The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 2, 1898, Page 23

FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2 “EL REY” HANDLES CATTLE LIKE A VETERAN COWBOY. He’s a Trained Steer and Helps the Vaqueros at Their Work in the Corrals. HE greatest “cowboy steer” in the world has his home on the San Marcos ranch near Santa Barbara. By some people he mply called a. t d steer; byst ofl s a “cavresto.” But as he doesithe hardest of cowboy work and.a good deal a nature the cowboys cannot/do, it 11d seem as if the Texas name' “COW- steer” is the most appropriate. On every well-regulated cattle;ragnch In the West there is at least ohe &teer ed to help the cowboys in their But there is none as proficient in business as the one on the San Marcos The ¢ s have named this fellow “El- Rey” (the and he is cer- tainly deserving of the title. He holdg his title and his throne by the power of brain and muscle. The many manifestations of extraordinary intellect exhibited by dogs and trained horses are surprising enough in them- selve: but they dwindle into com- monplace when one considers the pe- culiar aceomplishments of the cavresto “El' Rey.” The flerceness of wild cattie is simply appalling. The credit for the conquering and edycation of “El R is due entirely to the pluck and patience of a vaquero named Louis Ruiz. And when his la- bors. wWe finished a wonderful work had been accomplished. From the wild- est and most viclous of them all “El ad hecome as docile and obed- ch. wh: fent as a dog. As we all know, the ordinary cavresto is trained, when the riata has captured he bellowing, ‘plunging, mad als, to range himself al iptive and permit the secure him firmly to the h by means Kes e der out the h enn the ¢ strong an s they 1d never be able to drive them into the open cou But with the best of the cav at deal of prodding, pushing aring §s con- to make them per- oy all Is different. At the word of command s off through the thickets, driving from their hid- ing .places the stubborn cattle. He waits for no riata. Locking his own big,” strong rooked horns into the nt brother he hauls rns o nd pulls until victory is his. s e his fight Wild < his rage fter a terrific strug- gle victo: Imost in reach, the with ipping from the 's" horns and > chaparral wild st 's lib- v never r returns t in company ng -brought resol 1 his in captive and r 3 nd holds = is identifi or with the captiv 1 the k at- Rey" is = most remarkable thing with which 1 R holding down the h mal while the knife to the » sight of blood does him in the le: > refractory cat Y| ) ol 1TAE MALE-MAGNIIED 10TIMES 2THE EMALE- ~ 10+ * ZYOUNG TICK JUST MATCED o 40 | %p0RTION OF UDDERSMOWING & TICKS ‘EZ:‘&E‘.AG-’"F:ED 5TIMED. | brought in by a cavresto he is imme- diately thrown to the ground and his hind legs securely tied together by the strong riata. His head is held down by the trained ste executioner ope iron is from 60 to 70 per cent pure. The metallic mass spreads in all directions for a radfus of three or four miles. The entire deposit is sufficient to supply all the iron required in the world for 1000 years. ——————— The Underground Rattway in Lonaon was the most expensive to construct, not only in ‘this country, but in the world. Some parts of it cost as much as 1000 and smooth surface, which contains a good deal of mica schist and sparkles in the sun as if it had been sprinkled with diamond dust. The boy took the stone heme in his pocket, for it was very small in com- parison with its present size, and could have been easily slipved into a quart cup. He played with it in the yard for several years, and it lay upon the mantelpiece in the house during the winter months, but as he grew older he lost interest in the plaything and it rolled under a lilac bush beside the front door. There it remained for fif- teen years or®so. When young Ham- mond returned from San Francisco he recognized it, but was much astonished to find that it had increased in size and welght to a most remarkable degree. When he was a child, as I said, he carried the stone in his pocket. When he recovered it. as a man, it was larger than the crown of a ~‘ovepipe hat and weighed at least twelve or (fifteen pounds more than when he saw it last. H. H. Hammond became so much in- terested in the phenomenon that he re- moved it from the ground beneath the lilac bush and placed it upen the gran- ite step at the right of the front door, .234 TRYING TO PROTECT Ty EUROPE'S CROWNED HEADS Dogs, Bandits, Soidiers and Detectives Trainedhvto. Watch Over the Safety of Royalty. T is not because, but despite, the precautionary measures taken for their safety that monarchs usually live to a ripe old age,” said a promi- nent diplomat in the course of a discussion of Empress Elizabeth’s assassination. “The international es- pionage kept up by all governments to discover and tnwart radical plots 7% V., Y pare. Now, if there is a Judas among them, he has ample time to betray his master. “Fifteen hundred persons