Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-04-12
OF INTEREST TO STOCKMEN,
KANSAS CITY STILL CONTROLS THE
RANGE CATTLE TRADE.
A Well Known shipper who tan DO Dc,tep
Here Than Elsewhere Of the
Rules of tho Live stock TX.
change Changed.

Kansas City continues to assert her
supremacy as the cattle market for the
| Western range country. George +. Nor.
| gan, OF Laramie City, Wyo., was here
! yesterday with seventy-one hay fed
steers, averaging 1,iS2 pounds. that sold
| at $3.50. Mr.. Morgan is an old time patron
| OF the omaha market, but for the past
year. has been coming to Kansas city,
as he says he does n little better here,
Notwithstanding the pull is little long.
er. lie VIII be remembered as the great
Hereford breeder ten years ago. ana the
owner Of the celebrated bull Rudolph,
and 1900 pure bred white faces" the
biggest herd In the United Statcs. He
says If the beef market keeps up new
life must be impaired to the breeding
business again.
At an election OF the Live stock ex-
change yesterday rule xviii, section /, OF
the bylaws was changed to read as
follows: The responsibility OF the sell
er, as regards inspection Of live stock,
shall cease on all live stock sold at these
yards as soon as said live stock shall
have been driven from the scale pens"
Heb +. Crider is back from a trip
through Cherokee Nation and Oklahoma,
He says cattle are doing well. grass has
a good start, cattle are filing up and
look we'll for this early in the season.
Some recent rains have been had, which
refreshed the country very much. He
says the number of cattle in that coun-
try is not over half as large as last
year.
Abe Cohn. the noted mule man of st.
Louis, was here yesterday.
u. II. Chamberlain and W C. Kidd,
of Dallas, Tex, are here after horses
and mules.
j. w. Robb went to Texas yesterday
with a carload of mules.
Dad" Wright. who buys mules In the
country for Sparks Bros, is just in from
a trip over the Kansas City, Osceola IL
Southern railway. He says wheat is
good, grass coming up nicely. oats up
and farmers planting corn along that
line. and feeling better than for several
years. Prospering
George u. Bennett, Atchson county,
kas., was here with some good light
native steers yesterday that sold at
$40. He says that fat cattle and hogs
are both scarce in his county.
c. T. Alexander OF Temple, Tex. was
up yesterday with a good string of cat
tie.
r.. A. Riddle. of the Lone Star Com
mission Company, is back from n trip
through Central and Western Texas.
He says cattle came through the winter
all right, but is very dry, and rain bad
ly needed.
Drennon Bros, Of Wyandotte county,
Kas., were here yesterday. They say
they have as many cattle in their coun-
ty as last year. but no fat hogs.
MacAboy IL Needs Baxter Springs,
Kas., were al the yards yesterday with
cattle and hogs. They say fat cattle
and hogs are scarce in Cherokee county.
H. r. Overholser, Morris county, kas.,
was in yesterday with cattle, He reports
but few fat cattle back and says hogs
are scarce.
w. W. Tuttle of Chihuahua. Mex,
had in a train of cattle yesterday.
c. NJ. Purnell, Lexington, Mo, got
feeders here yesterday.
w. g, Roy, Austin, Tex, was visitor
at the yards yesterday. He says that
cattle are doing fairly well, but rain
needed. Cattle in good demand and high.