Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-09-12

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Hiawatha World: The hogs that died
in this county during the past six weeks,
were worth several thousand dollars.
At last the wool grower is told the price
of wool is slightly on the advance. 1t has
been the other way 80 long that this will
be gratifying news.
About one hundred thousand head of
cattle have been along the Colorado-K Kan
sas line this season; q greater part Of this
number went to northern ranges.
GALLOWAY cattle in the future mustsup-
ply Americans with robes, to take the
place of buffalo robes. Their shaggy
maine makes good substitute.
The Galloway cattle company in Ed
wards county own thirty thousand acres
of land; it is not all in a body, but cut up
into pastures that will range from two to
three thousand head of cattle.
Local cases of hog cholera are reported
in Douglas, Brown, Ottawa, Harper,
Sedgwick and Lyon counties. In very
many cases the disease has been traced
to stockers shipped in from other states.
Dodge City Globe: The yell of over
crowded ranges in no way stops cattle
being driven into range countries; If there
is any place they can in any way be held,
some other war cry will have to be
adopted.
The postofices in Kanaasin which the
special delivery system will be put in
operation the 1st of October are Atchison,
Emporia, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Otta-
wa, Parsons, Topeka. Wichita and Wyan-
dotte.
Dodge City Globe: There is money in
feeding cattle, not only for our own
butchers but those west of here. There
is plenty of corn in the county, and the
demand for fat beef will be greater this
winter than ever before in western Kan
sas.
Halstead Independent: N. L. Hinshaw
has lost seventy.five head of hogs with
cholera, within the past two weeks. Mr..
Hinshaw is but one of large number of
farmers and stock raisers in this vicinity,
who have had their droves depleted by
this scourge.
The packing houses at Kansas City
complain of the bruised up condition Of
hogs they buy, and say the injury is gen.
orally given before they arrive at Kansas
City. The marks of the whip and prod
poles show on the hogs after being butch
cred, and Injuries the pork in quality and
price. Shippers should remember this
in driving or loading hogs.
Fisher Brothers sheep ranch, in Elk
county, has 5000 sheep which, at the
shearing this season, averaged eight
pounds of wool to the head. The wool
was bought by the house of j. Schott &
Co., of st. Louis. The ranch has $500
acres and will be added another thous-
and thereto within short time. The
wool sold for 18 cents and is from the
best Merino stock. The sheep on this
ranch are wintered by corn, and average
better, perhaps, than any herd in the
state. The proprietors are about to add
a few Texas mares to their stock.
Dodge City Cowboy: A new weed has
on the neutral strip and vicin-
ity, which seems to have similar effect
on horses which have eaten it as the
loco weed. It is smaller plant than
the loco, has longer and more pointed
leaves, and is of dark green color. The
color of the loco is pale blue. George
Anderson says there is quite quantity
of this new weed in his horse pasture,
but not enough loco to harm even a colt.
His horses have the appearance of hav-
ing been locoed, and thinks their con-
dition must have been occasioned by
their eating this new weed. The boys
call it "new loco"
The board of Kansas school funds COM
missioners held q protracted session the
other day in the office of thestate suprin-
teldent. A large amount of bonds issued
by the various school districts of Kansas,
to many thousand dollars, we're
purchased by the board of investment in
the permanent school fund, embraced
in which were $4,000 of the $4,000
school bond recently issued by the city
of Topeka. These bonds are purchased
by the board at par, the law STIMULATING
that the commission shall not invest in
any bonds which, with the entire in
shall exceed ten per cent OF
the assessed valuation of said municipal.
ties, in cities or six per cent, in country
districts.
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