Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-09-25
srOCR sQUTBs.
Points and Items About Kansas Stock.


Beef cattle are becoming scarce in
Doniphan county
The stock exhibit at the State Fair is
said TO have been one Of the finest ever
shown In the State.
Hartford Call: S. B. Lawrence lost two
head of horses, Monday, valued at So, 600,
from being fOundered on rye.
Wamego Reporter: J. H. Squires re-
Gently sold q grade calves at $40 per
head. A pretty good price this.
Hogs are being driven into Labette
county from Arkansas to be fattened on
the abundant corn Of that section.
Manhattan Republic: Miller Brothers
have a five-mOnths calf that weighs five
hundred pounds. 1t is a ShOrthorn.
The cattle shipping business at
Dodge City Is resuming, and the num-
Der Of shipments will be as large as last
year.
The fraudulent entries Of Government
land in Kansas in 1888 Is estimated at
1000 acres. The greatest frauds are on
the great stock ranges.
Hays City AdUocase: A steer was bit
ten by a rattlesnake on one of our ranch
Z
| ing a pOultice Of soda and onions to the
bite.
Dodge City C0lg5oy: A mule entered
/ one of our saloons, one night this week,
/ and walked leisurely and indiferently
/ through the room, from rear to front,
and emerged through the front door.
| The mule died that night.
Dodge City C0lU50u Fill a car full OF
anything that breatnes the breath of life,
and let it starve for water forty-eight
/ hours in August, and it is liable to have
! the Texas fever, or some other sort OF
fever.
/ Caldwell Journal: The editor of the
/ KiOWa Herald owned a yoke Of cattle
and they died of Texas fever last week,
now he is strongly in favor of keeping
| southern cattle out of Barber county at
all seasons Of the year.
Several 1000 head Of cattle viii be
| Wintered and corn fed in Washington
county this year. This is a thing seldom
! done in this county, but the extraOrdi-
nary low price Of corn makes such a
thing as this profitable this year.
The stockmen who exhibited their
animals at the State Fair failed to at
/ tend the Interstate Fair at Kansas City
/ They held a meeting IN Topeka and con-
demned the management of the Kansas
| City Fair for the meagTeness of the pre-
miums which they offered for stock ex-
/ hibits, and formed a combination by
/ which they all refused to show their
/ stock there at all this year.
FL Dorado Republican: Frank Kale
and M. 81. Warner came to town from
the North a few days ago with two steers
which they offered to sell to w. E.
Smith at a price under the market value.
He gave them So and in the meantime
notified Sheriff DOdsOn who arrested the
parties and put them in Jail. Sending
out North it was discovered that the cat
tie were taken from Mr.. ii. r. Nicker-
sons ranch in Chase county, and it was
afterwards discovered that the horses
they were riding were stolen in Douglas
county. AS District Court is in session
4 it is presumed they will both 60 to the
penitentiary soon after Court adjOurns.
St. John Aduance: The good old COW
has paid of more mortgages and paid
| for more farms than any other known
product. She is the mother of all our
beef. In many a household she catches
I the wolf on her horns and losses it far
from the door. She has turned the tide
Of our agricultural prosperity in many
parts of the country, from a downward
S-'~L-E7C III 4cLAo--4s all u GOLtO-4 ~
upward and prosperous one in raising
stock, grass and hay. Flowers and grass
( spring from beneath her feet on the
most barren soil. The old COW don't
stop to enthUse over them, but converts
them into good, solid, hard cash.
A meeting of the Marion county Pro
teCtive StOCkmens' Association was held
recently. The Immediate object of the
meeting was to consider the hog cholera
situation, and reports from the infected
/ farms were made by various persons,
showing that the disease which was i'm
ported from Missouri last Winter, and
which it was supposed in the Spring had
been stamped out, has broken out again
on several farms near by, and has re-
suited in the death of several hundred
hogs. An animated discussion of the
situation ensued. Lawyers Boyle and
DOster explained the legal aspects Of the
situation, from which it appeared that
there Is no means of QuaranCining against
the plague, but it seems that civil dam
ages can be obtained from parties who
are responsible for the spread Of the dis
ease, by neglect or by selling the In
fected swine. It was urged that all hogs
dying be Immediately burned, before
buzzards, dogs, or other birds or animals
could spread the disease from the car
cases.