Daily Yellowstone Journal

Why They Died.
A Miles City special says that it is reported there that a remarkable death rate prevails among Marquis de Mores' sheep in the Little Missouri Bad Lands in Dakota, the result of poison. The Marquis has some enemies. Sheep on Montana ranges are healthy. The Marquis lost 6,000 out of 12,000. It can be accounted for on no other ground than that poison was administered by enemies of the Marquis, on account of the killing of O'Donnell last year.
The above article, clipped from The Evening Missourian, is too foolish even to contradict, were it not for the fact that it has been extensively copied and commented on by editors who should know more than to give it credence. The only and true reason for the death of the sheep, as we stated in our last issue, were that they were fall-clipped, belonged to the Merino breed, were shipped in late in the fall and were entirely unacquainted with the ranges till after the snow fell. These are the reasons and none other for the death of the sheep. The long-wooled variety, shipped in at the same time, are doing as well as cattle.
-Cow Boy.