Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-08
TEXAN BELIEVES
He WAS BUNK0ED
MAKES PLUNGE IN POULTRY
MARKET
Youth from Lone Star State Tells a
Story of GIittering Promises Which
He Claims AngeIeno
Has Broken

Attorneys representing u. ~ NdA-
well, young Texan, will probably to-
day take up with the Los Angeles pro-
duce exchange and the postal authori-
ties a complaint made by the young
man against l.. l.. Ryan, q commission
merchant of Ali Central avenue, whom
Maxwell accuses of having practically
ruined him in business by breach of
contract.
Maxwell is from Luling, Texas, a
small place near San Antonio. AT Lu-
ling young Maxwell was quite the thing
as a business man, but he failed to
shine when he bucked the Los Angeles
game. Some days ago the young Texan
arrived in Los Angeles with 1168
turkeys for the local market, under
contract to be sold to Ryan, but those
turkeys have remained in Ryan's
boarding yards, eating great quantities
of feed and unreceived by the mer-
chant so that Maxwell is contemplate
ing walking back to his Texas home
ruined in business and with bitter
feeling for Los Angeles and it's busi-
ness men.
"Some time ago." said Maxwell yes.
terday, "I received circular letter from
this man Ryan, advising me to come tie
Los Angeles with any poultry or tur-
keys 1 might have, since there was
! hig market here for them and he
would buy them direct from me. He
followed that with a personal letter
promising to buy all the turkeys !
could bring during the last week of
November.
Texan Tells His Story
'I collected all the turkeys I could
get, buying some from the ranchers in
the neighborhood and using many from
my own ranch, and filled a car with
| them and came to Los Angeles. There
We're at least 1850 of the birds.
81 saw Ryan and offered my birds,
and he refused to buy. He said that at
that time he had no particular market
| for them, but If had brought them a
| few days before he could have handled
them. 1t was then November q, and
he said he had wanted them on the 22d
When 1 looked in his corral he had a
number of birds left, so that knew his
statement to me of having been able to
handle them a few days earlier must
have been incorrect, since he couldn't
handle even those he had got TO-
cally. He kept the birds in the car un-
| til [ signed a contract to sell to him
only, whereupon he advanced the
freight and put the birds in corral OF
his own, charging me feed and rental
bill.
"Oue hundred turkeys have died since
| they have been in the corral, yet out OF
my 1850 1 put in there ten days ago
although the inspector reports but 100
dead, there are now only 7S0 left. This
man has fooled me by saying there is a
market here for turkeys when the other
produce men say there is no market
here that cannot be supplied locally
He is causing me to be ruined financial
ly, and 1 may lose everything have
l am going to have an attorney take up
the case with the postal authorities To
prevent Ryan from sending out any
more letters to get country men to
bring in their birds here, and am 60
ing to take the affair into the civil
courts"
Poultry Not in Bad Shape
Mr.. Ryan said last night that he had
ordered the turkeys for November %
and that they had arrived five days
late, so that he could not handle them
"They were held up In quarantine as
unfit for the market for two days." said
Ryan. "Ask Meat Inspector Hughes
about it; he inspected the birds"
But Inspector Hughes had different
story to tell
when the birds got in they were in
good shape and were not held up" said
Hughes last night. II examined the
birds and there were few, through the
hardship of the trip, had gotten a
shade sick but my inspectors Offered
to watch each bird as 1t was dressed
and sent to market, and If the birds
had been handled then, as they should
have been, there would have been but
very few that would not have been
available as sound birds for market
use"
'',The turkeys are still in good con-
dition and would doubtless dress out
we'll. A few of them We're In about the
condition which may be expected OF
birds confined in the cars six days.
I'VE are keeping close watch on them
and shall, of course, not allow any In
bad shape to reach the market. But
am convinced the turkeys are in good
condition"
The old lady entered the taxider-
mist's shop in a blaze Of wrath, carry
ing a defunet cockatoo In glass case.
"You can see for yourself, sir You
only stuffed my poor parrot in the
summer, and here's his feathers tun-
bling out before your eyes"
"Lor bless yem, that's the triumph
of the art! We stuff 'em that natural
that they moults in their proper sea-
. aon fs-Tif- -Rifa