The Wichita Daily Livestock Journal from Wichita, Kansas • 1

mm CMAN. DA OFFICIAL PUBLICATION WICHITA LIVE STOCK EXCHANGE. WICHITA, KANSAS; TUESDAY, SEPT. 28. 1915 No.

77 VOLUME 17 Remember the Fancy Stock Show, j- ty cattle to the day's business, OTHER LIVE STOCK MARKETS PST USE OLD WHEAT HOG MARKET STRONG Chicago, III. that theVtreatened strike of longshoremen in New York had been averted was a further help to the bulls. Trading" however, was by no means. J. R.

Summers and A. Schrocji In a carload of cattle1 and hq3 FOR SEED THIS FALL WITH TOP AT $8.05 Chicago Union Stockyards Sept. 28, Cattle, market Hogs! respectively from Comanche tcounty THE TRADE III CATTLE IS SLOWAIID STEADY Stock Steers Are Hard To Sell Cow and Heifers Unchanged, of 4' one-sided character. Opening for the trade this morning. -4.

leftovers 1,813: market open Boston cashed up'a 'carfoad of New Shows Very Poor Grmbiat4pi.ices, Vhich ranged from. l-8c off to Light Tuesday Run Sold Firm With up, closed more ac prices, Top' $8.45, Ing Power. advance, with. December at 3 7-8e cattle from Blaine county. Oklahoma, -i Yesterday's Prices.

ed strong to 5c tive at opening bulk $7.308.25. Livingston had a carload, of Sheep mar to 94 J-4094 3-8C, and May at 96, 7-8 97c, were foljowed by a-moderate up BUT 66 PER CENT THE TOP WAS PUT AT $8.05 1 AVERAGED FAT CATTLE ARE VERY- SCARCE Kiowa county cattle here this morn ket i Kansas City, Mo. ing for O. B. Wheeler represented Kay Farmers Must Exercise Great.

Care In While Bulk Ranged From $7.857.95 Kansas City Stockyards, Sept. 28 Packers Find Slim Picking Among i' This Week's Offering Bulls and Oklahoma, in the hog receipts electing. Seed ForSie Crop' bv deliverine a consignment -eSuff icient Old; Wheat. River Market Closed 610c Lower Than Opening. Cattle, market steady.

market opened closed turn all around. Corn Corn developed a little strength in sympathy with wheat. Besides, some damage from frost was reported. After opening 3-4c lower to a gain -of a the market scored slight advances in the more active Canners Are At Low Mark. 510c lower.

Top $8.25,. bulk $7.50 Manhattan, Sept 28 Old HOGS Estimated today 1.000 600 8.15. Sheep, strong to ARDMORE DEATH TOLL- 52: wheat that has been carefully stored PROPERTY LOSS" Official yesterday Official week ago .1,436 5c up. 1 St. Joseph, Mo.

will make1 better seed than most of options. ...1,720 ,...1,059 867 CATTLE Estimated today. Official yesterday Official week ago Official month ago. Official year Ardmore, Sept. 28.

It was be Official month ago .....1,517 St. Joseph, Sept. 28. Oats Oats took, the same course the wheat that has been harvested this summer, according to L. E.

pro- lieved early today the death list as the result of the explosion here yes 279 Official year ago ......2,073 market steady bulk, -top, in the" Kansas 8.15. Cattle market dull, weak; as corn, The, buying was oetter ais-tributed, however, throughout all the various deliveries. terday would reach fifty-two, if not lessor of agronomy steers cows and heifers, Only a meager layout of hogs came There, was no improvement in the more. The property damage was Agricultural college, in today and got the benefit of ProvisionsHjgher prices for hogs calves, $6.009.50. Sheep, mated at more than.

$1,000,000. Within the last two weeks the agron demand for stock cattle today' and traders -were again careful buyers. market strong, lambs $8.00 strong market The basis was strong There were at 1688 200 injured, omy department has received nearly gave to provisions. Business had greater volume than has 8.75. with yesterday and the top was $8.05 i Their prices were fully steady with some of them probably fatally.

150 samples of wheat for germination East St. Louts. with bulk running from $7.857.95, recently been the rule. yesterday but it was hard for sales 1 Of the forty-five known to be dead tests. Samples have come from prac The market was a bit slow in opening St.

