, 1880-03-07
STOCK-YARD CRUELTIES.
How the States Saiaried Agent
Does His Work There.
The Governor Has Been Duly Notified,
but Takes No Action.

IL. Mr. Shortau stated that he thought he could
satisfy his visitor upon that score, but that be-
fore he did so he would like to call his attention
ONE OR TWO ADDITIONAL FACTS
connected with the cruclties which had come to
his knowledge. III the first pace. he asserted
that he had received perfectly trustworthy in
formation to the effect TINT the very grosser
cruelties which the Society had to contend with
when 1t first started on its humane mission we're
being practiced In isolated cases. He had heard
OF the eyes OF obstinate cattle being gouged out
quite recently, and also Of animals being prudded
in the tendercst parts BY their brutal drivers.
There was also another practice in which the
Western shippers and the Chicago commits
sion men combine which Is horribly cruel.
It is the custom Of the shippers to give in
str1cons tnat tho cutie pc aqTGa sd no a wates
given them be generally sa1ted so that the thirst
Of the animals may pc still further increased.
rival at the yards may gorge themselves with
the water which is then provided nd tbt1m, and
thus increase greatly their selling weight It
hud been frequently claimed by commission
men that BY this means animals not only nude
up for the loss Of weight arising from the long
@ aey IN TSs IS wend br On the 1nna
chasers, who are thus tricked into paying from
IS to IS for q distended stomach full OF water,
many cases. le down never to rise after their
watcry gorge and have even occasionally been
known to burst from the excess Of their unnat-
With resurd to the position of the II nlinois HUI
name Society In connection with the acknowl-
un stated % thatit W was being much blamed therefor
but that he wus glad Of an opportunity to show
that n
THE SOCIETY I1AD NOT ANY RESPONSIBILITY
In the matter. When, in September last, the
State Agent, Mr. Mcdonald, who had always
acted in accord with the Humane Society, which
had been instrumental in his .appontncnt to the
notification OF the fact to the Governor, request
ing that no ono would be appointed except
person recommended by the Illinois Humane
ceived letter from Gov. Cullom, who stated
that he had not been advised Of Mr. McDonald's
resignation, but that he would appoint com
Suggestions s ions from IN the Society 4 day or two
afterwards Mr.. Shortutl made formal applica-
tion on behalf Of the Society for the pa1. sppoint
City Agent: No answer vas received TO ms,
and few days later Mr. Marauart, the present
Society and explained thai. he had been ap-
pointed. This was in the early part Of October:
The Society felt that its application had not
rested In the hope that, though they bad not
succeeded in securing the appointment Of 9 man
who, they knew could 90 the VOTE satlsfacto a;o.
| months had passed. during which complaints
Mear wns not tS do dong bis duty M sbor1a in
structed city-Agent Dudley to visit the yards
| and
| The following is part of the report which Mr.
| Dudley made Of what he saw during eight con-
| secutiyc days spent ut the Stock Yards:
ribs smashed in lay on the platform in helpless
| condition. This COW had been taken from
morning train; she died about o'clock. a =
year-old belonging to same party was also lying
there covered With ice and apparently dying.
met Mr. Marquart near the platform. and In
rond office With me to tini who it belonged to:
ut the office we met one Of Adams, men. wno
said It belonged to them, and asked 3larquart to
out and beut it over the head several times tut
| least twelve times) then went up the platform
to look at another COW: in few minutes he r.,
| then he beat it with the iron bar until It was
dead, giving it several more blows, until the
skull was broken IN another disabled Gl COW on
&; Bensley, which came Oh morning train n
au apparently dying condition was stu
yng there havng tsG strsw thrGWn % tis 6xe5 ~
| u.s. be said, they could sell it to some butcher
| alive and get more for it than they could get II
| mission men down OH him; told him she would
| certainly die there before morning, and went
there the first thing this morning and found M her
dead, with the appearance Of haytng att died from RON,
bsf bss n3arss II Fen aa' T. 6vsn %?
without sign Of anythng to eat tar nfs nosicea n;1
fed in the afternoon, and this morning they
were still without food, and up to O'Clock to-
iy eofd s that %ins 70 SsS
Saturday, and that they bud been IN that pen
since then; I then went to the feed Office and
| was Informed there TINT no feed had been sent
to that pen since Friday, that these cattle had
| had nothing to cat since Q OMnley bought them.
was about tho yards from 70 O'clock O'clock to about to-
day, but saw nothing Of Mnrqunrt.
| "DEC :-Visted the Stock Yards again tc-
day; found steer in Pen =, Block Is, Division 4,
Yesterday; it belongs to George ADAMS s. Co..
| and was left there by Burke Of above firm;
called Mr.. Adams attention to It, and they ~.
n,itted their liability, and said It was burke e.,
| fault l find most Of the pens with one and two
| head Of cattle In them are more or less neg
lccted. Purtes ut one Ut the scales te!l me .aae
until it died: tho steer had tho mud itch, and
should hive been killed ut once. but the Humane
Nian,uart Mar curly M in the morning on the St: Louis
platform; after that, up to tho time left In the
| AFTERNOON, he'wus around In front of the Ex-
change; at lc:.st saw him there every t'n'o
~DEc. 4-spent the forenoon at the yards, up
| to o'clock; saw Mcrlunrt riding aFouhu tnp
| yards, and saw dray drive past him loadeu Win
hogs piled on top uf each other,-he took no
notice Of 1t; saw scvcral pens OF cattle without
"DEc 5-All day ut the yards: saw man
| putting crippled hog into pen, with the blood
| streaming from its ear; found on exanllhauon
| knife; called the man to me and asked what that
| meant and be told me it was his private marx;
said his nunle was Pat Farrell. asked MN II IL
| was customary to mnrk hogs that way. anu ne
said they were tlong it now. hut they didn't bc-
fore Mcdonald left; also saw tlrax.load OF
ho.s 70 out with their ears slit in the
s.lmc Wny. I find on inquiry At the @ feG'l ~
offices that afarquart has ordered teed IN IN
only very few tnstanccs.-at one teed oiee M ne
| o,,ly ordered one lot fed, and they mad been
| three or four days without food; the fecd mtn
| told me that Mnrquart said he supposed they haa
| forgotten it and he wou't order them ied anu
| Tell then, about it; these parties should naVe
/ been prosecuted. WIS informed by party
i who doesn't wish his name used, that Mnruuart
has spent considerable time In buying cAttlc and
| shipping them, and was gone TWO days Win
them himself. did not see him during the lore,
| noon but this afternoon s,lw him riding around
| with IL commission mnn, who WIS told was
| Horine: thoy seemed To be examining pe1i OF
| cnttlc: saw them ride into the same pen twice
| and look the cattle over. | nm Informed that
| Maruuarts attention has been called 10 the
| cutting OF hogs ears, but he pays NO attention
| to it. mai.
| In letters written respectively on the 9th and
| 31st of January last, Mr.. Shortall
CALLED THE GOVERNORS ATTENTION TO THE
| ABUSES
| which were being pructiccd at the yards IN the
answers received TO the letters the Governor tx-
! pressed himself as perfectly satisfied with Mr
| Mar11uart who, he believed from information
| rrcciycd was Il more efficient mnN than had pre-
| yiously been engaged i'll the work He said that
hf eo,llf tAke no action III the matter until spe