Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1886 — A NOTED CATTLE KING. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A NOTED CATTLE KING.

Ex-Gov. John L. Routt, of Colorado. Hon. John L. Routt, of Colorado, who presided over the National Convention of Cattle Men at. St. Louis, in November, is one of the most prominent of the Western cattle barons. He has long been interested

in cattle and cattle breeding, and has ever been prominent among the members of the inion, outside of the political field in which he moves and may be said to have sis being. His political record is that of me of the growing Western statesmen, md his abilities in fulfilling, the positions hrust upon him iu that station of life are taid to be unsurpassed.