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Show T II E II H B 4 u . MR II ,K R lv R A I.D n 1 and by the time the Colonel arrived, and sales could not have Meen made the following day. they were doing Several hundred thousand cattle were wintered on the Kansas praries, and in nicely Harpers, Vouug People ' sufITcent of absence the fpa wed grain end. the sustenance out of the sleet that covered the plain eating the buffalo grass that lay beneath. There was an immense THE DECLINE OF THE loss, and next year showed a great fallin ' the number that were from the Texas plains. After the thorough establishment of brought up. ing off In rthe trails began the rush of cattle. there were 75,000 head' shipped :from the little town, which became a rpandemonium of cowboys, and was "wickedest i known far and wide as the a title taken up later ; town in the Wrst , on, by Doge City, Deadwood, and Leadvillethe quartet being the only ones generaiy consi dered as entitled to the not very creditable appellation. There was nothing that was not possi- -' blc in Abilene, and fatal encounters were almost as numeriousas the days. In 1870 nearly 300,000 head of Texas . rattle were shipped, and the following , year saw. an influx thaC surprised the .tone continued. 11869 " MARKET REPORT. , s Butter 25 cts per lb, eggs 30 cts. per dozen, wheats 70 cts. per bushel, pats 1.25 per hundred. On the first of December it began snowing, and it has snowed ever since. It is new nice sleighing. And the little boys are out with their hand sleighs most sangune. It seemed that every, wishing that they were big boys so as Texas ranch sent out its heards, until they could have a big sleigh and horses : it was estimated that at least 600,000 with sleigh-bell- s on. It looks like we head of cattle roamed over the plains of would have snow for Christmas and vt. Westrcn Kansas awaitinshipment.. winter. good sleighing for the rest of the One could go on top of any Some of you do not know why there is see fronr ib,Goo to 50,000 thousand a Christmas but tis because the 25th of 2iead grazing over the plains like the December was Christs birthday, and ; 4 cattle on a thousand hills in ancient the people called it Chirst and then times. But the railroad' have formed they put mas on, .which is pronounced a pool, rates were raised, prices fell off, Christmas... ; 1 , hill-an- d 4 c |