The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-13
PROVISION MARKET.


A street car Jumped square across the
track yesterday at the corner Of Law
renee and Seventeenth street. Passen-
gers 10 the stock yards We're conn aIIe1
10 walk 1t is not very often that the
new street car company fails 10 make
time.
Quite a large per cent of the cattle on
the Kansas City market last Tuesday
were from Wichitas territory. Among
the shippers from this section were NJ.
{. Campbell, Ben Garland and ]. P.
Campbell
Horse and mule dealers claim that fair
L good mules are now worth IS A head
more than one year ago. The faithful
mule is the subject OF many jokes, but
he never fails 10 bring the cash.
Members Of the Live Stock Exchange
at Kansas City Clipped in and raised
900 in twenty minutes for, the Texas
storm sufferers.
The frst train load Of stock ever sh D.
pen fir m Mangum, Greer county. o. T..
arrives at Kansas City on Monday of
ms week. The Rock Island has inst
pcen completed to that point. There
were twenty cars in the train. all car
tie Heretofore the nearest shipping
Point to Mangum was distant fifty niles.
Iae lat s. government report shows
large decrease in the number of stock
one
year ago.s Tbs would mean a shortage
OF pork next year unless they are
heavier when sold.
+. /. Ban. Of the Bowles live Stock
Commission company Of Chicago. Kansas
CITY and s. Louis was At the wards
YESTERDAY Mr.. Ball had lust come in
IRON syracuse and other points along
the Santa T. in western Kansas. He
said ii ra-ned ali the way from CoIor9d3.
thorouehy soaking the ground. The
people in the western part of the state
Were not suffering for rain. because tho
eufalo grass makes good feed when l~v
Mr. Ball said the cattle in western Kan
sas were not very Fat eNcent the DIV
cows Stockers and feeders are thin in
flesh
Carpenters were ar work at the Doli
packing house yesterday framing the roof
for the noid white pavilion that will ba
built at the corner Of Market and En-
giish streets for the great fair ana IA 1
festival The roof viii be octagon in
shape. he same as the pavilion II Is
he.ng framed so that when the time
comes for erecting Il. Il wtll b put %
Eether without the sound OF saw or ham
mer. Charley Darrigrand looked At It
and told Fred Dold il would be q thing
Of beauty ard a JOY forever.
Superintendent Darrigrand. Of the Dold
packing house. had 60 acres Of the farm
recently purchased by him. seven miles
north OF this city, seeded 20 alfalfa yes
ter az. He has been packing some a
fine hogs rs ever went TO market {. and
he ascertained that some of the very
finest we're raised on alfalfa and corn.
That + What put him in the notion OF
huying valley farm and sowine alfalfa
FIe threw his hat back from his broad
forehead last evening and while his
hands hurg on his suspenders by his
thumbs. Mr.. D2rriErGni told a reporter
for the Eagle how he expected 20 make
big. round dollars raising hogs When
TIE reporter told the expert packer that
the country up toward Valley Center
was alive with Jack rabbits and that II
he did not guard his POlaud-Chins PIGS
the jack rabbits would eat them ali up
hair and hide. he said. Holy Moses!
10 those dog goned Jack rabbits eat
little pigs?'
The hogs sold on the Wichita marke.
last Tuesday 2verar ed 20 pounds.
John Ratif Of Herressev. q. r. had
car load II hogs on the market YES
terday that brought SIS
e 2 Qujgley % Me6f1rd. O. T. mar
ke-ed a car losd II hogs yesterday.
Dan VIM. The popular shipper AZ
TdaH had two car loads OF hogs IN
the market yesterday that topped the
~ rket. They went 70 Dol5 for S5.17is.
J Houston 81 Ponca City, o. T. and
Wheeler & Stewart Of Belle Plain. were
shippers whose hogs arrived At The close
OF yesterday
c. A Stewart brought in two car loads
Of fine feeders yesterday from Ashland.
He win forward them 70 his feed los At
Whitewater. MI Stewart expects 20
feed 100 head next winter.
c 2 Cole and c. c. Carson II Mount
Hope brought IL n car load - hogs each
% late last night that Weighmsster
Baker had 10 light match 10 see the
scale beam