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Other Sales in the Spring of '98. Business 

 was now brisk all along the line. K. B. Armour sold a 

 good lot of bulls to go in service in the herd of the 

 Matador Co. in west Texas. Sotham sold 50 head 

 at auction on April 13 at an average of $342, upon 

 which occasion Wayne Ponting paid $1,575 for Ex- 

 cellent, a two-year-old bull by Corrector. On April 

 15 Scott & March of Belton, Mo., sold 93 head at an 

 average of $215. In May William Humphrey of Ash- 

 land, Neb., bought $9,000 worth of cattle of 0. H. 

 Nelson, including 34 cows, at $200 each. H. M. Hill 

 sold 34 head at Kansas City for an average of $393, 

 and Gudgell & Simpson made an average on 60 head 

 of $479. 



Beau Donald Shown. The event of the year 

 1898 in showyard circles was the Trans-Mississippi 

 Exposition at Omaha. Exhibits at the earlier state 

 fairs were light, owners preferring to hold back for 

 the more important event. Still there were some 

 interesting developments elsewhere. Sotham was 

 without competition in Minnesota, but east of the 

 river few ribbons were won by default. Frank Nave 

 and John Hooker appeared at the York State Fair. 

 Dale had gone on famously and backed up his New 

 York championship by beating down all opposition 

 later at Indianapolis, where the herds of Tom Clark, 

 Clem Graves, Hooker and W. H. Curtice of Ken- 

 tucky were entered. Curtice was showing the mas- 

 sive, heavy-quartered, five-year-old in-bred Anxiety 

 bull, Beau Donald 58996, by Beau Brummel 51817, 

 and in the senior bull class won over Graves ' Cherry 