Louis, Sept. 28. Hogs, men to get the nod of the head. Light today, nineteen were negroes and tlcally every section of the state' of market 10loc higher. Pigs and one was an Indian.

Two negroes are old as well as new wheatSince those Strong weight butchers that were very good brought $8.00 along with lights" while choice lights brought lights, mixed and butch missing. The others dead are all samples have been received, twenty ers, good heavy, $7.90 3 white. I cerminntinn buiti nt 11 wheat' TiavB steers fairly good sold at $7.00 7.25 while the heavier sorts ranged from $6.606.90. These prices also Included the lesser quality light kinds. A string of good 625 pound heifers brought 7.00 with the rest selling $8.05.

8.50. Cattle, market I015c The explosion, which shook Ard- Deen completed and 109 tests of new WICHITA CASH GRAIN. No. 3 iHard Wheat 2 cars dark yellow, $1.06, Missouri River. 1 car dark yellow; 56 $1.05, Missouri River.

No. 4 Hard, Wheat 1 car yellow dark, 54 lbs, $1.04, higher. Native beef steers, $7.50 morp to Its very foundations, occurred wheat." The average per cent of ger- REPRESENTATIVE HOG SALES 10.25; stockers and feeders, $6.00, Monday atternoon in a tank car con- minatlon for the old wheat ferow of 8.25. Sheep, 600; market 25c higher, from $6.00 6.50.. Best cows sold up 1914) was eighty-eight, while the poor tainlng 3,000 gallons of gasoline.

It caused great damage to six hotels in lambs est sample of old wheat gave a test of No. Pr. each direction from the Santa Fe Export. seventy-five per cent. Practically all 97 COMPARATIVE STOCK RECEIPTS 1 car yellow dark, 55 lbs, $1.00, Mis freight' and passenger depots.

this wheat was strong enough in vital Railroad men who were in the. yard souri ity to make seed of good quality. The at the time state that the car was 1 car dark yellow, 54 lbs, 96c," Mis Official st Wichita. Cattle 82 14 I' average per cent of germination for Hogs shudted to a siding on account of Its souri River. i Tuesday Sept.

21.. the new wheat was only 66 per cent and a number of samples were secured being "bad order." The car was leak 1 car dark yellow, 65 lbs, 98c, Mis 867 1,517 607 1,430 Wednesday Sept. 22 Hogs 1 Dk. Av.Wt. 164 188 225 212 -V" 160 40 188 80 212 40 227 228 80 186' 394 400 Throw-Outs and Pigs.

ing gasoline to such an extent that souri River. to $6.00 and others from $4.755.75. Stock bulls were steady with last week's decline at $4.505.25. Calves go back to the country around $6.60 7.75. Fat cattle make up but a small part of the offerings this week and only between kind steers are coming In.

Heifer offerings today were none too good and the best price was $7.50, the rest selling from $6.00 6.60. Canners ell at the low level of week iand bulls are low with most selling at $5.00 or less. Veals are weak with fewer at $9.50 than last week. where only 7 to 10 jper cent of the 356 395 28 65 56 a pool of the fluid had formed on the 1 car dark yellow, 54 lbs, 96c, Mis 278 Thursday, Sept 23 Friday, Sept. 24....

Saturday Sept. 25 kernels grew. Fully two-thirds of the samples of new wheat were so low in ground under the car. When switch souri River. 84 1 75 80 men refused to move the car further.

1 car dark yellow, 53 lbs, 92c, vitality that they were unfit for seed 2,310 Monday, Sept 27. .1,726 87 an was called, Missouri River. These samples were obtained as a rule 6,005 Total for week 3.641 Ira Woods, age about 40, the car 8.05 8.05 8.00 8.00 7.95 7.95 7.90 7.85 7.85 7.85 7.25 7.10 7.00 7.00 6.75 6.75 .6.60 7.70 7.5-" 7.00 in If: Kansas City Cash Grain. Kansas City, Sept. 28 Wheat No.

inspector, according to the story of from lots of wheat that farmers had expected to plant and, therefore, represented usually the best wheat at RECEIPTS OF CARS. those who saw him, mounted the car, Santa Fe unscrewed the can. and peered in. ......120 2 hard. No.

3, 981.04; No. 4, 9198c; No. 2 red, No, 3, 1.05 1.13: No. 4. 951.01.

