Show SHEEP VS FAItHS I Mr Done Gives n Few Ideas for the I Benefit of Onr Legislators PAYSON Feb 8A great deal has been written and said in regard to the question of stock and sheep versus farms and I find I is doing a great amount of good in the way of educating educat-ing the people up to the true standard in this matter Still there are some who will give different reasons in favor of a continuance of this state of affairs af-fairs They dont write them I wish they would We are told to prove all things and hold fast that which is good To begin with I will give a I quotation from the Intermountain Advocate Ad-vocate I governments are not maintained lor the purpose of protecting the weak against the strong we must say that we are hopelessly ignorant as to what they are for And J must say that I am In full accord ac-cord with this proposition I wish to put this question in a shape that it may be easily understood by all and if in doing so I should go astray I will be very thankful t any one that will show me the error if they will do BO in writing Now all will agree with me that there i a very weak and a very strong and aggressive side to this question inasmuch that if these I animals are left unrestrained they would utterly destroy everything the I farmer can raise Then this is certainly cer-tainly a clear case In point and the I farmer knows best how this is done Well says one dont the farmers have protection 1 Without fear of contradiction I will say not in the least and thereby there are thousands of dollars worth of their property stolen and destroyed every year Now I will give a statement of how I view these things which Is that any manor man-or set of men who allow their animals when they know i to steal and destroy de-stroy their neighbors property is as guilty of this crime for crime it is as though they actually committed I themselves and the greater number of animals any man has engaged in I this kind of business the greater the criminal and if any man has so many animals that he cant take care of them he should be the one to suffer the loss that accrues in consequence and not his neighbor the farmer neither should his neighbor be compelled com-pelled to enter a civil suit to collect damages I he 1s he will have no time to do anything else and It is no use talking about protection for him in this wa > But you say mans property prop-erty cannot be taken from him without with-out due process of law What about the farmers property under these circumstances cir-cumstances Again they will say you cant make these dumb brutes criminals crim-inals Now in my opinion right here I is where the compromise so much talked of by our last legislature should I come in for It is certain according to Websters definition these animals are a nuisance running at large therefore there-fore as all other nuisances they should be abated but in contradistinction to other nuisances they are of great benefit ben-efit and quite Indispensible to the human hu-man family therefore if people are allowed to keep them for profit and If I for lack of care on their part they do j damage to their neighbor they should be compelled to pay the damage without I with-out any civil procedure This as I view I i would be the compromise However I I the laws they have in some other places would do well enough for us here I is said that comparisons are odious but I say they are useful and serve a good purpose sometimes In order to show the cussedness of the law in regard to the matter and also I the way the animals are handled I will make a comparison I is said i I is a poor rule that wont work both ways Take for instance these same I animals they are only property like our farms and crops are I ought not to be any more of a crime to steal and destroy them than it is to steal and destroy the farmers crops I want I distinctly understood that I am not advocating this line of procedure as two wrongs do not make a right yet when a man can go In the fields and see animals by the score destroying his crops and that In broad daylight daylght and he Is powerless to do anything with either them or their owners it is hard to tell what he may be driven to do The truth of the mater is that both of them ought to be protected in the same manner and anything else I is a farce and a mockery and that is I just exactly what the title of the law I should be that was enacted by the j I last legislature But what about those i people who allow their animals to do these things because they have no fear of punishment Is it possible that they can justify themselves in this I kind of business However it is clear that the farmer cannot depend on the I honesty of all the people in taking care of their animals I am pleased to I say there are a great many honorable exceptions of men who would not think of taking this mean advantage advantge of their neighbors Some say fence and a few are fencing their land in order to keep these animals off This i makes it worse for those that dont 1 fence and the only safety for those that do fence under present conditions condi-tions is that their neighbors do not fence A strange proposition you say but I will explain We have a field of a thousand acres more or less all farm land I is owned in lots of from I five to twenty acres There is a street 1 I running through the field east and west I and streets a quarter of a mile apart I running north and south Now it would cost a great deal to fence all II these lots and most of the farmers I would consider a fence a nuisance as I they have no water running on their land for stock