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The first place at which we stopped, after leaving- Mediciue Lodge, 

 on October 30, was the Hiilitt, or open A range, on Camp Creek, Har- 

 per County. Hulitt Brothers brought 250 head of good high-grade cat- 

 tle on the range from Iowa a year ago, which have remained on the 

 same range up to this time. Mr. Miller, of Washington County, Iowa, 

 unloaded at Harper, on the 9th of April, 220 head of Iowa cattle, kept 

 them on the range north of the stock-yards and in the yards at night 

 for three successive days, then drove them out on the range occupied 

 by Hulitt Brothers, and placed them under their care. Mr. Ament, of 

 Anthony, Harper County, shipped from Coffeyville, Mo., and unloaded 

 at Harper 300 head of cattle ; they arrived at Harper on the 28th of 

 June. He then drove them southeast into the eastern part of the 

 county on a school section, and herded them there until the 10th of 

 July. They were then taken west and placed on the Hulitt Brothers 

 range, arriving on the 12th. One of these cattle died on the same day 

 that it arrived upon the range, and others of the Ament cattle died 

 daily thereafter, until the number of deaths reached 47. i^^one of the 

 Miller nor of the Hulitt Brothers cattle died. 



The last death among the Ament cattle occurred on the 1st of Octo- 

 ber. This was a black bull, bought in Kansas for $540. Forty head 

 which had been sick recovered. The sick were treated by giving one 

 quart of raw linseed oil at a dose, and by using the same by injection 

 into the rectum. Some recovered after passing bloody urine. The 

 Boyd herd of cattle ranged over this ground in the early part of the 

 summer, and 3 head of them were with the Hulitt Brothers cattle later 

 in the season, 1 remaining six weeks. 



The Miller cattle, which were unloaded at Harper on the 9th of April, 

 were with 20 head of the crippled Boyd cattle in the yards and on the 

 range north of the yards, and ate corn, cane, and millet-hay from the 

 same piles. The description of the post mortem appearances in the 

 Ament cattle, as given me by Mr. Hulitt, convinces me that they died 

 with the southern cattle fever. 



We next stopped at Attica post-oftice, Harper County. There I saw 

 Mr. G. W. Markham, who stated : 



One of my two-jear-old steers got among the Boyd herd as tbey were passing along 

 north of my range on "the 10th of April. I followed him and brought him hack home 

 the same evening. Two days thereafter I sold him to H. D. Drumiu, of Kiowa, who 

 has since told me that th'' steer died. 



Mr. Drumm had 2 head of the Boyd cattle among his herd from the 

 latter part of April until the 1st of July, but did not lose any of his cattle 

 except the one bouglit from Mr. Markham. At Attica I was told that a 

 yoke of oxen luul been staked on the Boyd trail, south of Gardner's; 

 they were used for breaking sod, and remained there all summer. N"o 

 sickness followed the exposure, in the evening I met Mr. J. C. Fox, of 

 Seymour, Iowa, at the Glenn House, Harper. He told me that he 

 brought four carloads of cattle into Harper on the 12th of April. He 