5 5 3 1 1 2 2 the farmer's disposal. I CATTLE SALES. 363 250 380 "50O "There is in most communities," said 8 ...14 8 Just as he did this, the gasoline became ignited and Woods, the bar and every loose piece of material within Corn 2 white," 6565c; No. Rock Island Missouri Pacific Orient Total Sd .160 Mr. Call, "sufficient old wheat for seed.

a hundred yards', was hurled through Where this grain has been properly 3, No. 2 yellow, 6768c; No. 8, 6667c; No. 2 mixed, 64c; No. 3.

62c. Butcher Steers .1105 7.00 7.... 845 Butcher Heifers stored' it will make good seed and i-''v should as far as possible be planted. TELEGRAPHIC RECEIPTS. first 'reports that there; were" two 215 Wagon Hogs 208 330- 10 Oats No.

2 mixed. 2434c: No. 3, 35e. New, wheat should not be planted -unless if has been tested and Is definite 6.60 explosions was confirmed early today. A quantity of dynamite in the freight 2 6.65) 6.50 6.50 510 720 770 910 780 ly known to be 9 1 6.50 6.25 St Louis Cash, Grain.

St. Louis. Sept. -28 Wheat 4...: 842 1.... 890 1.V..102O ,1 960 900 store house was set of by, the con A germination test can be easily PROVISIONS AT CHICAGO.

6.00 clusion of the gasoline explosion. The second explosion came within a sec J. I No. 2 red, No. 3, 1.06 1.17; No.

3 hard l.O51.08 4, 93 6.00 6.00 Pork made. The wheat may be planted for a test in moist soli by hand or with Close 13.22 13.00 ond after the first. The greatest 1.00. Oct. 13.12 13.25 13.12 Dec.

13.50-4513.67 13.45 damage in the city was done from the, drill, or from 100 to 200 kernels may Corn No. 2 No. Hogs Cattle Sheep Wichita 1,000 600 Chicago .12,000 5,600 13,000 Kansas City ....13,000 19,000 11,000 Omaha' 4,000 11,100 42,000 St Joseph 3,600 2,300 3,800 Sioux City v. 2,500 1,300 7,000 St Louis 7,500 5,000 600 Denver J.80O 1,400 Ft: Worth" 1,200 2,300 -Tot. today ....16,500 48,500 77,550 Tot.

wk. 33,300 46,400 89,600 Tot. yr. ago. 57,900 51,400 112,550 shock of the explosion.

The fire be rolled up in a moistened cotton flan- Jan. 15.90-85 16.02 15.85 Lard 3, 6668c; No. 2 70c; No. 2 white, 6868o; No. 3, 6667c.

13.05 15.82 8.30 8.27 damage will not equal that caused by nei cloth and placed In a moderately the dynamite and gasoline. By the warm room, where the temperature Sept Oct. 13.57 15.85 8.35 8.32 8.75 8.75 8.35-32 RECEIPT8 AT LEADING MARKETS. dynamite there were nearly a score wffl not fluctuate greatly and where of buildings demolished, Near, the the cioth will retain the moisture. The 8.37 8.32 Kansas City Today Last Yr.

siding on which the tank car was ci0th should be moistened each day or Sept 6.62 8.80 8.60 placed were a number of wooden a8 frequently as necessary. At the end 8.67 structures, pan or wnicn were occu of a week the kernels that have utart- Wheat Corn Oats Kafir pied by negroe.s. In this section a edto row ma be counted out and ..184 ...11 ...19 1 Butcher Cows 3090 6.0O 1....1080 6.00 20. ...1086 6.00J 1....1160 6.00 1.... 690 6.75, .5.60 2....

1180 5.50 1....1060 6.50 1....1290 5.25 1.... 790 5.25 1. 790 6.D0 1.... 920 4.85 Canners and Cutters 2....1085 4.50 1 1110 4.50 1, .1240 4.00 1.... 850 4.00 1..

1. 760 3.75 1.... 970 3.65 2.... 850 3.55 2.... 860 3.60 1....

790 3.50 2,... 885 3.50 890 3.50 1.... 840 3.50 Bulla ,5.10 1.... 1180 6.10 1... .1450 5.00 1....

