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producing show stock as good, if not better than 

 had ever before been seen. 



At Kansas City the champion bull was Mr. Funk- 

 houser's Onward 4th, both his sire and dam — On- 

 ward 6th and Dewdrop — ^having been champions 

 before him. VanNatta's Rosalie by March On had 

 the female championship. 



At the final round-up at Chicago Prime Lad, Beau 

 Donald 39th, Prairie Donald (by Beau Donald 7th), 

 Right Lad and Benjamin Wiltons 10th and 16th led 

 the bull classes. In a memorable show of cows and 

 heifers the blue ribbons rested with VanNatta's 

 Lorna Doone (by Christopher), Harris' Lucile 2d 

 (by Benjamin Wilton), VanNatta's Rosalie (by 

 March On), and Harris' Amelia, Arminta and Miss 

 Donald 5th. The Beau Donalds had both first and 

 third in the get-of-sire class, with the Benjamin 

 Wiltons coming in between. 



Death of Benjamin Wilton. — The great showyard 

 events of this era contain many references to the 

 splendid character of the sons and daughters of the 

 bull Benjamin Wilton, exhibited by Overton Harris. 

 The bull was bred by Cornish & Patten, Osbom, 

 Mo., and had been owned at one time by John E. 

 Stone, Harris, Mo. He was an in-bred Anxiety, hav- 

 ing been sired by Wilton Anxiety 41810, he by Tom 

 Clark's Peerless Wilton, out of one of Gudgell & 

 Simpson's Anxiety 4th cows. He was not a big 

 bull, weighing about 2,100 pounds in breeding con- 

 dition, and was specially distinguished for his extra- 

 ordinary good temper and docility. He sired in his 



