The Wichita daily eagle., 1900-09-02
HIDES.
SHIPPERS AND NOTES.

The buyer for the Nashville Packing
company claims that the demand on this
market at the present time would take
1850 hogs a day.
| J. R. Hawthorn. regular shipper OF
! Benton, had a car load of hogs on the
! early market yesterday
! S. Wilkinson Of UdaIl was at the yards
| yesterday and bought a car load OF mix
| ed cattle, mostly stockers and feeders
| James Conner. a successful farmer and
! feeder OF Minneha, was at the yards
| yesterday as a visitor
J. Van Buskirk formerly a regular
! shipper at Douglas, but now a success
| ful farmer in Minneha township, was
at the yards yesterday.
Ed Healy returned this morning from
weeks visit 10 his former home at
Mount Sterling, Illinois.
James Bosley. a prominent cattle buyer
west OF this city, was at the yards yes
! terday. He says good 1000 TO l1oo-pound
feeders are mighty hard to find He
says little 2-year-old steers are plentiful
but feeders do not want them.
Dold did not have over one-har the
hogs in his killing yesterday that he
wanted
A c. Lehrling. now Of sedgwick City,
but formerly OF Inmau. was at the yards
vest erday finding out the price of fat
cows. He has ranch in Pratt courty
and Will feed BOO head OF cattle az Sedg-
wick next winter.
J. D. Robinson OF Towanda topped the
hog market yesterday with four car
loads Robinson Brothers are among
the most successful feeders in southern
Kansas. They always get good prices.
because they bring good stock 10 mar
ket These four car loads Of hogs were
good enough for any packer. including
Dold, who got the whole four car loads.
Mrs. Carrie Woods OF Richmond. IN
diana, is in the city visiting Yardmaster
Amos Williams and family.
The smoke from the big Dold packing
house blew into the stock yards yester-
day and some Of the boys at sthe yards
said that was sure sign of rain.
The four car loads Of hogs that topped
the market yesterday were fed on alfalfa
and dry corn The general testimony
Of feeders IS that there is money in al
faIfa for higs
One year ago today the great packing
house Of the jacob Dcld Packing com
pany in Kansas City was completely de-
sJroyed by fire. The house has been re-
bu.Bt, but is rot vet running.
John Speer turned the Joint railroad
ortcs 81 the stock yards over to his
successor The auditors OF the Santa
Fe. Missouri Pacific and the Rock Island
were present and checked Up his &C
counts. They al said the young agents
accounts were correct and that he owed
their roads nothing. His bond OF IS 90
= now released and Mr.. Spaer has sc-
cepted the position OF assistant cashier
in the Missouri Pacific local freight
Office.
Deck Parsons, the experienced hog
buyer and cattle feeder who has been
slightly unweu for several days, was az
the yards yesterday. he was giving
some OF the cattlemsn his idees sb- u
feeding this coming fan and winter. @
seemed 70 think that Il would he =
scratch II feeders in this section made
any money, sad his reasons seemed very
plausible. NJ Parsons said the great
corn crop this year was iu the terr tory
tributary 70 Chicago and the Missouri
river stock markets, and from those SEC
tons would come the good cattle next
year He said thsre vas q light crop
OF corn IN Kansas and such years the
corn was chffy snd too much of L vas
required to make a pound u beef Ee
sad the cattle would eat 4 Ike hzy.
but il would not make fat ike ths -
sold ears n ncrthsra Missouri. Illinois.
Iowa. Nebraska and South Dakota. Be-
cause OF this condition % the earn c-o7
here he thought cattle feeders would bat-
ter move veEy cau1foUsy this coming
fan n their feeding operations
Manager Fred DoI6. OF the Dols Pack
ing company. recently purchased q pair
of fns roaa roa6stsrs. Wm Tzphau has
been training them ard yesterday Mr.
Laphzm and Mr.. Doi5 had the horses
n trout CT tas packing house hiscaed %