990 4.50 '1 1060 4.50 Veals Mudge Resigns Receivership. Chicago, Sept. 28 H. U. Mudge, one ITEMS OF INTEREST.

two-story frame building coiiapsea, tne Ter cent of eermI natl on obt ained of-the receivers of the Chicago, Rock taking 15 negroes in a pool hall to, th fl Btrone vltal, 245 27 12 2 824 267 727 4V rlw Ann 1 Cnn itiVi nf '11 In a A I F. Christensen delivered three can- Island Pacific" railroad, resigned yes Chicago Wheat ............465 mo lty wiirgive a germination test of loads, A. F. Peterson, two carloads, terday. Judge Carpenter, of the Unit buildings proceeded all night and con- fom 9fl to fl5 and J.

C. Renner one carload of cat- (tinued this morning. It is in the Corn ...................830 Oats 413 ed States circuit court, to whom the resignation was submitted, refused to tier to the market late yesterday af wrecks, of these buildings that other mlnatlon test of than per cent 1 St Louis ternoon from points in Sedgwick Doaies are eauecieu 10 do iouuu. jx unless better seed cannot be obtained. Wheat .....149 county.

Ed Kerley also cashed up a If wheat of low vitality is planted it special police force of 75 men maintained order throughout the night. 65 17 37 accept it until he consulted John' Dickinson, former isecretary of war, the other recelyer. Mr. Mudge emphatically denied any friction in the receivership proceeding has caused him mixed lo.ad from a nearby point. Corn 59...

Oats ..31 should be sown at a correspondingly It is supposed that a spark from a E. M. Carter, J. W. Sparks and thicker rate." Omaha hammer of one of the workmen re C.

Miles helped the lata cattle receipts yesterday fioro Sumner county. O. to resign. Wheat ...................33 pairing the car ignited the gasoline. Eye witnesses said flames shot Into Harper Ranchman Bingham delivered a carload of live "My resignation was entirely volun- 9.50 ,8.00 7.50 6.50 6.00 220 170 260 370 260 165 Oats Harper, Sept.

28 Fear of be the air for a distance of 200 feet im pork from the same county. 9.50 9.0O 50 7.75 7.00 6.60 5.00 he said. 'I feel that two re Wichita 29 21 27 32 1 1 ing accused of the theft' of a mule for mediately preceding the explosions, ceivers are not necessary. I am an J. B.

Hargis, hashed up a carload of Barber county hogs here Wheat .....24 operating railroad man not a lawyer. which scattered the flaming liquid for which no owner has been found, Is be-blocks, thus starting scores of fires In lieved by relatives to have caused the Corn 1 late yesterday, There has been absolutely no friction Oats 1 between me and the. other receiver. J. Harder, brought over a.

load the buildings wrecked by the oon- suicide of Joe Manlnger, a wealthy cussion. western Kansas ranchman: at his home of hogs from Butler county" for the There is no necessity for divided re Northwestern Receipts of. Wheat Minneapolis ...753 "634 Puluth .886 334 Ira Woods, the man who was work- late Sunday evening. Maninger shot late trade Monday. ing on the car at the moment of the himself in the head with a Springfield W.

Wade, Paul Popplewell and Winnipeg, ,1170 .1076 explosion, was instantly killed. Will rifle after (elling his family, with F. A. Messmer contributed a Stockers and Feeders 430 7.25 658 570 7.0 471' 516 6.85 12.... 617.

790 6.65 9.... 792 732 6l60 3.... 670 810 60 p. 650 594 6.25J- 6. 430 695 6.p0j 9....816, Marshall County Free of Cholera.

Centralia, Sept. Y'-pr. B. W. Graham a fellow workman, -was crush whom" he had been riding In an auto mixed load, and R.1 P.

Price, J. H. 7.00 6.90 6.75 6.60 6.50 6L50' 6.00 6.60 5.60 ed to death in the destruction of the mobile, that he would return to them Murphy7 United States inspector In Dyer, C. Lamey, J. J.

Meyers, W. H. Meyers and Menser a car- Ardmore jallroad station Most of the persons killed were crushed under charge of the hog cholera eradication work in Marshall has been in 16ad of cattle each to the receipts at VISIBLE SUPPLY. Wheat, 948,000 bu Corn, inc. 210,000 bu Oats, inc.

1,633,000 bu i Total Visible. This Yr. Last Yr. in a few minutes. He was found in an upstairs room of his.

home with the top of his head blown off, ten minutes later. falling walls, some of them more than ToDeka for a conference with J. H. the local yards this morning from 6.75 13.... 471 a block away from the scene of the Sumner county points.

