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ONLY SKSLUSIVE LIVE STOCK PAPES PUBLISHED IN THE ENTIBE TEBBITOBY
COBBESPONDENCE FBOM STOCK GBOWING SECTIONS INVITED.
Volume IV.
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THE LIVE STOCK SANITABY COMMISSION OF ABIZONA
Isaac N. Town, Chairman, Calabasas, Pima County
A. .1. Chandler, Sec, and Veterinary Surg. .Phoenix.
J. V. Vickers Tombstone, Cochise County
Samuel CRozier, Hackberry, Mohave County
N. B. Bowers Prescott, Yavapai County
WillC. Barnes St. Joseph, Apache County
Address all communications to the
HOOF AND HORN PUBLISHING COMPANY,
PRESCOTT, ARIZONA.
W. O. O’NEILL, Editor
THE CHICAGO BEEF INVESTIGATION.
In the investigation now going on at
Chicago by a committee from the United
State Senate as to the causes of the pres
ent great depression of values of cattle
and the influence of the dressed beef
syndicate of that city in producing that
depression, it is believed that many very
important facts, showing how harmful
have been the operations of the beef
combine on the cattle producer’s business
will be brought out. Notwithstanding
the slow progress made by the committee
in the meetings held at St. Louis and
Kansas City last fall in getting at the nib
of the matter, a majority of the cattle
raisers of the entire country have felt
that when the investigation was pushed
to the limit the essence of the troubles
which have overtaken the cattlemen so
generally the past few years would ap
pear, and that the direct complicity of
the Chicago meat packers in forcing
down pric s^of cat le and forcing up
prices of meat products, will be estab
lished. That the committee is now on
the right trad no one conversant with
affairs will deny. The developments of
the past three days are most inter sting,
and Messrs. Armour, Swift, Hammond
et al., will be made to tell the committee
how they have manipulated the business
of the grower of beef as well as kept up
prices to the consumer, to tHeir own
financial advantage and the exceeding
detriment of the latter. The whole
matter is one of vital importance to many
people as well as to the packers them
selves. The packers have all along de
nied that there was any combination
among themselves to influence prices un
favorably to the grower of cattle or that
would affect prices paid by the consumers
^n independent journal Revoked to the T^ange aqd ^indred pursuits.
PRESCOTT, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1889.
of beef. They have further maintained
that they are willing at any time to show
their books or do anything else which
would prove that they are governed only
by the natural laws of trade in all their
dealings. These men, too, have prated
much of their honesty, of their philan
thropy and how much genuine salvation
they were bringing to the cattlemen by
buying their cattle when tliey were
shipped to the markets of slaughter, and
much other fol de rol of this kind.
In the light of the present work of the
committee, who are simply seeking to
find out the causes which make cattle
worth only about 2 2-3 cents in their
markets, while beef to the consumer is
now at the highest price for a decade of
years, does it not look to an unprejudiced
observer that the guilty ones have at
length been apprehended, and that the
Armour syndicate are the guilty ones ?
The combination which has so seriously
affected every cattleman, which has
brought the direst evils to a great in
dustry, in which thousands of men have
been and are being ruined, exists today
in Chicago, as so often been alleged by
the biig t men of the industry. The
proof of there being a combination to
depress prices to the grower of cattle and
to elevate prices to the consumers of beef
was elicited on Tuesday by the testi
mony of a bookkeeper, formerly in the
employ of Nelson Morris & Co., one of
the members of the combination. He
stated that an agreement or combination
now exists between Nelson Morris & Co.,
Armour & Co., Swift & Co. and others,
and th it, that agreement was to sustain
the price of dressed beef in certain states,
to exclude the shipment of beef to other
states and generally to handle the great
beef industry of America for the welfare
and convenience of the combination.
Again, none of the great packers paid
any att ntion to the subpoenes issued by
the senate committee. Are they, in this
matter, acting like honest men! It
hardly looks tint way to many stockmen
who have suffered so severely by the
manipulation imposed upon the industry
by the meat packers. Let us hope that
light is at length to c >me to a solution of
the question as to the commercial tur
pitude of the Chicago packers.— Weather- ;
ford, (Tex.) Star.
B >oth’s B iz io, the spirkling exponent
of local interests at The Needles, has en
tered upon the second year of its ex
istence. Next to the Examiner, the
Bazoo is the most powerful Democratic
organ in the state, and is a paper that
The Needles folks ought to be proud of.
