The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-09-28
THE DEADLY
ANTHRAX
Has Broken Out Just Across
the Line
NEAR SWIFT CURRENT
The Outlook Is Dangerous For Northern
Montana Stockmen Quarantine
Is Impossible.

News from the vicinity of the Cana
dian line of the most startling descrin.
tion for those interested in stock
raising has been received in the city
regarding the outbreak of the deadly
| anthrax in its most viruent form in
that section. and the probability Of its
spreading to the ranges of Nor hern
Montana. The River Press of yester-
day contains much on the matter,
which makes the outlook a startling
one. The disease Of anthrax is one
| Of the most deadly and infectious dis
eases known to livestock and the place
where 1t is reported as raging is IN
and around Swift Current, division
town on the Canadian Pacific about IS
| miles east Of Maple creek. All along
| the railroad in that nefghborhood are
many sheep camps belonging to an
English company which succeeded to
that organization Is years ago BY Sir
John Listen Kaye. who bought the 76
cattle on Powder river IN 1886 The
disease made its appearance in one
camp short time ago, and most of
the sheep thtre are dead, their bodies
| 'ulIitN w lIit inspectors VINO nave eS-
tabished quarantine 80 miles square
| around the town Of Swift Current. The
disease has spread to the horses in
| that section, bat the as cattle which
range on The head of Swl1, Current
creek at the east end of the Cypress
hills. have not caught it. They are
% miles fron the infection and will
probably escape. In one band of 300
| hpInnp n tn, hn
diei but y head
| There is no clue as to whence the
disease originated but emigranss
stock is suspected Anthrax is very
hard to cope with after it gets foot
hold, as it attacks cattle, horses or
sheep indiscriminately The germs
lie dormant for a year or two finally
breaking out Win an epidemic with
renewed virulenc@. 1t is communica-
bic to man, often resulting fatally, and
two Of the employees of the 76 outnt
have Contracted the disease but both
| will recover Some time since
| quarantine against South Dakota was
| established by Montana for this cause,
bat if thc contagion becomes widely
prevalent IN ASsinniboa such meas
| urcs viii do no good, as Northern Mon
ana ca tie frequency drift as far as
| he Sou h Saskatchewan ana might
| lrinS it back with them.
| The situation in the north is, how
| CveF, in strong hands and there is a
reasonable hope that the disease will
be kept under control.
| Helena, Sept. 26-State Veteninar.
ian NJ. .. Knowles has been no flied
| that anthrax has broken out in AS
sinniboia and Alberta. Canada, and
| crave fears are entertained that the
| disease may be communicated to the
cattle in the northern counties. DR..
knpWles said today that he would
| do all he could to prevent the intro
,lucJion of the disease into this state.
| The worst feature of this matter"
| said DR.. Knowles. 'is that a quaran-
tine to prevent the cattle of the in
| tested region from coming into this
| state would be almost an impossible
ity. Unlike the boundary between
| Montana and the Dakotas. this coun-
try is unfenced. and the only way a
quarantine could be maintained would
| be to have riders stationed along the
line at points not more than a few
hundred yards apart This, it is read
lily apparent. would be expensive. and
it would be folly for the state to un-
dcrtake it.
IS there are no fences which sepa-
rate Montana ranges from those OF
Canada the cattle are swayed back
and forward by every storm, some
fierce storms driving them as far as
1870 miles south of their accustomed
roaming places. AS me infected re-
gons are but few miles beyond the
boundary line. you can see the great
danger to which northern Montana
stockmen are exposed