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during its declining years. But he had no walk-over 

 at this show. There was Benton's Champion, Mr. 

 VanNatta's great long-quartered rich-ribbed cross- 

 bred Hereford-Shorthorn that gained "The Breed- 

 er's Gazette " Challenge Trophy for best beast in 

 the show bred and fed by the exhibitor.* There 

 was the burly Black Prince again, Gillett's Storm, 

 and Gudgell & Simpson's grand Hereford Suspense 

 by Anxiety 4th, which gave the first great promise 

 of what that bull was destined to do for the quarters 

 and thighs of western "white faces." There were 

 the Aberdeen-Angus "blocks" entered by James J. 

 Hill of Great Northern Railway fame and T. W. 

 Harvey, the Chicago lumberman, whose Turlington, 

 Neb., herd afterwards attained such celebrity under 

 " Willie" Watson. There was Mr. fcarl's Hoosier, 

 by Lord Wilton, and a crack Shorthorn from Ohio 

 named Charlie Eoss. But all had to make way for 

 Clarence Kirklevington. He was not only champion 

 alive, but champion dead, beating all opponents on 

 the block as well as on the hoof an accumulation of 

 honors that still stands as a record for all comers to 

 shoot at. 



This was the last grand appearance, however, by 

 the strain of blood which Clarence Kirklevington 

 so impressively represented. We have already seen 

 that the old Gillett type passed into history in a 



*This was a diamond-studded shield of gold made from an 

 original design by Tiffany's a duplicate of which was offered 

 at the Kansas City show. The object was to encourage those who 

 produced their own show cattle, as against those who, by reason 

 of their command of money, could go out and buy their show 

 material. 



