The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-20
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zine senatorial contest in Montana Is
very bitter. said c. C. Sloan. who has
Just come here from a. trip through tina,
Estate. There is strong feeling against
and for Senator Clark But It is not di-
yided upon political lines There are
democrats and Republicans for and
against him. The division is between the
personal and business adherents of DAILY
These. men are so wealthy that they
seem TO nave interests in every town and
county in the. state. They are the two
great controlling factors in the state in
business and in politics. and they have
| been mortal enemies for many years.
everywhere that you may go throughout
Montana you will find persons who have
business relations with these men,
4 one curious fact about the contest,
one thai hayen,t seen mentioned, is the
/ takes in it. She is bright. well edu-
Gated woman and was. before her mar
rage. a stenographer in many of the big
something of both politics and law Then
she is quite ambitious to live and shine
IN washington society. AS a result she
mas mas been &c han an ardent worker in the cause of
Clark, has been the fathers manager-and
manipulation. but many of his ideas have
Undoubtedly come from his Wife
w, II. Kirkpatrick, who is at the Gull
len hotel, having come here from Cali
iornia some weeks ago TO sell 800 high
bred rams, said yesterday that he had
succeeded. in disposing of most of his
stock 10 sheepowners of Utah.
1t was hard at first to introduce these
rams, said Mr.. Kirkpatrick last night,
but the sheepmen seem to be awakening
to the fact that the breed of sheep has as
much- 10 do with the profit as it has in
cattle. Heretofore they have been buy
ing rams for - and s. apiece. When they
were asked $50 they. were somewhat
purchase scrubs at low figures but they
can't get the best.
IT think that within a few years the
any in the country. for they seem dis
posed to get the best when they under
stand the matter. There is no reason why
this cannot become one of the greatest
sheep-raising states of the country, and it
VIII become such If the owners have re-
gard for the quality of their sheep.
They have mining camp up near
Spokane. Republic, which people of that
part of Washington think is the greatest
and most promising camp on earth" said
;. L. Stevens of Eureka at the Kenyon
last night Why. during the past year
spokane has been hotbed of stock spec
ulation aud fortunes have been made and
lost. They think they have wonderful
camp. ~ 7s.-'a
Now. In reality. there is just one mine.
the Republic. and it is paying good divi-
dends. There isn't another mine in the
district. although there are hundreds of
good prospects. Its amazing when you
think of Mercur Bingham. Eureka Tin
tic and Park City. There. no doubt. are
splendid properties in Republic but from
the way stock is bought and sold at
Spokane you would be led to think that
wealth was pouring out of the camp.
There is one thing in which they are
somewhat in advance of Utah. There are
more prospectors at work. The Colville
indian reservation is covered with pros
pectors and British Columbia, just north.
has thousands | suppose that there are
l5.O0o prospectors securing the hills
''of all the curious characters in the
Klondike," said R. n. Wilson of Mis-
souri, who has just come from Dawson.
" Niger Jim is the most curious. Jim
is an freshman whose full name is Dough-
erty. but somehow he has been called
Niger Jim and the name sticks to him.
He is one Of the most foul-mouthed. bias
phemous men l ever met and he lived
like a hog. But he had another side to ,
his character.
"A year ago he was worth a large
amount of money, some persons said
SlOc.0oe. Possibly he had that amout but I
| doubt it, Well Jim would walk about /
every man who seemed to be broke. He /
was generous to fault Any sick man /
who was discouraged could get money |
from him. He was ore of the most |
boisterouS and daring around the saloons. (
his money. went against women, faro /
bank and whisky by the hundreds of dol
Now it is said that Jim is broke At J.
any rate ne Is rather quiet il Dawson.
That is a pretty good sign that he can't [
AFFORD his old-time ways.
1T will be hard winter for the sheep
owners who have used the Ute reserva-
ton for feeding said John A. Muse of
the White Rocks agency. who is at the
Cullen. They have driven off thsir sheep
as "A consequence of che shooting ARRAY
between the Indian Mountain Sheep and
O-sen- These men feared uprising of
the Indians ard believed that there would
be promiscuouS killing of sheep herders
and scattering of their fiocks in revenge
for Olsen's act. They got away as fast
as they could go. Some of them said that
hey would drive on south TO Grand coun-
y. That will entail severe losses during
he winter. for ii Will be difficult TO drive
sheep that far when the feed is poor. If
hey don't. go south they must iced the
sheep, and that. will be very expensive.
they may go back to the reser-
'ation when the scare is over.
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smith. Delta Colo; s w. Zoimes. New
York; G, Is. Dempster. Beatrice, Neb.; +.
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III. Poole, Boston; Miss Ada MeIroSe.
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Denver; Ernest Gaylord. Manning. Utah..
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