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Wild Horses Are Overrunning the
National Forests.
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ARE A MENACE TO PROPERTY
Any On Who Finally Dlicoveri
. Method to StUiThl Problem
Will Have Done Great Service to
Stockmen of Every Western State,
From the New York Tribune.
Wild hones by the thousand are
overrunning the government Nation
al Korcistn of Nevada and neighbor
ing states, and the authorities in
Washington 'are besieged with peti
tions from stockmen and farmers
begging them to put a slop to the
nuisance. A recent dispatch from
Reno conveyed the intelligence that
there are fifteen thousand of the un
tamed beasts upon the Toiyabe,
Toquina and Monitor forest reserves
in Landor County alone, and that
orders have been received by the for
est rangers to begin a systematic war
of extermination upon them. This
dispatch, although twisted as to facts,
does not exaggerate the number of
horses now supposed to be roaming
at large in the districts mentioned.
As a matter of probable truth there
are a good many more than fifteen
thousand wild horses in Nevada and
the neighboring states, and every
herd is a pest to the owners of vege
tation and domestic stock.
That part of the Reno telegram
which is not true is that relating to
the orders sent from Washington.
Neither the forest rangers nor any
other employees of the government
have been told to destroy the horses,
and unless they do receive such
orders they will confiine their ener
gies to fencing crops from the tres
passing animals or rounding them up
when they appear and threaten dam
age to the range. Indeed, if half the
stories brought to the capital are
true, all the rangers in Uncle Sam's
service would have little chance of
destroying the big herds that are
roaming over the Western states.
Within the last few years they have
increased to such an extent that in
many localities they are classed as
"varmints," with wolves, wildcats
and grizzlies, and every man's rifle
is turned against them. No fence is
strong enough to stop these horses,
and when they appear in force they
have been known to knock down and
kill cows and calves. After each
visitation from a herd the ranchman
is likely to mourn the loss of his do
mestic horses, and it requires only
a few days' association with their
new companions for the best broken
animals to become as wild as their
nomadic comrades.
A study of the wild horse problem
brings to light many interesting facts
about the animals. The Legislature
of Nevada, it seems, passed a law
pinany years ago. specifically allowing
hunters to shoot wild horses and to
sell their hides for what they could
get in the open market. The law
opened the way to a new and unus
ual industry, and many men found
the killing of wjlf Jiorsjs very profit
able. ; Besides tht work wai exciting
and gave the business the added zest
pf sport., V . ' i
As time went on and the business
of killing these "outlaws" (as the
wild horses were termed) on the
ranges assumed greater and greater
proportions, stockmen found that the
professional hunters were, in , many
cases abusing their rights and were
killing branded and shod horses.
This put. an end to the business, for
on complain! of the stockmen the Ne
vada Legislature promptly repealed
the law. It is estimated that 15,000
animals were killed during the time
that the law was In force.', This fig
ure gave the basis for last week's
story. ,
The report, however, had good
basis of fact, for the wild horse ques
tion has grown to be as serious in
the last few years as it was when the
Nevada Legislature was forced to
enact the old law. The United States
forest service has not given orders
for the killing of a single horse be
cause it has no right to do so. The
forest officers of the Nevada national
forests realize how bad conditions
are, and will do anything to assist
the stockmen to put down the nuis
ance. ' '
Any one who finally discovers an
effective method to settle this pro
blem will have done a great service
for the stockmen of every state west
of the Missouri River. As an old
and experienced stockman, now in
the employ of Uncle Sam, said of
this wild horse problem: "Theoreti
cally it seems a very simple matter
to handle, but practically it is quite
the reverse." On the ranges of many
of the national forests the supervis
ors have been at their wits' ends for
several years trying to devise meth
od to meet the difficulty. Apparent
ly an entirely satisfactory method
can not be found because of the in
adequate estray laws now enforced
in the different states. Under the
circumstances, the following plan has
been recommended to meet the con
ditions in the national forests:
"It the presence of the horses is
seriously damaging the national for
est range and public sentiment favors
such action, the supervisor may, upon
petition of a majority of the permit
tees of a grazing district, allow the
horse to be gathered and disposed of
according to the state or territorial
laws. In such cases the forest ser
vice will, upon recommendation from
the supervisor, co-operate in the con
struction of corrals or fences for the
purpose of capturing the horses.
