Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-21
OF INTEREST TO STOCKHEN.
NATIVE CATTLE DYING OF TEXAS
FEVER AT OAKwoOD, no.
Quarantine VIII he Established
Against Cattle From MOntgo-u-
cry, Labette and Cherokee
Counties, kas.-Notes.

Hannibal. 80, Nov. 20.-(Special) Texas
fever has broken out among the cattle at
lakewood and number have already died.
while a greater number are now afflicted
with the disease. About September 10 Z.
lot Of Texas cattle were ungoaded at the
stock yards and soon afterwards the yards
were sold and abandoned. Since then the
native cattle have been permitted to Craze
IN the yards and thus travelling over the
trail Of the Texas cattle contracted the
disease. Oliver Duck. OF ScheIl City, OWES
the yards and those VINO have lost cattle
Will sue him for damages. as they claim
It Is through his negligence in not keeping
the yards Inclosed that the native cattls
| contracted the disease. II viii Involve
lawsuits and the cattle inspector may be-
come involved.
Independence. Kas.. Nov 20.-(Speclal)
j. w Johnson, chairman Of the state live
STOCK sanitary commission, and J. b. Vim
cent, secretary OF the commission. are in
the city looking after some special cattle
quarantines in this vicinity. BY law tho
| quarantine against Texas cattle coming in
10 this state terminates December / but
| the state live stock commission can terrni-
| nate the quarantine sooner IL II thlnkf
| best. This year IL decided to end It NO.
| ''AiADEi A"- 1t5lEiNdy II removed a Special
| quarantine near Cauey. but another on,
near COffeyville It left in force. II, how
ever, - considering much more important
matter and one which will affect the cattle
! shipping Interests Of this section to a great
extent.
II Is intended to establish a GUARANTEES
against montgomery, Lat5efte and Chero-
kee counties, which shall remain in force
| all Of next season. II this Il done. no cat
tie can b. shipped out of or through these
counties without being first examined and
| the shipper given a clear bill OF health,
which would put the shipper to a consider
able expense. This would be in addition 10
| the state quarantine. These three counties
are the three largest cattle shipping cofru.-
ties In the state. and ElRin. the largest cat
tie shipping point in Kansas. Is in Mont
gOrnery county. II is claimed that hereto
fore bunches Of cattle have been smugRle,E
iE over the state line at night. and after
being held in these counties for n few
days. have been shipped to Kansas City,
and it is alleged that Texas fever has been
carried into other parts in this way.
There were quite number o. good cat
tie in yesterday and few really choice
droves. Thomas Barber. OF Morris county,
Kas., was here with sixty-five well FIN
ished grade steers OF his own feeding.
They were smooth and beefy. They ay-
eraged 1,35l pounds and were sold by ths
ChlcdRo Live STOCK Commission Company
at A.55. the highest price OF the day.
Schwarzschild & SuIzberger got them for
the export trade.
The quality Of the hogs on the market
yesterday was the best for some time.
There were a good many heavies in and
some very nice ones. Albert Fioerseh. ST.
George, Kas., was In with eighty-two
choice Poland Chinas that averaged Fs
pounds and were sold by Hopkins. Kelley
& Co. at $3.25, the highest price paid for
heavy hogs for some time.