Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-01-22
Knnsas, eav.rnor and lhe nan.

So it seems that that the fearful howl
ofpome OF the stock papers which fear
for their patrons more from Texas
competition than they do alleged
Texas fever,--it zee - that their
howl has lost not little Of it's hoped
for backing, so far as Gov. Click Of
Kansas was 10 have furnished that
backing by stringent official action
ana advice against Texas cattle The
Topeka Capital probably indicates In
the following the position the COVER
nor OF kanSs has held on the subject;
all along.
a. N Mccoy, president OF the West
ern Kansas stock association, q
LoDgendy Ike, president of the Western
Kansas STOCK association, b j. Har-
desty, member OF the legislature IRON,
Ford county, and the ewner of 20 900
head of cattle, and NJ. IS Culver, AM
other large cattle owner, have been IN
the city for the past two days confer
ring with Gov. Click In regard to the
proposed quarantine against Texas
cattle. These gentlemen represent the
hulk OF the cattle held In Western
| Kansas, and their views on this sub
| lect are OF some importance.
The Western kautaa Stock associA-
ton represents 200 900 head Of cattle,
and the Western central Kansas Stock
association about 90 900 head.
A representative Of the Capital had
| "A talk with Mr. Langendy Ks and drew
| from him The nature OF their business
with the governor.
Mr. Longendyke said that their OBJ
ject la seeing Governor Click was 10
protest against the state qnArantlniDg
| against Texas lie. Likewise 10
favor erecting the national cattle trail
from reX,s. He explained that what
IS known as the neutral strip which
| lies betweeS the Panhandle OF Texss
| aud the safe Of X ,nsas, h now occu-
pied by 10000 head of cattle, mostly
belonging to Kansas II the state
quarantine against Texas cattle they
| will eek AN outlet North somewhere,
and under the law they are entitled
TO enter the state late 10 the season,
and the consequence viii be that they
| will be missed on the neutral strip. to
| wait fer AN entrance 10 Kansas This
VIII drive out the 100 ,00 cattle now on
the strip, and will thereby inIure
Kansas 20 a very large extent The
howl for quarantine, Mr.. Longendy Ike
SAYS comes from owners OF small herds
aud 10 IL this same class Of men who Oh.
! pose the national trail.
| The whole subject and all the facts
| relating thereto we're laid before the
governor, who said that he had re-
ceived many letters In favor OF the
state quarantine end against locating
the national trail In Kansas, but be
had made up his mind to take NO nc
ton in the matter. Mr.. Llngeudyke
| IL of the opinion that ipjustice IL done
| the Texas droverA. II IL generally be,
lieved that they drove through the
country regardless Of the rights Of
others. This WA the case a lew years
ago, when there was no trail, but
since the trail has been established
they confiue the drive strictly to the
Trail and have annoyed no one.
As TO the raVages Of the Texas fever,
MIR. LOngendy he sRid that some cattle
had died ON the neutral strip this sea-
son OF that fever, but it was no fault Of
the drovers. Men bad bought these
cattle on the trail and driven them on
the range, where they took the
fever. He said that there we've
some peculiarities about the disease
which were not clearly understood
Cattle on the drive north would moi
retain the disease, while those taken
through on he cars would carry II
| WIN lhtut. Inefe WhF mucn 70 nc
learned about the cattle business by
The PEOPLE OF The state, he thought,
b fore pressing judgment on the cattle
interest. La the first place 1t should
he understood that the largest cattle
interests of the state was the buy Ing Of
one and two year-old steers in Texas
for grazing on the nutritious grasses OF
Kansas These steers, kept one and
two ears on the range in this state,
will average 300 hounds more than u
kept in Texas I'hls is the large end
of the cattle business In Kansas, aud
to quarantine against Texas cattle will
greatly iLjurs this business.
The cattle interest Of w estern Kan
sas Is evidently In good hands aud II
will without doubt, he well cared for
In the Legislature. The Texas steer
will be crowned king. and will be
allowed to tramp arouod al will over
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