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THE CATTLE BLOCKADEArUintr Fr»m the Knforrement «»f the Kan-sa* On«rantine Kefjubitfon*—The Probable Solution of the Iifticulty by National| Interference*.! Washington^ D C., July 9.—Addl-tional protects are constantly being received at the Interior Department from Texas cattle men against the Kansas authorities, who prevent Texas cattle from heiug driven through what is known as the Cherokee strip i.u the Indian Territory into Kansas. Secretary Lamar has repeatedly telegraphed that the cattlemen have a perfect right to follow established trails provided cattle are free from infectious diseases It is on this point that the differences of opinion ariseThe law - f .May -9th, 1 884, prohibitsthe driving from one State into an ther of cattle having Texas fever. The Kansas authorities assume that Texas cattle have the fever, and therefore have declared a quarantine of ninety days against ill cattle from that State. Asthe cattle are driven north it is said trie disease disappears, and it is to reach the Northern country that the Texas herders desire to pass through the Cherokee strip, but this strip is under the jurisdiction of the United States Court at Wichita, Ivilt;„ and the officials are ppholdmg tne quarantine declared’ by the State against Texas cattle. In this podicament the Texas herders appealed to Secretary Lamar and Commissioner Atkins, and both declare that the cattle should go through the strip in question on the established trails, but as Up* officials win were preventing tne cattle men from following this course wen* not under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior, orCommissioner of Indian Affairs, no attention was paid to the directions of either, and Secretary Lamar has nowasked the Attoruev-Gcneral to instruct%the United States officials to allow the cattle to go through the strip. As orders will now come from the proper source,It is probable that the difficulty will be finally settled.
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Abilene Taylor County News
Abilene, Texas, US
Fri, Jul 17, 1885
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