are lying awake nights in Berlin and its neigh-~ borhood to protect the Kaiser’s life and health, and to see that his path runs smoothly. These 1500 are servants of all degrees; some are styled ‘Excel- lency,’ and oth rs are mere bootblacks of fortune. Of the regular and spe- (o 7, ™ finished and “El Rey” is ordered to ‘let go.” -r, and it is then the The ordinary cavresto does not like the operation of hojding another steer to be killed. He would willingly get away if he could, but he is usually too tightly bound and must play hi the part to end. But to compel h his terrible ord into t forth, viciou of his kind is not buy h iron mountain 640 feet ' ntle as-a the home at with s s into life again. King ness B and gold can- is an In the city of Durango, M < and the high, ern Railway was also very great, p: as it does, through the very hilly of Devon and Cornwall. HE most interesting thing I saw [Euticom GURIOUS GROWING STONE down in Maine was a growing T stone that belongs to H. H. Ham- of Smiths Cove, near Winter and lies upon a granite post that lead to his front ith the exception sthat it flattened upon the side which rested up the ground. Thirty years ago or more William Hammiond, a brother of H. H., who now lives in San Francisco picked up this remarkable stone upon the edge of the cove. He was then a boy. 10 years old, and was attracted by its regular shape EL REY AND A COW PONY HOLDING DOWN A BEEF TO BE BRANDED. Having brought in his captive “El Rey” resolutely stands by and holds him with his horns till he is identified, branded, marked, killed, or whatever the cattlemen elect to do with the captive. All the while the captive is held steadily and stoutly till the cattlemen have where the sun rests upon it the greater part of the day. Shortly after it was placed there, about six years ago, Mr. Hammond got the meat peddler to put it on the scales, and its weight was forty-one pounds, which was marked with-a pen- cil upon the stone itself with the date. Three ars later it had grown to fifty pounds. On the 12th day of May last the stone was weighed again by the same scales and tipped the beam at sixt ve pounds. Mr. Hammond then made a serles of measurements and will preserve them for future compart- son. The circumference of the stone by tape measure, the longest wa is 3 feet 2 inches, while at the widest part the narrow way it is 2 feet 4 inches. Mr. Hammond is a respectable farm- er, is a deacon in the Baptist Church, and was born in the house where he lves. — . ———— A church in Seidlitz, in Bohemia, con- tains a chandelier madé of human bones. makes confidants of many whom it would be policy to steer clear from. Bismarck used to say: ‘Decent people don’t write for me. The same char- acterization applies to the police helps the cabinets are bound to employ. An- archism, as I have studied it in Europe, is a disease that, like smallpox in the eighteenth century, enjoys great jumps. Now it attacks a son of toll, next a university professor turns cranky, a half - educated pamphlet - nourished good-for-nothing follows suit. “All these people have their connec- tion; they influence many others. I aw an anarchist who did not s the gift of gab to a remarkable degree. Now, consider that the police force at the disposal of the European governments is 100,000 head strong. Most of the men employved have their confidants, too. When a King intends to take a drive in his capital the police of the district through which he passes get two or more hours’ notice to pre- MANNER IN WHICH EL REY clal police, the secret service men in the Foreign Office, the garrison and the army in general, I will not speak here. Yet despite this host of watchdogs, the Kaiser feels secure nowhere but in Potsdam, where the castle is guarded by 500 picked men in barracks con- nected with the palace, and where the royal park is patrolled by numerous sentinels, who have orders to shoot at any suspicious person who cannot, or DOTTED FIGURE, HEAVY FIGURE, ONE WEEK AFTER ® & ‘ornia herds is the most serious blow to cattle interests in this & State since I have been in the practice. The appearance of the @ iisease is due to the importation of infected stock from other sec- ® Hons of the country. This State, unlike most of the other @ States, has no State veterinarian, and therefore absolutely no pro= tectlon is afforded against the importation of dangerous diseases. ® California should by all meansestablish a veterinary department ® of the State Board of Health, h a representative in each county & of the State. . @ Absolute and instant quarantine from infested districts so far re- & ported, together with prompt isolation of all suspected cases, 18 the & only means of preventing the propagation of this plague. It will be @ extremely hard work even then, asgghe disease may even now be & found in districts as yet not reported and where the disease has not & been identified. The action of The Call Is to be heagtily commended & for thus giving aid to stockmen in recognizing this disease. £ In the post-mortem examinations that I have made of cattle & which have died from Texas fever 1 have found a general set of post-mortem lesions, whic namely, serum. sticky substance. the two diseases. 