Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-05-28
UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
A Maine Decor yaccinates Canadians NJ
the Muzsle of Gun.
II

the Muztle OF q Gun.
TLewiston (M,.) Journal
A Maine doctor, who wei yhs two hun!
dred p ,unds, an I was stationsl az an in.
spector in the woods. usa- tue b)r lar, re-
Gently told me in an interestin. way sous
of the adveu ures-1.il adven.u -ss the,~
were. .inieed-which he had during his OIL
fetal stay in the wilderness, during tn.
late smallpox scare.
II was sent" sii hs. "to Lowell's town.
ship. through which tho Canadian Pacific
railroad will mass. NV station vas near
Gordon's csmp. where about Ell yhty men
employed on the railroad were encampeA.
The nearest railroad stati IN was at LAX,
Meg1ntic. tweaty-eiyht mia, away. I
built log cabin and constructed a gatc
across the road. No man went Though
that gate without being vaccinatai. hal
to deal with a rough class of men. and had
some scrapes that - 'uld read like diuie
novel. My two ASST tants, a rife, revol.
yer. a Newfoundland dog anil a suit of
cloth with brass buttons, which pro-
cured after I'd be'n there awhile. help ii
me out. Yen see, nobo ly lived ,ar, AMI
had no moral support. had to rely
wholly on my display of physical force.
"Soon after we were established we
went down 20 Cord 1n's camp, AMI in one
day vaccinatad every man of the eighty.
five employed there. They rebelled against
II, but we made no talk with them. going
tilrourh them like a flocb of sheep. Several
days afterwari,word came to me that n
crew was coming down from the camp to
tear down my cabin aud seni me home
Some of the mems arms had swollen and
hpcnnaa nv \ 4 4
the camp at once, and found a mutiny inn
pending. Many of the mon were sick and
angry. Several of them were laid up and
suffering severely. l explained the nature
of their trouble to them, and told them if
they would keep calm I would relieve
them of their pain. With the lp of NOR
phine was abe to prevent rumpus. /
tell You it was an excited crowd. They
were afraid that all of them would be
taken down.
"a hu~ly Scotchman swore he would
pass my station without being vaccinated
one day. He was one Of dozen desperate
fellows. I had pitched hattie with him
at last, and actually vaccinated him with
my foot on his windpipe. Meanwhile my
assistant kept off the others with his gun.
We stuck the quill into every one of them.
"Often the Canadians tried to get by me
by stealing around through the woods
One man. in making such an tempt, was
lost in the night. We heard his cries and
started in search of him. With the help
of our Newfoandlanl, we were able 10
rescue him, u we di not arrive at our
cabin till four o'clock in the morning. and
: the fellow was nearly dead with cold and
fatigue. He would have p Arished but the
! doctors AMI tho dog. A more scared man
than he was when we came upon him you
never saw.
"They adopted curious way to sneak
/ nv the Moo Q river inspector one day.
| Four men concealed them selves in a load
of hay AMI passed without being noticed.
| They crawled out too soon. AT the Forks
they were stopped and sent back to be
vaccinated.
"I was surprised to see the prejudice
these fellows had AGAINST vaccination. II
existed among the Scotch and English as
well as among the French"