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regards it as most important that steps be taken to stamp out 
the disease while it is in its incipiency. The Indian agent joins 
the Governor and the veterinarian in urging immediate action 
and asks that provision be made to recompense the Indians for 
affected horses killed. The Commissioner of Agriculture rec- 
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ommends that as the Bureau of Animal Industry has no jurisdic¬ 
tion within the reservation, the Interior Department take such 
steps as are necessary to cause the destruction of the affected 
horses in order to prevent the spread of the disease, and to pro¬ 
tect the lives of the people as well as the animals of the adjoining 
States and territories.— Nat. Live Stock Journal . 
Death from Glanders in Illinois. —A young man 24 years 
old recently died in Lincoln, Ill., with chronic farcy. It seems 
that he was inoculated last summer in being injured by a horse 
had which glanders, and which he was fumigating with tobacco 
smoke. 
Death of a Woman from Glanders. —The following ac¬ 
count of a horrible death from glanders was sent from Elgin, 
Ills., last week: “There died at the county poor farm, a few days 
ago, Minnie Sorenson, who had been a public charge for about three 
years. Before that time her husband was employed by a farmer 
of this township. He was prostrated with a virulent disease 
which baffled the skill of pl^sicians. Finally it developed that 
he had cared for a horse which was sick with the glanders. The 
man had been inoculated with the virus. After great suffering 
he died. His wife, meanwhile, had contracted the fatal affliction 
from her husband. It appeared in a somewhat milder form. 
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Great abscesses formed, and there were the same symptoms about 
the nasal passages and throat that are seen in a horse so diseased. 
No pains were spared to effect a cure, and for a time it was 
thought the virulent poison was driven from her system. It was 
but dormant, however, and soon appeared with all its horrible 
features. None could be secured to attend the sick woman, save 
self-sacrificing sisters of charity from Chicago. Her agony ex 
tended over a period of nearly three years, and death was finally 
a welcome release.” 