0000900999000 0060009d0 o N my opinion the outbreak of Texas fever in the Southern Cali- h are as follows reddish-brown color, perfectly clear and transparent; greatly enlarged and friable, the spleen also greatly augmented in volume, containing a very dark grumous liquid, and the intestines, both small and large, present a large number of ulcerated The general appearance of the muscular tissues is that of an animal that has been bled to death, it being pale and the bleod vessels be- ing partially emptied of the life fluid. stead of containing blood, as generally found in post-mortems of other diseases, are filled chiefly with the liquid portion of that fluid, In anthrax proper, for Texas fever is a species of the same, find in the vessels instead of a yellow This is one of the most prominent differences in The stockmen of Marin County are sparing no pains to prevent the -introduction of the disease into their herds and are most care- ful in the selection of the stock used in replenishing their herds. A meeting should be called in the near future of scientific men for the purpose of discussing the diseas Veterinary Surgeon for Marin County. 000000000000000000000000_’0009090000 SN o N | SKETCH SHOWING RAPIDITY WITH WHICH THE DISEASE MOVES NORMAL CONDITION OF THE COW, INFECTION. The water is of a dark the liver is patches. The large blood vessels, in we colored fluld a dark, tarry, e and its mode of prevention. F. A. NIEF, D. V. 8., R O R RO RO RO OO R CRCRCRORORORURCR 00000 Reas: Co00000000000 00000000000 S along the Mojave River. gion, which have been noticed for some resulting from the drought. about Soda and Rock Springs, appeared before the Board of Supervisors and asked for an investigation. Wise was sent out and found hundreds of head dying, their being appalling. The infected cattle have bee: ranch, near Capistrano, San Diego County, ow In stock known as immunes the disease a tick, about the size of the two first joints of the for lack of feed, prominent stockman, owning herds district. fever is caused by 000OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THE TICK THAT SPREADS THE DEADLY TEXAS FEVER. ons why it threatens to prove such a scourge in this State and the precautions that are being taken to check it. AN BERNARDINO, Sept. 29.—After a thorough investigation County Veterinary Surgeon Wise declares that Texas fever is raging among cattle The numerous deaths among stock in that re- time, ‘were supposed to have been At last J. J. Cuddeback, a condition n driven up from Foster's ing to the lack of feed in that is not detected. The finger, burrowing into the animal's flesh. HE discovery of Texas or South- ern fever in the herds of South- ern California in a malignant form is a serious menace to the cattle industry of the State. Un- less prompt sanitary precautions are adopted and an effort made to jsolate the diseased herds, much dam- age will be done, declare the author- ities. This disease is most commonly com- municated by cattle recently removed ifrom an infected locality. Without doubt the disease among the California cattle can be directly traced to the importation of cattle from some of the Southern States. The disease has this striking pecu- liarity among animals; animals which disseminate the infection are apparent- ly in good health, while those which sicken and die from it do not as a rule infect others. The sickness is accompanied by high fever, greatly enlarged spleen, destruc- tjon of the red blood corpuscles, rapid loss of strength and by fatal results in a large proportion of cases. It is commonly found in all of the Southern States, but the earliest ac- counts of it date back to 1814, where it was found in South Carolina. The driving of cattle from the infected dis- tricis in large numbers through Texas probably gave it the name of Texas fever. In regard to the manner in which the disease is communicated: Experience shows that this does not occur by ani- mals coming in contact with others. It is an indirect infection. The cattle from an infected district first infect the pas- tures, roads, pens, cars, etc., and the susceptible cattle obtain the virus sec- ona hand from them. Dr. Theobald Smith of the Bureau of Animal Industry, an eminent authority on this disease, says: ‘“The animals do not contract the disease even when separated by a femnce except where there be drainage from the infected pasture.” Although the fever can be dissemin- ated in various ways, the chief means of conveying the infection is through the ticks which adhere to the cattle from the infected district. So far as known the disease is not spread by the saliva or manure of cattle. In any measure looking to the pre- vention of the disease attentlon must therefore be given almost entirely