THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
61 
1908. 
THE COWS POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED. 
Mr. F. B. Keeney was at Isaac C. Rogers' place at 
Dansville, N. Y., on Friday, January 10, investigating 
Frank E. Dawley's Jersey cattle records on behalf of 
the A. J. C. C. Mr. Dawley and his attorney were 
present, but Mr. Dawley refused to go into the sta¬ 
bles and identify any of the cows in the presence of 
other witnesses. He insisted that no one be present 
at his identification of the cattle except Mr. Keeney 
and his stenographer. At his insistance the com¬ 
missioner thought best to exclude others, and took 
what Mr. Dawley had to say and his identification of 
the cows in private. 
The other witnesses, besides Air. and Airs. Rogers, 
were F. D. Squiers, of Rodman, Jefferson County, 
N. Y.; Melvin Benedict, now of Hannibal, N. Y., but 
formerly a herdsman for Air. Dawley for nearly 
seven years, and C. I. Hunt, of Hunt, N. Y. 
Air. Squiers testified that in May of 1904 he 
sold Dawley 30 head of grade Jersey heifers, 
10 of which were in milk, in exchange for six head 
of registered Jersey cows and one young bull calf. 
He positively identified two cows in Rogers’ barn as 
animals sold Dawley in the 20 head referred to, and 
he pointed out two others that he felt reasonably sure 
belonged to the same lot. The two that he was sure 
of are known as Carlotta and Dotshome Daisy. The 
two he felt reasonably sure about are known as Dots¬ 
home Kitty Kat and Dotshome Matilda Naiad. Air. 
Benedict was not in the barn when Squiers made this 
identification. Mr. Squiers then retired in company with 
the commissioner so that there could be no chance of 
communication with Mr. Benedict who testified next. 
Air. Benedict identified the selfsame three cows 
pointed out by Squiers, and said he was positive the 
one called Carlotta is a cow that came from Squiers, 
and he was reasonably sure Dotshome Daisy and 
Dotshome Alatilda Naiad (the black cow with rings in 
her nose) came from Squiers also. Air. Benedict had 
been to Rogers’ barn in August before he knew 
Squiers, and identified these same cows, and said they 
had come from a man by the name of Squiers in 
Jefferson County, but he did not know Squiers’ post- 
office address. Two weeks later Squiers went to 
Rogers’ place before he ever heard of Benedict, and 
identified the same cows as the grade animals he 
sold Dawley. These four cows are all registered 
by Dawdey with the A. J. C. C. and transferred to 
Rogers in 1905. 
Air. Benedict also positively identified Dotshome 
Harmony, the cow which Air. Dawley identified as 
Dotshome Harmony on his first visit to Rogers, and 
which he admitted might be the cow to the Exam¬ 
ining Committee of the American Jersey Cattle Club 
last year, but which he later said was not the cow 
he sold Rogers. Benedict says he cut off the tip of one 
of her horns on Dawley’s place while he was working 
for Dawley. The mother, he says, was Alarjoram’s 
Orba, a cow bought by Mr. Dawley from Mr. Proc¬ 
tor, of Utica. The mother died within 48 hours after 
the birth of this calf of pneumonia. A doctor, George 
Afoulter, of Syracuse, attended her. The calf was 
dropped in 1902 and Air. Benedict says he raised it 
by hand. 
Air. Benedict also positively identified the cow 
No. 03, about which there has been so much dispute. 
A picture of one of her horns has been published in 
The R. N.-Y., and a picture of the cow herself after 
the horn had been removed has been published. She 
1 as been known in the Rogers-Dawley transaction as 
Kitty D’Argent, and later identified by Air. Dawley 
as Dotst’ >me Queen Carey. Air. Benedict says her 
real name is Dotshome Missie, and says she is the 
daughter of a cow known as Miss Dainty and was 
dropped either in 1902 or 1903. He remembers her 
very distinctly, she being born prematurely, or what 
is known as a seven months’ calf. He says that when 
she was five days old he put her into a bran sack and 
weighed her—the weight was 21 pounds. It was so 
small it could ot reach its mother to nurse, and he 
was obliged to hold it in his arms while nursing for 
some period of time. In the A. J. C. C. records 
Dotshome Alissie was transferred by Dawley to H. 
