Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-14
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
WILL YELLOW FEVER COME 2

The possibility of this State -eceiving 8
visit from yellow jack next summer, when
the reekiDg pools and pest-breeding spots in
Sacramento are sending out its contribution
of malarisl vapors and plague Inducements,
brings the people face to face with the idea
of erecting every barrier against the approach
of the dread scourge, even if the danger yet
lies dormant months away. Ex.Secretary OF
State d. NJ. Burns, now In this city, was 30
unfortunate while in Mexico this summer as
to fall in the path of the epidemic, and a
painful Acquaintance with the ravagiug mon
ster was sustained amid scenes of CHASTITY hor-
ror, and every incident of that dreadful drama
is wildly impressed upon his memory. He
reviews the statements of j. f. Day. cub
lished in the RECORD UNION October 26 n,
in regard to affairs in Mexico, as beyond
the facts. His story that the Board of
Health spaculated with their official posi-
tions, and for q money consideration issued
clean bills of health, he thinks ia unreason-
able. He declares Days story regarding
the total lack of security to the lives and
property of Americans as not only false,
bat cruel; for he considers the laws relat-
ing to the property of foreigners ss excel
lent, and the lives of travellers in Mexico
far safer than in parts of California and
Nevada. Mr.. Burns says that out Of a
hundred sick foreigners in Mazatlsn, only
five or six died, which small fatality was
owing to care and proper treatment.
Concerning the care and treatment
of yellow-fever patient, be says
that the principal thing in the manage.
ment of yellow fever is to keep the pa
tent warm and clean. If Precipitation
can be started and the bed clothing changed
frequently, the person will get well nine cases
out Of ton, But the poor native lies down on
bit of mating, opens the DOORS and seeks
to cool his fever-scorched body, and be dies
almost invariably He believes that the dis
ease travels through the atmosphere favor
able to its existence, without the aid OF inoc-
culsted objects for at Cosala, with $50 miles
and q wide uninhabited desert lying between
it and MAJ allan, and no communication per-
mitted with the latter place. 800 out of
population of 1000, were suddenly stricken
down. He thinks that when the epidemic
again scourges Mexico it will reach this State
by land, finding entrance either by San Diego
or by Tucson and Yuma, and then the ma
larial cities of California will know yellow
jack.
Travellers in South America and Mexico
say that they always knew when they were
approaching a large town by the offensive
smells which came from the place. No sewer
system is known, no street-sweeper is ever
seen there. The buzzsrds, gaunt and CHASTITY
birds Of death, forever roost on the walls, and
when cat or mule dies they fly down and
feast. This is the birthplace and the home
of the yellow fever.
TRIEvEs As the days and nights get
colder the thieves become correspondingly
colder and consequently holder, and they
freeze to things with greater avidity. Jake
Smith was sgain arrested last night for the
theft of an overcoat. Verify, it was a cold
day when Jake took that garment, for he
shivers with chilling thoughts Of the Police
Courts awful frown. All Ten and An
Chung were also arrested for the theft of
pair Of red blankets from the horses OF
hsckmau, and thereby adding to the crime of
robbery that Of cruelty TO animals. Gin
Hung was arrested for STEALING coke from
Gardner's wood and coal yard on | street, for
which things will be made warm for him to-
day in Court-but not with coke.
WEATHER REPORT. - The temperature,
wind and weather at u NJ yesterday, as re-
oeived by Sergeant BArwick, was For Ia.
toosh, IS, east and clear Olympia, AZ,
calm and cloudy; Portland, 46', north and
clear; R5seburg, 40, west and cloudy
Mendocino, AZ, southeast and ioggy Red
Bluff, AZ, south and clear Sacramento, So,
east and foggy; San Francisco, AZ, north
and clear; Los Angelica, II, west aud clear
San Diego, Go, northwest and clear Salt
Lake, %, calm and threatening Cheyenne,
~, north and clear; Denver, $50, east and
clear; North Platte, IL, north and clear
Omaha, Az, north aud fair; Ysnkton, ~,
north and clear,
NUISANCE CAsE.-Judge Armstrong yes
terday decided the appealed case popularity
known as the Chandler-Mesick nuisance
case. The case wss argued and submitted
some time ago. Yesterday the Court fled its
opinion. which will appear in these columns
in full tomorrow. The decision is of much
Importance 20 the sanitary interests Of this
city and no mere synopsis OF It will be sat
isfacsory. 1t Is understood that the ques-
lions presented have never been passed upon
by the Supreme Court Of California, and the
case is therefore q new one, and the opinion
will be Of interest TO other cities as well as
Sacramento. The decision reverses the Court
below, which held defendant Chandler liable.
AN OLD PmoT.-Walter Buddington, one
of the Oldest pilots on the Sacramento river,
died in Oakland last Tuesday. He was
native of New London county, Conn, and
was about 50 years Of sge. He was pioneer
of 1919, and had been running on the Sacra-
mento for about twenty-five years. Two
months ago, while pilot Of the steamer
Apache, be was stricken with paralysis, from
which he never recovered.
SATURDAY we viii display q new assortment
of holiday goods which will be desirable for
Christmas and New Years presents. Red
House.
FoR complete assortment OF gents all
wool underwear Of No. quality, call ST
Wooden Mills Depot, So J street.