The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-02-13

| perlences combined encourage me TO
nope that the subject assigned to me
is not entirely inappropriate
The fret Texas cattle ever driven
out Of that state TO market was eE-
corted across the territory by big
som breroed cowboys to the yards,
| built the year that | was born by old
Joe Mccoy, The father OF ihe Texas
cattle trade. at Abilene, Dickinson
county, Kan. in which county J have
passed the most OF my lifo For a
number OF years King aud Wheeler
aud other cattle lords drove thousands
Of long horns up the Chisholm trail
TO Abilene, whore Joe Mccoy took
charge OF the steers and Wild Bill, the
city marshal, took charge of good
many Of toe fellows whJ steered the
the steers u this first market ever
opened tor the vast herds of the south
ern plains. Then Kansas was valua-
bic TO Texas, furnishing 3 mart for the
stock and targets for The COW boys to
"ahoot up a whole lot, AS Dan Quinn's
old cattlemen would say The clatter
of galloping hoofs, and singing bullets,
and pOttling chips that accompanied
those famous days and lent them half
the glory OF romance, has long siuce
died away. The turee-card monte
man, the Indian pony, the fellow who
had man for breakfast every day,
and dulcet tones Of tbs scfl voiced
siren in scarlet deported years ngo and
only an occasiouRl grave on the hill-
side Of him who died with his boots
on, ." remains to remind MS Of those Fl
full days. OF those bold, reckless, gal
liant, generous and high-spirited men
Bot Kansas and Dicbil Jason county have
not ceased TO be a cattle country. To-
day more cows are millted, more but
ter made, more creameries run in
Dickinson county than any other
county west Of the Missouri Kan
sas probably fattens more cattle
for market thau any other state
in the union. Personally, I've tried
to tsg along with the procession
OF Kansas cattle interests aud occas
ionally to climb into the band wagon
Even IL did have to get upa band |
Of my own to do it.. My mind turned |
to the cattle business at an early date, |
for my mother has sad that the first
handsome engraving l ever grated on |
my slate bore under it the very neces- |
sarY explanations; This is a cow |
Though subsequent experience aud OBJ.
servation have raised the suspition in |
my mind that the blamed thing was |
really steer. Any yway / kept peg |
ging away at the cattle trade sill am
, oIsldered good enough stock man to |
make aspeech at the great Wood ward |
convention, and certainly that's glory
enough for any body.
Ihs broad plains of Oklahoma and
Texas have ample room 10 Craze the
cattle OF the world; perhaps no where
on earth are broader pastures or more
inviung. There, gentlemen, y1u eau
raise the Ock W crowd the cars and
iii tne ships that carry the
meat 10 tue tables Of America and
Europe Your horiz IN docs not end
your uomini II in the cattle trade. 10
rlug IN littIe classical business, as
the gifted DR.. PeeJs would say, you
eau well declare, No pent up Utica
Testrains our powers, out the whole
6ouncless universe is ours" when IL
coi es 10 the caLL,e trade. But gentle
men, steer with an empty stomach
wlll tind no New York market Only
the ier.ile corn fields OF sunny Kansas
Cal put fat on The RIBS OF as many
I Q .ves as you can muster from the
State line AT Kiowa To the dusty Pan
cheros Of III Paso. Kansas fatteBs as
many head OF your stock every year as
khG AGNhAlk pens VI al AuA OAnGI
states comUined. The reports OF the
show that during 1897 225,
coo head Of cattle were sent north
from the non-infected districte OF
Texas for feed, of which lO3, 600 went
10 Kansas alone. OF these ls4 900
were shipped over u Kansas road-the
Santa F,-aDd perhaps thag is the
greatest favor We have done \ ou, fof
ths Santa Fa was incor porAted in
X 4nsAs ana bui south By Kansas
mel to make your earliest roule
by rail TO the northern markets.
road tnat II md ed 95 900 cars Of stock
in 1897, absolutely breaking all records.
Ihls Is probaply due To the hustling |
energy Of Ell, Titus, another Kansas
man who assists you ia every way pos
sibie 10 get your cattle 10 market.
That little Kansas institution, the |
stock yards al Kansas Guy, h as grown
10 be The finest aud best equipped |
stock yards on earth bar none. Inc |
reason for h $50 being the greatest |
stock yards on earth is due TO the un-
tirlng energy Of its commission men,
who are either Kansas men or who
nave been TO close 10 Kansas that they |
nave acquired the ambitioa whi:h is |
characteristic OF ali Kansas people |
Here We hud such meu as Manager |
Drum, George X barse, Frank Cooper. |
Thomas Trowers' sons, Zso Crider, |
Gamble, Hunt g. Adams, remyn & |
Temtyn, and many other great firms
Another great institution n The Kan
SIS City eX hange is the Interstate |
n ational bank, winch is presided over |
Dy Kansas meni the Hon. J. ID Robert |
on, who WAS a Jewel county cattle |
mau, coming from the banner corn |
county OF the world, and the Hon Lee |
Clark, who loans millions 70 buy your |
cGttle Kansas sees year by year long |
horns giving place TO better cattle on
your plains. and knows with pride that
much Of it is due 10 Kansas breeders |
who supply you with the finest Here |
fofds aud Dlrhams that you can get !
Kansas sent you last ear nearly $500
600 worth OF such stock, ESQ, 900 worth |
coming fro the Soney slope stock |
farm of Charley Gross Em mporia, Kan |
sas, tie home Of the finest iierefords |
ia toe west. While breeders like |
StAunard and II K Little. OF Dickin- |
IN county, and numerous Others have |
secured your con6den as they de- |
serve it, while silly New York papers |
have stood on their hind legs aud |
howled about kansas Populisls, Iepu- |