Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-09-14
W|LLF|CHT T0.PREs
serve Fine ! HERD
Cattle Ordered Killed on Farm On
Which Local Man is Su-
perintendent.

Those who have been reading wit
interest the dispatches concernin
the late condemnation of the fin
herd on the Lake Bluff Farm just ou
of Chicago, owned by Mrs. Scot
Durand, will recall that Herman
Wulkau, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Angus
Wulkau of this city, was one of tn
superintendents of the herd of cat
tie which occupies the finest hom
for blooded stock in America. Th,
Freeman-Tribune, at the time Mr.
Wu1kau visited this city about {
year ago, contained an article upor
this farm. Sundays Chicago Trib
une contained the following in re-
gard to Mrs. Durand's efforts to fore,
stall proceedings to kill her herd:
Breeders of blooded live stock
throughout Illinois are going to
fight the slaughtering campaign of
the state and federal authorities in
connection with the hoof and mouth
disease quarantine.
The start of the fight was made
during the day by Mrs. Scott Dur
and of Lake Bluff, who obtained an
injunction preventing the federal Of
ficers from killing her thoroughbred
herd of siXty-one head.
Last fall the owners of blooded cat
tie sued out injunctions and saved
a lot of fancy stock from being kill
ed. E.
Owners in other parts of the state
believe they can stop the killing by
the same methods now.
THE FIGHT AT MIDNIGHT.
Mrs. Durand started to work at
midnight last night to save her herd.
She communicated with Robert lies,
her attorney. Mr.. lies then went to
Lake Bluff, and with Mr.. and Mrs.
Ourand travelled in an automobile to
where a temporary in
was granted at o'clock in
he morning.
When the slaughterers appeared
with automatic revolvers and uni
orms, the sheriff of Lake county
lsked them if they would read a
document which he drew from his
inside pocket. They read it, put
heir revolvers in their pockets, and
TODD around the farm all day with
ut killing single COW.
Mrs Durand's herd is one of the
nest in the United States. She owns
everal imported bulls which cost |
5000 each. For the entire herd of
ixty-one, all thoroughbreds, the
tate offered to pay her only $12,-
80. The market price of the cat
e is estimated at more than $780,
90.
DOWNSTATE OWNERS ACT.
Mrs. Durands action was quickly
ashed to several other owners of
looded stock down state, and they
Immediately prepared to obtain in
motions as soon as the inspectors
ldicated that they were going to
aughter their cattle.
The breeders and owners contend
lat slau ghtering of their cattle will
't stop the spread of the disease.
it will, they also assert, then
gid quarantine will do just as well.
My cattle are alive and well and
agging their tails" Mrs. Durand
i'd. "They're not going to be kill !
if I can help it, and I'm going to
sht for their lives to the limit. It's
ighty encouraging to have the gov =
nment urge everybody to buy
oroughbred cattle, and then when
farm is well stocked, the govern |
ent comes along and orders all the .
tile killed."
A committee representing the
eeders of several counties in Hi y
lis is working on a plan to curb :.
e spread of the disease without :
ling the blooded cattle.
Sustains Slight Stroke.