The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-14
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with a car of hogs. He is feeding stock
hogs all the time though he says good
hogs are being thinned out around that
neighborhood
c. B. FRANKIE of Pond Creek, o. T., was
in with car of hogs which he sold to
bold at the top figure for the day. Be
sides being a hog and stock shipper Mr..
FRANKIE is a merchant and general bus
mess man there. He is buying hogs for
shipment to this market all the time and
expects to have another batch in few
days.
Campbell & Horton Of Caldwell. sent
up car of hogs for the day. They were
fair to good in quality and caught the top
price for the day, being one of the three
that achieved the prize.
E. B. Weatherly & Co. of Enid, had in a
car Of porkers for the trading They
were disposed of among the late sales.
Whitmer & Burchiner of Conway
Springs, were the last Of the arrivals with
a car of hogs, with a few steers mixed in
the load.
L. e. Baird Of Anness, had a car Of good
hogs that were also the top flyers for the
day, being the third to receive the $3.50
figure. He is a buyer and shipper Of stock
10 this market but feeds only a few
himself. He says there are not many
hogs left in the neighborhood a large
number having been shipped out of there
the past few months
A. P. Johnson of Elmer was in with a
car of hogs. There are large consign-
ments of hogs from this point Elmer, and
many of the best of the receipts come
from there and surrounding country.
Many stock cattle are being fed through
that section, but the heeves are mostly
marketed.
The receipts for the day were slightly
under same day the week previous. but
over double those of same day last year.
They were below the day previous. Tops
were 214 cents less than the day previous;
the weight was lighter, and quality below
The market throughout remained steady
Trading slow for the most part.
Col. R. T. Bean IS absent from his Office
at the yards. on business. VIII Vandiver
is looking after affairs in his absence.
The railroads doing the business yester-
day were: Santa Fe, cars; Rock Island,
cars. and the Missouri Pacific, 3 cars.
Nine cars Of produce were shipped out
from the Dold plant yesterday, consigned
as follows: Three cars to Texas points;
one to Alabama; one each to Mississippi,
Buffalo, Cumberland Md, Cincinnati and
Galveston, the latter for export abroad.
All the cars were packing house products.
The dockage so far this week has been
remarkably light, much to the satisfac-
ton Of the hopeful shipper, who yearn-
ingly follows Inspector Tilford around to
the scale gates wondering as to his fate.
Daddy" always does his little part thor
oughly and accurately, and from his de-
cision there is but one appeal, which. by
the way, is rarely ever taken by either
party, but like the law of the Modes, and |
Persians. goes. This week there has been |
little cause of growing, the light dockage |
suiting the owner and shipper.
There is a vigorous andgas-weIl sort of !
roar coming sullenly up from all the stock
yards officials. patrons, and those having |
business there, together with the large |
packing house forces. regarding the |
archaic and monkey playing service the /
street car company is giving their large /
of the north end. The north /
side probably is the heaviest patron of /
any section of the city, and besides over
this line many out of town customers ride. |
and the unreliable and nerve wrecking |
continuous performance daily doled out to
these helpless subjects, starts the blush
Of shame even to a commission mans
hardened cheek. Much travel is given the
from this district and it would
be trebled if one was ever sure he, would
get anywhere when he starts. Monetary
loss, great inconvenience, and immeasur-
able annoyance have resulted to the
Yards, commission firms, their customers
and the packing house contingent and all
north Wichita from this wallaby and un-
certain, dinky, go-cart service. Out
ragged patience has about worn smooth
and shiny at the elbows and threadbare
all over, and the busy end of town and
The most important industry of the city
feel they have long enough endured and
smiled until patience no longer is a com
nendable virtue, since they repeatedly
get 1t rubbed in on them all the harder.
Iustiflable wrath has taken the place Of
gentle rumbling hints. and soon some
hing will drop if just little better ser
vice is not soon granted this North To-
1eka line.