The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-04
sGstpPEns AND MOVES.

Philo Hunter of EIbing brought in a
car load Of hogs after the market
closed yesterday.
The Oklahoma shippers who arrived In
Kansas city last Saturday after diner
tins, had to hold their cattle until
MONDAY The Wichita market last AS
long as sunlight
The bulk of the hogs sold on this
market last Saturday were within 10 and
~ cents of the bulk sales in Kansas
City, and yet some shippers claim Kan
sas City is getting a larger per cent of
good hogs than Wichita.
Some people think Wichita ought to
have packers enough to buy all the hogs
thai come here, and that not hog ought
TO be forwarded St Louis is a pretty
OLD packing point, but about one-fourth
OF the hogs received there last Thursday
were shipped out.
Hon Z. ?. Thompson, one of the first
settlers in this county, sold hogs on the
arket yesterday. He was telling some
Of tn boys that alfalfa hay cut fine
an1 mixed with a little corn meal and
soaked with water made an excellent
chicken feed. 1t was q great egg pro-
ducer, he said.
New corn is being sold at the stock
yards that is almost as dry as old corn.
J. + Longmire the new joint railroad
y AE.
Is from New York, but recently was
with the Wabash. He is an experienced
man and takes hold of his new office
like man who knows his office
James Nandiver, of the Union Live
Stock Commission company, was at
Bentley yesterday on business. He says
they have fairly good crop of corn
g. that section.
Alex. Knott = regular shipper at Belle
Te.r--
day that sold To Dold for S4.95 in much
less tine than it takes TO tell it.
L. b. 1aner, prominent cattle man
at Medford, oklahoma, was visitor
at the yards yesterday. He says they
had fine crop of wheat in his section.
but corn is light. NJ. Haner thinks We
ought 10 have a good cattle market here
at Wichita. and he believes it will come
with Cudahy.
Eddy County N. NJ Eagle: The cat
tlemen made scoop on the newspapers
this week and. Ike the Assyrian, came
down on the town like the wolf on the
fold About Is Of them registered at the
Schlitz. from various parts OF New Mex
leo, the Panhandle and West Texas The
caUse OF this meeting was 10 investigate
~ ola Mexican land grant. reach NJ
from the Rio Grande to within eight
miles north Of Big Springs thence nor.
10 t4t colorado me II the TUE proved
good, the land was TO be leased to pres
eat occupants at one cent per acre
which would give them claim. and by
"a they could hold heir fences Mcssrs.
Lakewood q Bateman, Freeman & Cam
Er n. of Carlsbad and Major Richardson
pr Roswell were employed TO investigate
the title Of the so-called Beall Mex can
land grant. now in the hands Of the
Interstate Land company OF Kansas
City. This grant contains 6.00100l acres
o. land and covers boundaries above
mentioned. over $4,000 We're deposited
here yesterday in bank which was about
one-half the yearly lease, which was
asked of our Stockmen. the annual lease
amounting TO about s60.001. The Kansas
men were up 20 snuff and had employei
the aforementioned attorneys TO defend
the tile 10 lease, etc. Everything went
wei till the lawyers put on their spec
tacies and went 10 work on land titles
and decisions of the supreme court and
all the boys were happy. About o'clock
yesterday morning Judge Gatewood
found a decision of the supreme court
Of 1881 declaring null and void this same
Mexican land grant, and declaring II 70
grant at ali. Thus our cattlemen are
saved about $1,000 a year in this little
through on the first test The fact IS.
shat our lawyers "stayed' with their
people and handed over a yearly contract
Of $500 in their behalf This whole
matter was kept 4 secret from the news
papers, which IS a dead Cive-away 10 the
whole plot. Q, Tempara; Q, mores.