The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-04-23

$25 will be paid for: information leading
to his recovery. The horse is the prop
erty of John Pohl, and information can
be brought or sent to the Cow Boy office.
Large horses Of all kinds are higher
now than they have been for twenty
years. There is no danger Of the supply
outgrowing the demand, rs there Is
always a ready market for good large
horses. Ell, s57s
4 We are in receipt oofs a letter from Russ
Wilson, foreman Of the E s in which he
states that the horses are looking first
rate, being fat and lively. The grass is
well up and looks like the map OF Ire
land, the cattle are looking we'll and
there is a prospect Of a large calf-crop.
Preparations are nearly completed for the
roundup and everyone is busy. s5s .s:. 8.
The Wyoming association at their last
meeting appointed a committee to see,
about getting passes for its members.
The committee, with John N. Simpson
at its head, met committee represent
ing the lines in question and the subject
was put off until the official meeting of
the lines. -,
s We commend the New Mexico Stock
Grower for the firm stand it has taken
against the reckless shooting sometimes
practiced by cowboys. It has utterly
lost any power even of amusement to
outsiders. The Stock Grower says: This
bad-man-with-a-gun' business is foolish,
cowardly and unmanly and will be stop
ped in the near future, and some of the
experts at shooting up things will find
themselves rustling for jobs with none
in sight," .y-, 49,.
That contagious pleuro-pneumonia
has really broken out near Fulton, Mo-,
there seems no reason to doubt. Gov.
Marmadnke. all the stockmen of Missouri
and commissioner Coleman are taking
active measures to stamp out the disease
and as everyone is working to that end
it is believed that it will not spread at
all. Only heroic ineasurs will be
successful. 1t is absolutely necessary to
kill every animal that has the disease
and put those that have been exposed
under the strictest quarantine. Already
about two. hundred animals have beer
killed and others will be at the firs1
symptom Of the disease.
Norman ]. Coleman, commissioner Of
Agriculture has asked the following
open questions of the cowmen of fifty.
nine Texas counties. with view to
securing a modification of the quarantine
enactment and a relief to the present
depressed state of the Texas cattle indus.
try: II. Have you purchased any bulls
OF other cattle, or do you know of any
that have been bought from north of the
south line of Kansas to your vicinity, OF
to any part of any of the counties named
above? If SO, state the number, the
location as near as possible to which they
were taken, and the number, if any
which died of acclimatization fever. 2
Do you know of any case in which cattle
from the eastern counties of Texas have
been taken to the counties above named
in the spring or summer months, and
allowed to pasture on the same ranges
with the cattle native to these counties
II so, state if any disease occurred amons
the native cattle, and give symptoms ani
numbers afflicted as far as possible"
The Kansas City Journal tells of ,
game of poker played recently in thai
city between Major Drumm and Texan
The Journal says the Texan had no mon
ey but plenty Of cattle and an immens,
desire to play poker with the major
The Inter is known around the stock
yards for his great natural resources
and he swept away the seemingly insur
mountable difficulty by proposing 8
game of one steer ante, two steers tt
come and no limit They played on this
basis. Major Drumm dealt and the gen.
tleman from Texas antied one steer
Both came in aud the game opened with
four steers on the table. Major Drumm
drew two tens and caught an unexpected
full, while the gentleman from Texas
struck a bobtail snag and passed out. The
third was jack pot and it took three
deals to open it. The gentleman from
Texas finally drew two jacks and opened
the pot with fine breeding bull, which
counted six. Major Drumm covered this
with five steers and two -year-old heifer,
and went him twelve better. The gentle.
man from Texas who drew another jack
saw the twelve cows and went fifty steers,
twenty tw0-year-0ld heifers, four bulls
and twenty-five heifers better. Major
Drumm looked at his hand and placed up.
on the table six fine Alderney cows, FIVE
imported Durham bulls, one hundred
grass fed two -year-olds, fifty prime to me
dium corn-fed Colorado half-breed steers,
with a side bet Of a Normandy gelding
to cover the bar bill. The man from Tex
as made his bet good with. an even two
hundred and fifty straight Kansas win.
tered Texas half breeds and ten Scotch
polled cattle. fourteen mustangs and the
ne u Of the sw U Of section 10 Of the
Panhandle of Texas, and called. Majol
Drumm held three aces md mt In Nj,