Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-05-01
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tory range this week, the first TIME
since last November. Heis well salts
fed with the way his cattle went
through the winter, and considers thai
as his losses did not exceed ten per cent
he should not complain.
A stockman from the range south of
here this week stated that but for the
severe winter just past, the calf crop
in this section would have been larger
than ever before known. He saws that
it appeared that every female BOVINE
over one year old was in fair way
toad in increasing the numbers in
every herd in the state and Territory.
The number of cattle drowned by the
floods in this county last week was
somewhat overdrawn, it now appears.
From the.:fact that so many carcasses
were seen along the banks the SUPPOSE
ton was that many cattle had been
drowned; but many of these carcasses
were in existence weeks before the
flood, and the high water only washed
they could be more easily seen.
All of the cattle to be shipped from
Barber and Comanche counties and
from the Territory as far west as the
Panhandle country will either be put
on the cars this season at New
Kiowa or Medicine Lodge. The rail-
road will be at New Kiowa by the mid
die of July, at the furtherest, and the
cars will be here very short time af.
terward. Commodious stock yards will
be built at both places.
There should be good attendance at
the meeting of stockmen called for this
place tomorrow, Saturday May I'd. 1t
is understood that ways aud means will
be devised to stop the changing of
brands and stealing cattle that now ap-
pears to be in vogue in this county. 1t
is matter that every stockman wheth-
er he owns a large herd or small one.
should be interested in; and the only
sure way to stop the practice is to use
hemp or work for the certain convic-
ton and punishment of every guilty
man. The general opinion appears
now to be that criminals are not pun
ished for crimes committed or attempt
ed In Barber county; and in view of
the number OF criminals now at large
it would appear that there is a founda-
ton for the opinion. 1t is possible
now to make an example that the
would-be thieves will be warned by con-
templating.
a convention Of stockmen in the Ter
ritory south of here was held this week
and vigilance committee organized to
demand of Fine Ewing that he cut the
''jingle-bOb'' from lot of New Mexico
cattle he drove in last year. The j.-b.
is about one half of the ear hanging
down making the animal appear like
cross between Zebu and worn-out
government mule. The stockmen claim
that by reason of Ewihg's jingle-bob
cattle appearing on the range among
the domestic herds, a frightful loss of
prospective calves has been noted; and
even where the calves are not drop
ped before maturity, when they do APP
pear they are frightfully deformed and
half-witted, their mothers having
been frightened during the interesting
period by the jingle-bobs. Mr.. Ewing
was waited upon by committee APP
pointed and agreed to remove the jim
gle-bobs and thus insure peace and do
away with the probability of frequent
abortions and deformities in the herds
of his neighbors.
An interesting letter was received
last week, too late for publicationgin
the INDEX, from w. T. Hazard, a we'll
known stocknan, who has cattle in the
vicinity of Darlington, /. T. He says
that after careful inquiry he believes
that the losses down in that country on
cattle that Went into the winter i'm good
fix, and all acclimated cattle that had
been there more than one year, will not
exceed per cent, while some put the
loss as low as 8 per cent. As in every
instance where through herds came up
late they suffered severely, Mr.. Hazard
thinks it has been demonstrated that
any cattle coming up later than July
must certainly be great loss to their
owners. Mr.. Hazard concludes: SIN
the face of all that great many old
cattlemen bought late driven cattle and
in many cases very poor ones, because
they could be got for low price last
fall, thinking we would certainly have
a warm winter on account of the past
two being severe. Lots of these men
are among our Oldest and best cattle
men heretofore, so it proves there is
no one but what is liable to be mistaken
at times. The same can be said of some
of the once valuable cattle ranches in
western Kansas, before the coming of
the granger. Some of the boys had bet
ter have accepted some of the big offers
from the over excited newly arrived
ranchmen year or two ago. Winter
ranges without plenty of good springs
and good protection will not be so yalu-
able after this, as it has been demon
strated this winter that the old time
theory of cow living for a month at a
time on pure western air is exploded
three weeks Is the limit now. Wishing
my solid friends all the best luck ia the
world, remain as ever.''
Brick. Bricks
Hansen &c WEIGH have now ready for
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