The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-12
IT IS RIGID.
On Live Stock In This state . sharp Eye
IL Kept Out.

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On Live Stock In This state . sharp Eye
IL Kept Out.
State Veterinarian DR.. NJ. e. Knowles,
who was in the city a couple OF days
last week, reports that the stockmen
are making a complaint of what they
term a legalized highway robbery that
In being practiced by an official OF the
state OF Utah. The stockmen COM
plain. says DIR. Knowles. that the re-
Gently appointed state veterinary sur
geon Of Utah, Il. Darlington Young. Is
stationed at Reno, Nevada, and is coll
Letting a toll on every head OF stock
that is shipped over the Central Pa
cifc from California, and which has
to pass through Utah. A tax Of W.
and a half cents a head for sheep. 1--WE
cents for cattle and twenty-five cents
FOR horses. is charged for every head OF
stock that comes from California by
that route, and the stockmen have to
pay II before their stock will be per-
mitted to pass through Utah.
The reuse for collecting the toll. II
Is said, is based on the fact that scab
is prevalent among California sheep.
and Texas. or ~splenetic. fever among
the o stock. and the tax Is imposed
ostensfbly to prevent these contagious
from being communicated to Utah
stock.
Stockmen. however. are unable to see
just how the collection OF a tax for
stock passing through the state Is going
to prevent the spread of disease. or
how disease is going to be communi-
Gated to stock in Utah from stock
which merely passes through the state.
and do not hesitate to pronounce the
action Of the Utah oflcial as little short
of highway robbery. Several ship
ments OF California stock to Montana
have been made of late, and in each in
stance the shipper has had to pay the
toll. hence the kick that has gone up.
One instance in particular Is mentioned
in which the collection Of the toll Is
regarded as especially unjust. DR.. II.
Il. Holloway Of Deer Lodge shipped In
from California several carloads OF
bucks for his ranch. He had the stock
very carefully inspected, and had a GER
tifcate that there was no disease among
the sheep. but it made no difference.
When the stock reached Reno the Utah
official collected the tax just the same,
and would not allow the bucks to go
forward until the toll was paid.
The Montana stockmen are not the
only ones who are complaining of the
OF the Utah veterinarian. Stock
of other states who have shipped
from California through Utah. and who
outnumber those of Montana.
Ho nave a Nv tAptiichNt' MANI sht
same complaint. says DIR. Knowles. and
II is said that IL a suit now pending in
United States court, in which John
Murphy OF Helena is testing the VAL
idity of a similar collection OF toll 10y
a Dakota official, results unfavorably
for the tax collector, suits Will be filed
the Utah official to recover
the taxes he has collected.
DIR. Knowles states that a rigid in
spection of stock in Montana is. being
made wherever there is any danger Of
disease. and that at present the state
Is entirely free from infectious dis
eases among stock.
DIR. Knowles was called to Butte by
McClelland. owner of the
Fort Augustus that died at the
a few days ago, in the hope of
the horses life, but he was alb
sent I'm a distant part of the state when
he received the summons. and before
could get here the horse was dead.
Bargains in shoes Is h you are
for. so attend the big shoe sale.
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