Button, of Cazenovia, N. Y., on September 24, 1902. 
Air. Benedict pointed out a cow that has been 
known in Rogers’ herd as Dotshome Hope Pogis. He 
identified her readily from her goat’s horns, sheep's 
head and general appearance. He says she is a daugh¬ 
ter of Grace of St. Francis, dropped in the Fall of 
1902. She is a cow easily identified from the descrip¬ 
tion of head and horns alone, and could never be 
mistaken by a person who once knew her. Dotshome 
Grace stands in the A. J. C. C. records registered by 
Dawley, Alarch 12 , 1904, dropped September 16, 1902, 
and stands in his name now. 
Air. C. I. Hunt identified Dotshome Harmony and 
testified that he was present when Dawley identified 
her as Dotshome Harmony on the occasion of Daw- 
ley’s first visit to Rogers. Referring to his notes, he 
also testified that Dawley placed the name of Dots¬ 
home Queen Carey on two different cows on the occa¬ 
sion of that visit, one of them being the black cow with 
rings in her nose and the other the cow marked 
No. 03 with one horn, before referred to. Mr. and 
Airs. Rogers corroborated Mr. Hunt’s testimony. Air. 
Hunt further stated that he requested Air. Dawley. on 
the occasion of the visit referred to, to straighten 
out the confusion which he had caused by placing the 
same name on two different cows, but Air. Dawley 
refused to do so. He then told Dawley that unless 
it was done a complaint would be made to the A. J. 
C. C., and Dawley replied that he feared no investi¬ 
gation, because he would know in advance who the 
committee of investigation would be. Tt is also tes¬ 
tified by Rogers, and corroborated in the correspond¬ 
ence, that Dawley transferred five of the cows to 
Rogers as bred in pasture by Czar of River Aleadow. 
Air. Rogers testified that at the time of purchasing 
the cows Dawley told him that Czar of River Aleadow 
had never been at pasture a day in his life. Air. 
Benedict says that to his knowledge Czar of River 
Aleadow had never been pastured, a day in his life. 
Two other employees of Dawley have testified to the 
same facts with regard to Czar of River Aleadow. 
Air. Benedict also testifies that he was working for 
Dawley at the time the Squiers heifers were received; 
that he helped take them off the cars and to Dawley’s 
barn, and helped care for them and milked them all 
that Summer. He says that in the early part of that 
year Dawley sold 10 head of cows and heifers to 
H. Button, of Cazenovia, N. Y. ; that when these cows 
went to Button he helped drive them across the yard 
and into the road, and that six or seven of these 
heifers that went to Button were the self-same iden¬ 
tical cows that came from Squiers. The records of 
the A. J. C. C. show that Dawley transferred 10 head 
to H. Button about that time. 
Benedict helped put the six cows that went to 
Squiers in exchange for his grades on the car on 
their way to Squiers. These were transferred to 
Squiers by Dawley as Aliss Dainty, Marjoram’s Orba, 
De Leo’s Baby. Dotshome’s Pride, Zola of Astoria 
and Pride of Elmira. Air. Benedict says that Squiers 
did not get Zola of Astoria. He says Zola of Astona 
went to Charles AIcLaury, of Portlandville, N. Y., 
some time before. He says.that the cow that Squiers 
got was a grade cow which he bid in for Dawley 
himself at an auction held by John D. Platt at Fayette¬ 
ville, N. Y., for a little less than $35. De Leo’s Baby 
is a name that Benedict never heard of in Dawley’s 
herd. He says that the cow that went to Squiers was 
old Queen Carey, which was a cow nearly white, while 
in a pedigree paper sent Squiers with a bull the year 
previous Dawley described De Leo’s Baby as a dark- 
colored cow. Benedict says that Alarjoram’s Orba 
could not and did not go to Squiers, because she died 
two years before, having died at the birth of the cow 
known by Rogers as Dotshome Harmony in the year 
1902. Air. Benedict says that he, himself, and another 
workman by the name of Markel, killed and skinned 
the real Dotshome Queen Carey, a daughter of Queen 
Carey, and buried her on Mr. Dawley’s farm in 1903. 
