Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-12-20
1890 Cattle Tested and e74 Killed by
the Cattle Commissioners.

the Cattle commissioners.
The report of the Vermont cattle COM
mission Just compiled by c. j. Bell
secretary shows in detail the operations
of the commission during the fiscal year
ending June 80 1901 The report shows
that 12O12 cattle in herds, and 14OS cattle
for drovers were tested. making the total
1880 Of these the number of cattle KILL
ed from herds was 96S and for drovers six,
a total of 974. The state paid for all cat
tie killed S14, i09.S3 and also paid $40 for
four glandered horses. making a total OF
$14, 1883. The members Of the commits
sion received 80, 227.32, veterinarians were
paid SO. $3.50, and the miscellaneous eX-
penses amounted to $685.. So that the
total expense to the state for the cattle
commission, veterinarians, and cattle
killed during the year was $20,5S6.
The four years old daughter of Albert
Bushev of Hnesburg was drowned
Thursday by falling into a cistern in the
wood shed at her home.
Henry w Burgett and Leroy w. Bald
win of Rutland are directors in the
American Palace Car company recently
organized in Albany, y. Y, with capt.
tai of 100000.
Edward Minkley. "a, a rural mail car
| rier, while attempting to cross on the
ice between North Hero and South Hero
broke through and was drowned in Lake
Champlain Saturday.
Herman Buchanan of Brandon was fined
| 800 and costs, with an alternative sen
| tence in the house of correction, in the
| Addison county court, on the charge OF
| killing a deer in the closed season.
| Congressman D. ]. Foster has intro
duced a bill for new public building al
Burlington to cost. including site, moi
over 100000. There is provision in the
bill for selling the present public build
ing and applying the proceeds to the new
| structure.
| John Winterson of South Barre has de
serted his family of a wife and three
| small children. No knowledge of hi'
| whereabouts was obtained until word wal
received from Wintersons brother II
| Montreal that the deserter had started
for England.
f. p. Wheeler, tax collector, has pub
| lshed notice of the sale at public auc
| ton. Jan. II. of Billings park near White
| River Junction and the buildings Thereon
to satisfy a claim for taxes against TIT
| Billings Park association. The last TIVE
| state fairs held at the park proved un
! profitable and ran the association Int
| debt.
1t is said that New York and Saratoga
men have organized a company with
| capital stock of $780, 900, for the purpos
of building a large summer hotel in Man
| chester The location is on land owne'
| by Mrs. Arthur Taylor, being near tn
| golf course of the Ekwanok Countr.
club and commanding a fine view of tn
mountain scenery.
Dr. w. s. Webb has recently added b,
purchase two more farms on Shelburn
| Point to his estate of 1000 acres. He pai'
5000 per acre. He is now negotiating 70
the purchase of the Blair farm, and
he succeeds in getting 1t he will own tn
entire point except the harbor propert,
of about 10 acres belonging to the Cham
plain Transportation company.
Fred Stewart, about So, was struck an
killed by a train near Wallingford Mon
day night He had been in the villag
and started on the track to his home
a mile away, He was deaf and it is sup
posed that he did not hear the approach
ing train His wife was away at tn
time, and it was not known until Tues
day that he had been killed. his body
frozen stiff, with skull crushed and hi
fractured, being found beside the track
John Livendale II, son of Edward Liv
endale, was killed instantly at the Mont
pelier e. Wells River railroad station 1
Barre Tuesday. He attempted to boar
the rear platform of a moving passenge
car. He was warned not to ride on tn
car, and as he stepped back he slippe
and fell from the icy platform acros
|
which was being moved ran over hin
causing instant death and crushing tn
body badly.
The eleventh annual session of the VeI
mont Dairy School will open at Burling
ton on January 10, and will last fou
weeks. The school will be conducted o
the same lines as hitherto, teaching tn
science and art of butter making in a
its branches by lecture, textbook, lat
oratory, and by actual work with sepa
rators, churn and butter workers, cost c
hte months schooling in modern dairy
ing, including board, need not eX
coed S25 Nearly 500 Vermont boy
have attended during the past te
years. Young men or young women VIII
desire to learn modern methods of dairy
ing are invited to correspond with tn
officers of the school. The class
already nearly made up, but there ar
still some vacant places. For particular
address Dairy School, Burlington, VT.