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of cattle for $27,000, an average of $278. Bnying 

 for western range and Texas account was active, 

 and J. M. Curtice took out the twelve-month-old bull 

 Hesiod 50th at $1,400. William Powell, who was now 

 located in Texas, and Hon. John Sparks of Nevada, 

 and O. Harris of Missouri, a man of whom there is 

 much to be heard later, were liberal buyers. 



Death of Charles B. Stuart.— Through the 

 death of Charles B. Stuart at Lafayette, Ind., on 

 the 20th of February, 1899, the Hereford breed, and 

 more particularly the Hereford association, lost 

 an ardent, efficient, intelligent, forceful and re- 

 sourceful champion. The vital factor in the up- 

 building of the Shadeland herd, he had been a mem- 

 ber of the executive committee of the herd book 

 society from its first organization, and was serving 

 his seventeenth consecutive year as the "live wire" 

 of that powerful committee at the time of his de- 

 cease. He had seen the business of the organization 

 grow from next to nothing up to the point where its 

 assets exceeded its liabilities by more than $35,000, 

 and volume 22 of the record published in 1900 con- 

 tained 10,000 entries. 



Following closely upon the decease of Mr. Earl, 

 as already recorded, Mr. Stuart's death came as a 

 distinct shock to the Hereford cattle breeding fra- 

 ternity on both sides the water. Overwork and in- 

 cessant application tell the whole story of his break- 

 ing down while yet a comparatively young man. 

 Nervous prostration overtook him while in the flood- 

 tide of professional and business success, and a ca- 



