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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1924
Page
2
Fort Worth livestock report shows cattle receipts of 5 300 and calves 1 000 with mixed price ranges for beeves stockers yearlings and bulls. Hogs receipts 1 000 list classes from medium to packing sows with range 6 25 to 8 40. Sheep and goats receipts 1 000 with lambs feeders kings ewes stockers and goats priced across varied intervals.
Wichita Kansas livestock report shows 800 head stockers and feeders topping at 8.16. Bulk cattle sale price ranged 6.25 to 8. Butcher cows sold 4.25 to 6.60, calves 4 to 7.50. Receipts 1,000 head. killers top 7.10 with average 6.75 to 7. Lights 5.75 to 6, plainer grades around 4.
Kansas City livestock sale figures show cattle 10 600 with calves slow. fed steers 6.76 to 11.18, cows 4.50 to 6.50, heifers around 6 cents. Bulls 4.25 to 4.85, stockers 6.50 to 8.75. Hogs 18 000 steady top 7.15, bulk 6.90 to 7.10, packing cows 6.50 to 6.60, stock pigs 5.40 to 6.15. Sheep 6 000 higher. Arizona springers 17.25, wool sheep lambs 16.65 to 17.10, clippers 14.25 to 14.85, Texas wethers 8.25 to 8.60.
Chicago on May 6 shows hogs 28 000 uneven with choice butchers at 7.40 to 7.55, bulk 7.20 to 7.45. Sheep 13 000 slow with fat lambs 14.50 to 15.00 and ewes up to 9.00. Cattle 16 000 with matured steers 11.35 to 11.75 and best yearlings 10.70.
East St. Louis sellers move 19 000 hogs steady with top at 7.50 and bulk around 7.35. Pigs bring 6.25 to 6.75, packer sows 6.35 to 6.40. Cattle 5 000 slow with best beet steers 8.60 to 9.85, Texas steers 6.75 to 7.70, light yearlings and heifers 8.50 to 8.85, beeft cows 6.25 to 6.75, canners 2.25 to 2.50, Bologna bulls 4.25 to 4.75. Sheep 1 500 higher with clipped lambs 14.75 and spring lambs 17 to 18, clipped ewes 7.50.
Market roundup shows steady tones as grain and cotton futures close mixed. Amarillo Cotton & Grain Exchange reports figures through Dec 28 with bids from J R McCook and Alex Hyman & Co in New Orleans.
Freight and passenger traffic run heavy on the Santa Fe as extra equipment handles loads. Canteloupe crop movement from the Imperial Valley starts mid May, peaking June 1 with 600 cars daily. Mesilla Valley plantings hope for return of $200 per acre. A hospital birth and fuel conservation meeting are noted, alongside updates on new lines from Ellinor to Eldorado and Owen to Pawhuska. Panama Canal tolls and vessel transits for March 1924 are listed, plus a Georgia mule claim anecdote.
Babe Ruth belted his sixth homer of the season as the New York Yankees defeated the Philadelphia Athletics 10 to 5. The win extends Ruths early-season pace as Connie Macks club suffers its seventh straight defeat. Cy Williams homered for the Phillies and other NL and AL results follow.
Charley Olsen and Cal Farley finish final workouts at the Business Men's Athletic club ahead of their title bout at the Fair theater tomorrow night. Olsen arrived from St. Louis yesterday after a recent hard match. Farley trains harder than ever as ringside seats sell out likely drawing a large crowd.
A statewide search for University of Texas student Robert J. Waite who vanished March 22 began today. The effort was initiated by his brother Alex Waite, assistant coach on the university athletic staff.
In Buenos Aires on May 6, the strike against the pension law persists with no halt in worker action. Many employers refuse to heed calls to resume normal business.
A spoofing panorama notes upcoming conventions of various clubs from the Western Federation of the Loyal Daughters of Meddlesome Mollies in Yourdeal Oklahoma to the Idle Woman's Antieverything League in Hearsay New Mexico and other local groups. It also observes notable career ladders from messenger boys to railroad presidents, with a rural proverb about not kicking one’s town.
New York May 6 Casey Stengel veteran outfielder of the Boston Beaneaters was suspended indefinitely today by John A Heydler president of the National League for disgraceful conduct in the game yesterday with Brooklyn at Ebbetts Field.
