The St. Johns herald. (St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona Territory [Ariz.]) 1885-1903, 1888-06-21


ter, and indictment and punish
nent, it is said, is certain in many
eases. A number of maverick
brands, too, have been started, prin-
cipally by young men and lads who
do not see the results likely to fol
low. Owners of stock have little
respect for maverick brands started
by persons who own no cattle, and
these latter are not permitted to re-
ceive any benefit from their crooked
work. So too, there has been con-
siderable stealing of unbranded
colts and estray horses, as we'll as
of feed and provision from ranches.
These acts have been mostly traced
to an outfit, which is said to have
been driven from another county
for stealing. They have known con
nections in Colorado and there are
indictments against most of them
in several counties. Most OF them
have left and the few remaining
ones will probably soon be in the
iron grasp of the law.-Texas Pan
handle.
Cattle do not have to 60 begging
for buyers, as the transactions in
this kind of property the past week
seem to indicate. On Tuesday MIR,
Wilson Waddingham purchased all
the cattle of 4 Y brand, located in
San Miguel county, and owned by
Mrs. Y. Kohn, of Leavenworth,
Kansas, Judge Henry Waldo, of
Santa Fe, and l.. Sulzbacher, of Las
Vegas. The herd numbers about
5000 head, about one-third of
which are steers from yearlings up
ward, the remainder being COWS
and hcifers, and the entire bunch
being we'll improved. The purchase
includes also the ranch equipment
and horses. The average price, it
is believed, will amount to $13 per
head, with nothing under yearlings
counted. This purchase with the
one noted elsewhere made by Mr..
Waddingham, makes him the buyer
of over 10000 head Of as choice
range cattle as are grazing in New
Mexico, which added to his other
purchases Of the past eighteen
months will make a total of nearly
81 900 cattle, and at a total cost of
something like $275,000. Mr.. Wad-
bingham is just now an interesting
gentleman to the "tired" cattle
raisers.-Stock Grower.
The New York Times Of May q
says relative to the Chicago beef
ring that at last the operations Of
this ring are to be officially inves-
tigated. There is a long string Of
charges which the Times has pre-
pared for the attention of the com
mittee. The leading point which
it has positive proof upon is that
the ring deprived other cities Of
trade and gained control of the
business by entering into q con
spiracy with great railroad compa-
nics. It is well known that the
Chicago fellows built UP their swim
ding business after the pattern Of
the oil trust, the only trust whose
methods Mr.. Armour has any great
respect for. The oil trust was able
to carry out its plans in destroying
competition by means of iniquitous
railway compacts. The dressed
beef trust adopted the same policy
to crush out the butcher class in all
the leading cities in the country,
and this continued openly until the
interstate law went into effect.
Since that time the beef schemers
have worked in the dark so far as
the public eye could be directed
against their business. Discrimi-
nations by the railways has, no
doubt, as Senator Cullom remarked
in the senate debate, been nearly
as favorable to the big four as ever.