Annals of Emporia and Lyon County . )orted to be$780,041 : number of horses 1,084;cattle, 3,809; hogs, 3,356; sheep,1,514. Cattle diseases of a fatal naturebroke out in the summer of i860and did great damage. It wasknown as the Spanish or Texasfever, and followed the trail ofTexas cattle driven through thecounty. It caused much loss andalarm. Over three hundred nativecattle died in three weeks in a stripthree miles wide extending alongthe Neosho and Cottonwood andtheir tributaries for fifty miles. 36 ANNALS OF EMPORIA AND LYON EMPORIA NATIONAL BANK.

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