This week in 1891, B.H. Caraway, lost control of his herd of 1500 cattle near Sephenville during a thunderstorm and destroyed several barbed-wire fences – “but not a single head was lost.” Stephenville Empire

1883: around the 25th this month, Professor King, a Baptist preacher and schoolteacher at Carleton, was tied up while 98 of his sheep were clubbed to death. He was warned that this was cattle country. Stephenville Empire