Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-02-03
A MONSTER BARBECUE.
The. Last at Which Wild Game
Win be Served.
Twelve Thousand Pounds of Meat and
Crowd Large Enough to COnsumeaIt
Marked the Feature of the National
Stock Growers' Convention.

DENVER, Col, Jan. 2S.-The National
Stock Growers convention, after three
days of harmonious and important de-
alterations, came to an end yester-
day. The organization of the Live
stock ASSOCIATION of the United States
OF America was completed yesterday
by the selection of an executive com
mlttee. The other cattle centers of
the country, in consideration of the
splendid efforts of Denver in making
the present convention success,
waived their claims upon next years
meeting and the vote was unanimous
that it should again come to Denver.
The closing number on the pro-
gramme was the last barbecue to be
given in America where buffalo is
to appear on the menu. Among the
rare viands were nicely cooked elk and
opossum, besides beef, mutton and
pork in great quantities The barbe-
cue was held at the Union stock yards,
and the Burlington railway and the
street car companies carried from 25,
900 to $4,000 people to the grounds. So
great was the crowd that the six tons
of meat served was hardly enough to
satisfy all, and before the crowds could
be served the tables against which
they were surging broke away, and,
brushing aside police and military
guards, the crowds overran the
grounds, helping themselves to what
was in sight.
Gov. Adams and Mayor McMurray
were pBesent, but their expostulations
were unheeded. The crowd was good
natured ind no one was hurt in the
stampede, but there being no possi-
bility of restoring order the manage
ment declared the barbecue over. The
mistake made by the barbecae COM
mittee was in issuing too man J tickets,
$4,000 having been given out.
At the morning session the organize
ton of the Live Stock Association of
the United States, which was partially
completed Wednesday night, was
taken up again and the executive COM
mittee selected, consisting of one MEM
Der from each state represented. It
was also provided that the governors
of states not represented should ap-
point members to fill the vacancies.
~ paper on Dairy Interests" by
Henry Wallace, of Des Moines, Ia,
was presented.
The executive committee was in
structed to make an effort to secure
the erection of d livestock building at
the Omaha exposition.
Ex-GOv. Richards, of Wyoming, read
the report of the committee OH resolu-
tions. lie recommended the gathering
of statistics on the cattle business by
the federal government; declared that
the interests of the mountain states de-
maud transit rates to all points
west and south of Chicago;
the passage of additional retail
atory commercial enactments against
foreign commercially unfriendly
nations; a stand against proposed
national anti-vivisection laws; ma
tional measures for the determination
of ticks and wolves in the cattle
growing states; protested against the
by the United States army
of western branded horses; recon-
mended the growing of sugar beets;
asked for a transportation rate based
on 36-foot cars, and asked for the ceS-
sion of the arid lands to states in which
they lie.
The last resolution was voted down,
but the others were adopted.
The convention then adjourned sine
die and delegates were at once taken
to the barbecue grounds.