Show THE ESTIL IAW EST1A BEAR RIVE Feb 918 Editors Herald I notice in your paper one of those chronic growlers Cultivator has nruch t say about the Legislature amending the estray pound law From tho tenor of his eayinga I hould judge that he cultivated little ele than pickles and baa them three times e day Now Mr Editor u no was a farmer be would want his orchard fenced he would have his farm fenced for his own convenience con-venience I am a farmer have had large herds and am In favor of no fence law but believe that the main thoroughfares should be fenced and 80 they are when you come to farmers That 5 steer must mus have hooked him aa be and his stray pound keeper fail t hook the steer or else he would not be so hostile A tbe estray pound law was itw nothing more or less than a legal tbieviiig pen and many 0 lazy cultivator took the advantage of it by putting a few grains of wheat along th roadside and as he says mounting the fence and watching for the 5 steer Steers are always worth more than 5 to the owner and alwaya 5 t the wouldbe cultivator cul-tivator I I will give him a few instances of estray cultivating We had a male get away from the train aud wont back to Cottonwood and meandered into a corn field of which the owners owner-s pound keeper who nsaeaaed h L f f 1 uuu uuuiuk ca uiLuacii uuu 1 jut IUB mule to work fn the canon worked him poor and then wanted to cultivate culti-vate me for 15 for his keep ninety head of cattle that were let out of a pasture and started back to the range were stopped by some enterprising enter-prising cultivator sitting on the fence and taken t the estray pound No damages but 90 for impounding a horae got out of a corral went north from Salt Lake City reached over a fence and eat out of a slack was assessed SOc by the pound keepers brotbermIaw taken to the pound advertised as is usual where no one could see it sold and bought in by the said brotherin law for the expenses Not f cent for school II I money I might keep on until I L filled columns of cases that I know of Once more I know of an estray pound that runs ell winter and the I settlement has but little in the I spring but the pound and a preaching preach-ing keeper Cultivator wants a law that will give him the steer the moment he comes on hia uncultivated land He believes in shooting the steer kind biotberly feeling wants to destroy that which his brother worked for and he knows more than all the Legislatures of Utah and his time is so valuablel an hour How profuse pro-fuse in language The article is full of misrepresentation The Eteer that haunts his dreams is to be turned out again on the man he damaged I read the law that the steer is to be sold and the proceeds t be given to the district school which is right but under the old law where are the proceeds ot tOO nunareas ot inoueanag of dollars that estrays have been sold forr I will venture to say there never was 1000 placed to tbe credit of the common schools The law itself was n nullity and would not hold water before an holiest judge In conclu concu sion Mr Cultivator eat more beef and less hog and let the Legislature alone Also the 5 steer and cultivate culti-vate a little reason and more regard I for truth and I promise you thai steer will not trouble yon more THE HERMIT |