El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-05

The amount of this years wool clip
belonging to the Mexican people of ST.
Jones, AriZ., has been estimated at l2O,
600 pounds.
The rain has given the stock and
sheep men much encouragement.
Every thing has a move on it.-Pecos
Valley News.
W. 7. Scott has sold to J. w
Jeffries, of Clarendon, 400 yearling
steers and speyed heifers at S14 and
S10.25, respectively.
Seeds of the Australian salt bush are
again being distributed by the Arizona
experiment station to such residents of
Arizona as care TO experiment in grow
| ing it.
John Lyon. a wool buyer from St.
Louis, and Thomas Ross, of Las Vegas,
have Just closed a deal for all the wool
in A lbuquerque, buying about 125. 1000
pounds.
James Walsh, the sheep king, came
in from the wilderness the other day
This is shesring time with the sheep
men and about so 600 bleate-s will be
sbOrn of their foliage at Ash Park
within the next few weeks.-Prospec-
tor.
Among some recent sales at Colorado,
Texas, We're: Il. Fl. LoOney sold his
entire brand of cattle, 800 head. located
in Scurry county. to Charles Coping
err, at $40 round. 1t is said that 3lS has
been offered for the cattle since thu
sale.
The cattlemen of San Antonio have
made up a purse of $1,000 and presented
it to Mrs. Dow, widow of Sheriff Dow,
who was murdered at Eddy recently.
Mr. Dow had served the cattle associa
ton faithfully, and this recognition of
his unttring energy was graceful and
grateful act.
10 Taylor who has been foreman for
the Diamond y Cattle company for
something. says the LOrdsburg Liberal.
has resigned to take care OF his own
cattle, he having purchased Jack
Given's bunch of cattle. 1t is reported
that Walter Bircbfield will be appoint
ed in his place.
Hand-raised calf.-By proper care
and management the calf raised by
hand Will develop just as rapidly as if
it had run with the COW, and it is very
certain that it will cost much less Do
not let it run with the COW at all. Feed
at the start with new milk on V,
and feed often: never Ietit overload its
stOmach.-EX,
The COW is getting a splendid repu-
tatiOn as mortgage litter in Kansas.
In one country in that state where
there was not creamery ten years ago
there are now fifteen and OF the 1900
families living on farms in the county,
LOCO take ID the creameries each
morning a quantity of milk. There are
40 mortgages being closed in that
county" says the Field and Farm.
Ranchmen tell us this is the best sea-
1n,, l.
thing connected with the sheep or cat
tie business experienced in this section
for the past twelve years. X
Judge @. w. Standard of Kinney Co,
was in the city Saturday. He will
breed 1000 lam us this season from H.
COO sheep, and he says his range is bet
ter than for many years past. The
Judge is another of those successful
personal attention. ranchmen-Del
Rio Record.
Several uays ago there arrived in this
clty Deputy Sheriff NJ. 9. Hardin, of
Lon dsbur@, n. M, with extradiEIon pa
psrs ana d warrant Tor the arrest of one
John Woods alias Lee Wright, on a
charge Of murder cOmmiGLel at San
Saba, TeXa-, IN the year 1889, and
VINO was supposed 20 be Il. WORK near
Wilcox. AL these long years Inc
search Tor The muruerer mas been going
on, out uuLlI aOOuJ three months ago
no Jra-e OF him could BE- found, aud
even linen II Was Only d suSpicl Un, bas-
Ell wholly upon taclai resem blance.
Inc clew was carefully lnve stIga tau.
with the result LnaL ne was arrested
yesterday morning on the ranch OF
Bowie Bros, Swiss Elm ranch, in
Sulphur spring valley, which is located
near Wilcox. Inc papers tor hi, re-
mUval 10 Texas are now in the hands of
GOV. ranAIIn, and an officer from Tex
ao Will arrive III u Gay or Two Tor the
man, WHO Is Charged with cruelty
man by the name Of Lane,
IN cola blood, with no provucatlon
whatever tOr lhe crImc.-otAr.
TEXAS CATTLE IN DAKOTA.
According u advices from Dakota
the Out.OOk Tor expensive purchases of
IeXao ale for impJr,a.iou this year
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