The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-08
CATTL ESALES
SHIPPERS AND NOTES.

vicious bull at the yards yesterday
caused the top rail of the fence TO be a
preferable seat for the traders
Inspector Dad Tilford says that story
about a planet burning for three months
il the sun may be ali right but if it had
struck the stock yards it would have
b cen burned in a flash.
:. Z. Cooley took out some stockers
yesterday 10 his farm at Rose Hill.
L. 3. Stacey, the regular shipper, lost
his horse yesterday in the Wichita nur-
sory. He was driving some cattle and
left his horse unhitched
T. H. Neal of Leon, marketed a car
load of hogs yesterday.
L. NJ McCracklin, the big grain and
stock buyer at Derby, sent in a car load
ef hogs yesterday that brought $5071a
Tie generally sells on arrival and never
steps TO feed.
c. G. Handy Of Norwich, arrived late
last evening with car OF hogs. He is
the fusion nominee for probate judge in
Sumner county.
James Harper of Colwich was one of
the late arrivals last evening with a car
load of good hogs that brought the top
price
There were two car loads of Oklahoma
hogs on the market yesterday that
brought the top price. One load was
Tonkawa and the other was from w. S.
Thomas Of PonCa City.
Oklahoma is always up to the front
ana even the oklahoma hog gets to the
foremost seat. They tapped the market
here for three days this week. and
Thursday beat all competitors for prices
IN Kansas City.
The Dold Packing house for some time
mas beeen smashing records. yesterday
Leaf lard to the local trade. 1t beat
any former day by 70 050 pounds. When
It was ali out Superintendent Charlie
Tarrierani thrust the thumbs Of his two
l.. nds into his pockets and pulled his
trousers in the shape Of a kite as Re
walked up the car platform and told the
market reporter for the EAGLE that bus
iness was Improving ever Yday. He ran
cross John Rathman. foreman of the
sausage department, and began TO roast
him for not making sausage enough t.
fn their orders. Holy Herman" SAID
John. do You think I am q Cot what
can work miracles? What you talkin'
about nuh0w?'
At the farmers institute at Brecken-
ridse. No Thursday, Colonel @. ".
Waters Of Canton, spoke on the rotation
% crops. and II. J. Waters OF Columbia
dean Of the agricultural college, delivered
=
Lucky safe vet rinarian. lecture6 IN
state control Of contagious diseases. black
leg and CHAMBERS. John Patterson. of
Huntsville. leCtured on prof, in dairying
Frof J. <. Written on the home orch
ard and Horticulture and insect pests. and
Hon w. T. Darlington, state superin-
Iendent Of public instruction. on eduC3-
ton. This is the third year the state
has held these meetings in Breckenridge
and they are largely attended by the
farmers and stock raisers.
4 hos L feet long and as heavy rs a
prize Durham bull II was an Ameri-
can hog too. tt rooted in the marshes
that existed on this continent AGES be-
fore there were any packing houses to
turn live porkers into sausage. Seen
fists called il the closherium. but they
do not DENY that it was just a pain hog
with q curly tail. DR.. J. =. Merriam Of
The University Of California has just
chisled out Of the surrounding rock the
skull and vertebrate Of one Of the e
monster hogs From the structure Of
It's formidable tusks and teeth the scien-
fists concluded that IL fed both son vege-
table growth and animals weaker than
itself II must have beeeu dangerous
game for primitive fint-armed man The
relics % this and other remarkable ami
mails now being prepared by university
scientists were discovered in the course
Of an expedition 70 TIE CANYON Of the
John Day river, Or goR- The ANNA S
must have hour1shed in antiquity far r.
mote Their bones were found embedded
in ash and volcanic tufs 1870 feet thick.
over these beds 5000 feet Of lava had
beeen poured 81 many successive erup-
tons, with no one knows how many
years between.