Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-04-23

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Browns Iron Bitters. All who use il
seem pleased. We hear not one com.
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STOCK sQUlBs
Points and Items about Kansas Stock.
Watch the dogs now.
Richard Kent of Peabody, has 81 first
class fat steers.
The late warm weather has caused the
manifestation of the heel fly.
The cattle that get begged are those
which are too weak to extricate them.
selves.
Clifford & Son, at Manhattan, have fed
to cattle this Winter $4,000 bushels Of
corn.
The Salem Argus says that cattle are
doing well and horses are in fine shape
in that locality.
w. ]. Smith, of Severy, shipped one
hundred head of fine fat cattle from Sew
cry to st. Louis few days ago.
Frank Randall of Manhattan was so
unfortunate as to lose a thoroughbred
Jersey calf last week. Had it lived it
would have easily brought 500.
Peabody Gazette: Messrs. Rathbone
sold $50 head of fat steers for S. so per
100 lbs the other day. w. H. Sutphin
sold $50 head for good figure.
Daoholrv
Horn breeders in the recent combina-
ton sale $3.50 to sell their 100 animals, or
$3.50 per head. This shows that getting
up big sale is quite costly affair.
Peabody Gazette: DR.. Loose bought a
splendid Berkshire SOW at DIR. Lackey's
sale for SIS. The same night she gave
birth to seven beautiful pigs, making the
doctors Berkshires cost him less than So
a head.
Oswego Republican,: w. w. Inglish,
who had span of horses stolen from
him some six years ago, was lucky to
recognize and claim them on the street
one day last week. They were among
a lot of horses on their way West.
Cattlemen in southern Kansas are not
much concerned about the settlement
upon their ranges of grangers. The cat
tlemen consider that the grangers will
be valued agents in the procurement of
titles to the range.
Cattle on the Gorham range in Ford
county are in a fair condition. Only a
few losses have occurred there up to the
present time. There are twelve thous-
and head of cattle on this range and
there are eighteen acres of grazing land
to each head.
Ludwick Kramer of the the cattle firm
OF Kramer q Sons, whose range is on
No Mans Land" and who are holding
$4,000 head of cattle, says that the cattle
losses on their range, from the warm
season OF last year to the warm and grass
producing season of the present, will not
exceed five per cent.
Some catllemen deny that there is such
an insect as heel fly. An experienced
range stackman has informed the Dodge
City Coa0boy that he had never found one,
although thousands of times he had
seen cattle rustling at the height of their
speed for the boys to cool their fevered
feet. 1t is his theory that the annoy
ance to cattle by the oxidation from the
spines of grubs, is the cause of the crazy
actions which is popularity attributed to
the heel fly.
Manhattan Republic: The third annu-
al sale of Short-horns from VIM. P. Hig-
inbotham's Blue Valley herd was made
Wednesday. S. A Sawyer was the auc-
tioneer, who made model speech in
opening this important event. He did
not want to hear anything about "hard
times" for times were good here; Short
horn cattle would pay well, if properly
cared for, and he hoped the farmers
would improve this opportunity to get
good animals. The cattle were in fine
condition, and the sale, as whole, was
satisfactory to the proprietor. We were
pleased to see most of our prominent
stock raisers present, many coming, not
to purchase, but because of the interest
they take in cattle.
The truth of the matter is that in wes-
tern Kansas, Texas, southern Colorado
and New Mexico cattle went through the
winter in unusually fine shape. The
weather was the worst ever known. in
frigidity temperature and prolongation
OF severity, yet the good condition of the
range and the hardihood of the old rang
ers. enabled the cattle to successfully
buffet the icy blasts of the late terrible |
winter. Where range cattle had an
abundance of sea room they got along
swimmingly. The late through Texas
cattle suffered severely upon the ap-
proach of the northers and many of |
them woodbined, and the loco in some
Localities caused both horses and cattle |
to yield to the inevitable, On the whole, |
however, in the buffalo grass regions east
of the mountains, range live stock went
through the past winter in q manner sat-
sfactory to the owners. In that portion
Of the Indian territory, where the resu-
ar prairie or blue-stem grass covers the
plains, the cattle losses were heavy.
There is but little substance in prarie
.rass in winter. The buffalo grass, when
cured, is quite as nutricious in
winter as when sporting q hue of green.
Wichita Eagle: And now they have
lewfangled ways of getting married as
veil az doing almost everything else. A
Gentleman who came here q short time
go from Texas. and whose face is be-
oming quite familiar on Douglas avenue,
vas married by telegraph day before
The girl was at one end of
he wire at Dallas, Texas, while the man
vas here at the other end of the wire.
The vows were passed between the par
les which made them one. The preach
II also was in Texas. It may be very
God way to get married, but it would
Ippear to Us to be little cold. We pre-
or the old style.