The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1899-08-12
NEWS FROM THE
WESTERN REGION.

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rail from Oregon to Montpelier, Idaho,
and trailed into Wyoming from that
place; j. X. Fitzwater, 1000; Barker
Bros, 5000; E. Boettcher. 1900; w.
j. Blake, 1900; L. P. Southworth, 20
900; Platte Valley Sheep company. 30
600 head. These sheep will nearly all
be driven over what is known as the
Lander trail and will be ranged in
various parts of the state. About 49,
600 will be ranged in Central Wyo-
ming, about $4,000 will go to the Lar
annie Plains, and the remainder will
go to the Big Horn basin. Sheepmen
or the state are apprehensive that the
advent of many sheep into the state
will result in serious ~overcrowding of
the ranges.
The summer session of the Colorado
Editorial Association met at Glenwood
on the 23rd. AT the afternoon roll-call
the following were found to be pres
ent: Halsey M. Rhoads. Press, Den
yer; w. P. Kennedy and wife. Re
yellle, Rifle; e. Price, A. G.. Newton,
Press, Denver; w. P. Kennedy and
wife, News, Grand Junction; f. A.
Haimbaugh, Sentinel, Denver; L. H.
Johnson, Herald-Democrat, Leadville;
Howard T. Lee and wife, Republican,
lVlver; ]. l.. Berry, Facts, Colorado
Springs; c.. f. Liggett, Press, Sheridan
Lake; Leo Vincent and wife, Represen-
tative, Boulder; A. Roberts and wife,
Press, Montrose: S. ID. BrosiuS and
wife, Mail, Pueblo; w. L. Thorndyke
and wife, Reporter, Loveland; A. G..
Sechrist, Times, Wray; ]. d. Lawless
and wife, Sparks, Lamar; c. o. Finch,
Journal, Castle Rock; w. e. PabOr,
Grand Junction; G. T. Rawalt, Cham
pion, GunnisOn: j. F. Greenawaldt,
Tribune, Florence; Howard Russell,
Express, Fort Collins; George o. Blake,
Star, Grand Junction. At the afternoon
session the following program was car
ried out: Special and Boom Editions"
L. s. Lawless of the Lamar Sparks,
who took the position that such did not
pay. Needed Legislation was fully
treated by G. T. Rawalt of the Gunni-
son Champion, who explained that
much of h legislation desired by
newspaper men was defeated for the
sole want of time, the local legislator
paying more attention to local bills
than to the passage of general laws.
Howard Russell of the Fort Collins
Express gave a review on the topic,
docs Foreign Advertising Pay?" His
hS Wtle t1OIOUSIIlN ulSClSSpu.
and the general opinion prevailed that
it was best to let the foreign adver-
tiser alone. At the evening session w.
E. Pabor read a poem and Mrs. e. A.
Ihayer delivered a paper entitled 1.-THE
Publisher and the Country Editor"
She was followed in a short address by
Congressman Shafroth.
In response to a protest sent to the
secretary of agriculture by John Clay,
Jr., of Cheyenne, in connection with
the orders issued by the Department OF
the Interior, prohibiting the grazing on
government forest reservations, and
particularly the order relating to graz
ing on the Uintah reservation, which
been used by sheep owners
of Wyoming, Colorado and Utah, the
following has been written by the sec
retury of the interior, Hon. E.A. Hitch
cock: "The Uintah forest reserve en-
braces both slopes of the Uintah
mountains in northern Utah and the
northern slope only of the western part
of this range These mountains are
covered with valuable forests Of
spruce that protect the sources of sew
eral large streams which eventually
discharge into Green river, those flow
ing nOrthward from the range being
already utilized for irrigation. There
is a large agricultural population i'm
mediately adjacent to the reserve who
find it their only local timber supply
and the chief source of water supply
for irrigation purposes. Both of these
supplies would be endangered by sheep
grazing, which the experience of the
department shows is one of the most
prolific sources of forest fires, such
fires being often started by the shep-
herds in autumn to clear the ground
in the autumn and improve the growth
of forage plants the following year. or
by their carelessness in not eXtinguish-
ing camp fires. Sheep grazing has also
been found injurious to the forest Gov.
er, polluting the source of water sup.
ply, and therefore of serious conse-
quence in regions where the rainfall
is limited. The point made that the
sheep men should have had timely no.
tice is without force in view of the
fact that this order was issued two
years ago, practically, and was given
wide publication and circulation in the
papers at that time. The department
is being flooded with applications to
pasture sheep in forest reservations.
but as yet nc departure has beer MIA
IN / III
1897, which were given careful consid-
Grafton before their issuance"
Alfred Packer, the imam eater" has
lost his case in the Supreme Court. The
pardon board is now the only possible
means for him to escape serving out
his forty-year penitentiary sentence.
The case decided by the court on the
10Th was an appeal from the Gunnison
COUNTY District Court. This is the
fifth time that this cast has been be-
fore the Supreme Court in one form
or another. In the District Court of
Hinsdale county, at the April term,
1883, five separate indictments were
returned against Alfred Packer, charg-
ing him with the murder of Israel
Swan, Shannon Wilson Bell, Frank
Miller, George Noon and James Hum
phrey. The Swan Indictment was
filed April 6th,~and the other fsur
April Z, 1883. On the 9th of April.
Packer was arrested ON the charge of
killing Swan. He pleaded not guilty,
but on April 18th was convicted of
murder in the first degree, and on the
same day the court sentenced him to
be hanged May 10Th. Later the SEN
tence was set aside and the cause re-
versed, upon the ground that the sec
lions of the criminal code prescribing
the punishment for murder were re-
pealed by the Legislature, without q
saving clause, after the crime was
committed and before the conviction
was had. The case was remanded for
a new trial for ~manSlaughter, included