The Jacksboro News. (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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Official Ballot.
I am a Democrat and pledge
myself to support the nominees of
this primary.
For the submission by the Thirty-
fourth Legislature of the State
of Texas of a Constitutional
Amendment prohibiting within
this State the manufacture, sale,
exchange and intra-state ship-
ment of intoxicating liquors,
except for medicinal and sacra-
mental purposes.
A&ainst the submission by the
Thirty-fourth Legislature of the
State of Texas of a Constitutional
Amenlment prohibiting within
this State, the manufacture, sale,
exchange and intra-state ship-
ment of intoxicating liquors,
except for medicinal and sacra-
mental purposes.
For Governor:
James E. Ferguson,Bell county.
Thos. H. Ball, Harris county.
Leopold Morris, Victoria Co.
For lieutenant Governor:
B. B. Mturgeon, Lamar county.
W. P. Hobby, Jefferson county.
J?or Attorney General:
B. P. Looney, Hunt county.
For State Treasurer:
J.M. Edwards,Runnellscounty.
Jyhn W. Baker, Lubbock county
For Court of Criminal Appeals:
W. L. Davidson, Travis county
J. J. JFfeulk, Henderson county.
Fv» Associate Justice Supreme
Court; j
WilJ%n E. Hawkins, Travis Co.
For Commissioner of Agriculture:
Fred W. Davis, Cooke county.
H. A. Halbert, Coleman county
For Railroad Commissioner:
J. M. Arnold, Mills county.
Earl B. Mayfield, Bell county.
For State Superintendent of Public
Instruction:
W. F. Doughty, Falls county.
S. M. N. Marrs, Kaufman Co.
For Commissioner of the General
Land Office:
Thos. M. Bartley, Lynn county.
James T. Robison, Morris Co.
For Comptroller of Public Accounts:
C: C. Mayfield, Erath county.
J. L. Franklin, Collin county.
H. B. Terrell, McClennan Co.
For Congressman at Large:
Will A. Harris, Dallas county.
Daniel E. Garrett, Harris Co.
T. J. O’Donnell, Wichita Co.
Jeff McLemore, Harris county.
J. H. (Cyclone) Davis, Hopkins
county.
R. B. Humphrey, Throckmor-
ton county-
W. P. Lane, Tarrant county.
L. L. Shields, Coleman county.
James H. Lowrey. Fannin Co.
J.* E. Porter, McClennan county
Ed. R. Kone, Hays county.
Associate Justice Court Civil Ap-
peals, 2nd Supreme Judicial Dist:
■ft. H. Buck, Tarrant county.
Ocie Speer, Tarrant county.
For Congressman 13th Congression-
al District:
W. E. Prescott, Cottle county.
Jno. H. Stephens, Wilbarger Co.
For State Senator 29th Senatorial
District:
W. A. Johnson, Hall county.
R. H. Cocke, Jr., Collings-
worth county.
For Representative 99th Represen-
tative District:
E. W. Fry, Young county.
For County Judge:
J. P. Simpson.
For County Attorney:
John D. McComb.
For District Clerk:
S. L. Leeman.
For County Clerk:
Charles R. Risch.
L. E. Shawver.
M. G. Nelms.
For Tax Collector:
M. Taylor.
A. D. (Dick) Owens.
M. B. Smith.
For Tax Assessor:
Ed. L. Merriman.
For Superintendent of Public In-
struction:
Henry A. Brummett.
E. A. Breech.
J. W. Fulcher.
For Sheriff:
Sam J. Rogers.
C. M. Thompson.
E. Whitehead.
For County Treasurer:
L. H. Bryant.
Henry McClellan.
For County Surveyor:
George Spiller.
For County Commissioner, Precinct
No. 1:
M. J. (Bud) Davis.
J. Haley King.
J. W. Files.
0. M. Deshane.
For County Commissioner, Precinct
No. 2:
J.'E. Gray.
J. W. Calloway.
For County Commissioner, Precinct
No. 3:
J. A. Hester.
For County Commissioner Precinct
No. 4:
H. M. Bunnell.
Wm. Hanna.
For Justice of Peace.
Precinct No. 1 :
W. Isbell.
L> H. Bryant.
Precinct No. 2:
J. L. Curtis.
C. S. Burkholder.
Precinct No. 3:
Special Price Sale
«. AT.-
P, A. BOOZ, Perrin, Tex.
On the I st. 8th and 1 5th of August
All goods go at Reduced Prices on those days.
Be sure to come and tell your neighbors about it.
Precinct No. 4:
W. J. Wright
Precinct No. 5:
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Preelnet No, 6 s
Precinct Nc. 7:
G. E. Eubank.
Precinct No. 8:
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For Constable, Ppeeinel No. 1:
B. F. Smith.
For Constable, Precinct No. 2:
J, D. Jones.
