The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-05-19
GASCONADE GETS 1T.
Wild Ravages of PleurO-
Pneumonia There.
A Piteous Appeal for an Extra
Session.
An Appropriation Of S3oo,oOO,ooO
Asked for.

Hermann, Mo-, May -lCorrespOnd'
ence. Our community is again in ter
ribe state of excitement and the Oldest in
bahit nts can not call ID mind parallel
or tell WHEN or where or how il is ell likely
to end. / sometime ago gave you truth
full account If the heroic and prompt &C.
tion taken by the people and ofiCials here
10 prevent the importation for shipment
east by railroad, If a number of hogs from
the pest-ridden district Of Galloway county.
The prevailing idea here was that hog
manages
TO "HoG" EVERYTHING.
They would Of course eat the bodies of
the cate that died of pleuro pneum onia,
and thus be prepared to communicate the
disease TO the cattle on this side of the
"Big Muddy" if they were allowed to come
in COZ tact with them. OF course there
were those who contended they were
too "hoeish" to give anything awsy and
would therefore keep The pneumonia all
for their own enjoyment, but they yielded
TO the opposite, believing anything would
be better than to
GET UP SCARE
here like they have over there. But "the
schemes of men and mice gang aft sglee,"
and so We find II here. Just how il all
happened nobody knows, but the most
plausible story is, that a stockman came
over from Galloway and brought
A SHEPHERD DOG
with him. The animal had been employed
driving Galloway cattle, but unfortunately
our vigilant officials were una xsre of the
fact end the deg was allow. d TO roam about
at will. II there is one thing more indis-
pensible than another i'm GsscOnade county
it is dog. at least, everybody has three
or four. IS don't make much difference as
to what kind or quality it is,
ZUsT SO IT's A DOG,
here IN the city, but out in the hills and
down on. Linn creek everything runs to
hounds and postum dogs. The upshot of
the calamity, however, was the shepherd
dog hadcontract- contagious pleu:o pneu
monia, but with the peculiar adspIabllity
of that wond riul disease it obstinately re-
fus d to take hold of our scrub cst.le, but
the way il got to yanking the dogs around
is mer.al terror, and their
PITEoUs HowIss
rs one after the other they get caught by il
is heartrending iu the extreme. But
worst OF all, not a soul has been
able to sleep a wink in week
IN the whole county, our neighbor-
ing counties are all qusrantining
aga inst our dogs and to day
meeting of citiz,ns was called and
resolutions passed asking the governor to
call
AN EXTRA SESSION
of the legislature in order to make an ap-
preparation to enable us to round up and
kill all the dogs in the county, as the cost
Of powder and ball to shoot them
is not only considerable, but
but since the contagious disease appeared
every man values his dog at
double what he did before. 1t is estimated
there are 100000 dogs in The county. at an
average value of SIS each, and adding to
the va,ue of the animals the lowest esti-
m te for the cost of killing and buryipg of
them il rs thought an appropriation
of shout S300,O00,O00 Will enable rs to
stamp out the disease effectually. As your
paper has been so active (?) in its effo Is to
secure proper legislative ensctments for the
pu pose of helping out our neighbors in
Galloway L write You in hope yOn wi
kindly do like service for ia.
Yours in distress,
GAsCONIDE