The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-24
James Hamilton Tells of Texas
Fever in Kansas.
Live Stock Sanitary Comm is
sion Fights Stanley
SHOULD FIGHT FEVER.
Is the Pointed Suggestion Made
by Hamilton.
Prosecution of Persistent ViO-
lator Threatened.

me members or the state live STOCK
sanitary commission who are mad be-
cause Governor Stanley wants to have
the board abolished, are doing all in
against the governors plans and all
sorts of threats are accredited to the
members of this board.
The chairman of the board. B. II.
Campbell, of Wichita, is particularly
vindictive, and has been abusive in his
language concerning the chief executive
in private conversations.
THE governors talk is all foolish
ness" exclaimed Campbell to a crowd
of friends in Topeka, land he will find
that such talk don't 60 The cattle
men of the state want this board, and
they will have it, no matter what the
governor Thinks Campbell said.
Does Stanley think he is bigger than
the legislature?" asked Campbell.
IF so he is mistaken said the
Wichita man.
While condemning the governor be-
cause of his attitude the commission
is considering the bringing of a suit
against man who has been for years,
according to the commissioners, vio-
lating the state quarantine law. The
system which this individual uses is
unique. but it is also dangerous, be-
cause infected cattle get into the state
and endanger native cattle who are
free from the infectious Texas fever.
According to the information in the
PDSSCSS1OAA
ticular violator has a series of three
pastures. The first is in the Usage ma
tfon. The next is divided by the state
line. while the third adjoins this one
ON the north.
1t is claimed that the buyer secures
cattle and places them in the Usage
nation pasture. By and by q break in
the state line fence permits the cattle
to cross into the state of Kansas Then
another break is found in the fence and
they pass in the safe area without fur
Their danger from inspectors or other
officers.
The area of these pastures is such
that the change of the location of the
cattle is unnoticed but there is a sus-
picion in the minds of the cattlemen
that this particular Individual could not
reap such a large measure of profit on
his business were he buying and ship
ping cattle free from Infection
The advantage of having the three
pastures places the chance of being de-
tected almost out of the range of pos
sibilitv- But the fact that the first
step in this series of pastures is taken
in the section of the territory which is
outside of the quarantine regulations,
causes the suspicion among the cattle
men that the proceedings are not en-
tirely regular.
the man who handles these pastures
seems to have no conflicts at any time
with the regulations of the sanitary
commission have caused suspicion to
James Hamilton, an inspector in
Kansas City's stockyards, says of this
matter:
For years this man has worked this
system the cattlemen of Kansas.
Numerous efforts have been made to
have him prosecuted, and the indica-
lions now are that the present commits
sion will soon begin a criminal action
which will put a stop to this method
of bringing infected cattle into the
state.''
Mr. Hamilton has not much sympathy
for the present outbreak of fever in
Chdutauqua county, because, as he
says. its an old story
Away back in the eighties, said
Mr.. Hamilton to a Journal reporter.
This same territory was stricken with
Texas fever. I was then a member of
the board and Harrison Kelly, now
dead, and myself went down there and
quarantined some of the land now in
cluded in the pastures under quaran-
tine. 1t has been so nearly every year
since. The fever has never been eradi-
Gated and as long as the man who has
the endless chain system of pastures
operates in that section of the state,
and no positive precautions are taken
against the disease except when it man
ifests itself, the fever will recur each
year.
Hamilton is Of the opinion that Stan
ley is wrong in his attitude concern
ing the sanitary commission. but he
has advised the members to fight the
fever instead of fighting Stanley.
Hamilton is an ex-state treasurer of
Kansas