S. F. Biggers.
For Constable Precinct No. 4:
W. N. Jones.
For Constable, Precinct No......
i'or Constable Precinct No. 8:
W. M. pipple.
i’or Public Weigher, Prect. No. I:
D. N. Aynes.
far Public Weigher, Prect. No. 2:
J. D. (Bud) Long.
E. J. Bentley.
for Public Weigher, Prect. No. 3:
'or Public Weigher, Prect. No. 4:
W. B. Helton.
J. L. Richardson.
'or Public Weigher, Prect. No.....
'or'Public Weigher, Prect. No. 8:
R. G. Moore.
'or ChairmanCounty Ex. Com.:
H. C. McClure.
'or Precinct Chairman:
Precinct No.........
Precinct No. 8:
J. 0. McCloud.
’or County Executive Committee*
man:
Precinct No.........
Precinct No. 8:
A. B. Kuykendall.
dletia Regarding Live Stock Diaeueta
Jack Couty.
sued by County Board of Health
of Jack county:
To the people of Jack county:—
re take this manner of bringing
;fore the people of this county all
le information we have concern-
ig the stock disease which has
jen so serious in Young county,
id a portion of Palo Pinto and
ick counties, as well as several
ther counties not eontigious to
Quarantine Against Young.
On July 4th, we were first in-
rmed of the seriousness of the
sease among the horses and mules
Young county, and that it had
en diagnosed as Anthrax or Char-
n, and that a quarantine had
en established in that county,
id we were advised to quarantine
gainst that county. Acting upon
e suggestion, not being especially
versed in matter of livestock dis-
eases, we established at once a
rigid quarantine against Young
county.
The Disease in Jack County.
The disease appeared in Jack
county in a few days, about six or
eight miles south of Bryson along
Rock creek, and within a small
j territory, some fifteen animals
have died since the 4th of July;
but no new Cftses have developed in
about a week.
State Sanitary Live Stock Commis-
sion Expert.
Believing tUt thd expert men Of
the St^icg LivestCck^Sanitary Com-
ihlssion w«*'re the proper men to
look aft'er the matter, 'fitted both
by 'special study and experience,
and being in touch with the
Bureau of Animal Industry of the
Federal Government at Washing-
ton, D. C. we took steps at once to
have some of these men on the
ground. Dr. T. T. Christian first
came, and after a short examine
tion advised that we wire for Dr.
E. R. Forbes, State Veterinarian,
as in his opinion this disease was
not Anthrax or Charbon, but some
other fatal disease, caused either
by some poisanous or some infected
fly. The Commissioners Court act-
ing with the ^ county Board 6f
Health and Dr. Christian took the
matter up, and Dr. Forbes’ services
were secured.
In the meantime Dr. Christian
secured blood specimens from
animals that were sick and dead,
and made other investigation into
the nature of the disease. Upon
his arrival Dr. Forbes went with
Dr. Christian to the community
where stock had been dying, and
examined into the condition of
things, and made such investiga-
tions as necessary under the cir-
cumstances. Dr. Forbes haB been
working on this particular disease
for two years, as it has been in
Kerr and the surrounding Counties
the past year. Many blood speci-
mens, etc., have been sent to Labo-
ratory on the Bureau of Animal In-
dnstry at Washington, D. C., per-
haps the most efficient laboratory
of its kind ifc the United States;
and he showed us tbe written re-
ports of this Bureau on all speci-
mens submitted, and without any
exception the Bureau announced
that the bacili present in the speci-
mens did not possess the virulence
of the Anthrax bacilli, and they
were unable to infect animals with
the disease by injecting cultures
of the germ into different animals,
and the disease was not pure An-
thrax.
Dr. Forbes stated further that
post mortem examination of the
animals did not reveal the condi-
dtions that existed when animals
died of Anthrax. The vital organs,
such as heart, liver, kidneys and
spleen, etc., always were decidedly
affected in Anthrax, and there
were lesions throughout the body;
that it was a constitutional ^disease,
the germ being directly introduced
into the blood and by it to all parts
of the body; that the animals dead
from the present disease, beyond
the portion of the body where the
local swelling as located did not
show such Anthrax conditions. Dr.
Forbes further stated that he had
been dealing with the Anthrax
directly for twenty-five years in
the infected portions of Louisiana
and Texas, along the Mississippi
and Colorado rivers, and the Coast
country about Port Arthur, etc.
That he had a practical familarity
with the disease, and had vaccin-
ated thousands of animals in these
infected places, and he was absol-
utely certain that the d{8*a§e We
were suffering from Was hot Ahth--
fak;
Advises Against Vaccination.
He strongly discouraged the use
of Anthrax vaccine In this county,
because he said in the first place
we did not have any Anthrax unless
we had gotten it by improper use
of vaccine; and in the second place,
we might infect our pastures
with sure enough Anthrax by the
use of bad vaccine, or by the use
of good vaccine improperly used;
for if we produced the disease in
an animal and he died, unless the
greatest caution was exercised,
some of the spores of the disease
would get into the soil; and then
we would never be rid of the dis-
ease. It is a soil infection and
eighty per cent of the cases are
introduced by the mouth, and only
twenty per cent by insect bites.
