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Show BIRDS OF PASSAGE. The Comments on Wyoming's Cow Fight Calls for a Reply from a Cattle Owner Himself. LOCAL VALUES OF REAL ESTATE. How They Can be Improved by the Citizens Citi-zens Themselves The Way to Make a Successful Fight in Behalf of the silver Dollar. "I delect some reflections iu your issue of yesterday," said Ben Ward who is among other Wyoming visitors to the city at this time, "and I want to correct them. Your man has made it appear that the cowboys have been taught the principle of branding mavericks whereas the truth is they have branded them on their owu volition and to at comolish a selfish purpose. That purpose has been to create a herd of their owu and to lay the foundation for quitting their job. In the first place I am a cattleman myself and I know of what I am talking. The bad weather has placed ua in a very peculiar condition. It has forced us to a reduction of salaries, it has made us hunt for cheaper labor and without any justification on the part of the cowboys they have quitted their jobs and employment. We had no appeal and when they say it was voluntary they have simply lied." "The idea that real estate has declined because be-cause there is not sufficient money seeking profitable investment," said J. C. Mason in the lobby of the KuuUford hotel this morning, morn-ing, "is a follv as profound as any ever was uttered. The truth is that the city is now called on to do as much for capital as capital cap-ital has done for the city, and until that is done you cannot expect any patronage from the outside." "The fight," says John T. Spaulding, who is among the visitors to the city today, "in behalf of the silver dollar, has settled down to the efforts that are to be made by the individual in-dividual and not the masses. The work In congress has taught us that no reliance is to be placed in our representatives, no matter how emphatic the instructions may be to our representatives, and the sooner we take the matter in our personal hands the better for us." "How do you propose to do it?" "Simply on a matter of subscription. What we want today is a fund of $100,000 with which to compensate a half dozen or more good men to whom we cau say, buy congressmen if it be necessary. a m m |