Canning Horses

Advices from eastem Oregon are to the effect that several thousand horses had been sold to Portland parties to be slaughtered and the meat to be canned and offered for sale, but who the parties are cannot be ascertained. Members oí all butchering firnis in Portland were asked aboTit the matter, but all denied having any knowledge of the sale of the horses or the purpose of the parties to slaughter them for profit.' It is not probable that the slaughtei of horses will be nndertaken on any extended scale tmtü fall, when they will be in good condition. Parties are buying them at present because they may be obtained for a very small price. On the range now they are being sold at f 1 and $2 per head in order to make room for cattle. Mr. Seaton, a large cattleman of Crook coimty, conflrmed the story of the sale of horses to be killed and packed. Seaton himself sold 5,000 horses at $3 a head and understood when the deal was made what use was to be made of the horses. He refuses to divulge the naines of the purchasers and will only say that one of them is an eastem man. The purties, he says, are looking for more horses aaid intend fattening them on the ranííe until lato intheyeai-, when