Mercer, Kansas livestock conjission- explosion. FOR SALE Within 5 miles of Stock Yards, 250 tons first-class ensilage. Wheat Corn Paving Contract Set. er, and Dean W. M.Jardine, of the Kansas State- Agricultural college.

It was decided that the state college would furnish a loan to do educational work in Marshall county during the 1.... 620 6.50 2.. 720 1.... 680 5.50 Stock Heifers 624 7.00 "9.... 573 646 6.60 12..,.

660 580 6.60 1.... 820 2... 610 65 2.... 620 Chase. Co.

Running With Cottonwood Falls, Sept. 28. What" is said by Chase county stockmen to be one of the largest three The contract for paving Twenty-first Oats 60 6.50 6.50 street was let yesterday to Harry L. .11,350,000 45,382,000 .7..... 1,976,000 5,855,000 ,13,354,000 25,088,000 Bradst reefs This Yr.

Last Yr. 91,472,000 6,493,000 2,754,000 224,000 ...17,094,000 2,220,000 Miles, of Wichita, at a figure of $29, coming season. This will mean that Good lots and plenty of water. Inquire Room 21, Live- Stock Exchange. The L.

C. Adams Merc. Co. and R. F.

Burkett represented! Chautauqua county on the hog division of the market by sending in a consignment each days' run of cattle to be shipped from 983.11. The city will bear $6,105.61 6.25 6.25 6.00 5.75 this county to livestock markets, was of this burden, while the county will Wheat Corn Oats 6.00 1.... 420 2.... 700; 1.... 760 share the rest.

The district to be made here this week. Bazaar, alone, shipped ninety-nine carloads, contaip- 6.60 paved extends from Market street for the trade. i 4.00 Stock Cows. T. P.

Madden shinned in two ing approximately 2,500 head, which were worth close to $25,000. From the school house meetings will be continued and held at the request of the vice-presidents of the townships of Marshall county. Marshall county is not letting tip on the. hog cholera eradication campaign, although little or no cholera exists in that county at1 the -present time, This week the government hog cholera officials were on a tour of east to Washington and will connect the stock yards with the paving on Lawrence avenue. It is not definitely loads of cattle from a point in Kent Wagon Grains at Wichita.

2 hard wheat 980LOO No. 3 hard wheat 93 Corn. Saffordyille, JHmdale, Clements, Hy- county, Texas. 5.60 .25 5.00 4.... 812 970; mer, Cedar Point and other points in known when work will be commenced Sedgwick county was well repre the county several thousand head are 6.75 6.40 6.25 4.75 Stock 6.25 Shelled, yellow per.

bu on the paving. sented again today at the local yards, said to have been sent to market, mak Shelled, white meal, per the following consignments being de .70 .560.38 ing this by far the greatest run of the Bulls Oats. Butler to Celebrate. Butler County's Kafir Corn Carni livered: W. R.

Slater, carload of rat 940 5.10, season. Inspection in the county looking after the cleaning and disinfection of cholera Infected farms. All farms "that val willbe held in El Dorado Oct 20. 4.60 Stock Calves White. No.

2 per Kafir No. 3 "white, per bu. 2i and 22. Each of the twenty-nine 32 had hog cholera during the past three Wheat Favors Bulls. Chicago, Sept 28.

Wheat Wheat townships in the county will be rep tle, I. P. Kohl, mixed load, and J. A. Hobbs, carload of cattle.

J. J. 1 Jones swelled the cattle receipts today by delivering five carloads from Harper county, WVH. LJcdley and J. TS.

Cooley each years are being Visited and the owner S43 820 250 resented by an exhibit. The agricul 7.00 7.00 6.00 1.., 3... 2... 1,., THE WEATHER. Wichita, Sept 281915.

7.50 7.26 7.00 6.50 5.00 S43 420 15fi 32C 240 8., 1. 10.. 1.. 1.. advised regarding those things that bold cholera on a farm, such as in values hardened today owing to Liverpool reports of an urgent milling inquiry and of disappointment In to offers from Canada.

Advices tural displays antf the social features are more elaborately planned than ever before. Kansas: Partly cloudy tonight and fected wallows and straw stacks. contributed a carload of Butler coun- i Wednesday; cooler tonight..