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Show LAMBS DROPPING AT KANSAS CITY SCIICITV OF SlinHP IS ItKPOItT-III) ItKPOItT-III) OX I'AUTIItm liST. In Cattle Stockcm nml I'cttlcm Sell Slightly Hotter, Hut Without Any Micclnl lnh !rns Stock From Several Wc-lcrn .Mnrkcls Tend To-vtnnl To-vtnnl Pulling, Down the Prices. Correspondence The Hun. KANSAS CITY. Mo.. July !. A quarter to fifty cents wn taken off enttle values Inst week, duo to tho advent of n large delegation of grass cnttlo nt Western markets generally Prime fed cnttlo suffered somewnai In tho general slump. Itecelpts hero today nr about elghty-flvo hundred hood, of which sixteen hundred hood nre yarded In the Houthern division.: nnd the drop In the supply since Inst Monday, when thirteen thousand hend arrived, resulted In an nctlvo mnrket nnd considerable recovery In vnlile. Prime steers. Including numerous lot from Clinton county. Mo., the gnat corn nnd blue grass section, brought $.J5 to 110.10. on n parity with n, week ago. A drove of one hundred head of yearlings from the same section, sec-tion, of which eighty-two were hel-1 fern, brought I0.SI. 830 pound aver-' ago. (Ireenwood county. Kan., steers cllmled back Up to $8.60 today, atxiut , a good as tho best tlmo Inst week. Texas steem In the native division btolight 7.30 for which $7.00 would have been tho price Inst Thursday The rank and file of cattle moved nt slightly better prices than the middle of Inst week. Houth Texas gross steem sold In the quarantine division nt $6.40 In J7.H6, nnd Oklahoma grnssem weighing nine hundred pounds nt $6.00 were considered higher than they would hnvo sold lost Thursday. Ten loads of It. K. Oatewood's steers, around twelve hundred pounds, from North Texas, brought $M0 In tho quarantine division. Blockers nnd feeders sold slightly better, but without with-out any special dash. In the hog yards tho supply wns five thousand head, market steady to five lower for an hour or two, during which tlmo order buyers made their purchases, up to $7.70, including choice heavies nt $7 66. Packer bid ten to fifteen cents lower prices, pay ing $7.35 to $7.50 for the most of their hogs, around $7.30 for rough heavy weights. Provisions prices hnvo sharply sharp-ly declined retenlly because of Mug-land's Mug-land's Interference with shipments to neutral countries, nnd recent weakness weak-ness In hog prices is traced to that cause. Prophecy I innde that hog prices will decline tilt Knglnnd nobles hy tho rule uf International law nnd ceases to Interfere with shlpmont of food products, which laws the state department nt Washington, D. C. I demanding shall ho enforced, Hheep nnd lamb receipts are six thousand (load, tamlm dropped close In $1.10 In value Inst week, hut salts today were still lower, top $7.60 paid for several strings of Arlxona spring lainl. Hheep prices are holding up $6.60, 110 pounds average Aged sheep prices are considerably nlxtvo Chicago, Chica-go, because of scarcity hero. Demand De-mand for breeding sheep and feeding muiiIm Is developing, and promises to l very heav) Itevently there has been prat tu all) nothing In either line offered, a few feeding lamlM today ut $7 3t. Cattle From Hondiim KAKT HT. LOI'IH. Ills.. July 10. Tho first consignment or enttle ever received here from Honduras was sold to local iwitkeia today. Tho lot of seven hundred head sold nt $0.30 n hundred pounds. This wa the first part of n IniIcIi of six thousand head bought hy a local concern In Honduras. Hon-duras. Tho cattle were fattened In Ouutemulu. The laws of Honduras limit the number or i utile which may bo exported to six thoumnd a year. Illg Itniil Nile Coming Off. H. W McClure of tho National Wool-growers' Wool-growers' association Is printing 'throe, thousand copies or tho catalogue of tho flmt ram sale to be held at Halt take City HeplemlxT 7lh and 3th, noxt. when three thoiieniid ram are to bo uurtlniifd under tho direction or the mwoilatlon.nl the state rulr ground with Dwlght Lincoln or Mil-rord Mil-rord Center, o., as auctioneer. Iteg-Uteretl Iteg-Uteretl stud eheep will bo Mild In lots of one. and range rum will bo sold In phs of twenty-five to fifty head. Tho cutalogue Is of twenty-four iges. nnd profusely Illustrated with half tones of the best ram In the Western coun-Iry. coun-Iry. Tvvciit).Mm Cents Fur Wool. Molilalia wool Is bringing a iio,l prbe. ai-ortllni tu repot ts rm cited at Halt take City. .More than a iiiifuj.i pounds ur wool have ln sold In tllkt sUte nil end) this Mason, the nrlte ranging from twenty.four tents to twentj-nlne cents a pound. John D. Wulte of l.ewl.ton. Mont., roeeivsd tweiity-nine touts for hi clip, which umoiinted to two hundred thousand pounds. Other prominent woolmon or tho Copper Htuto who have sold their flip for twenty-eight oent are Perry VI llammni and Jim Wllnon. Together they have sold three hundied and flf-teon flf-teon thousand pounds. Several sold tholr clips for twenty-wven cents. In-eluding In-eluding llcn Phillips of Phillips ciun-ty. ciun-ty. two hundred thousand pounds, and others. Kates Fjim Ktlll Suspended. Further susponilon In tho proposed udvnnce on live stook rules rrom Inter-mountain Inter-mountain territory to tho Ua.tern b awe,?,J" ,ni,lnin'' Saturday by H. W, McClure, secretary of tho Nn. tlonal Winegrowers Ubsodutlon. Tho report camo from the Interstate com. memo commission t Washington. I C. nnd stated that tho ratoa would ho wu.pended until Beptember I. m. This advance rate nmountg to It. to to ,hfwCf""a nml WttB Proposed by the Western railroads In April, lu (In complaint of the Vmcrlcnit National Na-tional Mvo Stock Association and tho National Woolgrovvers" nrsortntlon, tho interstate commerce commission ha suspended tho advance rrom time to time, until n dccbJon ns to Its merits mer-its can bo determined by that body. |