The record-union., 1897-02-21
AWFUL CRUELHIES TO HORSES
Ilhuman Practices That Are Violations Of
the Law.
How Some RancherS and Their EN-
ployes Treat Their Dumb
Animals

officer Dan Miller of the Humane So
ciety yesterday went down to Sutter
Island, near Cortland, and arrested a
man named Williams Rounds for cruel
ty TO animals He brought his prisoner
to the city and placed him in the Coun-
ty Jail
Rounds admitted that he drove a
horse ito death and says he will plead
guilty so he can get back to his work
as soon as possible But as Monday will
be a legal holiday, Sutter Island will
have to get along without Mr.. Rounds
until Tuesday.
For some time past letters from va
rious persons down the river have been
received by the Humane Society telling
of the awful cruelties practiced by men
both employers and employes-on
some of the ranches in that locality.
But as the society has had no funds
with which to work, and had plenty of
cases in the city to book after, it has
been obliged to neglect these far
cases.
In this instance, however, it was de-
cided to have Mr.. Miller go
down and arrest the offender, as
the case was an aggravated one,
in the hope that heartless men
down that way might be hade to un-
derstand that they must treat their
dumb br7ltes with something like 'nu-
manity whether they wish ITO or not.
In one letter recently sent To the So
ciety the writer after enumerating a
score or more of cases of brutal treat
11ol
his observation, says:
rs this thing to be continued down
this way? For Gods sake, no! Please
take the matter in hand and appoint
me or someone else to look after these
things. 1 can prove by plenty of re-
sponsible witnesses everything l have
written you
Information was received THAT one
man on a ranch near Court
land is said to have recently
ruined six good horses. Three of them
were worked to death. After being
worked all day on a tule plow ana
roller. one horse was httched TO cart
and driven fourteen miles over heaVy
sandy roads, under the whip.
When within a couple of miles OF
ibosne the poor horse could go no fur
ther and fell over into a ditch. Here
he would have been left to die had not
some of the neighbors gone ITO his res
cue and taken him from the drtch. he
was covered with a blanket, but IT
was too late, and the poor, abused AMI
NAL died a half hour afteTWard
This is the case for which Rounds was
arrested.
Officer Miller found on one ranch yes
tarday a score of horses that had peeh
worked until they could work no more
and were left to die. Their owner want
al him to kill them, but Miller refused
to do So
''These horses" he said to the pro-
prietor of the place, should not De
killed. They should be treated by a
veterinary, and 1 notify you now tnat
If is YOUR duty to care for your horses
and if they fall sick to have them at
tended to. If you don't do it OF your
own accord our society will see that
you are compelled to do it.
1t is reported that in that neighbor-
hood horses are being worked on tule
plows with their shoulders all raw ana
bleeding. They are kept at it, suffer-
ing excruciating pain, until they can
90 no more, and then turned out in the
cold winter storms to die.
THE MUDDOX CASE.
Some days ago officer Miller charged
a man named George MuddoX with pru-
tai treatment of his horses in working
them without shoes. They became
lame, but still they were worked daily.
The horses We're placed in Schad's sta
BILE. Muddox was discharged, and on
Friday he sent to Mr Miller the fol-
lowing notice:
ITO D. Miller: I hereby de-
mand of you that you forth
with deliver to me possession of
the following described horses. (Here
follows a description of the team.) In
case of your failure to deliver the pos
session to me of said property and all
thereof, | shall hold you responsible for
all damages suffered, or to be suffered,
by me, by reason of the detention OF
said personal property from me.
GEORGE MUDDOX."
In response thereto Mr. Miller served
Muddox with the following:
ITO George Muddox: The property
mentioned and described in your notice
to me dated February 10, 1897, was
taken into possession by me when you
were arrested for cruelty to animals.
The same will be delivered to you when
the costs and expenses of keeping the
same are paid.
Section I of An Act for the more
effectual prevention of cruelty TO ami
mails approved March 20. 1874, pro-
vides Whenever any such person shall
be taken into custody therefor by any
officer, such officer may take charge of
such vehicle and its contents, together
with the horse or team attached to
such vehicle and deposit the same in
some safe place of custody, and any
expenses which may be incurred for
taking care of and keeping the same
shall be a lien thereon, to be paid be-
fore the same can be lawfully recov-
cred
said property was taken and is held
in pursuance of such provision and will
be delivered upon payment of such ex-
penses. DAN. MILLER.
Clarken & Ross, attorneys for HUI