WKST SHOKK.
IW7
Kaiser Wilhelm inform the reichntag that the
jieaco of Europe in now assured, ami, thtrt'fttrt, ask
for more liberal appropriation fur the army ami
navy. A few month hence ho will make the name
refluent Wiuiho the country i in danger. First he
wants more butter for hid bread ami then more bread
for bin butter. How long will the (ierman jieople
stand thin needles military burden?
It baa cost the city several hundred dollar to learn
that it cannot erect a city hull on one of the plain
hloeka. Meanwhile several nionthit have panned away,
pMHrty ban increased in value and the most dcirahle
nite under connideration lm been sold. Kvery day nf
procrastination add to the final cxp-nsc, ami it in ad
vinahlc that early action ta taken in selecting a nite.
CATCHING WILD HORSES.
Tuesday night, hint, the taard of trade of IVt
land gave a grand bamiiet at the room of the Con
cordia club in honor of lion. Sol. Ilirnch, who in stall t
to proceed to bin pout an mininter to Turkey. The ae
lection of one of her citizen to (ill no imsrtant a
diplomatic M)Nition in an honor to the city, and the
bamuet wan an expression of appreciation of thin fact.
It will be unfortunate indeed if the closeness of
the vote in Montana nhall renult in a delay in the ad
minsion of the ntate into the union. Yet, if fraud ban
Wn committed at the polln, it in tatter that it remain
a territory ten year longer than that the nanctity of
the ballot, the very foundation of a republican form
of government, be violated.
Chicago gave one of the graudent tampta the
country ban ever known to the member of the pan
American congren. Nothing they have mm in the
t'niled State ha o imprenned them a did thin great
wester ctronilin. Thi occasion aill do much to
further Chicago' effort to wrure the great fair in h'.lj.
The official vote of Washington shows that
ballot were cant for the constitution and I gainnt
it; r.,.fH favored prohibition and 'MA', opened it,
1,.VJ7 for woman suffrage, 'MSH against
Secretary Windom' final decision in the matter of
admitting Mexican lead oren free ,,f duly will a.arccly
endear him to the jieople of the went
Whosay I'ortland i not up to the time when
real entate in auctioned off to the inspiring .iu of
bran Uml in full uniform ?
Montana had tatter look out or bUo mil M
the family nest ahead of tar.
51IK ncene o graphically depict! by the artint
on the two page in the center of thi number i
a common one in certain district of the went.
I In Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana
j there are a numtar of " horse ram he," here the bus
iuesn of rearing home for market in conducted tion a
some, hat mmilar plan to that of the range cattle In
dustry . These are by no mean " wild horse " in the
sense in whii h that word w used in former day In
speaking of the band of mimtang the pioneer and
trpcr found roaming the plain and valley of the
went in a slate of nature. Nor are they nidi a are
to ta found in some localities where the descendant of
Ameriean Imrsei that have strayed from their owner
ami entered upon a life of unrcstrlncd freedom are
often found living in Immls in the mountain: but
j they are the well guarded prorty of rancher, who
have jiermitted them to grow up and pick their own
living Usn the ranges, kept, however, within certain
limits by the ceaseless vigilance of their ow ners. They
are wild only In the sense that they have never l'ti
broken or subjected to any Individual restraint.
The horse breeding industry I U-eomlng a large
one in the wit, and the special excellence of the ani
mal sent to eastern market from our western bunch
grass range is fast making for them an enviable repu
tation. Our ram her have Introduced the bet strains
of blood and are doing all that careful and intelligent
breeding can do to raise sound ami marketable animals.
The scene in the engraving I a stirring one, and
represent the catching of some of these animal pre
paratory to sending them to market, with h i usually
done alien they have reached (heir second summer on
the range. Many carload of hor are thus caught
and driven to the nearest railroad station for eastern
shipment annually. It i the general custom to drive
them In a baud to the shipping "ilnl, where they are
dirtied into a corral and them raoght for branding
and shipment It may well ta imagined that this
work of "rounding up" and cad King these llerl and
gra cful animals, after a life of freedom on the c n
range for two year, Is rthilarallng and rt iliog, and
in it many incident the artist ran rind subject to
tai the inosl cunning skill of hi m il
(irneral S holli Id ha Iwued an order prohibiting
the sale of lliplor or l" r to Soldier by t trader,
and ha recommended th elbihment of raiiteem,
under the iirviloii of officer, where .n r can
i.l. tain Urr and indulgn tri tb usual club aintisctiiml
at wholesale price (Ktoer do not serin to tk
kindly to the ida of managing a r hall, and the
! sntr. il ta k favor with leader of the t germans