Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-02-13
SAL E IS LAR GE
OVER TWO HUNDRED HORSES
SOLD AT LOCAL AUCTION =
FRIDAY
Ice Situation Slightly improvisation
Morrell G. Co., Ltd, Started Cutting
This Morning-The General Mar
kets Today.

From Saturdays Daily.
1t may not be as noisy as a good,
live stock exchange but 1t Is certain
~ there with the noise. To one Wis
iting the auction sale held yesterday
afternoon by the Ottumwa Horse Sale
Co., one of the most impressive feat
ures was the noise.
First above all else is the monoton-
GUS bark of the auctioneer: 'Give five,
give me five, seven and half am
offered" Well you know how that
goes. Then there is the loud crying
OF the seller telling the go9d points Of
the horse and trying. rs make himself
heard above the eeAfsfter Of the ancti21ss,
The quick, sharp bid of the buyer,
the good natured but often caustic
comments and criticisms which come
from the crowd, the neighs and the
tramp of the horses, the 'whish" of
the whip, and the buzz of conversation
!. of hundreds of voices, make 1t con-
glomeration of concentrated extract
of noise
The sale yesterday was good one.
About 220 horses were sold and 1t is
estimated that over 800 people We're
present at different times in the sales
barn during the day.
The top price of the sale was
brought by a brown draft horse, q
gelding, which was sold for $240. The
seller was B. w. Lloyd Of Williams
burg. The following are among those
out of town buyers and horsemen who
were present: H. E. McCollum, Wash
ington, Ia; E. ]. Lynch, Chicago; B.
w Lloyd, Williamsburg; w. L. Elder,
Chicago; T. II. Lawson, Birmingham;
l. N Curtis, Charlton; William Stone,
Pennington; T. H. Gilroy, Kansas
City; Samuel Parker, st. Louis; Chas.
Daoust, ST. Louis; w. NJ Armentrout,
Seymour; James Downey, Sigourney;
H. l.. Scott, Batavia; B. w. Ward, of
Richland; D. w. Hagen, Byron, ILL.,;
H. H. Hogan, Fairfield; Chas. Hide
brand, Lockridge; Joseph Soukup, Mil
waukee; Frank Marshall, Ollie; John
Moore, Bussey; F. A. Bird, Mt. Pleas
ant; T. d. Doke, Bloomfield; Ben
Hall, Lancaster, Mo-; Henry Gott-
shalk, Chicago; A. G. Wisecarver, Fair
field Charles Smith, Lovilia and M.
Powell Of Oskaloosa.
The Ice Situation.
The recent cold spell has relieved
the ice situation in Ottumwa to some
extent, but it has not helped much so
far, from the standpoint of the con-
sumner.
The cold weather has enabled a
number Of concerns to put up ice for
cooling purposes, but ice to be used
in private houses has yet to come
from the Des Moines river.
Baker Bros, will by tonight have
completed the storing of about 1000
tons of ice, which will be all that they
will put up this year. AS this ice is
not used for anything else but storage
purposes it was taken from sloughs in
the Dain addition, and while it is not
as good or as clear as river ice, it is
of fairly good quality and thick
ness.
The local branch of the Leisy Brew.
ing company will also have finished
putting up their ice for the year by to-
morrow evening when about 800 tons
of ice will have been stored in their
Ice house. This ice was secured from
the pond at the Chiffon rock quarry
Neither the thickness nor quality OF
this ice is remarkable.
This morning John Morrell eco.
Ltd, commenced cutting ice in the
Des Moines river at place about 8
quarter of mile above their ice house
above the dam The ice is said to be
of a good thickness, being as thick
as eighteen inches, but the quality Of
the ice is poor. Below the frozen spot
the river lis. open above the dam ant
below. AS far as is known no one
else. Is attempting to cut ice in the
river
T. H. Picker commenced last Thurs
day to cut ice in the Mineral Springs
Jake. This ice is cut for private use