THE STOCKMENS’ JOURNAL OF ARIZONA.
ijovn
MI’RDEK MOST FOI L.
Charley Beach, the Well-Known Cattle
man, Killed in Cold Blood.
When Len Hale passed a man on Mc-
Cormick street last Tuesday evening with
“something in his hand,” he did not
realize that the murderer of C. W. Beach
had almost touched the hem of his gar
ment.
A moment later he was startled by the
heavy report of a gun. Turning around,
he noticed a man running across the
street, toward the cemetery. Retracing
his steps toward the direction of the
sound, he stopped at the house of Mrs.
John Taylor. A broken glass and the
fumes of powder smoke indicated that
here was the scene of the shooting. En
tering, he found lying on the floor the
body of Charley Beach, in which a few
fitful gasping breaths yet lingered. In a
moment he was dead.
The shocking news flew from street to
street, and in ten minutes after the shot
was fired, a vast crowd had assembled at
the scene. The assassin had crept around
to the north side of the house, where, in
a room biightly lighted, with shutters
undrawn, sat Charley Beach, unconscious
of any danger, writing to his wife in Los
Angeles. Taking unerring aim, at a dis
tance of not more than fifteen feet, the
murderer pulled the trigger, and a charge
of buckshot that would have kill a buffalo
crashed into his victim’s brain.
The charge struck Beach full in the
face, tearing the left eye completely out.
One shot lodged in the left side of his
chin, and some two or three in his breast.
A coroner’s jury was empaneled im
mediately, composed of Geo. W. Sines,
P. L. Kastner, J. W. Wilson, J. Calles,
Lester Jackson and Byron Newton.
It continued its deliberations Wednes
day morning, bringing in a verdict to the
effect that Beach came to his death by
a gunshot wound at the hands of an un
known person.
Mrs. Allbright, wife of a freighter,
who lives opposite the Taylor residence,
testified that, after the shooting she saw
a man with a shotgun run away from the
house and run up the hill just in the rear
of her house, and thought she recognized
him as George Young of Skull Valley.
Len Hale testified that he had just left
home and was going up McCormick street.
Met a man going in the direction of Tay
lay’s, who had something in his hand,
Soon after heard the report^! a shot-gun
heavily loaded Turned around and
saw a man running west across the street
and np the hill. Returned to Taylor’s
GIVES THE CATTLE NEWS OF THE GBEAT WEST AND SOUTHWEST
SUBSCBIPTION FOUB DOLLAES PEB ANNUM.
residence and found Beach lying on the
floor, still breathing.
warrant was issued for the arrest of
1 who was brought into town. Wed
nesday evening in charge of Deputy
Hickey and placed in jail. Young is said
to have suffered grievous injury at the
hands of the deceased, bringing about an
estrangement in his domestic relations,
and bitter feeling existed. Few express
surprise at the untimely death of Beach.
It has long been believed that difficulties
and complications in which he has figured
would culminate in a tragedy.
C. W. Beach was a native of Connecti
cut and was 56 years of age. He came
to Arizona in 1854, and was engaged in
freighting for a time, when he purchased
the Arizona Miner, and published it for
several years. It was purchased of him
in Angust, 1885, and consolidated with
the Arizona Journal, since which time he
has been engaged in the stock business,
owning an interest with W. H. Com
stock, of Canada, in the C—B ranch,
Kirkland Valley. Mr. Comstock has
telegraphed Geo. H. Curry to take charge
of the property and carry on the business
for him. Mr. Curry will visit Kirkland
A alley in a few days and assume control.
Yavapai County’s Taxable Property and
Taxes.
County Treasurer Geo. C. Waddell has
received of the Board of Supervisors of
Yavapai county, Arizona, the tax roll of
said County of Yavapai for the year 1889,
with footings as follows:
Valuation of real estate $636,479.19
Valuation of improvements on
real estate 615,631,45
Total real estate 1,252,110.64
Valuation of personal prop-
erty 4,099,339.70
Total 5,351,450.34
Tax on real estate $ 37,563.32
Tax on personal property.... 122,980.19
Total $160,543,51
To amount collected by asses
sor not on roll $50,69
To amount collected by asses-
sor in excess of taxes 20.03
Total $160,614.28
credits:
By amount of widow’s exemp
tion $ 473.30
By amount collected by asses
sor 1,123.76
Net amount of tax r 011... .$159,017.17
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is found to be lamentably weak and in
efficient.
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