Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-10-02
PLEURo PNEUMON1A.
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A sure Thing in Chicago Cattle.
CHICAGO, Ill, September 2A-The live
stock commission which has been Invest1-
eating the pleuro pneumonia IN this city
for the past three or four days, had a con-
sultatiOn this forenoon with the officials Of
/ the stock yards company. The conclusion
| reached, was that all beef which passed
] proper inspection and was pronounced 70 be
not diseased might be sold. The live stock
commission Intimates that they fully expect
that within a week a quarantine against
/ Chicago beef Will be declared by the states
! or Iowa and Wisconsin. In answer TO
question as to what would be done with thR
cattle, they said: eve intend to have every
one Of them slaughtered and We Will make
a separate inspection OF the lungs OF each
OF the animals. Those whose organs show
signs OF pleurO pneumonia VIII be sold
for beef for whatever Is bid for them"
Commissioner Coleman of the depart
ment of agriculture who sCnt Dr.. Salmon
of the bureau OF animal industry 70 CHI
Cago to ascertain if the disease that has
broken out there is pleurO pneumonia re-
ceiVed by telegraph to-day the following re-
port: '.Ihere Is no doubt that the cattle
disease here Is pleurO pneumonia. The au-
thorities find much difficulty in dealing with
it. Sev5nty-tiv5 thousand dollars worth Of
cattle are to be slaughtered and less than
$4,000 is available Ia the state apprOpria-
ton. The department cannot pay for dis
eased cattle here, because the state law re-
Qulrss their slaughter without COmp6nsG-
ton. / have offered for the department TO
meet the expenses OF 5LllElLE5ET
the compensation or the owners QlslnL6SU-
ing and also to make an inspection OF the
suspected districts. Do you approve of what
have dOueI' The state commission Is now
arranging. details of the slaughter.
COMMISSIONS Coleman sent the follow
ing reply: Telegram received and your ac-
ton approved. You are also authorized TO
take steps deemed necessary and eZpedleut
to still further confirm your diagnosis and
satisfy the most eLactlng that the disease is
typical pleuro pneumonia" AT the confer
euce between members of the live stock
commission and officials of the stock yards
company tins morning, the commission
ers decided to kill all the cattle now in the
Phoenix and Shufeldt distilleEss-OVer p
COO head-and that on post norton eZamIn-
alton all diseased cattle would be Gr6mat6ds
and all healthy cattle sold to the highest
bidder. PresIden. Sherman, of the stock
yards company, replied that millions of dol
lars would be lost to the packing interests
of Chicago If the report Went ont to the
world that beef from the infected distilleries,
whether healthy or not, was being shipped
from Chicago. MIR. Pearson then informed
the gentlemen that the state only had S4S,-
600 with which to compensate the owners of
healthy cattle, and that If none of the
healthy beef was utilized the state would be
at an expense of at least double that amount
He then suggested to the stock yards men
that they buy up all the healthy beef and
help the commissioners out of this dilemma.
He said the commission would of course 6X-
haust the appropriation already in hand. No
decisive answer to the proposition was given.
The commissioners late this afternoon
held a conference with DR.. Salmon, the
United States veterinarian; Dr.. CaseWsIl.
the state veterinarian; and the veterinarians
from Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa. DR.
Salmon said he had benin tsisgraphic com
municatiOn with United States Commits
slOner Coleman, Of the department of agri-
culture, who had authorized a continuance
OF the quarantine at the eXpencs of the ma
LOual government until it should be decided
what disposition to make Of the carcases.
DR.. Salmon said he was authorized to double
the quarantine force now existing, which
would cost the government about SS7 per day.
Excepting 400 head of cattle owned by the
Fairbanks canning cOmpany,O of which Nelson
Morris Is president, the majority of the 1900
animals under quarantine belong to men de-
pending On their two or three COWS for a
living. When the news of the extension of
the quarantine reached them tonight they !
were thoroughly aroused. They say the state |
viii be obliged to destroy all the beef and
as only healthy cattle viii be appraised, the /
quarantine extension is a conspiracy to |
spread the disease as far as possible among !
the Quaranhned cattle before the slaughter
takes place.