The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-05
HOTEL GOSSIP.

J. D. Wood, prominent Sheep-ralSer
OF Spencer, Ida, was at the Cullen yes
terday. The wool crop is somewhat
lighter than usual" said Mr.. Wood,
owing to the severe winter and the
consequent loss of sheep, due to scar
city of feed There are about 100000
head of sheep in Fremont county, Ida,
which, of course, includes this years
lambs. From 80 to 40 per cent OF this
years lambs will be shipped to the east
for mutton, the rest will be retained as
breeders. It is estimated that $4,000
sheep were sheared this season, and as
each sheep yields about six and one
half pounds of wool, the Fremont crop
will figure close to 100000 pounds. We
usually get from u to 16 cents per
pound which means an income of $780,
00O The wool we raise is Of better
quality than that grown in England
they manufacture q better cloth than
we do, because. they mix Australian
wool with the native-grown, the latter
being the very best wool in the world,
owing to the climate in which it is
grown. Coyotes are the worst enemy
we have to deal with, being more dar-
ing and destructive to livestock than
all the other wild animals combined"
Ting the Indian depreciation cases"
said J. C. Griggs of Washington at the
Knutsfcrd yesterday. 1.-THE claims due
to the running amuck of the red man
date away back to 1856, and there are
about 11,G00 of them now filed in the
offices of the department of justice at
Washington, all of them being COM
prised in the territory west of the Mis-
souri, river. All sorts of claims are en-
tered against, the Indians for running
off livestock, the majority of them be-
ing justifiable; but now and then u case
of genuine f1im-fiam develops. The
claims are settled after being thor
oughly investigated by paying out the
money due the tribes from the govern
.ment Utah has the largest quota of
claims, arising from the time when
Black Hawk raised ructionS in the
southern part of the state. Most of the
latter had their origin at the time of the
Black Hawk war, and, of course, they
will not be allowed. as the decisions
handed down state distinctly that dep
relations committed in war times give
the sufferers no right to charge it
against the stipend paid by the govern
ment to the Indians"
Baron Rudolph Braemer of Naples,
Italy, VINO is LOurlIlS the states Will II.
A. I.oring of New York, is a guest at
the Knutsford Baron Braemer has just
returned from visit to the gold fields
Of Alaska and is on his way to Chicago
and New York. Both the baron and Mr.
Loring waxed eloquent about the push
and industry displayed in western Amer
lea, and paid a special tribute to Seattle.
Mr. Loring thinks that it is only ques-
ton of time before Chicago will be rele-
gated to third place in population and
commercial activity and its place taken
by Seattle.
Braemer said: 1T seems to me that the
American people are more alive to the
details of the Dreyfus court-martial than
all the other nations in the world. l get
all my news and a good many of my
opinions from them. | thought that |
could get away from the subject when l
went into Alaska, but, no. At Skagway
the local paper come out with the As
ISOLATED Press dispatch that | would find
in the large cities. Personally | believe
that Dreyfus is innocent of any inten-
tlonar connivance In the treason for which
he alone has suffered. Undoubtedly he
has been mixed up in the affair, but he
was duped and used as tool by Ester
hazy and other officials. All the world
believes Dreyfus an innocent man. and
the sentiment of the world will ultimately
be respected by France, though at pres
ent France is utterly indifferent to what
Dreyfus will not be acquitted by the
court-martial. but he will have another
trial in the court cessation, and will be
adjutged innocent by it. Both Italy and
Germany know the entire details of the
case and they could set Dreyfus at liber
ments that would result would complicate
the already. treacherous state of affairs