The Dickinson press., 1901-10-12
Stock Items.

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Stock Items.
VIM. B. Galligan shipped a car of
cattle the first of the week. C.. c. Mead
also had 3 cars In the shipment, making
S cars Sc far this season.
E. Deffebach went west on Monday to
buy a trainload ~of>cattle for his firm.
A steer in the shipment of cattle made
from here last Friday got hung up by his
leg while in transit and the car had to
be unloaded at Staples, causing some de-
lay.
Geo. Harkins went to Chicago Sunday
night with his shipment of 4 cars which
included some for ]. E. Phelan.
D. B. Zimmerman has sold no COWS
and calves to w. c. Mckenzie of New
England.
w. P. Massacre got in last Saturday
night with a trainload of 2 and 3-year old
Kansas City cattle. He got a good run
and was much pleased with the shape in
which the cattle came through.
Frank Roberts has sold another car
load of horses to eastern buyers.
Anton Anderson of Bel6eld is shipping
z cars of cattle for himself and l for
neighbors this week. AS an experiment
Mr.. Anderson has foddered his beef cat
tie twice a day for three weeks on green
oats. The weights and prices he gets in
Chicago will demonstrate whether or
not the feeding was profitable.
The Richards Cattle Co. and friends
from the north loaded a train of cattle
Sunday forenoon and the people from
the south we're to have loaded their ~
cars right after dinner, but they we're
bothered in cutting out and again in
loading and it was after 9 o'clock when
the second train left Dickinson.
Julius Hoist shipped 2 cars of cattle
on Sunday.
The Cave Hills stockmen loaded &c
cars on Sunday and among the shippers
we're: Messrs. Hamilton Bros, Vines
Stearns, Lewis, McFee, Shaw, Hammer
and E. Defebach.
Stroud Bros, from the north, loaded ;
cars of cattle on Sunday.
T. H. Mouat,. foreman for the Rich
ards Cattle CO., was in with a herd o.
cattle the first of the week. Some ].
cars were loaded for this firm on Sun
day.
Joseph Hartinger has bought 100 youne
cattle of R. c. Hill.
A.. J. Allen has bought 40 3-year oil
steers of Murphy Bros. at $500 per cwt
The cattle are picked from a herd of 26t
and are to be weighed at the Dickinso,
yards after a I2-hours' shrink. C.. v
Nassau buys the same number of Murph,
Bros. at s3.75, and has also bough
SO head of Connolly Bros. at s4.25 pc
cwt. :.
r.. H. Johnson and John Courtney hav
put 20 steers out with Jeff Mcdonald.
w. b. Howe sold 3-year old n tiv.
steers on Wednesday which netted hin
$50 in Chicago.
The Short Horn breeders smiled thi
week when they read the report Of c. {
Mead's sale of s. native steers at ss.35
average weight I424. This is a net pric
of $40 per head, or a little over $500
for three carloads of cattle. Mr.. Mea
had cows on the market at the same tim
that netted him little over $50 per heat
1t was reported Monday morning tina
a or s head of w. A. Shaw's steers ha'
escaped from their car while in transi
somewhere between Dickinson an,
Hebron. Roadmaster DAILY investigate
and reported that he thought some on
had made a mistake and as Agent Xii
mer has heard nothing further regard
ing the matter this is probably the cas-
The shipper likely found the car doc
open and was naturally apprehensive.
Albert Trapp, who has been emplove
by Massacre & Simpson the past fou
years, has bought the Frank Gates plac
on Knife river. He bought 20 yearlin
heifers last year and this year had I
calves to brand. The calves he sold I
Massacre & Simpson at SIS per head.
The ] F brand OF cattle-1o5 head
have been bought by A. ]. Allen at s4o.5
per head. These cattle belonged to G.
Fiheld of Los Angeles, Cal, a forme
Bismarck lumberman, and had bee
ranged by Massacre & Simpson the pas
10 months. The cattle were Washing
stock, put in as rs, and cost Mr.. Fifel
$50 per head. After paying the expens
Of keeping and deducting for losses
head died from accident-Mr. Fifel
still has to his credit nearly $40 per hea
over the FIRST cost.
Silas Crabtree has bought 40 heifers {
Massacre & Simpson Tor his Crooke
creek ranch.
E. A. Gray, the Northwestern liv
stock solicitor, returned Thursday nigt
from Miles City.
Cattle shipments for Sept. II and I:
c. v. NASSAU IL cars. Alex. Fowler 5, 4
B. Currey 2, Massacre & Simpson, Fl
Sept. II and 10: w. D. Roney 2, Tho
Fisher 2, Kendrick-L Little Sheep Co.
D D cars, w. L. Richards 3, c. R. Per
dergast 3, H. A. Davis & Co. 3, H.
Schultz I.
Jas. Converse has another big shipmer
booked for the 25th.
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