Cattle

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Note item re Judge J. Wade McDonald. Also mentioned (Tomlin; Taylor & Platter; and Vermilye Bros.
Winfield Courier, April 26, 1883.
                                                             Stock Notes.
Mr. Tomlin will arrive from the east in a few days with 300 head of fine stock.
Taylor and Platter have sold their 2 and 3 year old grade Galloway bulls, weights 1200 and 1360 pounds, to go to Wellington.
Vermilye Bros. are in the east looking for the best imported Clydesdale Stallion in the United States. Price will be no object with them if they can find one that suits. Go ahead; bring on full bloods, boys.
Judge McDonald, having fenced his ranche on Silver Creek, has made his first purchases, which arrived Saturday. The Judge proposes to do in stock as in law—put in his best licks. He has bought something over 100 head of grade short-horn heifers and a registered 3 year old short-horn bull, but the cream of his purchase, we understand, is his 2 year Galloway bull. The Judge wants to double the number of heifers if he can get those of a right grade at a fair price.
In driving through Pleasant Valley and Beaver Townships this week, we were pleased to note the tendency of farmers in these localities to combine stock with grain raising. Almost every farm has a wire or hedge pasture, with a good number of cattle therein. Besides, we noticed many sheep and hogs, the latter becoming more numerous as you approach the Arkansas. Where a farmer has a good pasture, the expense in the summer of raising cattle, horses, and sheep is almost nothing, while in the winter grain can thus be utilized with much more profit than when sold in the market. We hope this tendency of our farmers may increase until every farm in Cowley can show a good herd of cattle and sheep, as well as of hogs. Then will the profits of farming be greatly enhanced.

[CATTLE.]
Arkansas City Traveler, June 13, 1883.
When it was first announced that cattle were being driven from Louisiana, it seemed as though they came from the most remote corner. Yet for years stock has been driven from San Antonio, Texas, and nothing is thought of it. By taking Arkansas City or Caldwell as the center and drawing a circle extending to San Antonio, it will be seen to be almost equal distant from Jackson, Miss., Cumberland, Tenn., Evansville, Ind., Peoria, Ill., Dubuque, Ia., Winnebago, Minn., Brule City, Dakota, Cheyenne City, Wyoming Territory, Gunnison, Colorado, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and within about 100 miles of El Paso, Texas. If it were not for the difficulty of getting stock through some of the States east of us, cattle could be bought and driven from Kentucky and Tennessee as from Texas.

Arkansas City Traveler, March 5, 1884.
                                                            Loss of Cattle.

This section was visited last week by the severest storm that has occurred for several seasons. It commenced sleeting on Monday, the 11th, and in a few hours the ice covered everything, so that horses and cattle were unable to get anything to eat, and it was so slippery that they could scarcely stand. This continued for three days, during which the stock wandered and slipped around without drink or food, their backs covered with an icy coat, and the cattle bellowing with pain. In consequence, large numbers of cattle perished from the exposure—the principal loss being along the lower part of the North Fork and along the Washita. Horses died also in great numbers, and the Indian herds were swept through by the mortality. Many cow horses also perished—being in poor flesh. The mortality among cattle, although severe, was confined mostly to a few brands, the stock being Arkansas cattle brought in late. With these exceptions, the loss is not as great as was expected, and the percentage of loss will not be excessive. The sleet, which was the cause of most of the loss, did not extend above the Cimarron. Cheyenne Transporter.

                                                         BARBED WIRE.
Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, August 30, 1884.
During the past twelve months, Howard Brothers have bought and sold 84½ carloads of barbed wire. This forms a good mathematical problem. For instance: In one spool of barb wire there are about 1,500 feet; in every carload there are about 800 spools; multiplying we have 750,000 ft. in one carload. In 84½ car loads, we have 63,375,000 ft. sold. Dividing the above number of feet by 5,280, we have 12,003 miles and a fraction over. Dividing by 2 we have the number of miles of fencing, which is 6,001½ miles. Most of this wire was sold to stockmen in the Territory. Thus one of our hardware firms has been the means of furnishing 6,000 miles of fencing, besides what other firms have been doing in the same line.

                                                    SHEEP AND CATTLE.
Arkansas City Traveler, October 1, 1884.
The Kansas City Live Stock Indicator’s correspondent at Hunnewell made the following report for last week.
“Clark, of Texas, has arrived with 2,200 head of sheep and sold out to Geo. W. Miller at $1 per head.
“W. L. Hunter, of Gainesville, Texas, reached this point a few days since with 2,000 head of sheep. They were bought by Hanson & Crow, of Hunnewell, for $2,000.
“Helm & Bro. have bought a lot of sheep from the Crow Bros., for $1.00 per head.
“Shipping will continue here till in November, but it will be of rather a spasmodic nature.
“Up to and including today, 2,140 car loads of cattle have been shipped from here.”
Arkansas City Traveler, October 1, 1884.
Ad. FEEDING WETHERS. We have 300 fat wethers it will pay some farmer to feed.
                                                       SCOTT & TOPLIFF.

Arkansas City Traveler, October 22, 1884.
                                                              A Correction.

