or for Richard Roe and
John Doe. A consultation is being
held late this afternoon with the
Mesa county officials.
1t is reported this afternoon that
the sheep were grazing just over the
Garfield county line and about 6
miles from the Uintah railroad. Hun
dreds of lambs had been placed in the
corral to be marked when the armed
band arrived.
1t is rumored that several of herd
ers believe that they recognized a
number of the men.
1t is believed, from the direction
taken by the armed band on leaving
the camp. that they are in Mesa
county; hence the coming of the Gar
field county sheriff.
One of the men from the camp. who
was at Atchee this morning. stated
to The Sentinel by telephone that he
thought the band used % caliber ri
fles. So quickly did the band come
upon the herders that there was no
ha ctt oil
The telephone lines were cut at
about 2 pm. yesterday. A party of
linemen went out from Mack in
motor car soon after to look up the
trouble and found the wires cut and
down at a point not far from the
sheep camps,
The linemen. after a few hours, re-
stored connections between Mack and
Atchee. and word of the crime at the
sheep camps was soon scattered over
that section. 1t seems that he near
est telephone station to the camp is
Carbonero. The scene of the killing
is about 20 miles from Mack, this
county, and near the Dry canon.
Not in many years has there been
any range trouble in that country.
The loss to the sheep owners will
run well into the thousands of dol
Messrs. Taylor and Tawney.
While cattle Craze within some
miles of the sheep camps. it is re-
ported that no cattle have grazed
where the Taylor and Tawney sheep
have been grazing for period of
seven or eight years.
Thousands of head of sheep. owned
by other Grand Junction and Mont
rose men are ranging in the Atchee
and Mack country, but only the Tay-
lor and Tawney fiocks were molested
yesterday.
Messrs. Taylor and Tawney are
sheep men of good standing and re-
sponsibility and are widely known.
The crimeN recalls the actions of
the sheepmen in passing through
western Colorado counties on 'numer-
GUS occasions with great fiocks of
other. accompanied by bands of
armed men as a safeguard from at
taeks by enemies.
That section of this county and
Garfield county in which Atchee,.
Cerbine and the Dry Canon are To-
Gated is one of the great live stock
ranges of the western slope but its
history has been unmarried by Grim
inal deeds such as have disgraced
some other districts of the slope.
The deed of this band of armed
men puts a blot on the history of
western Colorado and it should be
the wish of every good citizen that
the criminals be run to earth and
punished.
1t is probable that large reward
will be offered for the arrest and
conviction of the guilty parties.
The armed men we're all roughly
dressed, from all reports, but were
strong and strapping fellows They
had planned their bloody work well.
The Crown sells Haywood. Alvin