"Forest officers may drive unper
mitted horses from the national for
ests at any time, but if the owners
of the horses are known and owner
ship acknowledged the owner should
be allowed to adjust the matter by
paying the grazing fee. If he re
fuses to apply for a permit, then a
trespass charge should be brought
against him and the case conducted
according to instructions.
"Unbrandcd horses may be hand
led according to the state estray laws
but forest officers can not be allowed
to gather such horses for the purpose
of using or selling them, nor can they
be allawcd to collect any remunera
tion from any persan for corralling
unclaimed horses. The policy of the
forest service will be, therefore, to
co-operate with the stockmen of the
state or territorial authorities when
they take the initiative in disposing
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Mystery Concerning the Identity
of Eugene Harrach.
CLAIMS TO BE A NOBLEMAN
The Youthful Prisoner Wat Arrested
at the Regina Hotel on a Felony
Accusation of Signing His Name to
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 2. The
mystery concerning the identity of
Eugene Harrach, the youthful pris
oner arrested at the Regina hotel
yesterday on a felony accusation of
signing his name to a fictitious check
for $640 in payment for automobile
hire, is puzzling the local police and
the acting Austro-Hungrian consul,
Karl Ruiz de Rozas.
Harrach asserts that he is Eugene
Othmar Count Von Harrach, one of
the richest noblemen of the Austrian
empire. He also claims to be related
to the family of Count Otto Von
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supposed desperado slain in a fight
with a posse of officers at Willows.
The police admit there may be sev
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well's identity.
In the meantime Harrach is de
tained in jail pending the investiga
tion now being made by the police
as to his identity. The prisoner
has spent some eight weeks in this
city, living at one of the leading
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All of his hotel bills, amounting to
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CONGRESS TO PAY RANSOM.
WASHINGTON, April, 2.-Presi-dent
Rosevelt and Secretary Root
want Congress to reimburse the citi
zens of the United States who raised
of wild horses in the national forests,
but the present laws and regulations
do hot admit of independent action
by the forest service.
The wild horse problem is only one
of the many which stockmen have to
contend with which the government
is trying in one way or another to
solve on the ranges of the national
forests. Predatory animals, such as
wolves, coyotes, mountain lions and
wildcats, do thousand of dollars'
worth of damage to stock each year
in all parts of the country. On some
ranges forest officers have to con
tend with rustlers, who . sometimes
succeed in stealing the great part of
the stock which the predatory ani
mats do not kill. Poisonous plants
are another nuisance which give the
stockmen considerable trouble in
many parts of the country.
Uncle Sam has always shown
disposition to co-operate with the
stockmen in combating these nui
sances: in fact, he is doing better
than merely meeting the stockmen
half way in the work. On many of
the national forest ranges for the last
year rangers and guards have been
assigned to the work of hunting and
trapping, with the sole aim of kill
ing on tne animals that prey upon
stock. The work has met with mark
ed success, and hundreds of wolves
and coyotes have succumbed to the
bullets and the poison of the hunters,
Each animal killed means a decided
saving to the sheep industry, for it is
estimated that one wolf averages
about $1,000 damage each year.
Forest ofheers are co-operating
with the stock associations to stop
the stealing of livestock and run the
rustlers out of the country. . The
i war on poinonous plants has been
! carried on for more than a year by
I the forest service, in co-operation
i with the bureau of plant industry,
I and, while the investigations have
just been begun, it is already seen
that their growth can be checked in
many states.
If it is possible to check the wild
horse nuisance as easily as the other
troubles which have bothered the
stock interests, both the stockmen
and forest officers will find the. West
ern ranges rid of another serious
drawback which helps to retard pro
gress in the business. ' j
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