The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-05-31
tuted the days transactions in the cattle
REPRESENTATIVE SALES.
sHIPPEKs AND NOTES.

Henry Schweiter was in on the early
market with bunch Of 20 butcher steers
and one COW, the whole going to Dold
at the best prices.
]. w. Haskell of Riverdale was IN with
a car Of hogs of fair quality.
L. B. Morledge & Co. of Ponca City were
in with car load Of fair porkers. selling
early to Dold at a good price
JEFF Houston. also Of Ponca City, was al
the yards with a car Of hogs, the best
offered on the days sales. They were
prime bunch Of 81 head OF good porkers
showing up a 81 average. and attracting
attention Of all those present on the mar
ket. They went IN on today's killing at
the Dold packing plant.
A Garland of Kiowe had two cars
weighed up on yesterdays business. they
being hold-overs from late arriving on
Saturday.
Joe LII Of Keighley was q late arrival
with bunch Of very fair medium hogs,
gathered up from the Frisco east They
were a well finished lot Of soft feed pork
ers of medium light grade. selling readily
at figures close TO the top OF the day,
Dold taking them. Joe has been absent
from this market for soma time, and his
welcome yesterday was all he could ask.
When interviewed as to the conditions
of stock in his locality he declared that
thrs were still lots of hogs in his section,
and many Of them in good marketable
condition. He has few more ready for
early shipment to this market, and was
well pleased with yesterdays holiday mar
ket here.
D. NJ Hutchinson Of Haverhiu was also
a late arrival over the Frisco with q car
of mixed fair mediums; some of the
~ 11ol,, Nal 1aly
running with g few lights and coarse stuff,
the lot going at q price well up toward
the top for the day.
H. NJ. Sparrow. the chief hog buyer for
the Jacob Dold Packing company at Kan
sas City, was a visitor at the yards yes
terday. He confines all previous reports
from that point as to the late food OF
lights, pigs and thin runty stock. He
says the past two weeks have witnessed
a rush into market Of any and all kinds
Of underweight stock, the receipts at that
point being enormous yet the market
sustaining the strain remarkably. The
coarse and undesirable lights have
abounded altogether too plentiful there, as
here and all other points. The receipts,
he says, have materially dropped of the
past few days, the very thing. however.
expected as a reaction from the influx of
the past ten days. Mr.. Sparrow has many
friends on this market who welcomed
him yesterday as an old acquaintance
again present with those who know him
best
Mr. Emmett Beatty, one of the o1d-time
residents of Wichita of the early boom
period, was business caller at the yards
yesterday renewing acquaintance with
some former friends, Mr.. George P. Dold
being the chief among them. Mr.. Beatty
is well known In this city, especially
among the stock yards contingent, all Of
whom were glad once more to grasp his
hand. He will leave in few days for
his business headquarters at Rochester,
New York
Col r. T. Bean Of the Wichita Live
Stock Commission company, has returned
from a weeks business trip in the east,
and is once more ready for business. III
his absence, Messrs. Frank Davidson and
Will Vandiver looked after the affairs Of
this popular firm very satisfactorily.
w H Woods, solicitor for the live stock
commission firm OF Evans, Snyder, Buell.
6, Co., of the National Stock Yards, East
st. Louis, was present at yesterdays
trading calling upon the trade and renew
ing old ecquaintances.
A D. Spencer, of the Healy Commission
company, Is quite Ill at MS nOne, anu
his colleagues at the yards are hoping
for him an carly recovery.
Mr.. George p. Dold was holiday visitor
at the yards yesterday in company with
his local chief buyer, Mr.. Wallace, and
the Kansas City chief hog buyer, Mr..
Sparrow. All expressed themselves well
satisfied with the run yesterday and pre-
dict good summer season. Mr.. Sparrow
said, after looking over one load crossing
the scales: II can say this much, that
any Kansas City buyer would have to bid
up high to get such load as that away
from me-"