Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-04
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YANkToN, DAKOTA.
Tuesday Evening, March 4, 1879
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Scare al the Union stock Yards Prove.
70 he Based Upon Nothing.
Chicago Times.

Chicago Times.
As the result of a thorough investigation
by experts It IL satisfactorily established
that no cane Of the much-dreaded pieuro-
pnenmonia has appeared At the Union stock
yards, and that there is ne occasion for
alarm among dealers and shippers copsign.
ing cattle 10 those yards. The report that
the disease had made its appearance at the
stock yards has been discovered TO he
wholly unfounded. That report was due
solely to the ignorance and stupidity of one
Detmers, who holds the Office Of government
inspector at the stock yards, owing his ap-
p%ointmenl TO LIE Due, the professor of cab.
bages Of the department of agriculture.
Detmers see,ns especially ambitious to dis
tinguish himself by detecting the epidemic
among the cattle here. He was impatient
on the slightestq foundation to herald the
announcement that he had detected it. He
found a sick animal at the yards, and
promptly ordered it slaughtered that it
might be cut up torthe discovery of aymp-
toms of the disease. Thereupon he hasten
ed to telegraph to the professor of cabbages
at the Washington end of the line that the
pleuro. pneumonia had appeared here, and
a.ked for assistance in combating its ravages.
Thatefact, with, the details al to the alleged
case" was published in The Times of yes
terday. The alarm which this intelligence
created led some of the cattle men to insti-
tnte aIthorough and exhaustive investiga-
ton. TIE result was that it was made plain
that Detmers, in his ignorance and anxiety
To- be first to report the appearance of the
disease which had not appeared, had given
offlcial currency to a mischlevous canard,
and he has been compelled to make an lex.
planation." which we publish in this issue
Of The Times.
In addition to his explanation, this igno-
ramus, Detmers, has furnished the Associa-
ted Press a report in which he denounces
the Times report Of yesterday, which was a
publication of what Det ners had reported,
AZ "maliciousIy false." His "exp!ana,iun,''
in the mater was done BY himself. 1t wa.
not malicious. 1t is onlv sneakine. He
confesses that he did not discover symptoms
OF the pleu,o.pueumouia. He only discoy.
cred certain symptoms which are character
istic of a common and not dangerous
disorder among cattle. He did not know
enough to know that; and without more
ado sent the dispatch To Washington an.
nouncing that the disease had appeared and
that assistance was reqnired-which dis.
patch the Times published. This dispatch
he admits he sent and admits vas false; and
when he characteristics his report, published
BY the Times, as a malicious lie. lie
might have admitted that he was merely
an ignorant, foolish liar. But since lie
chooses to be stigmatized as a malicious
liar, and is too small a peraon to waste
words upon, let it be as he will have it
The moral of it all is that the government
should forthwith remove this maliciou.
liar, whose. ignorant stupidity threaten,
serious mischief to The vast cattle traffic OF
this city. SO long as he liz permitted 10 max,
official reports about it.