210 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



indiiin Territory, west 12 miles to Medicine River, east 2 miles to the 

 limits of the rauge. On the lOtli day of July several of these cattle 

 were noticed to be sick, and in a week 8 were dead. Mr. Boyd, at the 

 same time that he held this herd of cattle, also had 140 head of Arkan- 

 sas cattle which he brou<^ht in last year, and were wintered by hioi ; 

 he had 20 head of natives besides, which were also wintered by him. 

 At the time that the recently imported Arkansas cattle began to die, 

 two of the natives also became sick and died, both the latter being 

 yearlhig heifers. All of these three different lots of cattle were herded 

 on the same range and drank out of the same creek until the latter 

 part of July, losing S of the suspected cattle, two of the natives, and 

 none of the wintered Arkansas cattle. 



The 20 head <»f crippled cattle which Mr. Boyd left at Harper were 

 driven into 1. J. C/ami)bell's pasture field, located at the western edge of 

 town, on or about the 18th day of Ai)ril; there they intermingled with 

 1.50 head of native cattle belonging to Mr. Campbell. They remained 

 in Campbell's pasture for a week, then they were driven out over the 

 trail of the previous lot of cattle, as far as L. M. Pratt's, where they re- 

 mained over night grazing with some of Pratt's cattle. From Pratt's 

 they went in a direct course to Boyd's range. 



On the 2Gth day of July, ]Mr. Jesse Boyd was arrested and brought 

 to trial for bringing into the State of Kansas, contrary to law, wild and 

 uudomesticated cattle, which had spread a disease among the natives 

 known as Texas fever. Four hundred and thirty head of the Boyd cat- 

 tle were seized and quarantined by the sheriff of Barbour County, were 

 ])laced into Mr. Cook's pasture field, 2 miles south of Mr. Boyd's house, 

 and there were kept under surveillance by the sheriff's assistants. The 

 witnesses on ])art of the State were: William Garrison, Mr. Hufacker, 

 David Clough, W. W. Cook, Albert Cook, U. B. Moore, George M. Gard- 

 ner, J. H. Warren, A. B. Rannals, W. E. Mattox, all men holding cat- 

 tle close to Mr. Boyd. Mr. Boyd was fined by the court in the sum of 

 $300, aud sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for a term of one 

 month. lie took an appeal to the higher court. His second trial has 

 not yet taken place. 



On the 15th of October, I went to see Mr. Jackson, who has charge 

 of the quarantined cattle. He reported six deaths among them since 

 the 29th of July. On the 18th' 1 was again at Mr. Boyd's place. I then 

 tested the tem])erature of 4 head of his wintered cattle which registered 

 as follows, 101.8°, 100°, 101.4°, and 100.0° Fahrenheit. I proceeded to 

 the (juarantined herd and tested the temperature of 20 head among them. 

 We drove them into a branding pen. They registered as iollows: One 

 four-year old cow, 102.1° ; two-year old heifer, 103.7°; three-year old 

 steer, 101.0°; two-year old steer, 103.4°; yearling heifer, 102,0°; three- 

 year old heifer, 103.7°; pulse, (50; two-year old heifer, 101.8°; two year 

 old heifer, 102.9°; yearling heifer, 102.2°; four-year old cow with calf 

 at her side, 102.0° ; three-A ear-old heifer (scouring), 102.4° ; three-year 