all the time neither do they want animals on It trampling the I life out of i Now just think of all these animals running loose on these street and not a spear of grass or any other feed outside also the farmers I living in cities from one to three miles away how long do you uppose they I the animals would be before they would break through these fences to get the feed they so much desire and their owners are a great deal more anxious they should get In than they are inasmuch that they often turn them in those lots that are fenced as they have been seen doing these things very often Besides a great many inconveniences in-conveniences and costs that are too numerous nu-merous to mention it is very clear tome to-me that this is not the solution of this trouble but every man should take I care of his own animals on his own land and the remedy is complete In I I explanation I will say that these streets are as much the private property prop-erty of the owners of the fields as the I land is adjoining them and they were left a streets for their convenience only They tell us what a great amount of money is brought in the state by the stock and sheep industry which is very true Then let them spend some of this money in taking care of the streets Then they will remove re-move the cause of our complaint in the way they handle their animals In order to make money as for instance one man said he had the best fence enclosing his land there was around here When asked I he put his animals ani-mals in his own field he said Why no I put them where they get the best feed This tells the whole story and he might have said When they I have stole and destroyed all there is of my neighbors I put them on my I own land for that is the way a great I many others do This is one of our stock and sheep men Some of these I wouldbe innocents want to know what II they must do with their animals when they come out of the canyons if they cant turn them in our fields Well vel I if they were as green as they want to make it appear they are they the I twolegged animals ought to be put through a process In order that they might be preserved for future use in some museum a curios Consistency thou art a jewel Hoping you will do all in your power for the right a you have in the past I remain very respectfully JOHN yours DONE The Female Spotter A female spotter genuine feminine was plying her peculiar avocation peular up and down the road last avoaton tha ra lat trying to put up all kinds of joblosing schemes on the wary conductors She is said to bean be-an artist at some thingsa specialist with an extra eye so to speak specialst sented a reciprocity proposition reIprociy proposIton to one con but was only given the horse laugh The female spotter is a new venture with railroad managers and a departure that evidently is not evIdenty a howling success if considered from a professional point of view Woman In the detective ser detectve vice has never proven a success and probably never will And why because the average woman can only keep a secret one way keep i rolling They are constitutionally opposed to keeping a good morsel of Information smothered Imagine a handsome ollytongued con ductor being bested by a female spotter The contention is absurd The con would say to her You are the prettiest woman I have car ie for months Thank you Have you a family No madam Ive been looking for just such a samole of womanhood I find you to be You delight me beyond the power of expression Pardon me but what is your particular avocation Im a 5ootter excuso me Boohoo I couldnt Ho to and lo youand I dont care Then a sob and few tears from the female fe-male spotter a smile and a mental tri bute to truthtelling woman and the scene and conversation end also the female fe-male spotters job te The reference above recalls to mind the neculiar antics of a male spotter in spoter Butte a few short weeks ago The spot ter in question had a genuine roundUp an oldfashioned highlonesome or if you nlease a modern drunk He took in the red light quarters of the famous copper producing city and incidentally swiped a diamond belonging to a soiled belongng a soIed dove For the act of theft he was arrested ar-rested and given other relative trouble That particular spotters whereabouts Is not known to any trainmen running out of Pocatello Speaking of spotters may remind Speaing rmind some of our readers of the sudden departure to the world beyond of a number of this kind of sleuth hounds who were wont to ply their chosen avocation In the wilds of New Mexico and Arizona in the early days of western railroading Pocatello Herald Diphtheria at ailflvrqy There are n more cases of diphtheria Ii than those reported last week which are so far required to keep upon their own I premises and all are reported as getting along favorably A man has been hired by the town to make regular visits to the afflicted parties and see to their wants The wife of Frederick Raymund in whose family the dread disease exists gave birth to a daughter recently I was with the greatest difficulty an attendant at-tendant was got for her and Mr Ray mund has had his wife and infant with the other children of the family numbering num-bering eight to care for alone the past three days No one can be induced too to-o and assist him in his trying ordeal in the way of washing or nursing But he does not complain nor feel to censure any one The question arises is a community com-munity Justified in so treating their fellow I fel-low man Wasatch Wave Green River Riffles Miss Pearl Getty of Willow Bend is one of the