The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-16
MULHALL'S REPLY TOM'COY
Ranchman Takes Exceptions to the
Kansas Cattle Inspectors Statement.

ST. Louis, Feb. 16.-Zack Mulhall. ranch
man and live stock agent; . gives no o cred
Kan, in the form of an interview with
Live stock INSPECTOR Mccoy, that that hold old;
os Of heaS BECAUSE IN Of the sewy
p faf sen out thg Pg on IN
and published yesterday, Mccoy is quoted
no shelter in Colorado, Indian Territory
and the northwest ranges, the losses will
1 per to McoS 10 the
papers, MulhaH said at the Planters yes
Mccoy is an inspector of cattle. APP
pointed by the governor Of Kansas, with
knows nothing about the cattle ranges
and less about the holders of cattle paper.
cattle tie paper S Will be ioserS eis allow me- to
call his attention to the fact that there
has failed to meet his paper when called
upon, and nine out of ten times the paper
ally the funds are in the bank many days
before the paper is due. Banks or in
loaned to Texas Indian Territory cat
True, we have had hard winter up
to date, but every hour in the day the big
RANCHES have men out on eorn-fed horses,
mo better paper is in existence than
that of the cattiemen. Bankers can look
no Pa her paper aa when ne other
class of business men could do the same,
.McCoys statement is unfounded and
might have tendency to injure good men.
Kansas and the fugitive is now in Mexico,
but this man was an adventurer and never
sured he never came from Texas.
"A great deal of snow. has fallen in the
for the cattle, as the ranches have plenty
Of shelter and the grass grew high and
is no danger of loss of cattle unless the
stockmen allow them to drift against the
south fences and stand and freeze. I can
assure you the cattlemen in the Panhan-
die are hustlers and will lose few, if any,
cattle. As for the Indian Territory, no
cattle are loose on the ranges. All are
on feed, and the abundance of feed raised
last season gives each and every cattle
owner an opportunity to buy feed cheap
80 far as Colorado is concerned it has
been cold, but the weather has been dry,
Wif f no ots rain Of or siee oe Gold dry Weather
is false. Next spring will see the best
faJfe market ha az had for years
tlemen will be in the best of shape. Cat
tie are bound boz to bring good prices The
be. the grandest boom we ever had, and
prices win be correspondingly good. You
big cattle commission men are losing no
sleep eyer the predictions made by such
unqualified prophets as Mccoy.
Banks and moneyed men can feel as
as and the Indian Terrto 9 cI IS T.
The records show that you can put Texas
ana 1ndlan Ierr1tOry cattlemen against
the world when it comes to meeting their
paper.
Look at the statements of such reliable
men as Winfield Scott of Fort Worth
out of 1000 head in the Indian Territory
only - dead-and J. K. Sanderson of Big
Springs and Midland, Tex.-no losses. And
. there are many other such reports. The
men named are reliable al we have
in the state of Texas.
The dry, cold weather we have had has
Killed all the germs of disease throughout
the state of Texas, and there viii be no
losses from fever in summer and fall. as
heretofore. Taken altogether, this cold
weather has been a good thing. Plenty of
feed and shelter for the cattle and lots of
money for the cattle dealers will make
unusually Prospectus times for stockmen.''