1 would like to give some few remarks
about the Warren outfit and me. In
March 1889 took some claims on Big
Bear creek and had not right off the
necesssarv funds to fence my land. One
day one of the outfit teamsters showed up
around my place. I thought that he
would bring sheep there, that is the mat
ter. I told the fellow that I took up this
land and didn’t wanted to see sheep there.
About three days afterwards I come home
in the evening and find the same teamster
with a band of sheep there, fifty yards
below the house. I took my Winchester
and told him to pull his freight. He
reasoned with me and I allowed him to
keep the sheep on my land over night on
a certain spot. About 10 o’clock I heard
the sheep bells along the creek and
thinking they were destroying mv crops,
began shooting and fired a few shots io
order to scare them away. The sheep
never came around me for a long
time till tummer ’9l. I found sheep
about a dozen times in my pasture and 1
the trustworthy sheep herder sound <
asleep* lying close to a fence post. The
first time I wrote to the Warren outfit,
where from I got an answer like they |
would keep away from only my hay land.
Whereas I send the outfit an answer I
believe they will remember very well. I
cannot overlook all my land very handy
and 1 don’t know how many times the
sheep was in my pastures. I got sus- ,
picious first on account of the difference
of the grass in the pa-tures.