to the ticks, and from recent investigation it appears that should the cattle from an infected district be freed from these parasites before leaving they would nc’ be able to spread the disease. Texas fever is caused by an organ- isn which lives within the red blood corpuscles and breaks them up. It is tkerefore simply a blood disease. The symptoms of the disease, which vsually appear anywhere from 20 to 90 days after exposure to infected sofl, g-e in their first stage, dullness, loss of appetite and a tendency to leave the Lerd and stand or lie down alone. A fcw days after these first symptoms ap- pear the temperature rises from a nor- mal of 101-103 degrees Farenheit to 106- 107 degrees Farenheit, and there is lit tle or no change until death or recov- ery ensues. The higher the tempera- ture_the more fatal the end. Toward the end of the disease emaciation be- comes more pronounced and signs of detirium are observed in some cases. Death occurs most frequently in the night. The tick, which causes most of the attacks, is a parasite of cattle im the southern part of the United States, at- taching itself to the skin of animals and drawing the blood. The eggs, laid on the ground after the female falls from an animal, begin to develop at once, and at the end of six weeks are ready to do their part in the spread of the scourge. If the animal from which the tick was dropped comes from an infected district there would be several hun- 000000000000 0OOOOOOOOOOOO0OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUOOOOOOOOOOOQO dred little ticks ready to attach them- selves to healthy, uninoculated cattle. In a week or more after, the disease makes its appearance. Although it is probable that the dis- ease was brought to this State by in- fected cattle, still, according to the views of the Bureau of Animal Indus- try, it could have been brought in cattle-cars. The tick is often found in the sweepings from these cars. The bureau further says: “How to get rid of the ticks in pasture without destroying vegetation we do not know at present. Every spot once infected is dangerous during the entire season.” Freezing weather destroys the tick. In sunny California this is not likely to occur, so this check cannot be count- ed on. So in California different measures must be adopted. All cattle with the disease or of suspicious appearance should be isolated immediately after the appearance of the disease. The herds should be carefully examined for ticks, if practicable, especially upon the thighs and udder, where they pre- fer to locate. The ticks do not mature until after the disease has made its ap- pearance, when they swell up and are plainly visible. It is of prime importance that all ticks be removed from sick animals, as they abstract a considerable amount of blood and strength, and thereby retard a possible recovery. Dr. Smith recommends as a remedy sulphate of quinia, in deses of fifteen to thirty grains, according to the size of the animal. Tincture of aconite root and Epsom salts have been combined with it with good results. Sanitary _ regulations should be adopted and rigidly followed. They should define the boundary of the in- fected ared, and no cattle should be shipped from it except by boat or rail plainly marked with the name of the district. The cars or boats used for such transportation should be care- fully cleansed and disinfected before uninfected stock is carried. In certain portions of the South these simple regulations have been fol- lowed, and as a result the disease has . been reduced to a minimum. —_———— Experiments have been going on for the last twelve vears for the purpose of try- ing to learn something of the character- istics of the Atlantic Ocean as a great moving body of water. As a result the whole Atlantic is shown to be slowly eir- culating round and round like an enor- mous pool. PPPOPOPPOVPOPOVOOV000PO000009000000000 & their next regular meeting. 0000000000000 C 0O 00906006 The City Board of Health at their last meeting discussed at some length the prevalence of Texas fever i Solano and other countles. Cattle Inspector Davis and Dr. O'Rourke advised that caution be used in the importation:of cattle from those sections. was referred to the State Board of Health. k4 & & The matter & It will be considered at : * 0000000000020 00000 will not, give an account of himself. Supposing an assassin, under some dis- guise or another—he might break through the line by presenting a fraud- ulent permit from the court-marshal’'s office naming him a purveyor or candi- date for situation—supposing, I say, a man had penetrated to the inner circle where the monarch dwells. To reach the Kaiser he must pass muster of the doorkeeper and half a dozen stalwart lackeys at the inmer portals. Next he will encounter a roomful of messengers, all armed to the teeth. These men, usually a full dozen, are yet separated from his Majesty by two more cham- bers, all of them opening into one an- other, and having no entrance from the corridor. These messengers belong to various branches of the service, and, according t» 1eir arms, are provided with horses or bicycles, waiting outside.’ “Of course, it would be like taking one’s life into one's hands to try to pass these soldiers, but let us assume for argument’s sake that it ‘is done. In the next room sit the Kaiser’s valet, his body chasseur and two flunkies, all big strapping fellows, ex-army men, who would look upon a fight with ah intruder as a streak of good fortune. Now can we go into his Majesty’s room? Yes, but for the two adjutants who are in the ante-chamber in full uniforms, swords at their sides. pistols handy and otherwise ready for every emergency. E 2 “Those Fotsdam arrangements for guarding the royal person are observed at all the courts of Eurfl;\‘& In his pal- ace, at least, a monarch seems to be reasonably protected against unpleas- ant surprises. The dangérous part of the king business is in outings, ceremo- nies and exercises of all sorts. : “The Prussian court has abandoned. bodyguards, except for ceremonious oc- casions, but the Kaiser keeps an elite g\ € A REFRACTORY; STEER HOLDS corps of 350 mounted men abeut his person all the time. .They are calléd body gendarmes and, like the Feld- Jjaeger, are really nothing more nor less than royal footmen, paid out of the people’s, instead of out ef the Kaiser's treasury. When the Kaiser goes riding two body gendarmes, one or two ad- jutants and two grooms accompany him, but a hundred or more gendarmes or Feldjaegers in citizen’s dress tra- verse the park in all directions to look for suspicious characters and be at hand when necessary. “Life preservers and spies in every- day garb, that's the proper idea,” con- tinued the diplomat. “It's the love of show and trappings that has killed many a monarch. Alexander II made himself the target of Nihilists because he insisted upon riding between the captain of his bodvguard and the-chief of police. The first one's sleigh pre- ceded the ‘Polizeimeister’s’ vehicle, al- ways closely followed his Majesty’'s. To make doubly sure the Czar dispensed with the imperial livery, but how could that deceive any one when the captain of the bodyguard and the police presi- dent insisted upon wearing the striking .- panoply of their shouldn’t say that they insisted.- Per- haps it was courtly usage that com- pelled them to appear in the Emperor's ;uite decked out with barbaric -splen- or. 55 “The German Emperor has adopted a new scheme—new becausé it's old enough to be thought new. As a gen- eral thing he drives at braakneck pace, and to facilitate the utmost swiftness the horses are harnessed closé 3 carriage. Fast driving may foil as- sassins in some instances, but it is not always permissible, and, mcreover, the. hankering after applause, the desire to appear stately or a king well heleved dictate the occasional abandonment of this precaution. 3 SegliATe i “A month or so before Carnot was as- sassinated the- Berlin police got “wind that an attempt on the Emperor’s life would be made in this fashion: Emperor's carriage, the paper envelope of which would ignite a small parcel of dynamite the instant .it strick the slightest resistance on the bottora, the" sides or the cushions of the coac] the hodies of the occupants. Of coirse, petition-throwing was at once declared a nuisance in Berlin, and people in- dulging in this old-time froliz were ar- rested. Next Baron Richthcfen'learned that the anarchists had abandoned fire- arme and chemicals, deciding to return to the knife. To meet this new emer-. gency fast driving was decidéd- upon by all the courts and governments. Carnot alone would not hear of it. was, suffering from the popularity bacillus, poor man! He ordered his cozeh moved at a leisurely trot to give the people time to_enjoy his smile of self-sufficiency. AMs! it cost him his life, cne of the most innoc>nt ever sac- rificed on the altar of politi Bismarck told his intimates that a good dog, by which he meant a fierce, man-attacking dog, was worth a dozen detectives and an army corps of spies: After the Kissingen ‘attentat’ he em- ployed dogs, and he was not bothered by assassins for the rest of his days. or Singular that the Kaiser refuses to profit by this example. Bismarck, by the way, did not discharge his two- legged bodyguard after engaging four- legged life preservers. “Crispi,” said the diplomat, “may not have been King Umberto’s good genius, but he drummed some good horse sense into his Majesty's head. “And what Go you conside. the best means of combating regicides?” “That employed by Napoleun IIL, who outlived ten attempts upon his life,” answered the diplomat decidedly. “Na- poleon’s bodyguard was the famous . Italian Griccelli, who, every time he learned of conspiracy against his master sought out the conspirators and slaughtered them in cold blood. Dead men are harmless and—hold thelr tongues.” rank? Perhaps I - to the ° An in- -~ dividual would throw a petition into ile - He: