Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1915 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearby Cities and Towns.—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. STOCKMEN FAIL IN WHITE. State Veterinarian Would Raise Cattle Quarantine, But Federal Authorities Will Not Agree. White county stockmen and shippers in common with those of all other Indiana counties under quarantine against the hoof an’d mouth disease have been busy the past week exerting every influence to more favorable rulings stock shipments, but so far their labors have been without avail. State Veterinarian A. F. Nelson is anxious and willing to relieve the situation and frankly states in a letter to local stockmen, sent in answer to their petition, that he has made special efforts for White county and Lafayette, owing to the special conditions here—-there not having been a case of the disease within White county—but that he cannot do so owing to orders from the Chief of the Bureau of Animal industry at Washington. Local shippers state that they are put at the mercy of Chicago packers by the present ruling, as stock from a quarantined district cannot be reshipped out of Chicago but must be slaughtered there and that under this arrangement they lose approximately 50 cents per hunderd. A general petition from all over the state is being sent to Indiana sen= ators and congressmen urging them to exprt immediate pressure for the relief of the situation here and it is hoped that the desired results may be accomplished by that means.— Monticello Journal.