The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-05-29
Fl AGG SILK AND
LAW BUNTING
Made to Order.
NAIL ORDERS FILLED PROMPT.
St. Louis Flag Co., s ST.. G Gl'ss Si Mo.

Oh LOulO FIa6 wy St. Louis, Mo.
arrivals with hogs. They took the tops
the last time in.
A car of packing house products to
Oklahoma and one to Baltimore oonsti-
tuted the days shipments OF the Dold
company yesterday.
The roads doing the hauling Of the re-
ceipts yesterday were as followsi Santa
Fe. 3; Missouri Pacific. s; Frisco and Rock
Islanud each one.
Shipments of hogs bought on this mar
ket the past week amounted TO rs cars
for the week, with an aggregate total Of
25S cars for the mdonth Of May.
Chicago estimates for Monday, receipts
of hogs, 5000.
The yards yesterday received the nrst
installment OF vitrifed brick for the paw
ing Of the main alleys and scale court
This is much needed improvement which
will be appreciated by all having business
with the yards.
Buyers may come and buyers may CO.
but like Tennyson's famous brook, there
is one old and reliable, who goes on for
ever" This Is the Jacob Dold Packing
company. who, year In and year out.
through fat seasons and lean, high and
low prices, and favorable and otherwise
markets. steadily and perennially remains
steadfast on deck, taking care OF the
large bulk of all the offerings which come
into the Union Stock Yards. Every now
and then spasmodicaly and By spells new
corners appear for time, and then dis
appear. But for ten years this plant has
been every day represented on the mar
ket and paying all the general market
price would warrant Just for instance;
Yesterday the combined purchases of all
the other buyers, both OF wagon hogs and
car lots, aggregated total Of 242 hogs.
These were divided among about six buy
ers, and were mostly scattering wagon
hogs in punches Of two I'D TO half
dozen. and one car load By g Spectator.
All the rest Of the days receipts which
crossed the scales were promptly bought
by Dold's buyer. Again, on Friday, the
total cars received were B, sold on the
open market. Dold bought ten OF these,
the combined buyers together taking the
other five. These ten cars counted out
779 hogs the FIVE, 42s. In addition, Dold
took 113 wagon hogs which were about
all Of the best offered on sale; this against
the combined field. These are but rep
resentative days and a fair exponent of
how the bulk Of the hogs are being dis
posed Genial, approachable and always
courteous and accommodating. w. 8. Wal
lace. chief hog buyer for the company,
has won many friends among those hav-
ing business at the yards, and the long
presence and high standing of the COM
pany assure continued supremacy OF this
enterprising institution.
At the last session Of the city council,
a petition was presented by the Swift
Packing company of Kansas City asking
very modestly for the slight favor of
being allowed the use of the public high
way to erect sheds in which to store cars
of meat for temporary awaiting local
sale. OF course the council very prompt
ly tabled the whole deal, and in the words
of the illustrious Jim Lane, that settles
that" But the rosy-hued and lilac flavor
ed nerve of the appeal is worthy a bet
ter cause, and ought to go on record
among the monumental achievements Of
high-grade cheek and effrontery. AS a
matter of fact, the Swift people have been
sending a part Of a car week of mixed
produce here, and this is all they have
been able to dispose Of New they ask
for use of a public street to erect sign
board, claiming to use 1t for the tempo
rary storage of four cars per day, con-
siderably more than this city consumes
Now then, the city of Topeka imposes
a license amounting to 20 cents per hsn-
bred on outside meat producing concerns
who desire to do business there. The
Swift people, If they come into Topeka
at all, pay this fee into the citys treasury;
and now they smilingly ask the city of
Wichita which does not impose any fee,
to grant them a bonus by giving them
the use of a public domain on which to
build their local receiving sheds. But the
council did nothing of the kind. The bold
Packing company asks nothing in the
way of favOritism; they annually pay their
share of taxes into the city, and further
more employ several hundred people all
residents Of the city, in some capacity or
other about their big plant. Several mem
bers of the firm and their families are
permanent residents hero, and own prop
erty, and are recognized as public spir-
tied and philanthropic, always ready to
respond to any call for enterprising action
for the good of the city, or the needs
of the distressed The bluff of proposing
70 ship into this city a lot of produce suf-
ficient to feed the standing army killed
itself, and therefore no special favors will
be shown any outside concern who really
fear 10 come into open and fair compet-
ton with local establishment of years
standing who fear no just and square COM
petition.