Barton County democrat., 1915-02-12
CATTLE DISEASE WORSE
Authorities Would Postpone Pub.
lie Sales.

fected. State and federal inSpec-
tors say that part of a herd of
Sc cattle belonging to Louis White
a farmer about three miles south
of Mulvane, are infected. Mr..
White discovered that one of his
animals was sick, notified Taylor
Riddle, state live stock sanitary
commissioner at Mulvane. Mr..
Riddle sent DR.. Van VorheeS of
the states veterinary staff who
made an examination and report
ed that the case was suspicious.
DR.. Marion lines, federal veteri-
marian stationed at Wichita, was
notified and he sent DR.. Daniel
Devine, of the federal staff who
confirmed the diagnosis, pro-
nOuncing the animal as being af-
flicted with hOOf and mouth di-
SeaSe. The entire herd was at
once quarantined. A special
quarantine district two and one
half miles square was established
around Mr.. Whites farm. The
herd will be appraised and as soon
as the regular trenches can be
excavated the herd will be shot
and buried in quick lime.
Mr.. White purchased a load of
cattle at the Wichita Union Stock
Yards January q, and shipped
them to Mulvane where they were
unloaded and placed in the San
ia Fe yards. This was several
days after n. w. Wheeler ship
ped his HOIStein stock from Wis
conSin. These cattle were also
placed in the Santa Fe yards. The
authorities think that Whites
cattle were either infected from
the Santa Fe yards or perhaps
persons who visited The farm of
n. w. Wheeler, about six miles
from the White farm, carried the
infection in their clothing.
Taylor Riddle yesterday ap-
point Geo. T. Donaldson, of
GreenSburg, as a deputy state in
SpectOr and sent him to Belvidere
to inspect three car loads of cat
tie belonging to Lyon & Steele.
These cattle passed through the
Mulvane stock yards and are now
being held by the sheriff of Kiowa
county.
Inspectors have quarantined
100 head of cattle belonging to
Osborn & Rawlings, near Valley
Center; 129 head of cattle belong
ing to Ben Tjaden, in Kechi town.
ship; 200 head of cattle belonging
to William Hoofer and J. Argen-
bright, two miles east of the
Wichita Union Stock Yards, and
several cattle near the stock yards
and belonging to Page House. All
these cattle were in the stock
yards recently, when Taylor Rid
die decided moi to allow any more
cattle to move out of the yards.
The cattle are being isolated in
order that their identity may not
be lost.
DIR. Hobbs, assistant state vel
erlnarian from Manhattan, was
added to the states staff and was
sent to Winfield to relieve DR..
SchOenleber, state veterinarian,
who comes to Wichita to assist
Taylor Riddle.
H. L. Mcdonald, a federal ex-
pert on diSinfecting, has arrived
from Ohio to assist DR.. Marion
lines.
DIR. lines expects other federal
inspectors to arrive from the east
today, and as soon as they all gel
here ne will organize his field
forces and proceed to diSinfect the
farms of N. w. Wheeler, J. C. Du-
laney and Louis White.
Taylor Riddle announced thai
the quarantine on poultry ship.
mentS excepting the vicinity of the
quarantined farms had been rails.
ed.
A proclamation was issued from
the office of Taylor Riddle in To-
peka asking that all public sales
in the state be discontinued un.
til after the hOOf and mouth di-
SeaSe has been Samped out.
-Four hogs and a herd of Is
cattle infected with the foot and
mouth disease were slaughtered
late yesterday on he farm of J. C.
Dulaney, near Winfield. This
stock was appraised at about S3,-
600. N. w. Wheeler's herd, near
Mulvane, which was shot and
buried, was appraised at about
S2,5OO, making a total value of