That it would be a terrible cala-
mity to the county to introduce
such a disease in that way. Be-
cause the people have been almost
panic stricken in some sections of
the county, and because vaccination
has been advised we think and are
convinced contrary to the welfare
of the county, \ we are taking this
manner of advising the people of
Jack county against vaccination.
We do advise people with stock
in the infected districts, if their
stock are dying to move them out
of the bottoms and glades and
heavy timber lands to the up-hill
land and open country, as it seems
to be proven by experience that
when you get away from the hordes
of flies the disease disappears.
In Regard to Quarantine.
Dr. Forbes further stated that in
the portions of the country affected
by Anthrax quarantines were
limited to infected pastures and
premises, and not directed against
whole communities; because An-
thrax was a soil infection, and
was principaly spread by storms,
where floods of water spread over
large territories, as is the case in
the low, flat coast countries, and
along tj»e lower portion of the
Mississippi River, and there was no
way to mttke an effective quart n
tine against storms and floods. The
vaccination was also confined to
infected pastures, and even men
who lived neighbors to infected
pastures,—if their own premises
were not infected—did not vacci-
nate.
Talked With Several of Leading
Stock Men.
Dr. Forbes was introduced to
several of the leading stock men of
of the county, among them beiijg
J. W. Knox, W. A. Shown, T. H.
Cherryholmes, J. D. Ventioner,
Tom 'Berry, D. R. Sewell and a
number of others. These names
are given that if you care to do so
you can talk w*ith them when in
Jacksboro; but do not write them
personal letters, as they are all men
in private business and of course
haven’t time to spare in answering
a great number of letters. Any
additional information will be fur-
bished you by the officials, if pos-
tage is inclosed for reply.
Who Dr. Fobres Is.
At present he is the State Veter-
inarian of the State Livestock
Sanitarry Commission, is paid by
the State of Texas, and has in
charge the livestock sanitary inter-
ests of the State. He is a graduate
in his line, a splendid genteman, a
scholar and has had thirty years
experience in his line, and his ex-
perience has been very extensive.
He has had a great deal of exper-
ience with Anthrax in its hot-beds,
and is perfectly familiar with the
disease in its every phase. If his
advice and suggestions cannot be
relied upon, then there is not one
in the State whom we can rely on
in these matters,
Wh^t is The Disease Among the'
Stock?
The Bureau of Animal Industry
has not answered that question,
beyond stating that it is some form
of virulent blood poison, or
toxic poison, caused by the fly-
They are making investlgaforis
all the time, and- will perhaps de-
termine its exact nature, cause, and
probably a remedy for many cases,
as it seems not all infected animals
are dying.
Cattle Disease.
Quite a few cattle in different
portions of the county are sick
with fever. This is caused by the
tick, and there is no connection
whatever between it and the dis-
ease we have discussed.
Expert Supervision.
For a few days longer we have
retained Dr. T. T. Christian to
supervise the stock situation. Dr.
Christian is a graduate of the Kan-
sas City Veterinary College, and is
now Deputy State V eterinary In-
spector for Texas and Arkansas ahd
President of the Texas Veterinary
Medical Association. He is well
qualified in his line of work both
by study and experience to give us
expert advice and assistance, and
we feel has already saved people
of Jack county probably many
thousands of dollars.
We hope within a few days to
raise the quarantine entirely.
Very repectively,
F. G. Huckabay, M. D.
Copy of telegram received by Dr-
T. T. Christian in regard to Stock
Disease, from Dr. A. T. Kinsley,
Kansas City.
Kansas City, Mo. 7—20—1914.
Dr. T. T. Christian,
Jacksboro, Texas.
Condition is due to Anthrax-like
bacill's. Apparently transmitted
by flies. Devise some means of
keeping flies off, and my judge-
ment is, you will have no further
trouble. I investigated this disease
last year. It is not Anthrax.
Would be glad to receive some
specimens of flies and. lesions.
Dr. A. T. Kinsley.
Note—Dr. A. T. Kinsley is Pro-
fessor of Bacterlogy and Pathology
of the Kansas City Veterinary Col-
lege also. He does a large research
laboratory work. He is an M. A.
of either Cornell or Columbia Uni-
verity, and a B. S. of Kansas A. &
M. College and a D. V. S. of Kan-
sas City Veterinary College.. He
also holds an M. D. degree. By
virture of his splendid training and
experience he is one of the recog-
nized authorities in his line of
work in the United States. He is
also author of some of the standard
works on Pathology and Bacter-
logy.
A Good Spray for Flies.
One gallon of crude Jack county
oil,', one gallon of cottonseed oil
and one pint of crude carbolic acid.
Thoroughly mix and apply with-a
sprayer or rub rag.
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Marks, Tom M. The Jacksboro News. (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 22, 1914, newspaper, July 22, 1914; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth733791/m1/2/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.