The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-05-14
LIVE STOCK
BOARD MEETS
Rules Set Forth Are Similar
to Last Year.
NOBLE COUNTY EXCEPTED
Some Parts of Woodward
Have Special Quarantine.
NOBLE COUNTY EXCEPTED

Guthrie, o. T., May 13.-The Oklahoma
live stock sanitary commission was in
session today, w. E. Bolton, president;
Thomas Morris, secretary, and Peter
week was concluded and the annual proc
lamation was issued today
The rules set forth in the proclamation
are the same as last year with the excep-
ton that cattle will not be driven into
Noble county east of the Santa Fe rail-
road this year as last year and that some
special quarantine has been established
in parts of Woodward county on account
of mango Another change is the permis-
sion TO ship or drive cattle into Oklahoma
from south of the quarantine line on be-
ing properly dipped.
The commission have determined to en-
force the quarantine regulations and the
members of the commission say that if all
owners of live stock would assist the COM
mission there would never be any disease
to amount to anything among the cattle
of the territory. The regulations are
sometimes an inconvenience TO owners
Of stock but it will probably be better to
suffer the inconvenience than to suffer
loss.
j. j. Houston of Edmond appeared be-
fore the board today to make a request
Mr. Houston reckons that he knows some
thing about cattle. He said his father
came to Kansas in 1858 and was a member
of the legislature when Col N. M. Muir
o1o Of ha father
IL now living on the same town lot that he
bought in Garnett in 1858 and Mr.. Hous-
ton wanted to know if a man with that
kind of a record didn't have a right to
know something about cattle.
He said the other day his wife told him
that they had calf that was large
enough to put out to grass and neighbor
who lived right close by had told her TO
put the calf in his pasture. He said that
when he told his wife that the pasture
was on the other side of the Santa Fe
and if he took that calf over there Billy
Bolton and Tom Morris would have him
arrested. she nearly tainted and said:
''The idea of little tiny calf like that
hurting anything"
Mr.. Houston said that the law was
against the driving of cattle over or
across certain imaginary lines and he
wanted the board to tell him if he put
that calf in his coat pocket and took it
over to that pasture whether he would
be criminal in the eyes of the laws made |
and provided by the live stock sanitary
commission Peter Becker told him that |
the PAW also said that cattle could not be
shipped across the line and that the way
he had proposed to take the calf across
would be method of shipment or trans
portation and he would be liable to arrest
and punishment under the law. Then Mr.. |
Houston collapsed.
Then Secretary Morris delivered a lee
ture on tick fever. He said the United 4
States government had spent thousands /
of dollars and it had established beyond /
peradventure that Texas or tick fever /
was caused by the ticks. He said where /
there We're no ticks there would be no I
Texas fever. The Texas men do not be
lieve this because they have ticks and do /
not have the fever The reason of that is /
that the Texas cattle are immune He |
said there had never been a case of Texas /
fever where there were no ticks but there
were ticks in places where there was no
fever He said the identical same ticks
are found in the north but they do not
cause tick fever
Mr. Morris said that If ticks were taken
from the north and put on Texas cattle
and allowed to raise a crop Of young ones I
and the young ones got onto northern cat
tie they would cause the tick fever. That
had been demonstrated time and again.
Two years ago cattle raiser in western
Texas north of the quarantine line started
10 drive his cattle. two hundred head. into
Comanche county, Oklahoma One of the
Oklahoma inspectors told him To keep his
cattle out Of there because they had some
ticks in that county. The man said he
was not afraid OF the ticks and if the in
spectors would let him alone he would
risk his cattle. Mr. Morris said he went
ahead and lost over half of them with the
tick fever. He said the way to get clear
or the ticks was TO burn the pastures in
the fall or keep cattle from them one
season.