Air. Benedict also says that two cows on Air. Daw¬ 
ley’s place ate nitrate of soda in the year 1901. He 
fixed the date because it was the year of the Pan- 
American Exposition at Buffalo. Both of these cows 
died. One of them was Matilda of Side View. The 
A. J. C. C. records show three calves registered to 
Alatilda of Side View since the date of her death, ac¬ 
cording to Air. Benedict, and Rogers’ black cow with 
ring in her nose is one of them. 
Mr. Benedict knew nothing about the registry rec¬ 
ords of these animals until recently. He is and has 
been friendly with Dawley, and has given this evidence 
with reluctance. It may not be all in Mr. Keeney’s 
records, as we secured it previously from Mr. Bene¬ 
dict direct. 
This is a disgusting and nauseous batch of testi¬ 
mony. Tt shows that of the eight Dawley cows iu 
Rogers’ barn last week, two at least are the grades 
bought from Squiers, and four are probably of the 
Squiers grades, and that three others are substitutes. 
In an editorial experience of 25 years we have never 
been called upon to edit such a disgusting and dis¬ 
heartening story of substitution and fraud.. It is 
doubtful if all the records of substitution that have 
ever been discovered in the combined registry books 
of the cattle clubs of America would equal the num¬ 
ber of substitutes charged to this one record made 
by Air. Dawley and his herd. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK. 
DOMESTIC.—That the foreigner is a menace to human 
life in coal mines anti should he kept out of the mines, 
at least until he can speak and read English, is the con¬ 
tention of Coroner W. IT. Sipe of Washington County. Pa., 
in his annual report. Coroner Sipe finds that nearly all 
the mine accidents in his county are due in some way to 
the ignorant foreign miner. . . Judge Chatfield in 
the United States Circuit Court, Rrooklyn, N. Y., January 
3 sentenced James II. Prescott of Gravesend, who had 
been convicted of selling oleomargarine without the Gov¬ 
ernment stamp, to pay a fine of $1,000 or spend 30 days 
in jail. . . The Post Office Department, which re¬ 
cently barred the New Jersey Mineral Company from the 
use of the mails, has been informed that the same per¬ 
sons who backed that concern are now operating under the 
name of the Sussex Calcite Company. According to the 
reports of the Department's inspectors the new company 
is working along the same lines as the barred concern. 
Martin A. R.verson, president of the trustees of 
the University of Chicago, announced January 2 that 
John D. Rockefeller had added $2,191,000 to his gifts to 
the university, making the total of his benefactions more 
than $23,000,000. The gift, like most of those preceding 
it. is to be devoted mainly to general endowment pur¬ 
poses. Securities to the value of $2,000,000 are set aside 
for this purpose, thereby adding $80,000 to the income of 
the institution. . . . Masked night riders. 100 strong 
swept down on Russellville, Ky., January 3. and after 
overpowering the three policemen and providing against 
the giving of an alarm, wrecked with dynamite and burn- 
mi the warehouses of the two independent tobacco con¬ 
cerns in the town and several other establishments. Three 
men were fired upon and wounded by the marauders, and 
(lie girl telephone operators and the policemen were held 
prisoners for nearly three hours. The following buildings 
were destroyed: Frank C. Work’s tobacco warehouse: loss 
on building and contents. $15,000. American Snuff Com¬ 
pany’s factory and contents; loss $15,000. Roberts & 
Brown’s planing mill; loss $12,000. Alfred Underwood's 
grocery ; loss $2,000. King & Proctor's stable. Joshua 
Knowles’s cottage. The “night riders” are attempting to 
influence or intimidate certain tobacco growers into hold¬ 
ing their crops for higher prices or not to sell to the 
American Tobacco Company. The situation is particularly 
acute, as many of the growers have two years’ crops on 
hand. Warehousemen have been notified from time to 
time to refrain from buying any tobacco. The warehouses 
of many of them who defied the notice have been de¬ 
stroyed bv fire. Nearly all the tobacco growers are mem¬ 
bers of the Tobacco Growers’ Protective Association, but 
this organization discountenances such acts as have been 
credited to the “night riders,” claiming that it is the work 
of a lawless element. . . . Night riders visited Bethel 
and Sherbourn, in Rath County, K.v., January 6. The tobacco 
warehouse of Aleck R. Robertson and a dry goods store of 
Peters Bros, at Bethel and the warehouse of Thomas 
G. Daugherty at Sherbourn were burned. Robertson loses 
about 60.00*0 pounds of tobacco, while Daugherty had 
about 100,000 pounds in his house. The total loss will 
reach about $25,000. . . . Martial law was declared 
