The Dickinson press., 1911-10-07

Mike hayes Vi MARY returned lnuIS.
day from marketing beef cattle.
Attorney T. H. Pugh was attending to
legal business at Fargo on Monday.
am prepared to do dressmaklng and
other sewing at my home one door
south Of the Rapp place. Mrs. ]. N.
DeFoe. Io.7.4t
The Vaughn Fuel Co. has been sue
ceeded by the Deiters Fuel Co. The
business hereafter will be operated by
Fred f. Deiters, Vaughn retiring. loft.
Ms. Fred. H. Hunter and little son
arrived last Friday from Des Moires,
Iowa, and are guests at the home OF.
her brother in-law, Guy Hunter. for
several weeks.
Miss Carol Mcclure was quite i'll this
week. threatened with pneumonia. She
was slightly better on Friday and the
physicians thought the disease was
under control.
MI. and Mrs. Julius Hoist were in
from their ranch on Thursday and Fri
day. MI. Hoist will make q big ship
ment of beef cattle from Belield. about
next Thursday. He will probably have
five or six carloads of cattle for market
this year
Nuns Munson, a rancher from the
Fayette country, returned Thursday
from marketing 81 head of steers in
Chicago. The average weight of one
bunch of the cattle was 1, 40 lbs. and
they sold at Sc. is. Mr.. Munson has
q herd of IFS cattle to winter and is
in very comfortable circumstances.
There was little doing in district
court since our last issue. In the case
of Birdie Hand vs. George Hand, the
wife was given a divorce and custody
of the 14-year-old son and SIS per
month alimony until the child becomes
of age. Fred Sullivan was given 90
! days and 5000 fine and SIS costs. l.. M.
Cady pleaded guilty and was given 90
days and 5000 fine and SIS costs, sent
ence being suspended. AS accurately
stated in the PRESS last week. Leroy
H. Bancroft wal given an indeterminate
sentence of from S 10 10 years, and was
taken to Bismarck at once. This means
that Badcroft can be removed from the
penitentiary after S years, providing his
behavior is good, on parole. Early in
the present week Judge Crawford adj
journed court until the 9th. He has no
regular court work for the remainder of
October in outside counties, but there
are motions and other matters coming
up in chambers almost every day.
Beef cattle were quoted 15c to zoe
lower in Chicago the first of the week
and at the time Of going to press very
little was known of prices received by
our large number of shippers on the
market. One lot of the VIM. Connolly
steers. 1901 lbs, sold at Sc. 10. A car
of the W. l.. Richards cattle. 1876 lbs,
sold at S $50. They looked like 5000
stuff when loaded. W. l.. Richards and.
L. B. KuykendalI. from their ranch on
the Little Missouri river, near Elmgrove
sold two cars of light stuff, steers and
stays, that averaged $42. IS per head.
Considering the class of stuff. Mr..
Richards thought this about the best
sale they had had this season. The
Elfstrom & George steers. 80 head, 3
and 4 year ODDS, weighing 1,423 lbs,
sold at 81. 10. which makes $91. 81 per
head gross. These are the steers for
which they were offered $92 in the
yards at Dickinson before loading last
week. They sold one steer. 1,4SO lbs..
at Sc. so, and 2 head, /. 1850 lbs, at
SIS. Is. Fourteen of the Joe Wood heifers
sold at 81. IS. Hugh McGillivray sold 40
heifers, 1,024 lbs. at $4.85 and 81
feeders, 1925, at SIS. Is. The Rasmus
Jensen cattle which looked like about
1. 200 lbs, were not quoted in the Mon
day or Tuesday sales. The ALT. White
and Mead and other local--sales were not
quoted in the Chicago papers of these
dates.