Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1901-03-13
Ube Sbtner Gazette
j. G. HABERMAoHER, Publisher.
SINNER, TEXAS.
FIELp. RANCH. oARpEN.


five inches of snow.
Panhandle wheat growers are happy
over the recent snow.
Corsicana received over $4,000 bales
of cotton by wagon this season.
In some parts of Lamar county the
recent snow was six inches deep.
Maj. ]. B. Armstrong of Austin pur-
chased 275O near Alice for s10,SOO.
Neil & Douglas of Van Alstyne
shipped eight cars Of hogs to Sherman.
Willis & Scofield Of Hillsboro ship.
ped four carloads of hogs to Los An.
geles, Cal.
Dr. Francis says he cannot receive
any more cattle for incubation at Col
lege Station.
Maj. j.. S. Grinnan of Terrell ship.
ped three carloads of hay to Liver
pool, England.
w. d. Fully of San Angelo is feed
ing seventeen cars of beef cattle at the
Corsicana yards.
Finkle & Wilson OF Corsicana ship
ped eight cars of beef cattle to Chica-
go and st. Louis.
Joaquin Miller of California, the not
ed poet, has purchased 713 acres OF
land adjoining Alice.
1t is estimated that 1000 horses for
the British army have been shipped
from Fort Worth the past year.
Jesse shain of Mckinney shipped a
trainload of fat cattle to Chicago.
They were fattened at Mckinney.
A number of nurserymen have gen
erously donated fruit trees to the Odd
Fellows orphans home at Corsicana.
Ed Byrd of Detroit shipped two
carloads of hogs to St Louis, and Nor
ris & Sanders of the same place, two
cars to Sherman.
Seventy carloads of oranges from
California passed through Denison
enc day last week. They were con-
signed to northern and eastern points
j. G. williams.sah&aplnent onion
grower, says that in hiiH opinion the
onion crop of Collin county will fall
short fully one-half from last yeariS
acreage.
Cardwell & Houston Of Gonzales
shipped one car of shoice beeves to
New Orleans from Sinner. where they
have several hundred head of cattle
on feed.
j, B. Wilson of Dallas has shipped
fifteen cars of beef cattle to Liverpool,
England Five cars of the animals
were loaded at Grand Prairie and the
other ten at Terrell
Mr. w. d. Farris Of Ennis has fin
Ished shipping out thirty cars of fat
beef cattle to the Chicoga market.
They were all fed by him at Ennis,
and were in prime condition.
Missouri is following in the steps of
Colorado relative to the suppression of
docking. A bill has been introduced
of that state forbidding the importa-
ton of locked horses into the state.
w. o. Pork OF Atchison, Kan. has
donated Axtell of Osborne No. $780,
a fine 18-months-ol bull calf, to the
agricultural college as a start for his
breed at that institution. This the
third donation Of pure bred cattle.
The auction sale of the Burruss-
Bradford Shorthorn cattle was held
at Fort Worth last week, and mum
Der of transactions occurred.
A railroad man who had Just return
ed from trip to Texas said to 9
Drovers' Telegram representative il
Kansas City few days since: "Th'
country of the south is in a very pros
porous condition. There is more none,
than ever before"
4 At Shenandoah. Ia, seventy-hv'
head of Poland Chinas sold for an av
erage of $24.66 in the dispersion SAT-
of F, s. Mofflt and d. S. Priest. Their
was a large attendance of breeder
from Iowa. Missouri and Nebraska.
Farmers in the vicinity OF Alta la,
are handling more sheen and fewe
cattle and hogs than formerly Tire
farmers own 41OO head in one county
The present condition of the shee
market is calculated to throw damp
er over the enthusiasm thereabouts.
At sale of trotters in New York re
Gently Karl PlatniA bought Clayton 70
export to Australia. Clayton is a so
OF Attention, AID was secured afte