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at $5,000 each. They also bought Barrington 

 Lally 5th at $3,500, Barrington Lally 6th at 

 $3,000, and 3d Duke of Kent at $2,600. Geo. 

 Hamilton bid off 7th Duchess of Kent at $3,500. 

 A. L. Hamilton took 5th Duchess of Kent at 

 $2,250, and Col. J. W. Judy got Young Mary 

 Duchess at $1,225. Berry & Bigstaff of Mount 

 Sterling paid $1,230 for Barrington Duke 37622. 

 Col, W. A. Harris of Linwood. The real 

 leader of the Scotch forces in the United States 

 during the "eighties" was Col. W. A. Harris of 

 Linwood, Leavenworth Co., Kan. Few men 

 possessing like strength of character have ever 

 given their personal attention to the breeding 

 of Short-horns in the United States. Of Vir- 

 ginia parentage, he removed to the State of 

 Kansas soon after the close of the Civil War. 

 He first followed his profession that of a civil 

 engineer in the employ of the Kansas Pacific 

 Railway Co., assisting in the location of that 

 branch of the Union Pacific from Kansas City 

 to Denver. He had an inherited love for 

 country life and pastoral pursuits, and while 

 surveying on the north bank of the Kansas 

 River some twenty-seven miles west of Kansas 

 City, his attention was attracted by a beautiful 

 body of " second bottom " and upland, the loca- 

 tion of which was carefully noted at the time. 

 He subsequently acquired the title to this prop- 

 erty, and after residing some time in Lawrence 



