Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-10
PLHUR0-PNEUMONIA.
The Dread Disease Finds lis Way 10
Texas In Jerseys Recently lmport-
ed to Dallas County
Several OF the Animals Have Already
Died and Many others are Sick.
A Gloomy Outlook.
The AGENT OF thv Nationhi narrau ct Ant.
mai lndu.try sent For--rrompt
Action Necessary.
olAl 10 tho Gazette.

NJ Q lsl 20 the Gazette,
DALLAS, Tx, Dee 0,--Thore was
eyoloue Of excitement among Dallas cat
tlemen to-day, Everybody was talking
pleuro pneuMonia, quarantine and im-
ported Jerseys The cause Of the alarm
was the breaking out Of the dread disease
among the Jerseys recently Imported to
Dallas aud sold by Messrs. Cur
ny s Huston OF Conporsville, Ind
Mr.. w, j, Bett,rton at the sale invested
Ia six Of the pet mixers. Yesterday two
Of them died, iro,hing at tho mouth aud
giving other pronounced evidence OF
pleuro. pneumonia, To-day another WAS
IN such deplorah'e condition that II boz
came necessary to kin ~, A commission
consisting OF DR. Souter, former
! H British government inspector
and veterinary sturgeon In Scot
lands q. 9. Slaughter and James
Arbucklo, experienced cattle-ralsoTs--the
last named a breeder Of Jerseys made
Investigation, and all were convinced that
the disease N pluoro. pneumonia, Or.
Souter being decidedly and unslterably
pronounced IN his judgment, asserting
years Of practice and obsorya-
lion with the disease. one Of
4, NJ powell's animals, purchased from
Garry & llnstun At tho same sale at which
liejtertun'a purchases were made, also
died and It's demise was also attributed TO
pluoro.pneamOnia. Many others ere sick
and more deaths Will occur, IN fact the
cattle men anticipatO that The whole
bunch OF Jerseys sold In
Dallas win die, and that other herds will
be afflicted. II IL feared that the Injection
may spread and create enormous l0rs.
Mr.. G. c Slaughter, Ia conversation
with TnE 6AxErrE cofrespon ient, sad
al consider The situation extremely
serious aud critical Vigorous measures
should ho at once adopted | tank
Dallas county should be quarantiuod from
allowing eattlo 10 80 outside her boun.
daries, and the state should be quaran-
tined aud cattle prevented from going
known 60 have hNcn thoroughly
stamped out The state has no
cattle quarantine law, 80 $. p Cunning.
ham, state agent OF the national bafcan
OF animal industry, has been telegraphed
at Fort Worth 10 come To Dallas at once
and take whatever action ne may deem
necessary under the new United States
statute covering pleuro.pnonmnnia and
other infectious diseases and tho quaran.
thing OF live stock"
These Jerseys are the herd about which
a report was current Just previous TO
their arrival In Texas OF the existence Of
pluero-pncumonia among them, bat
Curry & Huston, who came personally TO
Dallas with them, managed TO make them
appear healthy and find ready sale, THE
GAZETTE correspondent interviewed
them az tho time on the subject, and they
were positive In their assertion that the
cattle were perfectly healthy and had
not been exposed 10 plnerO pneumonia,
They also claimed TO have clear bills Of
health for the animals from government
inspector in Indiana. The alarm caused
by The breaking ont Of the disease IL
spreading and etockmon are anxi0usly
awaiting the result, wondering u In
addition 20 the misiorrun0s " tho
general depression In the cattle busi-
ness the past season the horrors Of plsu-
ropneumonia are TO cap the climax Of
their troubles IN Texas