Show NEWS OF THE WEST I Plans to Exterminate the Wild Horses of Northern Arizona THOUSANDS ON RANGES SHEEP AND CATTLEMEN WILL ORGANIZE HORSE HUNTS Some of the Animals Are of Very Tine Stock Ebb and Flow of the Sutro Tunnel Tide Wyoming Sheep Men Will Patrol the Ranges Cree Indians Return to Montana A dispatch from Phoenix Aria says I Wild ponies are becoming a pest in northern Arizona Their number Is constantly increasing and they are becoming be-coming a menace to the cattle range Sheep and cattle owners are looking 1 about for some means of relief and it is not unlikely they will organize a series of grand rodeos wherein the wild horses will be gathered only to be shotThere There must ba 20000 head of wild horses in northern Arizona said WillS Will-S Barnes one of the largest cattle owners in Navajo county yesterday South of Holbrook they are the worst nuisance that can be Imagined It has reached the point when we cannot safely turn out a riding horse to graze We have to keep our saddle animals and roundup horses stabled all winter or bring them down to Phoenix for pasturage The wild stock not only eat up the feed that ought to go to the cattle but they run cattle off the range They have chosed off all the cattle from the west end of the Hash Knife range one of the best grass districts dis-tricts in northeastern Arizona It is useless < to put salt out for the stock for the wild horses chase away ail the cattle that CQrne near it At this season sea-son of the year they are fat and have shining hides They sweep over the country In great bands gathering up any stray animals they may come across A horse is as good as lost that joins them Some of these wild horses are of good stock Not long ago the Circle S ponies were the very best in northern Arizona They were fine saddle animals ani-mals and their value corresponded Now there must lx over 3000 of these ponies running wild and withcut a brand On the Puerco in central Apache county there must be 5000 head of loose bronchos and about the same number are On the Navajo reservation reser-vation the property of the Indians who do not seem to know what to do with them Some of the Indians are getting quite a revenue from the fat ponies I which they sell to a Holbrook butcher I for 3 a head Whai does the butcher want with them He is fattening hogs on them Three dollars is the ruling price for the wild horses I would like to sell a great many off my range at that price and some of them are very well bred and would make valuable horses if broken The only time when it is possible to capture any of the wild stock is in the early spring before the grass has come and when the ponies are lean anti weak Titan on the Es Lperanza range four light men are mounted on horses especially trained and of speed and bottom The wild horses are started just after they have drank and are more logy and a bunch of the animals is cut off from I the main herd and corraled Some I times it is necessary to shoot the lead maresfor the females always head the wild bunch j I ilr Barnes is a member of the live I stock board of Arizona and will lay time matter before thai body with a view to having the northern ranges I ridded of their equine pests The Tide In Sutro Tunnel Virginia Enterprise The Sutro tunnel tun-nel taps the C C mine at a point ten feet above the 1750foot level but j the water stands three fet below the j 1750foot level so that when a cage I is lowered down until its upper deck is I on a level with the floor of the 1750 j station the lower deck is submerged A singular phenomenon is observed I at tlhis point thai is an ebb and flow of the waters as if they were directly I connected with the waters of the ocean This phenomenon has been noticed by all the miners at work in the mine A most singular thing is that each Sunday the water rises several feet higher than during any other day in the week When the men go to work Monday mornings there is always a clear high water mark where the water wa-ter has encroached on the 1750 level during the diy before Sir Hawkes foreman of the mine is of the opinion timerS somewhere in the country water is l used during Sunday This may lead to an interesting clew regarding the course of subterranean watir courses Idaho Grangeviiie Press Mountain fever has prevailed in epidemic form this I I i summer all through the mountain region re-gion There are several cases in Elk I I City slowly convalescing Boise Statesman One unexpected I result of the fair was a great rush of small deposits of gold at the assay office of-fice A great many