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Show HORSES DIE I , OFPIAGUEI Mysterious Disease & Causes Great Loss to g Kansas Farmers fc 1 Topekn, Sept. G. More than four Jf thousand horses have died in western Kansas since the mysterious disease 'i? broke out in that section of the Btate, & and it is ostimatcd that tie money y Iosb Is around a half million dollars ft The great mortality among the j horses has created a serious situation Jj in that section of the state, hundreds 5, of fnrmers being left without the anl- U mals to do necessary farm work. Be- J.I cause of the practical certainty that f new horses would catch tho disease jj and die the farmers are fraid to buy Jj other animals k The plague has now come as far yk east as Riley county, four cases be- m ing reported at Riley. Before these fli oases become known farmers at Fort 4t Riley promptly established a quaran- Ijfc tine, prohibiting movers from camp- ill Ing along tho roads leading through fl.' the reservation. 8V Fort RUey is wholly a cavalry and l' artillery post, and there are more yk than 100 horses and mnles there. $? A report today by J. H. Meyer, sail- ftC Itary live stock commissioner, ahow- 'it ed neither cures nor abatoment in tho fife spread it the disease. Jar Caused by Worms. M Dodge City. Kan., Sopt. 6, Au an- ijS topay today on one of the horses fi which died of the mysterious disease ifcf that is killing thousands of horBes in a! western Kansas revealed a bucketful ft of tiny woruiB In the inteatlneB. Horse ft owners are dosing their horses with Up turpentine and other oils in an effort p to kill intestinal wormB. H nrt Slfc |