Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-03-14
STOCK ITEMS.
Points and Items About Kansas stock.


from Randolph, POttOWatOmje county.
passed through the city recently on his
way to northern Illinois In pursuit Of
one Silas Griffith a former sheriff of
POttOWatOme county, and recently a cat
tie dealer of that locality, who on the
DIST ult., sWindled the farmers of POttO-
WatOmie and Riley counties out of two
solid train loads Of cattle, Of the value of
about $4,000. Griffith, after his retire
ment from Office year or two ago, began
to deal in cattle in a small way and
managed to accumulate admitted capital.
He was regarded as good by the farmers
with whom he dealt, and his credit was
comparatively unlimited. Week before
last he began to tell it about that he had
received private pointers that cattle was
going to take a jump, and with this story
IN his mouth he was able to offer ad-
vanCed prices and buy every hOOf in
the neighborhoCd. To make his
credit more solid he exhibited a
letter from the German Bank Of
LeavenWOrth and proposed thatthe farm
him to Kansas City and receive what
was due each when he sold the
cattle. This arrangement was accord
iDgly made and an agent agreed upon
by the farmers to 60 with Griffith. The
cattle were loaded upon the cars, driven
to Hanover, on the B. & NJ, we believe,
and shipped to Kansas City. The agent
stuck to Griffith all the way on the trip
and at Kansas City followed him faith
fully, and Witnessed the sale of the cat
tie and saw the money paid in cash.
When it came time to settle Griffith was
perfectly willing and even anxious,
which totally disarmed the agents sus-
PIGEONS if he had any, and he proposed
to put 1t of until morning when the
bank opened. That night Griffith lit
out for parts unknown, and the agent
travelled west to make his report to his
friends. OF course everybody was indig-
nant, and the agent (WhO was among the
losers, was abused. Finally a meeting
Of the creditors was called, rewards Of
fered and officers started in pursuit Of
the abscOnder. Among the losers are
John A. Johnson, 81, 900; Peter Johnson,
81 300; Victor Johnson, 81 900; Martin
COmfOrd, $l,700; John Booth, $500. A.
w. Seibert; 81 600: Sol Secrest, $500; Ed
Secrest, 81. 200.
CoObOg: Mr.. Longendyke, who has
heretofore been an advocate of sorghum
as feed for cattle has changed his views
on that question. He now believes that
the best and safest feed for cattle is
either prairie hay or millet. He does
not object to an occasional feed Of
sorghum which has been properly cured,
but it is so liable to damage in its har-
vesting and stacking that it cannot al
ways be relied upon as proper food.
Sorghum as seed for stock has many less
friends than it had eighteen months
ago.
Judge r. 3. Burns, whose ranch is in
the eastern portion of Ford county, pur-
chased the tailings of a herd of cattle
last fall. His selection was the third and
last made from that herd and he has
Wintered his cattle thus far without the
loss of a head. He has fed hay and
watered his cattle twice a day from
well. Many losses have occurred among
the cattle of the first and second selec-
tions. They were fed with sorghum, the
stalks of which were indigestible, Caus-
ing impactiOn Of the stomach.
Atchison Globe: The hog cholera has
broken out afresh in this vicinity, and
nearly all the farmers report losses. B.
S. Davenport had sixty-fiVe fat hogs,
and all but three died, his loss being
remedies advertised, but none Of them
amounted to anything; he Will never try
to doctor the hog cholera again. He has
heard of one man who lost 20 hogs by
using arsenic as a preventative.
Enterprise A7tinlOnOpolist: Early this
week, c. L. Miner was taking a load Of
hogs to Detroit stockyard, when one fine,
large one jumped out of the wagon. The
driver went on and unlOaded his wagon
and soon returned for the escaped hog
and found it dying, with its head full Of
shot, near where 1t got out Of the wagon.
The shooting was an act of pure cussed-
ness, but the shooter IS known and viii
have to pay for his fun.
CoUboy: Most of all the early calves
on the ranges north of here have died
from exposure. AslOng as we have such
long viii calves die that are born IN this
season of the year. The safest remedy
for cattlemen is to keep their bulls herd
ed or fenced away from their COWS until
the first Of July, or even a month later.
An Emporian's COW died rather sud
denly the other day, and he ordered a
post norton examination. The follow
ing articles, usually foreign to healthy
cows digestive apparatus, were dlscOv-
cred in the cows stomach: Eight eight
penny nails, five shingle nails three
taCks, two broken screws, q piece OF rock,
one pin, some gravel and shot.
Newton Kdnsan: G. J. Hartman and
julius Simon, of this city and county,
have q $500 acre rancho thirty miles
south Of Larned, which they paid $3.50
per acre for something over year ago.
They now have athOusand head Of sheep
upon the same, out Of which they have
only lost six head since last fall, and can
sell the land for ten dollars an acre.