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and many of the Shorthorn and Angus breeders, as 

 well. 



' ' There were several bidders on Crusader. Among 

 them I recall S. J. Peabody, Gilbert Hoxie, S. L. 

 Wright and James E. Henry, who later in the sale 

 purchased Dale Wilton. Ed. S. Hawkins and C. E. 

 Amsden were the contending bidders up to $10,000, 

 when he was sold to Mr. Hawkins. I learned after 

 the sale that Mr. Amsden, then recorder of Shelby 

 county and an ardent Hereford enthusiast, thinking 

 that Crusader would likely sell at a high figure, had 

 interested a number of Hereford breeders in his sec- 

 tion of the state to join him in the attempt to se- 

 cure the bull, and that one of the bankers at Shelby- 

 ville came to the sale with them to make the settle- 

 ment should they succeed in buying him. If Crusader 

 had been sold to Mr. Amsden the deal would have 

 been closed with cash. 



' l Mr. Hawkins bought Cosmo, the dam of Crusader, 

 with Amy Dale at foot and bred to Dale, for $3,000 

 and several other cattle, his total purchase amount- 

 ing to $17,520. I had sold him cattle in a breeders' 

 sale at Chicago in the spring of 1902, and he had 

 promptly settled with his check. I had visited his 

 home, a palatial residence situated on a farm of 6,000 

 acres of Benton county's richest land, stocked with 

 Thoroughbred horses, Hereford cattle, and a large 

 number of feeding cattle. Col. Wallace made the 

 settlement for the sale and when he informed me 

 that Mr. Hawkins desired time on a part of his pur- 

 chase I had no reluctance in accepting his note. In 

 May, 1903, Mr. Hawkins made it known to his credi- 

 tors who held cattle paper that he was financially 

 embarrassed and invited them to meet in conference 

 at Earl Park. We found that the real estate be- 

 longed to his mother, the live stock was mortgaged, 

 Mr. Hawkins was broken in health, and unable to 



