The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-01-26
UNION STOCK YARDs NEWS
Top hogs 7.4211z-

| Top hogs 81 4215
| Cattle receipts were better
Trading was lively about the cattle pens
| yesterday.
| Farmers who have plenty of corn are at
the yards every day looking for feeders
A new plank walk is being built from
| the end of Dold's cinder walk tc the yards
Some stock that come in late Ga the
! Rock Island was held over.
! The enclosure for buyers to put their
stock in on the south side of the yards has
been enlarged aud some new racks filed
with hay
". E. Bellman has purchased large
number of stockers
Top hogs in Kansas City yesterday were
s. 60, while the bulk sold for 81 35 TO $40
Here the buik was 81 40 to s. as
II there was man at the yards yester-
day that did not ask "Wh at is the news
from Topeka ~ be was away from home
when the reporter called.
Stories of ferocious wild hoars be
long by right 10 the Baron Nun
chausen and natural history classes,
but one Of the species that furnish sub
ject for these tales was at the yards yester-
'teN- GIA ChJCgCNA kJ-t- o. ~ AhocAi- ! &c
employees were all afraid OF It, the buyers
did not want it and its owner thinks it
worse than 4 white elephant II has
killed two head Of cattle, seriously injured
wo good horses and attacked every person
that has approached any ways near it.
Joe koehler had a number of visitors
from the city yesterday and set ont TO
entertain them in his usual happy man
ner and found the viards had myster-
iUsoly disappeared.
j. W. Robbins, of Eureka, was at the
yards looking for good heavy weight
feeders.
j. S. Terrence, of Greenwood county.
was buyer for stockers yesterday. He
got only one load and wanted ten. He
will return.
j. n. Roach, of Butler county, was on
the market late yesterday afternoon look
ing for stockers and got none. He will re-
main here until he can buy what he wants.
The Drovers' Telegram of Kansas
City makes mention of Wichita parties
having purchased several hundred"
stock hogs for shipment to this place. The
hogs have not showed up and diligent in
10 whom the Wichita parties" were. The
item is considered fake by the stock men.
II noticed in the EAGLE this morning
how picture frame man worked West
Side Citizen" said a commission man
yesterday, and it made me think of how
slick drummer done my partner on
check punch. After very smooth talk
he finally sold it to him for SIS, by agree
lug TO take an old worn out one in part
payment, allowing 81 for it and
making the new one S14 Well,
we paid for it and the very next day l
noticed duplicate in the window of one
of our local dealers and asked the price of
it. learned it was $40. | was so sur
prised l did not tell my partner about it
at the time and haven't yet, but when be
learns of it he will 10 douot sympathiZc
with the party who bought the picture
frame"
The following shippers had stock
on the market today: Steinkirchner & Co,
New on, hogs; j. NJ. Corey, Sharon, hogs
and cattle; Harry W. Myers. Rome, hogs;
J. NJ. Ratcliff, Cunningham, cattle; r. f.
Hargrove. Danville, cattle and hogs; o.
G. Jacobs, Valley Center, hogs; II. Mey
ers. Wellington, hogs and cattle; T. T.
Severance, Hazelton, cattle; William Van
Valkenberg, Maize, cattle and hogs; C. f.
Arnett, Anthony, cattle; j. L. Casey, Con-
way Springs, cattle.