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Show ;bbet sugar items. Interesting News from Various V j Sources. ' ., k Messrs. Granger, Austin and Gardner who left here on the 18th for Chicago with 200 head of cattle belonging to the sugar company, armed home yesterday inorhintr7""The gehtiefnlW dfii not go to Chicago as was their intention when t'hey leftHeie, liut-fcold" tifo cattle at Dcnvdr last W'edno.-iiay at a much better price tlnlbtseliiiii?fcll:i'Utah. He-fore He-fore re.-u iiing Denver tho had to unload the cattle some eix times. Tho reason for this was that several of them got down in the carp. The gentlemen stayed until some of the cattle were slaughtered and they were much pleased to see huw nicely they opened up, Mr, Austin Biistnmcd an injury to one of his legs by one of the cattle falling upon it, and lite injured limb has giyen him much pain, but with careful nuisiugit will eoon bo all right again. These gentlemen are lustlers for the company they represent and iheir trip and sale have given the management good satisfaction. It is the intention of the company to cend another bunch o cattle in the near future. The injustice of allowing sugar to come into this country free of duty from the bandvvich Islands we have previously exposed. We now learn that tho sugar trust buys this crop (which forthe present campaign amounts to $220,000 tons) at J4C below the New York price. Thid aiuountH to a bonus of over $1,000,-000 $1,000,-000 to the trust at the expense of domestic do-mestic sugar producers. The trust's contract for this sugar expires iii '17 and they claim not to care about renewing re-newing it, but this is simply a bluff to get n lower price. Tho reciprocity treaty wittilawaii'liaspracticajly resulted in this government allowiug those planters with their contract Chinese labpr, to pjekctover $01,000,000 in thepist2i) years, tl at would otherwise have gone i.ito the federal treasury, Orange Judd Farmer. Beet cjntracts are coming in at a lively rate at tho sugar factory, both from out of town and local growers, although the homo farmers are somewhat some-what slow and the required ncreage is likely to be secured and the books closed before thoy get around, unleas.they ac. celerato thoir speed somewhat. The more- beets raised about Norfolk the better will be tho lesult upon local trade, and a concerted effoit should be niado to get as largd an ncreage as possible within hauling distance of ths factory. Norfolk News. |