January 4 in Munice, Tnd., where much disorder has re¬ 
sulted from a car strike, and 1.000 members of the In¬ 
diana National Guard were sent to control the strike situ¬ 
ation and to preserve order. The strike sympathizers 
spiked down the street car rails of all switches, and in 
some of the suburbs tracks were torn up and the rails car¬ 
ried away. Word was brought to the police that destruc¬ 
tion of the car barns and the cars with dynamite had been 
agreed upon and that the strike sympathizers had in their 
possession 150 pounds of dynamite, which they had taken 
from a store in one of the suburbs. ... A verdict of 
not guilty was returned January 5 in the case of George 
A. I’ettibone, accused of complicity, in connection with 
other leaders of the Western Federation of Miners, in the 
murder of Governor Steunenberg. The verdict is expected 
to mark the end of the effort in the courts to hold the fed¬ 
eration responsible for the acts of outlawry which cul¬ 
minated in the murder of Governor Steunenberg. Follow¬ 
ing the acquittal of Pettibone the State dropped its case 
against Charles A. Moyer, president of the Federation. 
Owing to the smallpox epidemic at Kingston, N. Y., the 
board of health lias ordered all places of amusement and 
public halls closed for two weeks. The schools will also 
be kept closed two weeks longer. There were about SO 
cases of the disease there January 5, mostly mild. The 
inability of doctors to diagnose the cases as smallpox, 
owing to the mildness and failure to report to the health 
officers caused the spread of the disease. . . Here¬ 
after carriers on star routes will not Vie permitted to trans¬ 
port liquor from point to point along such routes, according 
to the terms of an order just issued by the Postmaster- 
General. This inhibition will apply at the beginning to 
contracts made for star route service in North Carolina, 
South Carolina, Florida, Georgia. Alabama, Mississippi, 
Tennessee and Kentucky. It will be later extended gener¬ 
ally throughout the country. Proposals will be opened Ur 
the work of supplying star route service in the Stages 
named, and in the contracts made for star route service 
in them it will be expressly provided that star route car¬ 
riers shall not transport liquor while in the performance of 
their duties. . . . The Supreme Court at Washington 
January 6 reversed the conviction of former Representa¬ 
tive John Newton Williamson of Oregon, convicted of com¬ 
plicity in the Oregon land frauds. This conclusion was 
based on the error id-the trial court in holding that the 
timber atnl stone acts under which the offences were com¬ 
mitted required affidavits for proof of final entry. The 
law, the Court said, contained no such requirement and 
the land office had no power to write into it such regula¬ 
tions. As this was a fundamental error, the judgment of 
conviction must be reversed. The decision in this case 
will probably have a seriouS effect on the prosecutions of 
such of the land fraud cases as have not yet been tried and 
depend on a similar state of affairs. The case was re¬ 
manded for a new trial. While the Department of Jus¬ 
tice has not yet determined what action it will take in 
pressing a new trial, it is unlikely that the case will go 
any further. _ 
THE OUTLOOK FOR APPLES. 
According to our idea and information as we have gath¬ 
ered the quantity of apples in the country is considerably less 
than in some previous years, although at the very high cost 
and the very ordinary quality of most of the stock, 
there is a decided feeling of unrest amongst the owners, 
they bel^ving that satisfactory profits cannot be 
realized. The usual cry of a very short crop was heralded 
early in the season throughout the country, which enabled 
growers to obtain a great deal more than the fruit was 
worth, and then a large percentage of the stock that 
should have been used for evaporation, cider, etc., got into 
the barrels, reducing the quality much below what could 
be called No. 1 stock. About 75 per cent of the receipts 
of our market have to be sold at very disappointing prices 
in consequence of the quality. J. n. hendrickson. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
As far as we can ascertain the quantity of apples in 
storage in our city at this time is about the same as last 
season, but we know that some of our dealers here have 
apples stored in New York State, what quantities we do 
not know. There has not been the demand for them up to 
date that there was a year ago. The prices with us are 
about 75 cents per barrel less than sixty days ago. While 
the financial flurry has undoubtedly alTected prices some¬ 
what, we think that the demand has been curtained more 
by the early talk of high prices than anything else, and we 
can hardly see any improvement for some time to come. 
