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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jul 23, 1908
Page
2
Dressed hogs 8.00 to 9.00 live hogs 6.00 to 7.00 hay baled blue joint 15.00 hay 9.00 to 10.00 straw 3.00 to 4.00 potatoes 0.675 apples 0.08 to 0.10 ducks 0.15 to 0.17 turkey 0.18 to 0.20 butter dairy 0.20 to 0.25 butter creamery 0.30 to 0.38 beef hind quarters 0.07 beef fore quarters 0.04 to 0.06 wheat No 1 Northern bushel 0.87 No 2 Northern 0.84 No 3 Northern 0.74 No 4 Northern 0.74 oats weight 0.83 to 0.85
Montreal reports cattle at 4c to near 5c per pound with several loads moved. London notes firmer cattle market. Winnipeg lists good export steers and heifers at 4 15c lower grades 24 3c. Chicago shows a slump with a partial rebound for good cattle, beef steers at 5.25 to 7.60, cows and calves mixed, stocker and feeder activity slow. Vancouver and Chicago receipts reflect varied market tones and price shifts.
In Livingstone a ranch quarrel led to H. Butter stabbing Claries Carter to death near Hunter’s Mt Springs. Anton Fleury, awaiting a federal grand jury, fell from a Pullman and was killed by a switching freight car at Union depot. A triple tragedy in Whitefish left Arthur Livingstone dead, his mother-in-law dead, and his wife seriously injured after a dispute and a self-inflicted gunshot. Chas. Dragon died in Nashua during a roping contest when a horse collapsed on him. Chinook reports irrigation talks between government and settlers advancing to merge with a major project. In Missoula Sheriff Campbell leads a force to Taft to pursue Montenegrines after a murder, with a detainee jailed to prevent lynching. Culbertson notes sixteen arrests after a mob killed John A Hayes and his 11-year-old daughter, with more suspects named and a coroner’s inquest. Butte covers an urban graft inquiry into police grafting still in early stages. Melrose reports four unnamed Greeks drowned crossing the Big Hole River.
Washington DC July 18 forecast notes disturbances crossing from July 15 to 19 warming the west, followed by a great hot wave and a sharp cool spell across the central valleys and eastern states. Showers accompany the cool wave, with severe storm activity near the north Atlantic by July 26 and heavy impacts on north Pacific coasts later in the month.
A letter from Oakwood Victoria praises Zam Buk for curing a husband’s barber’s rash after twice rubbing and a boy’s arm after vaccination. The ad claims many cures and notes prices 50 cents per box or three for $1.25. Burns & McLean advertise at Alberta Stables offering heavy teaming and trade of Frost & Wood implements.
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