Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1883 — A Large Cat Ranch in Texas. [ARTICLE]

A Large Cat Ranch in Texas.

Cleboume Chroaiole; Several parties in the oity gratifed their curiosity this week in a walk half a mile south of town, to visit perhaps the largest eat ranch in Texas, or, for that matter, in America. The oats, we presume, are the property of CoL B. J. Ohambers. Ip the snmmer of 1881 the wheat on the farm was threshed and a considerable quantity of stiaw was left in rail pens. A few oats at once took possession of the pens. They havemultiplied,until now at least 500 oats, black, white, yellow, gray,spotted—in fact, every color known to the feline tribe, to say nothing of kittens—can be seen with but little trouble by visiting the peas. The Secretary of the Interior has transmitted to Congress a request for an appropriation of $1,348,000 to supply with oxen and oows 2,680 families of Sioux Indians who have gone to farming at the various agencies, in accordance with the stipulations of the Sioux treaty of 1868,