The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-01
sHIPPERs AND NOTES.

JIM P5rtle Of FL Dorado, had in a car
OF mediums which sold at a good price.
There was practically no cattle market
Yesterday, the only scattering stun on
eale being as fOll0ws:- Three stOckers, 40
pounds average, price Sass; l Gull, go
pounds, $40; 4 steer, 400 pounds, 1875.
There was also one car of cattle yarded
for feed and rest In transit. After sand
Ing the car twas reloaded and shipped
TO it's destination east.
Han & Siegae Of Orlando had In stock
which. after feed and rest, were reshipped
to their contract destination.
Yesterday al the DOld plant the ship
ments were not only unusually heavy for
Monday in all the several departments.
but the destination of some of the car
loads in straight contract lots bore pc
cuiiar significance which is OF interest.
not alone TO the management but to
Wichita citizens generally and the trade,
as showing the wide fame of the care
fully cured and prepared products OF the
Wichita house. There was a heavy ex-
press and jObbing trade as well as the
refrigerator and full heavily loaded cars.
OF the latter there were in all seven cars
bearing the several staple cuts and spe-
cialty goods and they were literally scat
tered TO the four winds. That the WiCh-
Tia house has long enjoyed a reputation
considerably more than local or immedi-
Rtely tributary has been no question. and
now il appears that the only limitations
are the two big oceans on the east and
west and the great lakes and the gulf on
the north and south, and even this Will
rot hold, since a year ago about now,
there was a full train load OF p cars sent
20 the seaboard direct for the firms bro
kers and agents at the various continent
.al points Of Europe. But yesterday was
significant not so much for the amount
C shipments. which was very good. but
Gs showing the wide range OF the fame Of
the par excellence of the local house stuff
For instance, there were fun cars sent to
Boston on the east; Portland. Oregon in
the far northwest; San Francisco on the
Pacific middle coast: Il Paso, Texas, and
New Orleans on the gulf These were
regular straight orders and give an idea
cf the wide and growing trade Of the
Wichita branch.
Provisions yesterday along with grains
and other speculative products took a
tumble az described above, with the re-
suit AT the close OF cash lard closing of
~ cents at S517ik. and cash ribs of .
cents a SIS. This was entirely due 10
q sensational scare in the yellow fever
districts Newport News. Va, being the
first 10 send out reports of scare Pork
went also with the rest Of the pit list.
while live hogs being weaker on the close
were not propordonately lower.
Mr.. Frank Robbins has returned from
Ceuda Springs, where he went for his
health, and while not Yet entirely we'll Is
much improved over his condition when
he left.
Rev T. F. Barrier Of the Eighteenth
Street Presbyterian church. was a caller
1t the packing house yesterday.
9Ir A Is. Moore cf the Union Livestock
Commission Co, viii this day reach the
limit OF the nine days incipient effects Of
q dog bite. ''Rorary'' has a big heart
which goes out 10 man or beast and one
day recently while down n the city he
attempted to befriend a strange dog and
was repaid by a vicious bite on the fSt
portion OF his sculptured limb. He had
DR.. Laws cauterize the wound and il Is
doing vel but ali hands about the yards
VIII keep careful watch over him today
II he attempts 50 desperate a thing as
taking a drink Of water.
Yesterday was q busy day al over the
packing house tracks and yards, and at
one time in the afternoon there were
three switch engines 1t work in or about
the DOld yards and loading tracks.
Yesterday was light in receipts Of hogs
1t AL the western markets. even Chicago
failing on TO a noticeable extent, while
the others fell away 10 a very marked
degree. Today the estimate at Chicago
for receipts OF hogs is only fT.OOo. This.
against the only fair run Of o0eO0 yes
terday, Il g marked failing OF. There