Mexico weekly ledger., 1904-02-04
STOCK NOTES.

oAeeiuS LII q Acuu.f uuuct tus
other day when a friend came In ant
said: Judge there are a few OF you
Missouri friends outside. Come Out
and greet them.'' The Judge hurried
out and found a fine lot OF Missouri
mules passing the hotel. When hC
came back his jocular friend asked
"Did you see your friends?'' 81 did, ,
replied the judge. "What are they
doing 10 Memphis?" ask the friend.
well, l wouldn't be surprised II they
were here to teach school, replied
the judge. The other fellow bought.
Elk.
J. w. Brewer will leave this week
with a car of horses and mules for
Honey Grove, Tex. Mr.. Brewer has
been a shipper to that point for years
and has built a trade that appreciates
the class OF horses and mules be ships.
The present consignment has been
selected with great care and are sure
10 please bis patronage at that place.
Attention is called TO Joe Considines'
sale, Feb. 9th, which is fully explained
in his advertisement 10 the weekly
LEDGER.
Geo. A. Lewis, north OF this city,
lost a fine beef steer Thursday. Three
OF the cattle yentured out on the ice,
which broke, with the result that
one wa drowned.
Dunn Bros, Of McCredie, sold to
Howard Bailey last week "a head OF
big mules at sls5 per head.
"a very serious situation was found
TO exist at one OF the hotels In town
the other evening" says the Centralia
Courier. "A jack man from aneighbor-
Ing town was a guest OF the hotel. Hel
was sailing under about three sheets
in the wind. After supper be put on
his overcoat, ran his hand In bis pocket
and pulled forth agun. A look at the
pistol convinced him that he had on
the wrong coat. He then tried toll
identify his coat by finding his gun.
Running his hand in the pocket Of
every coat he came to, he drew forth
gun after gun, in fact finding artillery
10 nearly every pocket until he came
his own shooting iron, and thus
inding bis coat. The queer search for
a coat via the gun route demonstrated
that most Of the guests OF the house
went armed to the teeth like despera-
dos"
Hayes & Hodge, regular shippers
from Audrain county, Mo-, had in 2s9
head Of the starr Mexican yearlings
that averaged 70 lbs. and sold at . 80.
j. W. Dowell, of Audrain county,
No., marketed a load OF 23S-lb hogs at
5.15.--J. ID. Lewellen, OF Audrain .
Mo-, had cattle on the markell i
Wednesday Live Stock Reporter. h
The strange hog disease which has :
proved fatal to many hogs in the
outhsestern section Of Audrain and
Jallaway counties for want of a better !
lame has been called muscle worm. I" /
The muscle worm is a parasite that
Iets into the muscle OF the animal, I
nd unless attacked In its early stages /
results fatally. The hogs, /
fter the parasite gets to work on I
hem, lose the use Of their hind legs
nd drag themselves over the ground
0 a half-paralyzed condition. They /,
e~nerally die in a few days after that Z
tack. :
Big mules, large horses, gigantic 6
attic all pale into insignificance with q
he monstrous steer that was owned :
ear Hopkins, this State, sixteen :
ago. He was eight feet tall, !,
1880 pounds, and yet was not
It. Without warning the steer died
nd now bis former owner has BEEN
sked to exhibit his hide and some Of N
is bones at the Worlds Fair. Moth Il
lg will be left uEdone to make Mis- I
exhibit show the State TO have G
onderful live stock resources even II In
e 60 back TO prehistoric ages.