Omaha daily bee., 1914-11-12
DISEASE IN IOWA
KEEPS QUARANTINE
New Case of Foot and Mouth Trouble
Located in Jones County
Bar is Still Up.
NEBRASKA is STILL FREE
Railroads Are Keeping Up Their
Fight to Prevent the Appear
ance of the TroHbIe in
This State.

Discovery of another case Of the foot
and mouth disease in Jones county, Iowa,
has caused the Washington authorities
to indicate that request for The raising
OF the quarantine on Iowa will not be
met favorably at this time.
TT Is policy of watchful waiting
now" according to e. Buckingham, gen.
erai manager of the Union Stock yards.
The local yards had intended to formally
request the raising of the quarantine on
western Iowa and to that end ordered +.
A. Stryker, secretary of the Live Stopk
exchange to proceed from Boston, fto
Washington to present the dsnasnd. - Be-
fore making formal request Stryher
was directed TO feel out the situation. A
private conversation with A. d. Melvin,
chief OF the Bureau OF Animal Industry,
gave the yards to understand that re-
quest for discharge of western Iowa
from quarantine at this time would not
be favorably received. In consequence It
will not be asked.
Must Trace Disease.
Before such request would be con-
sidered every state will have to be can
vassed by the Bureau of Animal Industry
and all disease centers located. All live
stock that has passed through the Chicago
yards since October must be traced to
its final destination and carefully ex-
amined for traces of infection.
Infected cattle at Glendive, Mont, yes
terday were discovered and 1S head
killed and 800 other cattle were placed
under stringent observation by the au-
thortties.
Railroads stiII Active,
Local officials of the roads operating
into and out of Omaha are proceeding
rapidly with the disinfecting of stock
cars and expect to complete their labors
by the last of the week. Up to this time
none of them has any advice indicating
that the foot and mouth disease is
spreading into Omaha territory. On the
other hand. they are advised that it is
being held In the localities where 1t
broke out.
Assistant General Western Agent Du-
val of the Milwaukee has returned from
Michigan. one of the quarantined states,
and asserts that while the farmers and
stock raisers there are considerably
alarmed. cooperating with state and
government officials. they are holding
the disease in check. The disease is not
general throughout the state, but has ap-
peared in number or locallties
Cattle Are stopped.
Burlington officials find themselves
confronting problem that they are un-
able to solve. From Washington and
Oregon. on the Montana line, they re-
ceived trainload of sheep consigned to
the Omaha market. When the .consign-
ment started from points Of origin the
west was free from the foot and mouth
disease. but when the sheep arrived at
Billings Nebraska and Illinois had quar-
antined against Montana and the states
farther west had followed suit. This
fact made It impossible 10 ship Nthe
sheep on to market and made It equally
impossible to return them TO the points
from whence they came. As result
there is nothing to do but hold the sheep
and in the meantime the expenses for
feeding and care at the Billings yards
are running up rapidly.