In the report of the proceedings of the Osage Live Stock Association some two weeks since the types read:
Any person owning stock, not a member of this association, desirous of having their brands inserted in the brand book, under the head of “Miscellaneous brands,” can do so by sending description of brand and four dollars to J. N. Florer, treasurer of the Osage Live Stock Association.
It should read two dollars instead of four, and new members of the association can have their brands inserted by sending them with two dollars to the TRAVELER office. If the parties desire more than one brand cut or any additional brand block, they will be charged at the rate of two dollars for each additional cut and 50 cents for each brand block. Additional stamps not requiring cuts or blocks, no extra charge. Brands will be received up to December 1, 1884.

Arkansas City Traveler, October 22, 1884.
John H. McLain, one of the herders on the Wyeth Cattle Company’s range, while engaged with others in branding stock last Friday on Black Bear, was severely gored by a steer, and very seriously, if not fatally, injured. He was conveyed at once to Caldwell, where all was done that medical skill could suggest to ameliorate his sufferings, since which time we have heard nothing further from him. The accident was caused by the breaking of a rope, by which the boys were holding the steer while being branded. We are indebted to Mr. Chas. Cole, employee of the same company, for the particulars of this sad affair.

Arkansas City Republican, August 22, 1885.
Ike Harkleroad complains that last week some men with a drove of through cattle invaded the highways of Silverdale Township. The drovers stopped at his house for dinner; but as soon as he found the cattle were through cattle, he told them they had to turn around and go back or their drive would be a short one. It is needless to say the men about faced. Mr. Harkleroad had two steers die a day or two after the through cattle were in that vicinity and he supposed their death was caused by the Texas fever.

Arkansas City Traveler, December 2, 1885.
                                                      Cattle Thieves Arrested.
In our last issue we told about the shooting of Frank Pappan, a Kaw half-breed, by a crowd of cowboys for killing and stealing a beef belonging to Lewis Waite, of Elgin, Kansas. Two men associated with the half-breed in his lawless practices, Al Linscott and his brother, were taken to Osage Agency for safe keeping, and Agent Hoover telegraphed United States Marshal Rarick to come and take them. He proceeded to the agency on the summons, took the Linscott brothers in charge, and brought them to this city for examination on the charges of cattle stealing and selling liquor to the Indians. Complicity in the theft on Mr. Waite’s pasture was proved against the other Linscott before U. S. Commissioner Bonsall, but Al Linscott was not criminated by the evidence. Both were confined in the county jail, and tomorrow the last named will be examined on the charge of liquor selling. Both men are said to be hard cases, and cattle owners are severe sufferers by their operations.

Arkansas City Republican, January 16, 1886.
A number of cattle were frozen to death in this vicinity. Mr. Botts, who has a range on Wolfe Creek lost two; M. Johnson, who has a range at the mouth of Deer Creek, lost quite a number; H. J. Chinn lost one; and Dan Feagins of Bolton Township six.

Arkansas City Republican, September 25, 1886.
                                                        A Mixed Cattle Case.
At the time the government forces drove the last of the “Boomers” off the Oklahoma lands, there was on the land a white man named Tompson with some few drops of Indian blood in his veins. Tompson had been a preacher, missionary, and several other things, when occasion required. He had married a squaw and relied on this connection, together with his alleged Indian blood, to allow him to remain within the Territory. Tompson in company with two men named Buchanan and Pierce, determined to go into the cattle business: Tompson to furnish the land and throw his Indian protection over the herd that it should not be driven out by the United States troops. By various ways the firm secured some cattle and desired, but had no money, to purchase them. They then took into the firm a Chicago man named Hill, out of whom they succeeded in getting $40,000. Desiring more cattle they bought $70,000 worth from the Concho Cattle Company, of Texas, for which they paid $30,000 down, and gave a note for $40,000 more. This note was not paid. They became harder to the syndicate and unknown to the others, Buchanan, who was acting as general manager, went to Chicago and agreed to sell the herd to Campbell & Co., of that city, for $20,000 and received that amount in advance without telling the firm of the liens and mortgages held on the herd. When he returned to the Indian Territory, the creditors of the firm, Concho Cattle Company, and Hill were growing suspicious and inclined to make a disturbance. Agent Owen, of the Union Agency, suspected that there was a great deal of fraud about Tompson’s Indian claims and seized the whole lot of cattle and gave the firm notice that they could have them by leaving the Territory with them. As they were safe from creditors in the Indian Territory, they were exceedingly anxious to stay. Then Campbell & Co., came forward, and in company with the other creditors, Hill and the Concho Cattle Company, demanded the cattle. Owen investigated the matter and decided that the cattle should go to the creditors. Tompson again pleaded parentage and appealed to the commissioner of Indian affairs. He ordered all parties to come forward at Washington and present their testimony. This they did before a court composed of three officials of the Indian bureau. The commissioner upheld the ruling of the agent. The case was then taken to the secretary of the interior, who decided that the cattle should go to the creditors when they had given a bond of $100,000 to cover all possible damages. Nearly 4,000 head of cattle were involved.