Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-04-24
CATTLE DISEASE SPREADING.

Alarm I'm Missouri Over che STEADY
March OF PleurO . Pneumonia
State Action Deemed Necessary.
The Kansas City Journal contains q dis
patch from Jefferson City. Mo-, Of the 18th
saying:
Great excitement has prevailed over il
galloway county, over the discovery that thu
disease of pleuro-pneumoDia has spread
among the cattle of the county to q much
wider extent than what was supposed. A
herd OF the cattle owned by j. l.. Erwin
who operates a dairy near Fulton, wer'
found 10 be affected with the disease. Tit
local committee is out OF money, and about
300 head of cattle have been found, all Of
which should be killed. The general be-
lief is,that II sufficient means can be raised,
the disease can yet be handled; but money
must be forthcoming ct once, or the result
will be disastrous.
DR.. Faville, State Veterinary Surgeon
Tor Colorado, returned from Galloway
to-day. He will recommend his State to
permanently quarantine against the
counties of Galloway, Boone, Audrain and
montgomery. He entertains the belief
that the disease can be conquered If money
~ no v OA6Dlo FLAG n6as w 6S VI
without stopping. If the Legislature was
called it would be thirty days before q Law
could be passed. and during the interval
the disease would have ample time To
spread from one end of the State to the
other.
A st. Louis dispatch Of the 18th says:
Dispatches from Fulton state that the peo-
pie OF Galloway county are becoming
greatly discouraged at the failure 80 far to
stamp out the pleuro-pneumonia among
the cattle in hat county. They feel that
the disease ia constantly spreading, not
only in Galloway county, but in the adjoin-
ing counties, and that no adequate meas
ures are being taken to prevent it, much
less to eradicate it. It is said that over
1000 cattle have become diseased. or have
been exposed to the plague, and that it
will not be long before this number will be
doubled.
Money Is being raised to buy and kill
the exposed cattle, but 1t comes in too
slow to be effective, and every body is
looking for some vigorous means to be
adopted to stay the disease. The county
Executive Committee will at once prepare
and forward to the State Executive
Committee Of Jefferson City, q report
setting forth the actual state Of affairs in
Galloway county. The live stockmen of
st. Louis are becoming strongly inter-
ested and have been adopting resolutions,
taking the ground that the disease can
only be eradicated or controlled by
State action, and through the power
Of the State authorities. "That pri-
yate subscriptions and committees which
are not authorized by law. would be
a useless expenditure Of money. We
strongly urge the Governor to call Q
special session Of the Legislature to take
effective measures to stamp out the dis
ease."
These resolutions have been sent to the
Governor In the hands OF q committee Of
leading stockmen who will make Q per-
sonal appeal to the Governor for an extra
session. Col. Hunter, the President of
the National Stock and Horse Growers
Association, says the Legislature should
be called at once and $4,000 0 sppropri-
ated TO stamp the disease out. He says
there is but one way to do this, and that
10 by killing all the affected or exposed
cattle and burn everything that has been
connected with them.