Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1892 — TEXAS FEVER IN KANSAS. [ARTICLE]

TEXAS FEVER IN KANSAS.

The Disease Spread by a Drove of Lon| Horns In Lyon County. Emporia (Kan.) special: Texas cattle fever has broken out in a bad forn In this county. Recently about 2,30< bead of Texas cattle came in over th( Missouri, Kansas and Texas Road t< Mr. -Brogan, of Hartford, and wer< driven across the southern part o Lyons County to Mr. Brogan’s range ir Chase County. Along the roa< over which these Texas cattlt were driven the native cattle began to die of Texas fever. Up t< Sunday last fifty head had died ant about that many more were down sick Yesterday and to-day Mr. Burst, of tht State Sanitary Commission, Sherif Evans and S. V. Bitler, Chairman o: the Lyon County Board of Commissioners, made an examination of the infected region, and established a quaran tine along the route traveled by thest cattle. The distance these cattle were driven through the country was- abou twenty-five miles. A quarantine wat established not only along the route but over such sections and pieces o: ground as the Texas fever breederi were allowed to graze. It is belie Vet that the measures taken will be effeottvi and the spread of the fever prevented.