Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1885 — THE CATTLEMEN. [ARTICLE]

THE CATTLEMEN.

Conference of Those Interested in Herds in the Cherokee Strip. [Kansas City special.) A meeting was held at the Brunswick this afternoon of cattlemen interested in the herds in the Cherokee strip and No Man’s Land. Fully a dozen of the largest cattleowners were in attendance. These are the cattlemen against whom suits aggregating nearly $509,000 have been brought by the Texas cattlemen who were stopped while driving their herds north through Indian Territory about three months ag'dThe attorneys of the Indian Territory men were present, and at the expiration of the conference the expressions of all those interested was to the effect that they had little to fear from any suits and would make a vigorous defense. The statement was also made that while about four hundred and fifty thousand head of_ cattle still remained on the Cherokee §trip and No Man’s Land, most all the-cattle have been removed from the Arapahoe and Cheyenne reservation, in accordance with the President's order.