Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-07-30
EASTERN NEWS.
A7s0cIATED PRESS DIspArcHKs-
Diseased Cattle.

ana - head of them have died wit
t Sp4nisa or Texas fever. One carIoa,
vas stopped hsre. and out Of tia, 81,
have died since. The others were take
10 Manhattan. and are Qnarautiued il
tne shipping pens there. Up II 3 s'cIocI
tols afternoon - had died People. an,
especially stock men. are greatly ex
cited. Gov. Click has sent State Vet
eflnary Surgeon Holcom to inves.ioat,
| the trouble.
CHICAGO, July 23-The arrival of |
number Of sick cattle having been re
| ported At the Union Stock Yards Ia thi
city, an examination Was made by .
number of veterinary surgeons thi
morning. who are not yet ready to sub
NIT An official report. The fact is, how
ever. they agreed that the disease i,
Texas fever, superinduced by drinking
water strongly impregnated with alkalI
Ihe cattle have been secsrely unaran
tined and isolated. those IN the 10,
that are unaffected are TO be slau0h.
tered, subject to the inspection of the
Health Department. Those that arr
unable To recover are being shot, and
those that are dropping will be held in
quarantine for further developments.
Another train consisting of twelve
cars, Containing 240 head Il cattle, ar
rived this morning. They were branded
the same as the herd which was fonnd
to be diseased Yesterday and are from
southwestern Kansas. Fifteen were
found dead IN the cars, fifty-five had
been thrown out dead on the way and A
great many others were sick and had
been trampled on. DR.. Par res, StateVet-
erinarIan, and DIR. Dewolf, City Health
Commissioner, declare the trouble
to be murraln. The entire herd, iuclud-
ing those OF yesterday, were ordered
killed, making 500 head In all. Officials
declare that the cattle were evidently
diseased before shipment, and from ali
that can be learned the entire herd Was
10 the Kansas City Stock Yard for thirty
days before shipment to this city. Ia
view Of this fact the cattle we're thor
oughly quaraBtIned before killing. 1t
IL not believed the trouble, whether il is
fexas fever or bloody murrain, will ex-
tend any farther.
RooD HOUSE. ILL.,, July 29.-Sixteen
carloads of cattle from Indian Terri-
tory we're arrested at the Chicago and
Alton Stock Yards here on SUNDAY
night ten head died on the road from
Kansas city, and it was believed that
the whole lot was infected with the
Texas fever. ALI that could stand up
of the twelve carloads we're forwarded
TO Chicago, and the rem ainder, seven
tv-two In number, were dead by Mon
day morning. Andy Jacobs, of Kansas
City, who WAS In charge of the cattle,
denied that they had Texas fever. He
said they were poisoned by eating loco
weeds on the train, but ID. @. TIFFANY, a
veterinary surgeon from Jacksonville,
pronounced the disease Texas fever.
KANSAS City, Mo-, July 29.-Concern-
ing the report of Iexas cattle fever, the
stock yard officials state that a CON
siRnment of cattle WAS received here
from Indian Territory which were
affected with Spanish or Texas fever,
though it WAS not known at the time.
A portion of them went to Manhattan,
Kansas, and the remainder to Chicago.
The yards have been thoroughly disin-
fected. SO far as knewn there are no
other cases Of the disease here.
KANSAS CRY, July 29.-After careful
investigation the Lire Stock Indicator
makes the following statement: There
has not been and is not now any Texas
fever among cattle at this point or in
this neighborho0d. The cattle shipped
from here in which Texas fever has de-
veloped passed through the wards, but
did not exhibit any symptoms of the
disease. Ii was contracted by contact
with through Texas cattle in the Indian
Territory.
CHICAGO, July Cdr. N. III. Parson,
State Veterinary Surgeon, has not made
bis official report, but he asserts tonight
thuf h,a i'm ha a
the fact that these cattle are affected
With Spanish or Texas fever. Health
Officer De Wolf. of this city, concurs in
this opinion, and exhibits in his office
the spleens and kidneys of some of the
cattle which died, and they are found
tn exhibit strongly marked signs of
fever.
On the other hand, many stockmen
and sone persons familiar with Texas
fever do not believe it is that disease.
They assert that In all cases of true
Texas fever the animal excreta are very
hard, and the same is IN measure trae
If the sickness is from drinking alkali
waters, and deaths in these instances
could not have resulted from either of
these. The excreta are entirely natural.
They profess To believe that the deaths
were u tubCu DN CflukCsNlDu vi tut UOW
els, caused by drinking too much water
after long thlrsting and being overheat-
ed. These cattle balong to Frazier
Il Oberls, of Kansas City. and
are brought from their ranch in
Indian Territory. The entire number
received il GO, of which 100 arrived
this morning. OF this number 1862
have died, or been killed to relieve
them OF agony. Nine were killed by
the veterinarian today, and he says that
all showed signs of Texas fever. The
living members of the herd are quaran-
tined, and the pens in which they are
confiuei will be scru bbed, refioored and
used for hogs. The Health Depart
ment has charge of the entire drove,
and the Health Commissioner under
takes to say that the meat of none of
these animals will be allowed to go into
the markets while there is the least dan
ger. He has given permission to the
firm to which the herd was consigned
30 9, II the non infected members of the
herd. subject 10 inspection by the de-
pArtment after slaughter. small
number WAS sold and slaughtered to-
day, but as q matter of precaution they
were not permitted 10 he put on the
market. Il is said here that 25,000
head of these cattle were sold at Kan
sas City.
MASHATrAN, Kansas. July 29.-There
have been 10 additional deaths from
Texas fever. La the shipment Of the
cattle received here from Kansas City,
tue herd had been driven from CHM
marou, Colorado, 10 Caldwell Crossing,
on the Texas cattle trail. Tn the way
from Caldwell they we're sent to Kansas
City by rail, where they were bought by
Major Adams and then shipped here.
The sickness of the animals first ap-
peared on the way to this place. Veter-
MARIAN Holecmb Is expected tonight.
Experts here do not anticipate an cpl
demic, believing the disease not COM
municable except through Texas cattle.
The National Labor Platform
CHICAGO. July 9.-At a meeting of
the National Labor Committee tonight
the following resolution VAS adopted
We hereby form and Adolf the de
mands formulated and presented by
the independents Labor party Of the
State OF New York, which were adopt
Cd and incorporate in she platform by
the Democratic partv of that State In
1882. - follows:
We affirm the policy always main
tanned by the Democratic party thai it
il of first importance that labor should
a