most plucky young ladles In the Green River valley On January 29 while her father and brother were absent from the ranch her mother while walking walk-ing in the yard noticed a moving object ob-ject on the r edge of one of the high cliffs that urround the Bend and called her daughter to look at what she supposed was an antelope Pearl on seeing see-ing the animal ran for her Winchester Ing rifle and succeede1 in getting to the foot of the cliff unobserved whereupon she drew the rife and taking steady aim fired the animal leaped Into the air and came tumbling down the cliff within twenty yards of his slayers feet I proved to be a fine large mountain sheep one which an old hunter would have been exceedingly proud of Much interest was taken in tht miners meeting February 1 at Gam mages hal I was largely attended by toe miners and citizens A committee was appointed to draft bylaws and constitution con-stitution of the proposed Green River mining district George A Stanton had a severe attack at-tack of rheumatism last week and was laid up for several days Will Valentine and Joe Ross have finished their work building a wagon road around the side of the mountain This will shorten their distance to town about two miles Manti Messenger Dear nt Any Price The price of horse hides is now 75 cents each says an exchange When they began killing horses in Nevada they were worth 5150 The present prices will not pay for the shooting and skinning Gave Lp the ContractS S H Green has given up his contract on the paint mill and the Rawlins Mining Min-ing and Smelting company has resumed the operation of the mine Mr Green will continue to haul the ore from the mine and load It on the cars for the company They are shipping from three to four cars a day now Via Saratoga The Saratoga people are discussing the importance of opening up a road south from that place to the various mining camps of northern Colorado The route is via the battle Lake copper mines The I Sun says As to the Independence Mountain district a portion of which lies lIountn in Wyoming its postolflce is Pearl Colo which la now supplied from this point by a stage line which rune via Collins The stge lne road from Saratoga t Independence Mountain Is open the year round and I would have to be a phenomenal winter that would shut off travel The road between be-tween here and North Park has been I traveled all winter and the people of that trveled region al their supplies of grain and I vegetables from this valley At least 100 Joe pounds of oats and 50000 pounds of potatoes were sold In the Park the past fall and that country furnishes a market for nearly all the surplus produce except hay for the country from Grand Encampment Encamp-ment south Big Wool Clip The Laramie Republican says Over 200000 head of sheep have been registered 200 ed for shearing at the various shearing pens > near Casper during the coming I season pen Indications point to a larger wool clip for this year than at any previous prev-ious time The Burlington it Is reported re-ported will put shearing pens on Powder river wI year to secure some of the wool shipments yea The Denver ii Gulf will also put pens up at Orin Junction Retrenchment Fall < The retrenchment fad that has struck the Salt Lake city council is beginning to bear fruits but as is usual under such circumstances it is the low salaries that are being cut not one of the high salaried sal-aried officials being reduced one dollar ofcials departments from All of the heads of the mayor down including the council men who have been drawing salaries out of all proportion t the amount of labor performed are exempted from bearing their share of the reduction The men who do the te men who spend their entire time in the performance of their official duties are made to donate sums ranging from 60 to GOO per annum to this rnging retrenchment fund while men whose private b fnd not interfered with by their public duties those who have publc dutes assistants paid by the city to do their aistnts Work for them are not called upon for a ort Suoh Is life in Officialdom Murray American Mines of Custer County Ine ot A correspondent In Custer writes the Hailey Times as follows Custer is experiencing a revival of the good old days when it was one of the i liveliest camps 11 the state The compan ies operating here together employ about operatng 200 men The old Custer mill is running thirty stamps steadily on ore from pie Lucky Boy mine The mine is looking very encouraging The prospect shaft Is down t the 400foot level and drifts are being run each way in a good ore body The Fourth of July mill is kept busy with Its ten stamps crushing ore from wIt Black mine All cleanups so far have been very satisfactory and there ben ver the mill is enough ore In sight t keep mi busy for some time to come tme Custer Is an allround uptodate mining hotel one restaurant It supports one I ins camp I spports taurant two general stores eight saloons I loons and one stage and express office tin horns and they nerd for I This is a good fem tn tey are vell represented We all atende the Christmas ball at the Nevada house but as there were only six ladles to about sixty gentlemen we didnt all have a allround good time The Clayton and Bayhorse smelters have closed down for the winter but are expected to start as early as possible in the spring for an all summers run sprig little out ot The Yellow Jacket is a 1tte our reach but wq are Informed by the floating class of miners that come In from there that there are as many men employed there as usual and the camp is quite lively |