The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-04-09

to 2 enrol q z any person as a member without
vote OF the association. e
Adjourned. s$t 5ts II
Cur cowmen are well pleased at the
lnco orporation Of the western part 81
Dakota in in the Montana territorial assg.5
citation. For some time We viii be. Too
weak to stand alone and BY joining tia
Montana association We become 4 nrom.
inent part Of what two years hence l will
be the strong est stock organization n
the world. =. ,'8
Inc following was sent Us by W. Az
VanBrunt, y president of the Badger eat.
tie Co.: "a Paulding farmer having cat
tie trespassing upon his grain fields.
posted up the following: .Notis-If anv al
mans mar or woman's cows or oxen gifts ii
these here otes his or her tale viii Be off
as the cass may be. I am Christian
and pay mi taxes, darn man who let's
his critter run luse, say l.
The Texas cattlemen are in reaIlv;
desperAte straits on account Of tina
quarantine laws. It is impossible for all
OF them to find a market for their cattle
aid sales at low figures are made where.
ever opportunity offers. Many Of tina
Texas cowmen are working ON borrowed
money and payday will find them en-
hrely unprepared to square IN. II ii
thought that more cattlemen will he
closed out there this year than ever
before. 900 s5737 4
While in Miles City we spoke with q
large number in reference to Texas fever
and all agreed, even though some had
sssA Was b by toEadt n5 eahg stsftr. -
Illustrations were cited where Texas
trail had been crossed by states cattIe
and every animal in the latter herd had
died. Our best authority seemed to
think that the name Texas fever was a
mis-nomer for tie same deadly disease
arises when cattle are driven continually
from one point to another. This rule he
claimed to be nearly or quite without ex-
ception, the disease with the same
symptoms having arisen on every well
used trail the world over. 5Eg
More and more are the cowmen begin
ming to realize that talk will do no good
and that if they expect to have tho
proper per cent. Of calves, each member
of the different associations must be
forced to put in the requisite number of
bulls. This is a question that admits Of
no farther delay and one that must be
Immediately and strictly enforced.
Where is the business man in the world
but would add five per cent. to his capital
stock if by so doing it were conclusiyely
proved that he would gain fifteen per
cent? The case is exactly as plain in
the matter of a full supply of bulls anil
! still large number Of cowmen havn't
their proper proportion. We may as we'll
come out fat-footed and state what is a
notorious fact, that these men expect to
, gain the fifteen per cent. profit without
the five per cent addition to the capital
stock. Our association was very decided
in this matter and it was fully decided to
make every man on the river put in his
required number. Some may still try to
sponge off their neighbors and close
watch should be kept to see that the
letter of the law is strictly enforced.
Some one has been writing to the
Kansas City Live Stock Indicator object
ing to polled cattle on the ground ttSat
the muley COW and calf on the plains
will fall easy prey to the wolves on ac-
count of the absence of the pointed
weapons worn by the Texas cow: An.
other correspondent and friend Of the
. blacks says: I'VE respectfully refer j.
P.s. W. to Prof. E. NJ. Shelton, whose
testimony should quiet his apprehension
: in this matter. Says the obseryant and
experienced professor, in speaking Of
muleys moreover they strike yicidusly
with their mallet-shaped heads Those
of us who have handled hornless beasts
know that the sight Of a dog will arouse
+ warliks demonstrations on the part az
the muley quicker than anything else,
and it is an acknowledged fact that, all
though peaceable by nature, when it
does come to the tug Of war a maley
will thunp the everlasting daylights oal
: of anything that wears hoofs and horns
:. .
Taking these two facts into considera.
9 tim, it is reasonable to suppose that tht
bowling wolf and the screening coyots
! \ Of the wild west viii quickly learn to -
4 speet the butting bump on The maallet
o shaped mniey head. Z Istoekgrouera
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