El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-19
Live Stock.

The buyers in Denver for stockers
and feeders want good to choice quail
ty cattle and they want them bad. The
market is strong.
The attendance at the National Live
Stock convention, at Fl. Worth, which
Ell PasO wants two years from now, fs
estimated to be nearly 5000.
The Chicago terminal charges on
cattle shipments are not likely to out as
prominent figure as last year, as the
matter is in q fair way of satisfactory
settlement.
Delta Independent. Fifteen hun
dred head of cattle have been shipped
from this station last week, and during
the past six weeks 4, 900 head have left
here for eastern markets.
L. A. Golden, a feeder at Kensing-
ton, Kan, marketed three carloads of
Old Mexico steers that had been eating
corn and hay for year. for which he
received satisfactory price.
The Journal Miner says: The pro-
spectors are bothered by herds of wild
burros, just as the cattle men In north
ern Arizona are disturbed by the bands
of wild horses that roam the hills
there.
The question of leasing arid lands is
causing considerable favorable and
adverse discussion at Fort Worth.
Those who oppose the project fear that
lands may get into politics if they are
leased.
F. D. Johnson of Wray, Colo. had
two carloads OF corned native steere on
the Denver market that he has been
feeding for three months and which in
that time gained 200 pounds. They
sold at 800 per cwt.
The question of overshadowing in
terest with the delegates at the Fort
Worth convention is the leasing prop
osition. They are commencing to. real
ize that the question must be handled
it cannot be evaded.
s'If had traded for real estate every
lame heifer [ drove through Denver
thirty-fve years ago, as I had an op-
porsunity to do at the time, I would to-
day be a millionaire" said Mr.. John
Sparks, the cattleman of Reno, Neb.
Charles Swanberg, who has been
herding sheep for Ed Rife in the
southern part of Sweetwater county,
west of Rock Springs, yesterday, with
in few feet of the Union Pacific
tracks.
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McEndarffer, who were on trial for two
days and half at Sterling, Colo, ON
the charge of killing lot of sheep
belonging to the Warren Live Stock
com pany, and beating Herder Crane,
were found not guilty by jury, after a
half hours elaboration.
Colorado will have a representative
at the great International Live Stock
exposition at Chicago next fall. That
jump.u go-in-and-win,
pushing, progressive ranchman and
cattle-grower of the western slope,
Eugene 81. Grub, putting into shape
for exhibition q carload.
Cards are out for the wedding, on
January Is, of Edgar Dick Slaughter,
son of Colonel G. G. Slaughter of Dali
las, Texas, and Carrie L. Graham of
Austin, Texas. which takes place at the
prospective brides home. Mr.. Slaugh
ter is q prominent young attorney.
The couple will reside in Dallas
When the Denver packers an
nounced at the beginning of the year
that they proposed to slaughter sc, 900
more hogs this year than las they I'M
doubtedly meant what they said, for
the months receipts to date are nearly
1000 bead, while last year during the
same date ,535 head were received.
In the matter of ad justment of freight
rates on stock shipments from Kansas
points the cattlemen's associations of
that state have addressed petition to
the governor, recitiug their grievances
and requesting him to use his influence
to induce the railroads to adopt The
carload instead of the pound rate.
Hotchkiss Times: A disease among
horses unknown to stockmen here ha.
been quite prevalent recently. A. Cs
Ellington lost his fine span of horses
recently from this cause. The state
veterinary surgeon should he appraised
of it and might render advice in other
cases which may develop at any
time.
Some attempt has been mad to hold
up the hide market because 1t was
feared decline would have bad eff
feet on leather prices. The largest
tanners, however, are of the opinion
that leather is firmly intreuched
against a decline, aud that it is entire
ly safe to withdraw any sentimental
support from the hide market.
It is understood tina the small herd
of buffalo now in the Yellowstone park
Is to be considerably increased during
the coming season by the purchase of
q portion of the herd belonging to
Peter Dupree, of South Dakota. A
full blooded buffalo brings $500, the
demand from parks and menageries
being greater than the supply
A Night OF Terror.
lawful anxiety was felt for the
widow of the brave General Burnham
of Machias. Me-, when the doctors said
she could not live.till morning" writes
Mrs. S. h Lincoln, who attended her
that fearful night. fAll thought she