Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1892-09-08
Health Officer jenkins Will
Ignore the PRESIDENTS Cir
cular.


for twenty days. If he saw fit he would
quarantine vessel more than twenty days
or less. He claimed that he had full au-
thority and the presidents order could not
affect him, or cause HIM to do otherwise
than his judgment induced him.
II don't want to be understood as defying
the chief executive" said DR.. Jenkins. II shall
do all in my power to assist the national au-
thorltes in keeping cholera from entering this
country but certainly think have the right,
by virtue OF the authority delegated to me as
health officer OF this port. to decide on the num-
Der OF days that ship should be kept at quar-
antine. shall decide the question in the case
OF each ship according to the sanitary condi-
lions prevailing OH board ut the time OF her
rival here. l am acting Independently of the
president. I don't mean that am going to
allow cholera injected Vessel to enter the port
OF New York. l realizs my responsibility with
reference to the city OF New York just as much
as the president realizes his responsibility to the
country. Conditions might be such that quar-
antined vessel could safely be released in five
days; and, again if disease kept breeding she
might be detained year.
JENKINS CHECKMATED.
Collector Hendricks sad he did not
think DR.. jenkins would bring on o con-
hict between the ederal and state auth RI
ties. 1fsuch thing should arise the fed
raj power would prevail. No vessel can
land passengers or cargo until the vessel is
entered at the custom house. and Collector
Hendricks will act according to instruc-
tons of the Washington authorities. The
first symptom OF the overriding of DR..
jenkins orders was when the custom house
officers were withdrawn from the steamer
OF Berlin shortly after her arrival in the
early afternoon. The withdrawal OF the fed
eral officers naturally prevented the declar-
atlons OF the cabin passengers being made,
all OF whom DR.. Jenkins had intended
should be allowed to land to day in the
same manner as those Of the Gallia and
Lain Oh the previous days. There was
some discussion over the matter at quaran-
tine, but in DR.. Jenkins absence nothing
further was known. At o'clock the
Thingva'la steamer Island. which had ar
rived i'll the forenoon. was given her clear
ance by DR.. Talmadge. She had fifty eight
cabin and 57l Storage passengers The
latter were all Scandinavians, and had not
been near any infected port so after their
fEmigation on board the vessel she was al
lowed to proceed. At 5:45 she returned,
having only reached as far toward her
dock as Liberty island, where she was
stopped by the revenue cutter and
RETURNED TO QUARANTINE.
DIR. Jenkins was still absent, and shortly
before his return to quarantine the revenue
cutter returned to quarantine and released
the Island and placed officers on board the
Gallia, with orders to allow the cabin
passengers to declare their baggage and
land in the barge that would be sent down
tonight. The resembling Of the port col
lection order was done, it is said, owing to
communication rom Assistant Secretary
Spalding to that effect. There was. Of
course, great dism V al the idea of being
subject to twenty days quarantine, as
specified by the presidential circular, and
much discussion as to the action DR..
Jenkins would have taken had the
Island and Gallia not been released.
DR.. Jenkins said that, having once grant
ed q vessel rratiQue, he should not grant
her second, and that if the collector chose
to return q vessel to quarantine tor twenty
days it was the duty OF the General govern
ment to look after them and take charge OF
them. AS the situation is now, the eyes OF
the quarantine officials are constantly
turned seawa d. awaiting the arrival Of the
Normanna and stubben hulk. both from
IL ,mburg, the Rugia rom Havre, and the
from llle SAINT port kNcNGldl
other big mailerS are also due tonight and
tomorrow from English ports. They also
are
REGARDED WITH SUSPICION.
1t is feared tll>r the four vessels from HAM
burg and Havre will have the cholera on
board. Il they do not weight will be
lifted from Dr.. jenkins mind. The
steamer Veendam from Rotterdam has
been released from quarantine.
josef Etaaniso, Of IS Orchard street,
whom DR.. Beck reported last night as a
cholera patient, is not inflicted with the
pest. His illness is due to overlooking after
being nearly starved in Russ from which
place he recently came. HI rs all right
this morning. For dinneryc rday he ate
almost two pounds of corr :, Il small
mountain OF cabbage anu Water
melons.
The cholera situation at quarantine is at
present practically unchanged since yester-
day. The Moravia is still lying off Hoff-
man island, with her passengers still on
board. No FIRE II cases have been reported.
and the convale. C mt patients are almost
we'll. The steamers Lain and City Of Ber-
lin, which latter arrived shortly be ore II,
are lying off the quarantine station. The
City of Berlin will be detained here prob
ably three days, though her cabin passen-
gers were la ded this afternoon. She has
no cases OF sickness on board, though she
has fifty Russians among her passengers.
The City OF Rome, Which arrived to-
night, has no sickness whatever among her
$50 Storage passengers. Among the salon
passengers are ''Parson' Davies Jackson's
Warren L wis and Joe Choynski,
who have come over specially to witness
the coming pugilistic encounter in New Or
leans.
Mike Cushing the well-known 126-pound pu.
piiist. died at Fort Hamilton N Y Wednesday,
after a few days illness, aged twenty-seven.