The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-15
Sa1PPERs AND NOTES.

John X Smith Of Spring Valley had a
top price load Of hogs al the yards yes
te day. Mr.. Smith is a new shipper and
was so well pleased with his first sale
At the yards that he has concluded to
ship nowhere else.
a b. Moore left last night for King
man TO attend the catJlemen's picnic.
Mr.. Moore formerly lived at Kingman,
ard ne will undoubtedly have an en-
lOyable time while among his old friends.
W. NJ Paugn and Ed Healy will leave
this morning for Kinemau to participate
IN tie festivities of the cattlemeus pc
ric. They VIII be absent two days
purirc their absence the business will
be handled by their Office force.
man was seen dead drunk, with flies
all over him. at The stock yards end OF
the street car line yesterday. The pa
Jhetic aspect of his case lies in the fact
that he used his pension money to make
a beast OF himself.
Yesterday was payday at the D0ld
packing house. Very few people know
that the annual pay roll of the DOll
Packing company is Sl25,0C0. All II
which goes into the pockets Of Wichita
men. There IS no other institution in
Wichita ,har has such 4 large pay roll.
TIE docking pen 1T the stock yards, ac-
cordng t0 the evidence of Inspector IT,
ford-and ne IS man who knows what
he IS talking about. Eeuerally-is the
coolest place in the United States. The
air comes gently from every quarter,
willie TIE roof keeps off the sun.
The D3ld company VII clean out their
biz tesian wei next week and improve
further the facilities Tor carrying the fine
water into he pa king house
he TOP p-.Ce for hogs yesterday was
s. a5 Shippers can figure out how close
n IS - the k9Ds2s City prices.
TIE drorth I'm Cmaha's territory made
Il dis7s r-us week for p~i- of stock
erS and feeders. the decline last week
amo-n inE 70 sC150c on The general run
Of stock cattle and HIGHT We SHIT feeders
TIE very best cattle suitable for imme-
Cts-e feed were not over 1odl5c lower.
Lard ard ribs showed a decline yes
tcrd7y. notvitH stlndi0g the advance in
The price of hogs.
There was en- unusually light demand
z r feeding cattle At C-icaga last we K,
with 90 pronounced lower tendency. The
market was s. had that the Drovers
JoU~ral thought Fl best TO not state. how
much tie decline amounted TO-
J. w. Hamilton, q cattle inspector OF
th5 Kansas state live stock sanitary
board spent saturday and Sunday in
ChaGt2Cuq county. Kansas locking over
hse:;u7tion there. Mr.. Hamilton s7vs
thot The stockuea Of the county feel
Vel sat-sd With the management OF
the Texas fever outbreak there as han
died by The Kansas board. and fee that
the board has the situation well n hard
and fully as well as any one could han
die r. Il am convinced that the frfec-
ton there now" said NJ. Hamilton. IS
permanent and that ( has ben IN the
county for = years. New cases have
been reported recently. and the general
opinion seems to be that the scare Is al
over Outside Of The feverisi.uation. con
dit'ous are al that could be desired
Cattle are in good shane and doing we'll
Grass IS 6ne. ard n fact as fine a Il
ever gets All Of northeastern Kansas
has good grass Some complaint was
heard Of dry weather in spots. but I
Funrose last niehrs rain relieved that
Crops Il al kinds a-e very promising"