The indicator., 1897-02-20
WESTERN NEWS NOTES.

woman suffrage hill hns been defeated
In the Montana Legislature.
San Francisco police arrested 800 Chinese
gamblers one night last week
Miller Park has been decided upon ns tue
site for the Omnhn exposition.
Farmers are plowing and sowing wheat In
the Espnnola valley. New Mexico
The bill to create the new Washington
county was defeated In the New Mexico
Legislature.
The Kansas House of Representatives has
passed bin abollshlng the metropolitan
police system In the cities.
Reports from billings Montana, say that
the Burlington is contemplating an cXten-
sion of Its line into the kootrnui mining re
glon.
Consideration has been caused in the Kan
sas House by Speaker Street, who ignored
the Republicans and refused to recognize
them, giving the tUor only to Fopulists'
This was the result of Republican tiibuster.
ing.
Jesse Mercer. II special agent Of the In
terror department. has been IN the vicinity
Of Lusk, Wyoming, notifying ranchm"n who
have government land fenced to which they
have no title to remove the fences from the
same.
AT o O'Clock Tuesday night brigham city
Utah, WAS visited by the heaviest earthquake
shock ever experienced In the valley. 1t
was 50 severe TINT the bell in the court
house tapped hv" or six times. The shock
was felt as far north as Logan.
Hon. Robert Taylor of Casper Wyoming
is feeding 5000 sheep on his ranch near
Grand Island Nebraska which he Will cx
port direct to the Liverpool market next
spring. Mr.. Taylor has for several years
relied upon foreign market with great sue
cess.
Mayor Jones OF Kansas city has vetoed
the bill passed by the council permitting tho
consolidation Of the two local gas companies.
His chief reason is that inasmuch ns the
city has n right under both franchises TO buy
the plants, the consolidation Will force the
city to pay for duplicate machinery aud
mains.
A snow slide In Cottonwood canon. Utah,
struck the cabin occupied by Andrew An
derson. John Anderson and Andrew Miller
bnrylng the men under tons of snow After
six hours work Andrew Miller and John
Anderson We're taken out badly bruised. but
not dangerously hurt, The dead body OF
Andrew Anderson was recovered an hour
later.
Secretary Francis has issued an order re-
storing to the Union Pacific lands pending
patent To the status occupied under the
ing the lands of the road to be patented
where shown 10 have been sold to bona flde
purchasers and liking the aiiidavits Of two
persons familiar with the facts as sufficient
to show bona h1c purchase.
Preparations are being made to make the
new town of Woolton, Wyoming the largest
sheep and wool camp In the state. steam
sllcarlng plant is being put up which con
slsts of forty shears or clipping machines
run by steam and each one handled by an
experienced man. To the present time lO5
900 sheep have been registered for shearing
during the coming season. The wool clip at
the new town will exceed i.0ooOo0 pounds
for 1897
A few days ago an N-ray examination was
made in Chicago for the purpose OF locating
n bullet supposed to be lodged in the thigh
of Hon. A. II. Reel, a prominent Wyoming
stockman. Mr.. Reel received the bullet
wound over thirty years ago in a tight with
Indians. The N-ray examination showed
that the bullet had been broken into seven
fragments, all embedded In the thigh bone.
An operation to remove them will not he
performed.
County Commissioner George f. Butler of
Elmorc county. Idaho. who was thought to
have been lost in suowsli1c between Rocky
Bar and Atlanta has turned up. He had
most remarkable escape. being caught by
the slide but managed to keep from being
buried. He was carried down n long dis
tance, but finally managed to reach protcc-
tion from the moving mass Of snow. When
he was able to travel he started home,
where he appeared two days later.
Colin Cameron and $. Price Behan, the
Arizona sanitary commissioners, appeared
before the New Mexico board in an effort to
have the quarantine against Arizona cattle
removed. They assert that Arizona cattle
are healthy and have agreed to submit the
matter to the investigation OF the Bureau
of Animal Industry. Upon the statement OF
the Arizona commissioners the New Mexico
board lifted the quarantine except against
Maricopa Pnnl and Yuma. The fate OF
these counties depends on the report OF the
agent of the department of Agriculture.
Colonel w. II. Root of Laramie who is
one of the largest exporters of wild animals
in the West has just received an order from
Berlin, Germany. for n carload OF elk ant
lers weathercl and otherwise. These horns
can be obtained by the wagon load In the
north end of Albany county. where In early
days the Indians made their annual roundup
of this game. slHughterinr thousands for
winter use Mr.. Root has been offered "A
good price for the antlrrs, provided he can
ill the contract The horns will he used by
the Berlin firm in making the handles OF
ments
bold hold-up and robbery occurred at
Williams the Atlantic n Pncthc. A
Altman. proprietor of the Williams hotel
and general merchant. was about to close
up store when masked man entered anu
covered him, his wife and two men with n
six.shooter The robbcr then placing gunny
sacks over their heads. proceeded To rifle
their pockets obtaining from Mr., Altman
over 800 in money. The robber then backed
out of the place aud disappeared In the
darkness The people OF Williams are
thoroughly aroused. and posses of men are
ont securing the country In the hope of cap
turing the bold outlaw.
brigham Young says the Mormons of titan
have found that they can 50 handle the up
land mesns, which in an early dny were re
..nrded as worthless, In such manner as TO
practically insure good crops. That ny
plowing the land in the fall six or eight
inches In depth. then in each furrow run
ming a subsoil plow, one which would mere
lv lift and crack np the subsoil, but not
turn 1t mp. reservoir Is made IN which the
winter rains and SHOWS are stored mp. Thus
enough moisture Is impoundcd to carry crops
through the summer without further irrign-
ton ON soil prepared they have raised
sixty to seventy bushels of wheat To the
acre. Where they can run the surplus water
onto such land in winter. giving 1t good
winter irrigation. thus lusuring the full sat
uration of the land, almost any crop is as
sured without further watering. There are
many instances where very successful or
chards have been planted out and grown IN
this way and the plan will work very sue
full ba buX Xp la utl-