The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-02-15

costed me the other day and MADE
me pay him money to have my horses
teeth filed. Accepting your we'll
known standards | write to ask you
to right this wrong.
JOHN FLEMING.
lin answer to Mr.. FIeming's letterthe
editor of The Ranch detailed one of
his staff to thoroughly investigate this
case. This report, written in spirit
of fairness to Mr.. Bradford and to all
parties concerned, is herewith pub
lished. We hope that it thoroughly
and completely answers Mr.. Flemng's
inquiry.-The Edtor.l
The state veterinarian has been adj
vised by the attorney general that the
reasonable time" given resident vet
erinarians to register under the vet
erinarians' license act of 1907 is prac-
tically elapsed The state board OF
examiners should publish a notice set
ting a date for the lapsing Of such
time for registration for veterinarians
entitled to license without eXamina-
ton.
Those members of the profession
who have complied with the law are
very diligent in bringing delinquents
and irregulars to book. Among the in
fuential practitioners is DR.. F. A. Met,
who has been an instructor at Berke-
ley. Calf, a regimental veterinarian
in the Philippines, and is one of the
refugees from the San Francisco dis
aster. DR.. Nief was informed by one
of his clients that man was ire
uuenting the public market at Pike
Place and requiring the market men to
have their horses teeth attended to
under threat of arrest. He was also
informed that the man did the work
at the charge of 81, the regular fee
being $3.50. Also that client OF Dr.
Hilton was notified to have work done
Tor his horses, although they had been
attended to but a few days previous,
but on making an appointment to meet
the man and "have his money ready"
he had failed to appear.
DR.. Nief took up the matter and
found the man at the market place
plying his vocation. He gave the
name of Bradford and showed his
badge, stating that he was employed
by Police officer Vaupell of the King
County Humane Society. DR.. Nief in
formed him that Officers of the law
should be followers of the law, and not
breakers of it," and that he must de-
sist under penalty OF arrest.
John Vaupell, officer of the Humane
Society states that the work OF the
society has largely to do with human
ity, especially children, but that there
is much to be done for animals, espe-
cially accidents, injuries and the physl-
cal condition of horses for work and
in the numerous camps of the city and
county; that he and his assistant, A.
NJ Kent, are continually busy, and
when Mr.. Bradford applied for work
in that line he gave him trial, and
that his work had been satisfactory
until he was stopped by DR.. Nief, when
the matter was referred to an attor-
ney. Mr.. Vaupell and his assistants
are appointed and confirmed by the
Judge of the Superior Court.
John w. Bradford informed The
Ranch that he had lived many years
in Iowa, where he took up veterinary
work, especially dentistry. He then
went to Colorado, where he lived five
years near the South Fork of the Re-
publican River about 100 miles east
erly from Denver. While there he did
considerable work for ]. P. Atkinson,
a railroad contractor. He was in Okla
homa two years. then returned to Des
Moines, Iowa, where he remained sew
en- years. From there he went to
South Dakota. a few miles from its
south line, and got a permit from an
Indian agent to look after the horses
and cattle on the range There he
again ran across j. p. Atkinson, who
was grading forty miles of track for
the Chicago, Milwaukee &c st. Paul