Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-03
Live Stock Growers.

DopaE CRY, Has, April 1.-The third
annual meeting of the Western Kansas Cat
tie Growers association convened here to-
day. At Sp. m. President A. H. Mccoy
Called the meeting 10 order ana
made short but very interesting statement.
Little business WAS transacted owing to the
absence Of several of the executive commit.
tee, who are expected here in the morning.
Brief addresses were made on the condition
of the cattle industry of the west by such
gentlemen rs Hon. Edward Russell, of Law
renee, Kas., Maj. w. A. Towers, promi-
nent stockman of the neutral strip or No
Mans Land, as well as the vice president OF
the association, Mr.. Arthur Graham, who
at considerable length gave some facts
connected with the losses sustained by
stockmen holding range cattle for the win
ter Just past. Other gentlemen followed.
Upon the whole the loss on stock belonging
to this association is not near SO great
as MANY were led To believe. The attend
ance is larger than at any preceding meet
ing, while stockmen from the surrounding
states and territories are in attendance.
The members holding cattle in the neutral
strip are very anxious that their local rights
be not only recognized by encroschng
stockmen but in manner protected
by the association. 1t has been
also whispered about that their effort
will be to make one united association
under the Western Cattle Growers sssoeia-
ton with the Panhandle association. These
combined would run up to 1901 900 head
of cattle, valued at SIS, 900. Ii is claim
ed that the interests of tho two associations
are fully identified with each other and the
expense could be materially lesseued on
both. The Texas trail, or the national
highway, will again claim its proportionate
share Of time in the convention. Many now
claim that national trail is in fact prefera-
BILE to the indiscriminate drive and shipping
all over the country whereby the entire
southern portion of the state is exposed to
through Texas stock or coast cat
tie. Local ranchmen both in the In
dian Territory and in the neutral
strip on lands, in the discrimination OF the
legislation had a feeling that the stock in
dustry has been very much crippled. both
in and outside of the state, 30 far rs the
range stock interests are concerned, by the
general quarantine laws Of the several states
surrounding the Indian Territory, the Pan
handle of Texas and the Neutral strip
which localities boast of as finely improved
stock as any portion of the State of Kansas
can boast Of. The celebrated Dodge City
cowboy band we're on hand, and
enlivened the proceedings with an oc-
casional selection, each time being warmly
eneored. This is the band that attended
the national stock meeting at St Louis last
fall, and won much celebrity Oh that occa-
sion. Col. d. n. Frost, Of the Globe Live
Stock Journal, of this place, Capt B. Row
lev, of the Kansas City Journal, and Tick
man, Of the Kansas City Live Stock Indica-
tor, A. Bennett, of the Garden City Irriga-
tor and Live Stock Journal, Col. s. s.
Prouty, Of the Kansas Cowboy, and the yet
eran journalist of the state, wers present q
the reporter table. The nesting then 3D.
journsd until tomorrow ct 10 O'clock