Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-01-19

Prices for Hogs Go Up
Higher.
CONSIGNMENT STILL COME IN
From THE TERRITORY.
MEXICAN QUESTIONS.
PRESIDENT SAMSON Is MUCH IN
EARNEST AND WILL NOT LET
IT REST.
Secretary Loving Makes Some Com
servative Statements = Cattle
Thieves ConvIcted-Notes.

were characteristic OF Saturday and
days of the week. on the other hand
prices were almost phenomenally bet
ter for hogs and the market sprnng to
SJ.I2 1-2 for the best hogs offered. while
1915 would have been commanded by
strictly prime stun.
Among the receipts were car of
hogs each from walcott a Flanagan.
Decatur; Mansfield & Co.. Alvord; and o
good lot OF country hogs from j. j.
Putnam. Ben Hackett had In car Of
cattle.
w. II. Skinner and C. w. Simpson of
the stock yards VIII leave Monday for
Waco, where they will attend the meet
Ing of the state swine breeders aBso-
eta ZION. Mr.. skinner il booked for an
address on subjects OF Interest TO the
association, which promises to hold one
OF the most important meetings In It's
history.
c. c. French Of the stock yards trav-
cling representatives was In the city
yesterday, having returned from n trip
through the territory country travers-
ed by the Choctaw. Oklahoma and
Gulf RAILROAD, which by the way he
~ onounces a most excellent road to
travel over. Mr.. French Is very en-
thuslastlc over the fact that 80 many
OF the fine territory hogs that would
formerly have gone to the northern
markets are now coming TO the Fort
Worth yards.
circular letter was recently address
ed by the management of the stock
yards to the assessors of the various
counties OF Texas, Indian Territory and
Oklahoma, lnqulring among other
things. as 10 the number OF hogs owned
In the various counties. Replies have
so far been received from eleven coun-
ties. Houston. Tarrant, Llano, Gregg.
Kaufman. Montague, Grayson. William
son. Hill, comal and Hayes and the
total number OF hogs rendered IL H.
S5,,
NJ. SAMSON OF Alvnrado came IN yes
terday from San Antonio. where he at
tended the livestock convention and
where he was elected president OF the
Livestock association. MIR. SAMSON
went out home last evening.
II Will be remembered that Mr.. San
som introduced Into the convention the
resolution urging congress- to re-im-
pose n tariff duty on Mexican cattle,
which was ruled by the chairman out OF
order as bringing into the convention
political questions.
further discussion OF the question,
and further urging 1t upon the con-
vention only for the sake OF harmony,
but he declares that the question IL
one OF vital Importance to the cattle
men OF Texas, and he believes that, the
majority OF them have the same view
OF the matter that he has. He intlm-
ates very strongly that those who OPP
posed the resolution he introduced have
an axe to grind and were Influenced
more by personal motives than by de-
sire to see the best intercgts OF Texas
cattlemen protected. President SAMSON
Ia prepared to "carry the war Into Az
rica." TO use an expression of the Ito-
man days. He believes that his posi-
ton Will be ultimately maintained and
he Will zee that II Is thoroughly agltat-
ed In the cattlemen's convention at
this place In March. whore will be as
sembled all the big oattlemen who are
most interested In the question.
Secretary j. c. Loving OF the Texas
Cattle Raisers' association also gave
temperate expression of his opinion
on this subject. He Is certain that II
Will come up In the March convention.
and Furthermore that II VIII be so Wig
orously agltated as 10 bring forth some
expression from the cattlemen as TO
the position they occupy on the ques-
ton. Secretary Loving takes very
CONSERVATIVE NSW Oi TIC IUhtltrs US
becomes his position. He says that In
his opinion not q sufficient number OF
Mexican cattle have been imported into
this country since the embargo wns
lifted to materially affect the indus
try In the United States, but on tho
contrary he believes that II was well
that u certain number be admitted In
Texas to consume the surplus grass on
the range. At the same time, however.
he fears that II no restrictions are plac-
ed on these importations the result
will be that this state Will soon be over
run with the Spanish cattle, and the
work which Texas cattlemen have Just
accomplished In breeding on the long
horns will have to be all gone over
again. The secretary OF the Cattle
Raisers' association yesterday received
telegram from NJ. w, sutton OF
Prairie Hill. Kan, who announced that
he had convicted two cattle thieves,
Smith and Garrett. who were charged
with stealing about seventy-hve head
Of cattle from Eddleman Bros. OF Okla
homa and Spence Bros. OF New Mexico.
members of the association.
w. l.. Calohan, inspector for the Cat.
tie Raisers' association Mt Midland,
passed through the city yesterday en-
route home from Dublin, where he had
been inspecting some feeders and where
he found three head OF cattle that had
no, been legally sold TO the feeders.
The Stock and Farm Journal. and
along with II. George D. Loving 4 Co.
have moved into most commodlous