miners coming to the fair brousht their gold along and as a result the offiCe force was kept extremely busy throughout the week Some of them were not able to get ttr the fair grounds at all On one day there were 40 of these small deposits The business of the office for the week was phenomena for this season the total being fllOOlOO Wyoming Ore Marshall or lIarshairBrofhers near Douglas was probably fatally injured in-jured last Saturday while cuttingtim her one of the trees falling upon him The Carbon County Wool Growers association representingtti ownership of 330000 sheen has dcl fl to rmrov a sard of six rang riT CC o DK o the sheep ranges of h ur the purpose qf prater > m > from the deriredatior > hi vs and holdups Jack Edward reported that the Browns park bard of thieves and holdups was preparing to go into th sheep business and would probably stock Its herds by stealing from other herds Ar effective plan for keeping out Utah herds of sheen under the Wyoming inspection law has been adopted E R B Crostln a brakeman had a narrow escape from death Saturday night He was walking on top of the cars when near Red Buttes nine miles from Laramle when the train broke in two just as Crostin was stepping fn > m one car to another He fell between the cars but avoided death by throwing himself away from the wheels camp ing with two bruised feet and a badly sprained ankle Montana The entire Cree tribe of Indians who went across the boundary line and settled set-tled in Canada several years ago are returning to Montana where they propose pro-pose to remain Chief Little Bear says they will resist deportation with warfare war-fare if necessary and that the Crows will help them A crusade against the gamblers has been inaugurated at Belt Isaac Gravelle has been sentenced at Boulder to serve nine years in the penitentiary peni-tentiary for cattle stealing Missoula has experienced a good building boom during the present year The other day a Chinaman cook at the Catlin live stock ranch near Whit Sulphur Springs in preparing one of the companys fine Plymouth Rock chickens for dinner discovered a gold nugget worth between 150 and 2 in the gizzard The nugget was worn perfectly smooth and is pronounced genuine by those capable of knowing whereof they speak The report of the best yield of oats i this season comes from M Marshal on Deep creek His 15 acres produced 9t5 bushels or an average of 6523 bushels bush-els to the acre t Nevada Joseph Mutton a well known minor fell 40 feet down a shaft in the Cook Grey mine at Silver City and was fatally fa-tally injured Carson Appeal A few evenings since a man entered No 1 in this city and at once proceeded to run the establishment establish-ment He fired the landlady out of doors in her night clothes and she was compelled to take refuge in a hay yard He also beat the stuffing out of a piano pia-no with the stool smashed some furniture furni-ture and in various ways asserted his supremacy of the place The landlady says that she was unable to identify the man but thinks he was a Mason valley rancher Judge T A Stephens for many years an attorney at Virginia City died at Portland last week The White Pine grand Jury last week 4 indicted Louis Garnteraus for murder ° for killing Nora Ahern at Eberhanlt last May and J C Rodgers for manslaughter man-slaughter for the killing of Happy Jack in Cherry Creek about two weeks ago Colorado Loveland farmers have pledged themselves them-selves to raise 1640 acres of beets and a sugar beet factory is almost certain to be started in that vicinity Deputy Game Warden Wilcox has gone to the lower White river country coun-try where with five deputies he will patrol that seption and arrest the first Ute who sticks his nose over the state lineThe The folowing are some yields of grain In the upper Bear river country made this year Without irrigation Bird Mc Kinnis on ten acres received 93S bushels Al Booco had ten acres that yielded 714 bushels of oats J S Lynn received from ten acres 740 bushels of oatsFully Fully 100000 lambs are to be fed the coming winter in the Arkansas valley in Colorado and most of the stuff has already been contracted Among the leading feeders will be the Bent Ote ro Improvement company 15000 head W A and J B Colt 10000 head Colt Harsh 4000 Colt Brown 4000 all of which will be corn and alfalfa fed at Manzanola Otero county The state labor commissioner is investigating in-vestigating complaints against the Denver laundries in which it ia l alleged al-leged girls are forced to labor from 7 a m to 11 p m for 5 per week |