Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-02-07
STOCK sQUIBs.
Points and Items About Kansas Stock.

Points and Items About Kansas Stock.
Kinsley Mercury: Stock of all kinds is
doing we'll IN the neighborhOOd Of Tren-
ton, and considerable feed will be left
after Springs opens.
DIR. A. M. Callahan of Topeka has a
fine Galloway bull and two Galloway
COWS for which he paid 81 900 a year ago,
when one of the COWS was yearling.
Dodge City Democrat: The Washita
Cattle Co. have bought about 5000 head
of different ages from John T. Lytle, to
be delivered at Dodge. Terms private.
Col. J. M. Lewis. Edwards county, is
on his way to New York to purchase
grade Jersey COWS for his dairy. The Col
is selling his butter at 80 cents per pound
regularly.
Chase County Leader Jas. Van Vech-
ten sold and delivered to J. @. Scroggins,
on Tuesday, 200 fat sheep. He still has
between five and six hundred, in excel
lent condition.
Florence Herald: Cattle in some of the
counties are dying from the effects of a
disease called "WOlf tail" We have not
heard Of any cattle being affected in this
manner in this county.
Manhattan Nationalist: John Dial, re-
ports that his cattle have done unusual
! ly well this year. He has just sold two
car loads of cattle and hogs to a Kansas
City man, at good figures.
Medicine Lodge C,'esset: Our friend
Henry Ingraham has been particularly
unfortunate with his horse stock for the
past few weeks, having lost fivegOod hor-
ses with the disease which is prevailing
throughout this section.
LIE Roy Reporter: C. A. Mather shipped
a carload of hogs on last Tuesday, fifty
of which averaged 327 pounds. One,
which he bought of Lank Thomas,
weighed $50 pounds. Peter Weimer also
| shipped carload the same day.
CoOboy Bazine item: Cattle in this To-
cality that have been left to ''rustle" are
| looking thinner than usual for this time
of year, and I opine that before spring it
will be general admitted on the range
that the late fall rains damaged the grass
not little.
In the Southwestern part of Crawford
county, what the farmers call "hog chol
era" has lately been causing considerable
loss. A Mr.. Jordan, near McCune, has
lost one hundred head, and a neighbor
Mr.. Cox, eighty head. Others have suf
fered cOrrespondingly.
Medicine Lodge Cresset: The encour
aging report comes from various parts o
the range that there is a worm that il
working on the root Ofthe dreaded locC
plant and gradually getting away with it
Long may the loco worm wave. If i
continues to get it's work in it will bea
any legislative enactment that was eve
thought of.
Leavenworth Times: All meetings thi
week are at the Presbyterian church
Sunday was the best day of the serie
thus far. During the day some fort,
came forward as lnquirers, beside tn
many at the young folks and children
meeting. The interest is deepening am
widening, and christians are prayin
: that the whole city may be moved. I
, they perseyere the citizens of Leaven
worth will see the power of God mani
tested most Enthusiastically. Evangelis
Leonard is liked by all.
Carbondale Independent, Plumb Cree
items: The Dunkards hold meeting one
in a while in the school house. The
: sive and unprogressive. The latter sti
hold to the old ideas their forefathel
/, fought; the former are more awake to tn
spirit of the age, and take a broader an
, more liberal view of affairs pertaining t
this world. In the onward march
science and forethought,. they all wi
ultimately progress beyond the preseI
conditions that bind them.