The Globe-republican., 1895-09-12
r. d. C0burn, Secretary kansas Stats
Board Of Agriculture.

There are reports of more or less
''hog cholera" in various parts of the
State and it is not improbable that
many well-meaning citizens through
ignorance of the law and the ease With
which the disease is spread are unwit-
tingly aiding in the destruction OF
thousand of swine which, with strong
prices, her present shortage and ire
mendous corn crop Kansas at this time
can lily afford to lose. 1t is conceded
that the contagion from cholera hogs
and their dead carcasses is carried
from place to place by dogs, wolves.
crows, buzzards, running water and
| various other agencies, including the
clothing of those who come in contact
with them, and this fact emphasizes
the necessity of promptly isolating all.
ing animals and deeply burying OF
burning the dead, even though there
was no law making it mandatory.
Section 1, chapter 157, session laws
of 1886, makes it the duty of every
person who owns or controls any hog
dead of any disease to burn or bury il
within "a hours after death and fail
! ure to do so is misdemeanOr, subject
to fine not exceeding 500. A like
penalty applies to selling or barterine
any hog which has died of disease
; The same punishment is provided toe
for persons depositing any dead hog
ip any river, stream, creek or ravine
Section 1, of chapter 15S is ignored
by or unknown to many, but is i'm
portant. 1t says:
Section Amy person being the
owner of any domestic animal or ami
mails, or having the same in charge.
who shall turn out or suffer any such
domestic animal or animals having
any contagious or infectious disease
knowing the same to be diseased, tt
run at large upon any uninclOsed land
common or highway, or shall let the
same approach within one huDdred
feet of any highway, or shall sell OF
dispose of any domestic animal or an
finals, knowing the same to be SO dis
eased, without fully disclosing the
fact to the purchaser, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be
punished by fine in any amount moi
exceeding five hundred dollars; or i'm
prisonment in the county Jail not more
than six months.
The practices of throwing dead ami
mails into ravines, creeks and rivers
from which freshets may carry then
long distances to spread poison and
pollution, is especially common anc
cannot be too severely deprecated.
Burial at once not less than three feet
deep is the safest and most practical bic
way to dispose of them.
Willard S. Allen, son of A. F. Aller
of Vinland, was killed Thursday by
falling off haystack.
A town in Osborne county has beer
named after Joe Bristow and its lead
ing citizen is Mr.. Fifer, who flies al
about and keeps the people stirred up
West Branch creek, strem that has
had its own way back as far as the
memory of the oldest inhabitant runs
has been causing the Rock Island troub
lie in Waubaunsee county all summer
and last week it washed out every.
thing in thevalley.
The $50, 900 damage suit which Der
nard Murray of Colorado brought
against ex-Congressman w. A. Harri:
of Linwood for alternating the affec
tions of the formers wife has beer
settled by the payment to Mr.. Murray
of 81 900 and the assumption by Harri:
of all attorney fees. MIR. Harris was
very attentive to Mrs. Murray and
when hiswife died a year ago, he mar
ried Mrs. Murray, the latter having
secured divorce in the meantime.
Some weeks ago the agent of the
Santa Fe at Barnard telegraphed te
Avery Turner, the division superinten.
dent, that it was raining hard and al
ready a half dozen bridges had been
washed out. He could not stop the
rain, but he thought he must tell his
grief to somebody, and a great load
was lifted off his mind when dispatch
came from Mr.. Turner saying: "Let
it rain. Every drop means an ear OF
corn and the company will be well
able to restore the bridges"
The school book fight in Topeka is
between the George w. Crane company
and the American Book Publishing
company of Chicago.
A colored boy at Lawrence has been
making considerable money out of a
good-natured butcher. The meat VEN
der has chicken pen in the rear of
his business house and the black lad
has been selling the butcher his OWL
chickens, repeating the operation
many times. Finally the butcher dis
covered the game and had young Sam
DO arrested.
The monthly weather report of
Chancellor Snow of the Kansas uni
versity for August issued September
End says the month has been remark
able for the large amount of rain that