, 1885-04-30
NEuMON AGAIN.
Messrs. Budd and Clark Speak Over
Their Signatures.
DR.. Hopkins Gives Some Informa-
ton to the Public.

There seems to be considerable feeling
manifested on the part of the shippers in
regard to the quarantine law. and the
manner in which it is enforced by the ter
%ritorial veterinary. Whether or not the
complaints are just. is a difference of
opinion between the shippers and the vet
Urinary. The following letters were re-
ceived at this Office yesterday.
To the Editor OF THE LEADER.
| saw an article IN your paper of April
2S, of forty one head of cattle quarantined
at this city, saying twenty head represent
twenty different counties in Illinois. I
am a %law-abiding man and have lived in
Wyoming for six years, and have been in
the cattle business in Wyoming for that
length of time and do not wish to be mis-
represented. l have twenty head of bulls,
fifteen from Knox county, one from Full
ton county, four from Warren county,
all within ten miles of Abriydon. Knox
county, Ills. | have as clear a bill of
health for them as any cattle that have
come from Illinois this year.
d. B. BuDD.
To the Editor OF THE LEADER.
Seeing a report in your paper of the
23rd, which did not favor me any, and
stating falsely in several points. In the
first part, that l found great fault with
Mr.. Van Tassell at the yards. Mr.. Van
Tassell is a gentleman, and | shall leave
my cattle in his charge as l know they will
be well cared for. In the next place. |
bought my cattle cheap in Missouri on ac-
count of the contagious disease in that
country. | have the receipts for the
money paid for my cattle which ! am
willing to submit to anybody that wants
to see them, and they will show what |
paid for the cattle; furthermore l have
produced a clear bill OF health to Mr..
Hopkins, what he told me to get. He
went back on his word and says you are
in for ninety days" But he says he is
here TO protect the cattle interest in this
country. That is right. But | shall ex-
plain how he does it. In the first place
he puts them in the stock yards exposed
to all cattle that are shipped, or put in
the yards, and that is hundreds. and l
can prove it. Is that what you call quar-
a%ntine? That is what Hopkins calls it.,
and TO stop the spread of pneumonia. |
Should not have stopped here and l
should have only fed once in the territory.
1t would have been better to have let me
gone on even if they were infected. But
Hopkins says he will protect Idaho, as
that is where I'm going. The people of
Idaho don't ask the gentleman for any of
his protection, and | wish you would in
vestigate his quarantine and see for your
self.
In the next place you say in your paper
of the 9th, II got my cattle in eight diff
ferent counties" This is false, as | can
prove here. l will give it two counties, |
have the papers for it.
G. JACKSON.
A representative of THE LEADER
called upon DR.. Hopkins, the territorial
veterinarian, yesterday afternoon, to ask
him in regard to the complaints made by
shippers and those that have had their
stock %quarantined at this place. The doc
tor was found at his office and was in a
very cheerful mood. and volunteered the
necessary information. He was imme-
diately put tothe pumping process with
the following result:
There has been considerable discus
sion and a great many statements made of
late in regard to the pleuro-pneumonia
question, doctor, and now what have you
to say in regard to it?' asked the re-
porter.
at is one of tie most destructive dis
eases known to bovine cattle. 1t spreads
with wonderful rapidity- Take the case
of Missouri, for instance. A few months
ago there was not a case of the disease in
that state. Shortly afterwards one bull,
from an infected herd in Illinois, was i'm
ported to Galloway county, and now
there is at least ! 900 cattle infected with
the plague. Even the people are cIamor-
ing now for the governor to call an extra
session of the legislature to take action in
regard to this very important matter. The
plague is extending throughout Missouri,
and it is a matter of a short time until it
extends over the entire state. unless eff
fective means ARE taken to effectually
stamp it out, replied DIR. Hopkins.
but the shippers say that no precau-