When a visiting Mexican rancher friend's herd comes down with a dangerous infectious disease, he proves stubbornly unwilling to acknowledge the situation, much less cooperate with the Barkleys.
An old Barkley friend, a hard-working Mexican national, comes to Stockton to sell his herd of cattle. When it is found out the cattle are infected with a deadly, infectious disease, he refuses to destroy the animals or isolate his cattle from healthy Barkley stock.—Anonymous