The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-08-11
SHEEP AND CATTLE AT WAR
Feuds Of the StocIsnen on Wyoming
Ranges.

Feuds Of the StoeIFmen on Wyoming
Until few years ago Wyoming was
one Of the big range cattle states Of the
country Eastern and English capital.
ifts invested their money in Wyoming
stock, just as they do in railroads. and
the sons OF Yankee and English capital
lists Rocked to Wyoming 70 see life and
be rolled into men according TO the
heroic standards Of the West. Each Big
ranch had It's ranch house and its bound.
aries; their cou6nes were marked BY
mountains, streams. aud other natural
and unchsnging witnesses, anil de-
scription Of the limits Of each ranch
was published continually in the chsy-
elsre papers. The catsleInen had merely
appropriated % many hundred square
miles each 0l the public domain, with
out warrant, right, Or title and over
these vast stretches tsley were absolute
lords, exercising all the feudal privil-
ssca.
The big eharons,' as they were gen.
orally called, their manager, and the
IONS Of Englishrsn and Yankees lived
in Cheyenne, payiag periodical visits 70
the ranches. Cheyenne, ap to 1894, WIS
the richest town u It's sac in the United
states -ricker than mary city tweR
" times as large. Splendid residences
were built along TIE bleak Streets Old
world extravs eansies sssoa in contrast
with the raw Rskessfis Of the usl-
stable tines TalIyhe coaches, tie driv-
crx' hats level with the heusetops d
most ef tAe hastily bailt town. carried
gsy loads to and from the reyels 1t
Fe4t Rnssel, the military poet near BY;
and the Cheyenne club, to which all the
hoods belonged offered - many cppor
tunities Tor qpiat and 'sentienaanay'' ex- /
epvsss vita bottle Or gaming table as
arv elsb ia Manhattan o. Londen. And I
vnsile TIE sons and paid managers drank /
and gained and reseled, certain craftr
saes we're dfsiniag tkem Of what tho
gsz1ea and karreon= left.
T'kp skesp industry in The West had I
dts heskrA.sls IN Wysuang almost forty +
peas asa; but It aid not reach sizs /
.uaseisw - be elaud 81 the eattle-
issrs far day untii 1884. From that
0me uHtA the pressnt. csnstant
asooag, ore sided war has BEEN wAgea
81 tass cattIemen asa.a3t tae aeckmas-
esrs end their desTsed, elise aihbling
hepaa. AZ the sheep iraustgy spreaa
f4em It's cradle. Wyening, the warfare
htlloved into other states. Cslerado's
hiss have bean naplsed ky the trbakllag
Of saespmsF's blood Montana and Idaho
Aold IN their pIains aAd lonely georges
the benes Of hundreds whose lives vefs
stalsd aad lost in tie battle Of the
scoop. In the West that snisat en-
bsem Of purity and ipaocenee, the lamb
skin, might well Be hung aloft A. the
banAsr BY midnight assassdns Of men
that murder BY stealth ard hide the
evidence under the asAes Of root trees
ana isalated camps.
Throughout all thas trouble the con
tempt in which tho shepherd and BE
calling haze been held ~ men of arms
since there were ahsep and men to taaa
tAnra appears we'll tsstisied For years
cattlen.cn have been numbering the aock-
masters Of tie West, and butshesina
their siliy Hoola, but there never has
been an act 81 fepTisal n9t one retaliat
ifg or defensive blew. Wyoming has
been the hotbed OF all the trouble; but
until la6t rear there never has baeu d
conviction In Wyoming for the killing
ef 4 saeepnaan; nor a conviction fer
the destruction 1T q sheepman's prop
erty. When a hochmaster's herds are
scattered and CLAIM, his wagons ana
ranch horses burned, although be could
walk cut and put his hand on the guil-
ty persons ene ard aR. he does nothing
but gather his drifting remnants of fleclys
aaad 90 grinaly ard patiently to work
the loss. sAsepmen 10 not
fielst back.
1t Is hard To understand why those
Soach, Irish and purely American flock /
did rot band Together ana at i
leasit dsfead themselves 1T tAe very BET z
ginning II may be THE association with i
epifitieas ard non-camhatfve beasts that 4
renders the shepherd meek and harmless. 9
Or it may be that the lone watqhes Of
his solitary life drain him d his man
hood Whatever it il. no matter what
1 man was before he went into the
sheep business, in six months' time he
has ~ more fight in him than biscuit
-G. W. Ogden in the August Every
body's Magazine.
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