Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-08-22
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Gov. Click called meeting of ptom-
Inert cattlemen at his Office last wSe2,
and Subcommittee was appointed to
draw up appropriate resolutions. The
following were submited:
WHEREAS. The disease known as
Texas fever has been spread to a liuli-
ted extent among domestic cattle by
contact with tide water or through cat
tie which have been driven and shipped
from the Gulf states and the state
of arkansas; and
WHEREAS, 1t is not desirable to es-
tablish protective measures which wifi
entirely prevent the introduction of
disease among uninfected cattle, it is
Resolved, First-That the meeting re-
quest this excellency, Governor Click to
establish system of quarantine, of in
spectors, who shall be authorized and
required to inspect all cattle whenever
the same may be offered for shipment
within the state of Kansas and especi-
ally at the stations of Coffeyville, Ar
kansas City, Hunnwell, Caldwell, Ellis,
Dodge City, Coolidge and Wallace, to
determine by their inspection whether
the same are desirable or capable of
communicating disease, and it shall be
the duty of these inspectors to furnish
to all shippers of cattle which have
passed inspectionsa certificate of their
healthy condition. The agent of the
railway company shipping such cattle
to be furnished with copy of such GER
tiGcate.
Resolved, second-It shall also be the
duty of the inspectors, when cattle are
offered fof Shipment to ascertain the
route over Which they have been driven,
and in the event that the safi1e have
been driven across through cattle
trail, or brought into contact with
through cattle, to quarantine against
and prohibit the shipment of such cat
tie until perfectly satisfied that there is
no disease extant among them.
Third-That request be made to the
governor of Illinois, and to the commits
siOners appointed under the act estab-
fishing bureau of animal industry, for
the United States, to give us all inves-
tigation and satisfy themselves that no
contagious disease exists among the ma
tive or wintered cattle within the lin
it of the state of Kansas, the Indian
Territory, Colorado or the Panhandle
of Texas.
Fourth-That it is All established fact
that the communication of the conta-
giOn, Kansas-Texas fever, imported by
through or tide water" herds to do
mestic cattle, has not extended from
such infected domestic cattle to others;
that such secondary communication is
absolutely unknown and is established
by the fullest and best practical and
veterinary experience to be impossible.
Fifth-That the live stock associa-
tions, railway companies and stock
yard commissioners, represented at this
meeting heartily cooperate with Gov
ernor Click and use their best endeav-
ors to secure the enforcement of such
needful regulations as his excellency
MAY in his judgment deem necessary to
carry out the spirit of the above resolu-
ton.
Governor Click sent the following
telegram to Governor Hamilton of Illi-
nois:
TOPEKA, Aug l3.-The sanitary commits
sion held a large meeting of stockmen
at my office to-day and assure me that
there is no danger of Texas fever
spreading from Kansas and that no
through Texas cattle will be shipped
into or through Kansas by our railroads,
and invite you to fully investigate
matters before you quarantine against
this state. l am assured that there is
no danger but from through southern
cattle-none of which will be shipped,
and cattle taking the disease from them
do not communicate II to others. Com
petent insFectofs will be on duty at all
points where southern cattle might be
shipped. G.. w. CLICK,
Governor of Kansas.
1t was read before the meeting and
indorsed.
The following proclamation was also
read and endorsed, and the meet adj
journed.
GOVERNORS PROCLAMATION.
STATE OF KANSAS, \
EXECUTIVE DEPART MENT, I
Topeka, August IL, 1884.
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