We really believe that prices will be no better later on in 
the season than at the present time. 
Cleveland, O. the bigelow fruit co. 
As near as total quantity can he figured there are fully 
as many apples held in storage in this State this season 
as at same time a year ago, which was a great surprise ro 
everyone, as it was generally understood early that the 
crop was to he somewhat shorter than last year. We also 
regret having to report that the average quality is below 
normal and for this reason they are meeting with slow 
sale, even at moderate prices. Our market at present is 
ruling on the average, No. 1 Baldwins coming forward $3 
to $3.50 per barrel, as to quality; No. 1 Greenings selling 
at $2.75 to $4, as to quality: other varieties in propor¬ 
tion. It is impossible to tell at present writing as to 
probable price at which these lines of goods will sell later 
on ; much will depend upon how anxious the holders are 
to market their goods, John nix & co. 
New York. 
There are about ten thousand barrels of apples more in 
cold storage than a year ago. The financial flurry knocked 
out the western buyers; it called them home because they 
could not get the ’ cash to pay for the apples and the 
farmers very foolishly would not sell to those buyers and 
take the checks which would be sent for collection : there¬ 
fore it threw any amount of apples on this market that 
had been purchased to go westward. Then again that 
condition of affairs brought to the surface the actual fact 
that there were more apples in the country than people 
had anticipated. The farmers had misled the buyers and 
the fact goes to show that there are in this country to-day 
only five hundred thousand barrels less than a year ago. 
It will convince you what a large yield there was in Michi¬ 
gan. New York State, the Virginias and all through New 
England, not to say anything about Pennsylvania, which 
had a big crop. The New England apples, while clear¬ 
skinned and good color, are very much undersized. We 
would not want to say that apples will be anv higher, only 
fancy, large-sized Baldwins, which are selling in many 
instances at $1 to $1.50 a barrel higher than the so-called 
No. 1 stock from Maine, many apples of which will not 
measure over one and a half to two inches in diameter, 
but they are all right in every other way. We look at it 
that the market is going to be loaded with this kind of 
stock, and that no higher prices need lie anticipated. 
Boston. PATCH & ROBERTS. 
The quantity of apples in storage in our market is prac¬ 
tically the same as it was one year ago. and owing to the 
fact that they are stored at prices from 50 to 75 per cent 
more than they were a year ago. the future does not look 
very good for people that have apples in storage. We do 
not. think the present financial situation will have much 
to do with the apple deal for the reason that the dealers 
paid too much to begin with, and therefore must expect 
losses. Besides, the majority of buyers were so anxious to 
get the fruit that they accepted a lower grade in quality 
of Western New York fruit than they have ever purchased 
before, and for this reason we predict that a large per-., 
centage of apples in storage here and elsewhere will have 
to be sold at a heavy loss. We do think, however, that 
there are some special packs of very fine quality fruit, 
even though it cost too much money, that will bring the 
dealer out even or possibly make a small profit. The per¬ 
centage of good fruit is so small compared with the en¬ 
tire holdings that we think first class stock will yet bring 
the owner good results. Present prices on York State 
apples vary, ordinary Baldwins selling around $2.50 to $3 
here, which earlier in the season sold at $3.25 to $3.50 
f. o. b. shipping point. Western New York. Some really 
fine quality packed up in first class shape is being held 
here at $3.50 to $4. We do not look for any increase in 
price for some time to come. 
Chicago. CRUTCHFIELD, WOOLFOLK & GIBSON, INC. 
We are tinder the impression that there are less apples 
in storage here than one year ago. The very best grade of 
fruit, of which there is only a small proportion, is being 
held at about the same price as last year, and there is so 
little of this being received in the market as compared to 
the large quantity of inferior apples, that prices of the 
general receipts tire lower. There is little or no life to 
the market. armacost, rilet & co. 
Cincinnati, Ohio. • * * * • > ■ ■ < 
