230 CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF DOMESTICATED ANIMALS. 



At Medicine Lodge I saw Mr. Staudiford, of the cattle firm of Standi- 

 ford, Younians & Co. Their range is located 6 miles southeast of Med- 

 icine Lodge, between the Medicine River and Cedar Hills. He made 

 the following statement: 



Aljont 150 bead of cattle, comiug from near Wichita, Sedgwick County, were 

 driven along south on the divide between Aiitelope Flat and Elm Creek, and were 

 brought to and camped on the center of our range one night. As near as I remem- 

 ber the date it was about the middle of June. I went out to see the cattle; they 

 looked very suspicious. Mr. Shaustrom, who was with the cattle, told me that the 

 cattle came from Arkansas; that he bought them in February, and shipped them into 

 Wichita about the 1st of April; that they were kept on rough feed, and afterward 

 herded on the Niuuescah Kiver until they were started South. Several well-bred 

 bulls, which were bought at Wichita, were among the herd, but a large proportion o^ 

 the herd looked bad. P"'rom my place they went southwest 100 miles to the Cimarron 

 River, and were placed with some other cattle which were in a small pool formed by 

 Blackstone, Tucker, Mills, Conner, and Shaustrom. 



About one week after Shaustrom's cattle left my place Mr. Tucker (of the above, 

 mentioned pool) came to my place and told me that the Arkansas cattle which Shau- 

 strom took d'lwu were dying oft' rapidly; also, that some of the other cattle in the 

 pool were dying. On the range where these cattle camped one night we have 700 

 head ; they have been close ranged in the spring and summer, but several of them 

 drifted away; afterward 3 were gathered on the Boyd range at the time of county 

 round-up. Two weeks after the Shaustrom cattle were on our rauge one of ours 

 died; soon another one; the second one was gathered on the Boyd range. Texan 

 cows which had been double wintered, and had also been exj^osed to the Boyd cattle, 

 remained well. One bull died that I kept up and stall-fed all winter, which I know 

 had no chance for exposure to the Boyd cattle, nor did he stray away from our herd. 

 He died in the first week of October. Another bull which had been kept exactly like' 

 the first one died on the 25th. One cow that I kept in town until the last of June 

 and theu took her to the herd, where she was kept within sight every day, also died. 

 Altogether we lost ten of the very choicest cattle in the herd. Last winter we lost 

 10 per cent, of our domestic cattle, and 6 per cent of the Texan cattle. 



I met Mr. A. L. Duncan, of Medicine Lodge, who told me that three 

 different herds of cattle passed tlirough their place in the latter part of 

 May and early June. One of the outfits told him they were from Eed 

 River, Cliickasaw Xation, and said they were going into Colorado. The 

 second outfit were going to Montana, and the third into Utah. The three 

 herds numbered about 500 head of cattle, and looked like Indian or 

 Northern Texans. From Medicine Lodge they passed in a westerlj^ 

 direction toward Fort Dodge. 



While at Medicine Lodge I met Mr. P. B. Cole. He lives 2 miles 

 west from Dr. Wisner and north of T. B. Stockstill- He owned 250 

 head of cattle, and held 150 belonging to other parties. These cattle 

 were nearly all gathered in the county round-up on Antelope Flat, 

 between the 1st and 15th of July, where they had been with several 

 hundred other cattle. In this round-up 25 or 30 stray cattle were 

 found for which no owners appeared. The Anderson herd of cattle 

 grazed on the Cole range for several days in the latter part of June. 

 Mr. Cole lost out of his herd of 400 25 head — 2 in July and 23 in Sep- 

 tcnd)er. William Dark, north of Cole's, lost 16 out of 35(> head of cat- 

 tle daring the month of September. 



