Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-06-17
ANTHRAX. OR CHARLTON.
The Disease That is Killing Horses
In this Vicinity.-AnOther One Dies
Tnis Week.

In this Neutrality-suspicious. One Dies
Tails Week.
1t will be remembered by our
readers that some three months ago
Garibaldi and Devencenzi, the ltal-
ian ranchers on the Carson river
near this place, lost several fine
horses by death very suddenly. AT
the time it was supposed that the
animals had been poisoned. Mr..
Devencenzi, however, had the stom-
ach and other portions of one of the
dead horses sent to the Agricultural
Experiment Station at Reno for ex-
animation, and there it was decided,
after a very close microscopic ex-
animation, that the horses had died
from a disease known as anthrax,
or Charlton. Later on some por-
tons of one of the dead horses were
sent to chemist in San Francisco
for examination, and he reported
finding trace of cyanide of potas-
stun, a most deadly poison, in the
stomach sent to him.
The first of this week Messrs.
Garibaldi and Devencenzi had
another fine horse die, and they
Immediately sent to Reno for Mr..
w. Men Miller, of the Experiment
Station, who came over Wednesday
and took some of the diseased parts
of the animal with him. He still
holds to the theory that the horses
died from the disease instead of be-
ing poisoned.
THE DISEASE.
In the report published on the
diseases of the horse by the Bureau
of Animal Industry at Washington,
the following is said: Anthrax is
a severe and usually fatal conta-
gious disease, Characterized by chills,
great depression and stupor of the
animal, and a profound alteration
of the blood. 1t is caused by the
admission into the animal body of
bacteria, or low order of living or
ganisms, or their spores.
1t affects all animals exposed to
its contagion, especially the sheep,
the OK and the horse. The hog,
rabbit, mice and other animals die
quickly from its effects. Man, the
dog, and other omnivora and car
nivoia may be attacked by it in a
constitutional form as fatal as to
the herbivora, but for yunately, in
some cases, develop from it only
local trouble, followed by recovery.
Anthrax has been a scourge Of the
animals of the civilized world since
the first written history of any Of
their diseases. 1t existed in Asia
Minor at the time of the siege of
Troy; it was plague of the cattle
of Egypt during the time of Moses;
and there were outbreaks of it in
France in the years 996 and 1890
In 1917, at Naples, number Of
human beings died from eating the
flesh of animals which were affect
ed with the disease. In Russia, in
1864, over ten thousand horses and
nearly one thousand persons per-
ished from the disease. For the
last century the disease has been
spreading in America.
The causes of anthrax were for a
long time attributed entirely to eli
matte influence, soil and atmos-
pheric temperature, and they are
still recognized as most important
predisposing factors in the develop |
ment of the disease, for it is usual
ly found, especially when outbreaks
over any number of animals occur,
in low, damp, marshy countries,
during the warm seasons. 1t is
more frequnt in districts where
marshy lands dry out during the
heat of Summer and are then COW
cred with light rains. Decaying
vegetable matter seems most favor
able for nourishing and preserving
the virus.
The direct cause of anthrax is