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...contact with wild animals, are in turn infected. Natives seeing a wild herd fire indiscriminately, shoot many healthy animals. Last year 20,000 zebras, kudu, buffalo, inyala, gazelle, red hartebeest were killed. Only one small herd of the red hartebeest exists today in Zululand. Another victim of native cattlemen is the rare white rhinoceros. Because there are only 47 of these animals left in British East Africa, the government has forbidden the killing of them there. A discovery which may furnish a better method of controlling the spread of sleeping sickness was announced recently by R. H. T. P. Harris...
Chief complainant was Republican Senator Samuel Morgan Shortridge of California. Stirred to action by loud protests from the California Cattlemen's Association, he charged that the Army & Navy were buying their beef from Australia and New Zealand to supply outposts in the Philippines, Hawaii, the Canal Zone. It was claimed that a city of 100,000 could subsist on these foreign meat purchases, which exceeded 6,500,000 Ib. per year. Other provender which the Army & Navy have been buying in part abroad included beans, cereals, dairy products. The Cal- ifornia Cattlemen's Association pointed out that Hawaiian beef...
...valley and blasted the mountainsides to fill in a natural grave. Warned that the curse had spread to wild deer, and assured that shooting a few would scatter the rest, he directed silencers to be used on the guns. Hunters deprived of their prey stormed in wrath, bereaved cattlemen still grumbled, but the disease was stamped...
Elsie Pearl Truskett, 39, keeps 700 sheep and 500 cattle on a large farm just outside of Kansas City, Mo. Said she bitterly last week: "I have the largest following of any woman dealer in Kansas City. I am known to cattlemen all over the state, but am frozen out of business here...
...direction of Edward Massey '15, who has had long experience with the Club, both as an undergraduate, and as a coach since his graduation. The surge of progress, the triumph of the new West over the lariat, is the motivating force of the presentation. Hard-riding, gun-toting cattlemen struggle in vain to protect their grazing lands from the invasion of foreign homesteaders. The action of the play occurs in Western Nebraska within a period of two weeks...