County convention results from Texas precinct meetings push for McAdoo delegates to the May 27 state conventions in Waco and Dallas. Harris County votes unit for McAdoo with 67 delegates. Home county McAdoo push in McLennan and Neff home county promotes uninstructed delegates, while Underwood factions seek to gauge strength after county meetings.
Beaumont Texas May 6 a county Democratic convention tabled a resolution endorsing W A Collins for governor by 196 to 172 while a resolution endorsing Senator Parle B Mayfield passed unanimously.
In Austin on May 6 the Travis county Democratic convention unanimously endorsed Governor Neff's move to acquaint voters with his views on the proposition of an uninstructed delegation to the Democratic national convention.
Here There and Everywhere lists Mrs Siler Faulkner of Pampa and others visiting yesterday. Miss Lucy Roberts and Miss Vernita Stewart from Canyon were among visitors, with Mrs Gordon Thomas from McLean. K R Hunter of Hereford, and J Sid O Keefe of Panhandle visited. Pearl Thomas from Alanreed shopped in Amarillo. E P Hicks became a salesman for Irwin Chevrolet.
Cleveland proceedings report the 12th annual Chamber of Commerce of the United States opening day with talks on chain store development toward mass distribution and the status of trade associations under antitrust laws plus postal service improvements.
Mary EB Tracy, 77, died at her Tulia residence Monday morning. She leaves ten children, six deceased and four living, including daughters B. Yocum and Eller Young of Phoenix and sons J. J. Tracy in Mt. View Oklahoma and H. H. Tracy of Tulia, manager of Scott-Tracy Hardware Co. Burial set for Rose Hill Cemetery this afternoon.
Springfield Mass May 6 A plea for more effective supervision of the large migration from the south was made at today's session of the Methodist Episcopal conference by Lorenzo H King a negro delegate from the Atlanta Ga conference.
Government troops dispatched to Oriente after a rebellion spreads to Batre a historic town on the Cuba railroad about sixty miles west of Santiago de Cuba. About 150 men revolted yesterday at Batre signaling rising unrest in the province.
Elsie Ferguson a noted stage and screen beauty wed Frederick Warlock an English actor yesterday at her Long Island country home. The couple create a new union following her two prior marriages.
The convention voted to send him as head of the delegation representing the county at Waco.
London reports the Anglo American treaty allowing seizure of British rum running vessels within an hour of the American shore is being forwarded to Washington today and will take effect upon ratifications by Secretary Hughes and Sir Esme Howard.
The family thanks friends and neighbors for sympathy shown during the illness and death of Captain William Boles. Special thanks to Dr. R T Vineyard for his care. Gratitude extended to those who sent flowers, from Mrs. William Boles and others.
W H M Greery of Carmen Oklahoma surveys oil fields here. Joe Huffstutter of Wildorado, Jerome Stocking of Clarendon visit. Ben Burkett returns to Amarillo Paper Co. after illness. Carl Frye rancher near Hereford readies a large cotton crop. Mrs Sally Airheart of Cleburne visits daughter in Amarillo. Mary Louise Runyon ill this week. Robert Lee Scroggins of Tularosa enlists in the navy and ships to San Diego. W Jones and son from Sanders visit, Panhandle Sales exhibits tractors, only farm implement display. Canyon guests include Jennie C Ritchie and family. Reporter asks a local man about news. a dream of a robbed store yields comic relief. D A Shirley of West Texas State Teachers College travels through Amarillo from Waco after attending meetings in Dallas and Austin.
The Amarillo Golden Sandstorm will play Vernon High School in Vernon Thursday through Saturday as coach A. S. Douglass announced. Teddy Nicklaus will start opening game with Earl Stockton likely following in the second. The team, in good shape after a downstate trip, aims to secure a win. A formal protest over the McKinney series was mailed to Roy B. Henderson with evidence of payments to Cox and umpire conduct cited. Kellus Turner at Texas Christian University is sending further information. The Sandies will practice today and tomorrow before departure.
F A Thompson filed for divorce from Ada Thompson in Potter County district court alleging cruelty and abuse in the complaint.
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