The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-30
LIVE STOCK MATTERS.
Rates Have Been Made for the Convention
at Galveston.
.I2o,oeo CATTLE on THE G., c. AND S. r.
Are Beins Fed for Market and II IL
snid Majority Of Them Are
Destined for Cubn.

Galveston. Texas. December co.--General
Passenger Agent Keenan, of the Santa Fe yes
terday announced that hts road would make
n IS maximum rate for tho meeting OF the
Texas Live Stock association to be held here
next month. Tho transportation committee
OF tho chamber OF commerce which Is look
Ing after the matter hopes to Ret as good
rate from all the other roads.
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
Stockmen state that the recent snow and
subsequent rainfall was OF more benefit to
stockmen than IS advance per head on
their stock. The prairieS are thoroughly wet
and a crop OF grass is now assured. There
will be a luxuriant growth at tho first sign
or spring says the Dalas News.
+ That the people OF the West are making
vigorous efforts to rid their sections Of the
prairie dog nuisance there is no doubt. They
are not only doing 1t themselves. but they
are making strong appeals to Austin for as
sistance In the matter. petition which is
being universally signed out West Is to BE-
presented to the governor asking him 20 rem
der the Western counties in the State as
sistance In this matter. one so vital IN thsir
1t is stated that the loss by these posts Is
inestimable. but so great as to justify the
belief that Mt least one-fourth of the grass OF
the West. is annually destroyed by them now.
and 1t seems they are alarminRly on the
increase The suggestion embodied In this
petition is first, to declare these dog towns
u public nuisance. making the land owner
subject to civil damages who allows them
TO breed on his range, or. to make a man
datory statute that all counties IN which dogs
are found must levy tax sufficient to pay
for their determination and empowering the
commissioners courts to contract and pay
for the same. Prompt action is demanded in
this petition.
Membership in the St. Joseph. Mo-. live
stock exchange has been raised from 500 to
$500.
There were 1900 head of Texas cattle mar
keted in Chicago last week.
Chicago estimates its hog receipts for the
present week at 100000 head.
st. Louis thus far this year shows an In
crease Of 1888 hogs and Il decrease OF l0i.772
cattle and 164201 sheep:
more than for the game week year ago.
The receipts for the year at chat place have
been 1,645,000 head. an increase over 1897 or
100000
The people who attended tho carnival not.
ably j. +. Williams. Charles Larimer and
other equally well known men. state that u
would take something colder than snow TO
cool off the hospitality OF the Midland people.
The great carnival building has seating
capacity of over 1000. and the manaFcnient
built 1t to stay. 1t will remain as one OF the
hcst opera houses in Texas, west OF Fort
Worth.
Midland recently donated $500 to the Baylor
college to assist in the education of poor.
deserving girls who arc unable to prepare
themselves for the duties of life in AN edu-
catonai way.
as they did last winter nor. in fact, arc theN
bringing as much North as they did then.
What Is wanted Is cleal-eI y, a,s n,,r,s
IN adylces from the Nocth indicate TINS
fact ~, - . ~
Iro foliowing is an official list OF the cattle
row or feed along the lines Of the Guit Co.o.
RADIO and Santa Fe railroad. and Is furnished
by Captain James IL. Polk, live stock agent