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ments made by the man I had seen in the morning. He also added 

 that he purchased and brought some cattle from the San Felipe ranch, 

 which adjoins the Warner ranch. A little later, ex-Governor Downey, 

 owner of the ranch, bought four hundred Chihuahua steers, shipped 

 from Mexico to Colton by a man called Strausenbach; that said cattle 

 were delivered by Strausenbach on the Warner ranch, and a short time 

 after their arrival the natives began to die. Mr. Linton ascribed the 

 cause of these deaths to the arrival of the San Felipe cattle. I found, 

 however, that the other half of the San Felipe cattle, purchased by 

 Joseph Marks, merchant at Julian, and removed by him to San Bernar- 

 dino, remained perfectly healthy and as yet have caused no disease 

 among the other cattle at that point. On the contrary, some of the 

 San Felipe cattle on the Warner ranch died soon after the advent 

 of the four hundred steers from Chihuahua, of which none died. Mr. 

 Linton described the symptoms of the disease in the following manner: 

 They hung their heads, had a staring coat, and eyes somewhat sunken 

 and staring, and voided in most cases bloody urine. The fattest and 

 best were first to die; others lingered for days, and some eventually 

 recovered. On opening some of the dead cattle, he found the spleens 

 enormously enlarged, the liver of a brick-red color, and the gall-bladder 

 full of dark-green bile. There was absence of any dark stain to the flesh, 

 which was, if anything, brighter than usual. The Indians and half- 

 breeds devoured the flesh of most of those that died without as yet hav- 

 ing experienced any bad effects, which could scarcely have been possible 

 had it been anthrax. Mr. Linton owned to having lost one hundred 

 head, but I am inclined to think that he underestimated his loss, as 

 his nephew informed Mr. Bishop, his neighbor, and one of his men, who 

 informed me, that they had sold one hundred and fifty hides, and that 

 others were missing which they did not find, placing the loss, in his 

 opinion, between one hundred and eighty and one hundred and ninety 

 head. 



" From Julian I went to Governor Waterman's ranch, at Cuyamaca, 

 and on arrival was informed that a valuable Hereford bull had died 

 that morning after a short illness, and had been buried but a few hours. 

 I had it disinterred and made an autopsy, with the following results: 

 Spleen enormously enlarged, being three times its natural size; capsule 

 hypertrophied, and covered with white spots. On section, the splenic 

 pulp was disintegrated, but still held its consistency, unless pressure was 

 used; then it oozed out. The liver was considerably enlarged and of a 

 brick-red color, its surface being covered with yellow streaks. The gall- 

 bladder was enormously distended and full of dark -green, inspissated 

 gall. The kidneys were somewhat fatty, with more or less parenchy- 

 matous degeneration, and in the pelvis a yellow, viscid fluid was present, 

 somewhat adherent to the mucosa. The mucous membrane of the blad- 

 der I did not see, as it was too much covered up, but the lungs were 

 somewhat congested. The flesh was of a bright yellowish red, and the 

 blood was of a bright color and coagulable. Coverglass specimens from 

 the spleen and liver, stained with methyl-violet blue and with Johnis- 

 fuchsin, revealed nothing, and I gave as my diagnosis, Southern fever. 



"At this ranch I interviewed the foreman, Mr. B. W. Carey, who said: 

 'We have lost, in all, twenty-one head. We shipped cattle from the 

 Penasquitos, on the coast, to San Bernardino by car, in April, 1888. 

 These cattle remained there three months. In July, 1888, we re-shipped 



