The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-05
THE CHEROKEE STRIP CATTLE.
To tie Editor of the Eagle.

To tie Editor of the Eagle.
Noticing en- article in your issue OF
Nov. 1, signed Enquirer of Facts" in
hich the writer speaks of cattle being
upon the Cherokee strip and wrecking a
train. etc.. permit me to say that the
one who wrote the article does not know
where the Cherokee strip is. People
leaving Arkansas City going south imag-
inc they are going through the strip untA
they strike the Oklahoma line, while.it is
fact that they only run through thirty
miles of it, the balance belonging to the
Ponca and other reservations. If any
cattle wrecked train it was a bunch OF
stray cattle going south that was not
gathered from the awful scattering tie
government gave them all summer.
Two-thirds of all the cattle that grazed
there were ruined by the handling
they received OF the part of the govern
ment. The owners of same were finan-
cially wrecked. The cattle forced ON the
market in deplorabie condition thereby
bringing nothing, running the market
daily and cattle feeders throughout Kan
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sold at low and ruinous prices caused by
the reports sent out aH over the country
by these border town reports of the
amount OF cattle upon the strip, when It
is a fact that the Cherokee strip never
contained over 20. 600 cattle at no time
during this year. All Kansas border
people owning land upon the line Of the
strip enjoyed the pleasure of allowing
a.. - Il - Ia t.~.k a 1avS
fruit during the past summer and when
ever they heard OF the troops coming there
little punches of Cattle were hastily
driven back and then they were ready to
inform on any herd they knew were be-
ing held or driven through the strip.
Oklahoma people enjoy the same priv
lege. The men that report cattle on the
Cherokee strip eating such grass as
never grew any place else are the very
ones that set il on fire at every oppor-
tunity. l would think they we're as
liable to prosecution as COW men are.
jerry Simpson, the Medicine Lodge cur
VINO is the Identical one that-has used
his tongue to lie at every instance in re-
garn to cattle being on the Cherokee
strip and that got up and told the few
that would listen to him about what he
has done for the people Of Kansas in get
ting the strip cleared of cattle hen it Is a
fact he has almost ruined every farmer
in the state that had herd or owned a
beef COW by circulating the report of the
thousands of cattle that grazed the great
Cherokee Strip, making the only and
great BIZ four believe that there was a
million cattle yet TO come 10 market,
thereby depreciat;ng the market daily
until it was too late and all cattle had
been run Off. Now the cattle market
has advanced over a dollar a hundred
since they have learned the cattle are
not and never were on the strip and it Is
now clear and no more to 20, the market
has advanced. This man Simpson is as
grand rascal as ever stood among men
"A Kansas man that would
vote for Jerry Simpson has
neither respect for his family
or himself, when they do they vote for
man that has neither honor, self respect,
or regard for anything or anyone but
himself-he is as ignornant an individual
as one would meet IN many days travel
and among men that are men he Is
like snake in the grass. He is without
PRINCIPAL only of the worst. l speak be-
cause L know-a woman Is to him like
mad dog is to any of ns-he ia a woman
hater of the worst type. His last get up
was fear Of assassination ana SPOKE OF
what he had done about getting the cattle
off the strip and feared some COW boy
would kill him. Cow boys never
got SO low or cowardiy as to
ever harm as cowardly cur AS Jerry
Simpson. The amount of money taken
out OF Kansas by this man Simpson
would improve every farm in the
Seventh district He is q scoundrel of
the worst type and how he ever got
among smart men is a mystery to any
man. Trace him back from where lie
came from, and if he amt mongrel
or the readers Of this amt human. Tire
writer of the Enquirer of Facts" is like
him, too cowar,fiy to sign his name. All
cattle in a country that Is burnt will lay
along railroad track owing to the fact
of wheat growing upon sides of track,
waist from cars, etc. Yours truly.
TACK MULHALL.