El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-26
CATTLE SHIPPING
Beef Stock Rapidly Moving Down
the pecos Valley Through por-
tales Toward the Great Markets
Court Still i'm Session.
of the HERALD

Special Correspondence of the HERALD.
CARLSBAD, N. NJ, Sept. 23.-The
United States district court here Is
still laboring with some W hat lengthy
docket aud jurymen are had to find liz
MANY cases of local interest. The Cass
case is now on. Cass is charged with
the killing of J. II. Carpenter, a ditch
rider for the irrigation company, over
a land dispute. Three venires have
been exhausted thus far, and it was
only last night that the full jury was
impauelled.
This case has excited greater local
interest than all the others put to-
pether that appear on the calendar of
the court. 1t is charged by the prose-
cution that it was cOld-bloode ed muir
der and that the deceased was shot
down without q chance for his life, and
the defense claims that it was purely
self-defense and have. cloud of
witnesses to make good their asser-
ton.
two or three parties who made q
mistake in the brand of occasional
steer or heifer were sent over the
road to the Santa Fee penitentisry for
from two to three years.
A few deadly weapon" assault cases
were elso disposed of. One in parJl-
cular, that of Sam Stevenson, accused
of assaulting E. II. Gamble with the
butt end of a six shooter, was reduced
by the jury to a case of simple assault
and light fine assessed. Stevenson
was defended by 81. L. Obenchain Of
of Dallas.
Beef cattle are rapidly moving from
the valley toward the great markets.
Portales, the new shipping station
on the Pecos Valley road ninety miles
east of Roswell, is this season getting
the minority of the shipments on &C
count of the large territory it com
mands, it's ample water service and
from the further fact that 1t is within
tweuty-seven and half hours ride of
Kansas City;thus shipments made from
ther ecome within the feed and water
limit 'snd stock an go straight through
from pasture to market without being
unloaded in transit. The railroad
people nave also built large tank
near Portales and can hold If required
10000 head of cattle on the prairie
while awaiting cars.
Among the larger shipments from
Portales thus far reported are: David
son & Curtis Bros, 500 yearlings to w.
j. Clarke, Amarillo; the same firm,
nine cars of fat COWS to Kansas City; j.
W. Pulket, four cars of beef stock also
for Kansas City. This cattle shipment
was driven nearly &C! Oss the Staked
Plains to Portales, over one hundred
miles, and MIR. Pulket reported the
trail good all the way and plenty of
water. On the 9th the "HOrse Shoe"
ranch ships five full trains also from
Portales.
A. Rowe shipped thirteen cars and
F. N. Page twelve cars from Roswell
to Clarendon of the "Bsr va cattle.
On Monday, the 25th, the Hat" ranch
people ship 81 cars of market stock
from the pens at Carlsbad. The big
San Simeon ranch, belonging to Mer-
chant & Psramore do not expect to
ship any market cattle this fell. Ship
ments, however, will probably be made
by the "Turkey Track" the -. A.
L." the "H. A. T." and the benson"
ranches.
The character of the stock leaving
the valley for the markets is far SUI
perior TO that of any preceding year,
and the prices realized thus far have
already demonstrated the fact.