Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-04

| sold strong. National Livestock Reporter,
| June |. =
". A Briggs. prominent cattleman Of
Waxahachie. was in the city yesterday.
| MIR Briggs is q firm believer in the fact
| that the cattlemanss turn has come, and
| tnat the market is now upon firm basis
| and will continue so he is certain. He has
run to Eastern markets large numbe Of
beef cattle already this season, and is
| satisfied with the results.
Mr.. Biddle, well known livestock man,
| IS IN the city, having come down from the
Chlidress country recently.
ID. D. Swearingen of Quanah is in the
| city. Mr.. Swearingen is largely interested
| IN cattle, and says cattle and the ranges are
IN the best OF condition. Quanah, ne says.
has shipped out 3 large number of beef
cattle TINS season, and there are more to
go, as several prominent buyers and ship
pers are stopping there for the present.
W. T. Stewart, of the livestock firm of
Stewart Bros. Gertrude, is in the city, ac-
companied by Mrs Stewart. They leave
this morning over the Denver for home
MI. Stewart is an extensive feeder of steer
cattle. and has large interests in Texas, the
Territory and Kansas. He speaks glowingly
| of the general condition of the cattle bust
ness this year. =
The GAzETTE's special telegram from
the National stockyards, Illinois, yesterday
caused deal of comment, among cattle
men, and the fact of these sales being made
/ by the owner and shipper contradicts state
mentS that have been made that a man
could not handle his own cattle in the st.
Louis or other yards satisfactorily. The
words of caution contained III the special
was good point. Cattle must be fat and
RI, nj In np-1-
There is now pending q little afaSkaS
Childress in the Panhandle that came near
causing the burning of gunpowder, as there
was community of indignant people, and
they made haste TO make their anger
known. One day last week there were
shipped in from Corpus Christi about 1900
head OF yearling steers for grazing on a GER
tain portion of the Matador pastures. and
this in violation of quarantine regulations
on Southern Texas cattle The cattle were
unloaded, the story goes, and started to the
pastures assigned them, but were soon
stopped by ranchmen and ChildresS citizens,
with the positive instructions, not misun-
derStoOd, to go no further until further
orders from them. An Indignation meeting
was called at Childress, and there was al
strong desire to shoot the cattle, burn them
and ray the damages, and this desire would
have been carried out at the drop of the hat
mad not perhaps better counsel prevailed.
1t was decided, however, to bunch them,
strongly guarded, until the government in
spector could get at them aud dispose of
the youngsters according to the dictation of
Uncle Sam. There are Il number of cow
men with large herds of feeders in that
section. and had these cattle come in con-
tact with the cattle from Corpus Christi it
would have proven disastrous to their in
terests, even though the Corpus Christi
cattle were not affected in the least-they
were there in violation of quarantine laws,
and cattle that came in contact with them
could not have been moved to the Northern
and Northwestern ranges. Several gentle
men from the Childress country were in the
city yesterday, and who have interests
there, and are not backward in denouncing
the placing of those forbidden cattle among
their herds as an outrage, and say a repeti-
ton of the affair will be met with action
that will not be relished by the parties
placing the cattle there.