The Dickinson press., 1900-04-21
StOCkmen Meet.
Ninth Annual Meeting Live Stock Asso-
Ciation of North Dakota Held in Dickin-
son April Is.
Dan Manning and ". [. Richards Reelected

same were approved as read.
An interesting letter was read from T.
S. Underhill, proprietor of the Spring
Vale stock farm at Antelope.
Dr.. Stickney moved that the chair ap-
point a committee of five whose duty it
should be to suggest names for officers,
and an executive board. The following
committee was appointed, with instruc-
tons to report at the afternoon session:
C. c. Mead, chairman, H. c. Anderson;
VIM. Connolly, Charles Krauth, and S.
M. Ferris.
Prof. X. l.. Shaw of the Bozeman,
Mont, experimental station was called
upon to address the convention. Mr..
Shaw being a son of Prof. Shaw who had
addressed several stock conventions in
Dickinson, the audience naturally had an
interest in the speaker as soon as he was
called upon.
Mr.. Shaw spoke first of grasses, be-
lieving, as he said, hat the time was
near at hand when stockmen would find
it advantageous to raise hay crops. The
Austrian bronze he considered the most
practical for districts that are subject to
drouth during certain seasons Of the year.
This grass, he said, was earlier than 9TH
er grasses to start in the spring, would
hold green longer in the fall and had
feeding qualities about equal to timothy.
Prof. Shaw spoke also of feeding stock
and the importance of having we'll bred
cattle. His talk was practical and very
interesting.
H. Blakely, district freight agent Of the
Northern Pacific, made some remarks and
stated among other things that his road
would like to have the small shippers, as
far as possible, bunch their shipments SO
as to make a full trainload for the same
date. In this way the shippers would
get better service and the railroad people
would be much better suited too. A dis
cussion which followed indicated that
it was very important to this end to have
agents at all the stations who would en-
ter into the spirit of the matter and help
to organize the shippers. 1t was said al
SO that the agent must have the courage
to tackle Glendive and assert his rights
when some dispatcher bobbed up who
thought he knew more about the whole
thing than the agent on the ground and
the interested shippers
The meeting took an adjournment un-
til l o'clock, voting to assemble in the
opera house.
Some of the visitors present from a
distance we're:
A. S. Nash, travelling agent of North
western; E. A. Gray, stock solicitor for
the same road.
Geo. F. Wright, representing the Twin
City Stock Yards.
John R. Hawley, live. stock agent of
the Burlington. Mr.. Hawley has his Of
fee in the Endicott Arcade, St. Paul.
Arthur Let's, treasurer of the North
American Live Stock Commission Co. of
Chicago. Mr.. Let's expects to have a
! local representative this season.
Chas. Hass, representing Rosembaum
Bros. of Chicago.
R. L. Senderling, who represented E.
| M. Prouty & Co. here last year.
Col. F. M. Malone, live stock solicitor
for the Milwaukee.
]. L. DeHart, representing the South
St. Paul Stock Yards.
L. w. Allenberg, representing Allen
berg & Co, Chicago. c. F. Higgins is
the firms local representative.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
President Manning called the meeting
to order in the opera house at o'clock
and asked for the committees report on
election of office.
c. c. Mead, chairman of the committee
presented the following report, which
was read and adopted by the convention
President,-Dan Manning.
Vice PRESIDENT. P. Baker.
Secretary-Treasuror,-W. L. Richards,
Directors,-Dan Manning, w. L Rich
ards, H. L. Dickinson, Geo. M. Frye, T.
S. Unnderhill, S. M. Ferris, M. L. Con-
molly, l. P. Baker, w. c. Badger, V. H.
Stickney, Chas. Krauth, c. c. Mead, J,
E. Phelan, Don Stevenson, ]. A. Farrah.
The chair gave Ben Corbin, the boss
wolf hunter from Emmons county, the
floor for a few minutes. Ben is a comic
al genius. He began by saying that he
was IS years old, had been a wolfer for
as years, knew more about the business
than anyone else because he had made
it a study. Ben advises the counties to
} be more liberal in putting IN wolf boun.
; ties and then they will be sure of getting
rid Of the wolves. Ben closed by telling
the people that Dickinson was the bes,
town that he had found anywhere, moi
: excepting Bismarck; said he was glad
he came up-probably would never come
!. again-and should 60 away owing nc
man a cent and happy in the thought
that he had been here.
]. E. Phelan read a letter before the
convention showing that in order to &c,
vaccine from the government it was nee
essary to get the endorsement Of a sen
ator OF congressman.
Treasurer Richards made the follow.
ing financial report for the year 1896
which upon motion of J: Crowley, was
accepted: