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color; kidneys uuiisually pale and somewhat enlar^ied ; feces in colon 

 hardened. Dr. Wisner l)ought: in the month of July 120 head of the 

 McMuUeu cattle on the Botkin rancje ; a number of them died before 

 they were taken home. He took them home in the early part of Sep- 

 tember, but did not bring- them into his inclosed pasture-lield among 

 his other cattle until later ; 29 of them died before they were placed in 

 j the field, and 1 after they were moved in. These cattle were close- 

 herded and kept on poor and dry feed by Mr. Botkin ; after Dr. Wisner 

 took them home he fed them on sorghum, millet, and had good pastur- 

 age. On an open range, north of the pasture-field where the above men 

 tioned cattle were held, grazed 300 which were being (-lose-herded. 

 Mr. William Garrison, on or about the 20th of July, drove his cattle on 

 to Dr. Wisner's open range ; Dr. Wisner drove them back about the 

 1st of October. Several of the Garrison cattle died while they re- 

 mained on this range, and were left to decompose near the pools and 

 stream of water where the Wisner cattle had to drink. During the 

 month Of Uctober Dr. Wisner lost 1 thoroughbred bull and 2 high- 

 grade calves out of the 300 head. In the mouth of February Dr. Wis- 

 ner brought from Waco, Tex., 7 car-loads of Texan cattle, unloaded 

 them at Harper, and then drove them out to his place. These cattle 

 intermixed with his other cattle during the summer. An ox-team, 

 bought from Dr. Wisner's herd of Texan cattle, was employed all 

 summer in hauling hay from Inyo, or near Inyo post oftice, to Medi 

 cine Lodge. They are owned by Mr. Downing. This hauling was over 

 a distance of from 15 to 18 miles ; would probably take three days to 

 make the round trij), and it is the custom of men driving ox-teams to 

 stop any where along the road to feed and to allow their cattle to graze. 

 These cattle passed by Moore's, Stockstill's, Davis', McGuire's, and 

 others living in the colony and along the road to Medicine Lodge. I met 

 the team about 1 mile east of Mr. Davis' house, and received from the 

 driver (an Englishman) the facts as just stated, J. H.Warren, 5 miles 

 northwest of Boyd's, lost 4 out of 40 head of cattle ; they died in the 

 month of September. His cattle strayed away and went on the Boyd 

 range several times during the summer. On our way back to Harper we 

 passed Mr. Ganlner's place, near the Nine Cotton woods Creek. Both 

 the Boyd and the Anderson cattle crossed his range. He lost 1 out 

 of 3 cows. Mr. Kepler, 1 mile west tVom L. M. Pratt, had his cattle 

 staked on and near the Boyd trail all summer ; no loss. 



We next stopped at L. M. Pratt's, 12 miles west of Harper. He lost 

 6 cows and 1 bull. The first one was taken sick on the 4th day of July. 

 All died within the space often days. He made post-mortem examina- 

 tions of several that died; found the spleen enlarged to three times its 

 normal size; gall-l)ladder greatly <listen(led with bile; liver eidarged: 

 bloody water in the peritoneal cavity ; tallow of a satfron-yellow (!olor ; 

 in one the urine bladder was filled with bloody urine, in another it was 

 emi)ty. Many of them passed bloody urine before death. Mr. Boyd 



