The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-25
ESTABLISHING HEADQUARTERS HERE

Judge j. C. Lambdin of Caldwell is in
the city. Mr.. Lambdin is cattle inspec-
tor connected with the national bureau OF
animal industry aud his particular bust
ness in the city at present is to make pre-
limnary arrangements to move his head
quarters here from Caldwell in few days
He will take the place of Captain Oshell,
who has been transferred to Springfield,
| Mo.
Heretofore Mr.. Lambdin's headquarters
have been at Caldwell and his territory eX
| tended along the border line of counties
between Arkansas City and Englewood.
He will still have charge of that territory
but Colonel Albert Dean of Kansas City
who has charge of the department of the
west, thought it best for him to make his
headquarters in Wichita for the reason
that it is the recognized central location of
the southwest and for the further reason
that he can better keep his eye on stock in
transit by being located at this point.
The duties of Judge Lambdin will
be to see that every car
that passes through his district to the
eastern market, which contains stock from
beyond the quarantine line, is placarded:
lading also contain the words Southern
Cattle" The quarantine line is the state
line, and all cattle from beyond that are
held, in the contemplation of the rules of
the bureau of animal industry, to be
Southern Cattle" and, therefore, very
liable to be afflicted with what is known
as Texas foyer. No cattle from beyond the
line can be shipped into the state except
for the purpose of conveying them to a
suitable market, with the distinct under
standing that they are to be slaughtered
! at once upon arrival
The object of placarding the cars con-
tanning them and making a notation on
the way bill is of two fold nature. The
first is to show that they have been ad-
mitted to the market for Immediate
/ slaughter, and the next is to show at feed
| ing places the character of the stock. If,
| when cattle of this kind are fed in any
! stock yards between the shipping point
and point of destination, the proprletorS
or care takers of any such lot fail to dis
enfect the pens in which they are fed, he
! is liable to a fine all the way from $500 to
| 81, 600. An effort is being made to re-estab-
lish the quarantine about sixty miles
| further south in the Panhandle country
| but it is entirely probable that the effort
will not be successful. The rules of the
| bureau are suspended from Dec. to Feb.
| Is, at which time fever does not prevail
and cattle can be shipped at the will of the
! owner without any intermeddEng by in
| spectors.
! One good feature of the law is that it
will enable the southern tier of the coun-
ties of the state to collect taxes from cat
| tlemen who live in these counties which
has been practically impossible heretofore.
/ No cattle not in the state on the first day
! of March in each year is liable to taxation
under the law. The custom has been,
! there. for owners of cattle in border coun-
! ties to drive their stock over into the terri
| tory few days before March l and drive
! them back few days after and thus evade
| the Kansas laws relative to taxation.
! Under the inspection laws if
cattle are driven oyer the line
on March l, they cannot be
brought back under n severe penalty
till the following December, except for
shipment to market for immediate
slaughter Thus the inspection law spoiIs
the little game of stockmen who raise cat
! tie in border counties without contrlbut-
| ing anything to tbs state. Small farmers
have been kicking from time immemora-
| BILE on this practice and their objections
! and kicks were well based. They claimed
| that so long as they were compelled TO pay
/ taxes on their cattle the big stock ralserS
should pay also and the little one always
protested that they could not raise cattle
/ in composition with men who never had TO
1 nav taxes on account of their shrswd
evasion of the law.
Judge Lambda will probably have his
! Office in the Government building.