Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1896-03-19

IN CONSIDERABLE STIR was
El created here last Friday when
the doctors announced that there
were three well developed cases of
smallpox in town. Since that time
there has been one death, Mrs. Eugene
Hall, who died Sunday morning after
giving birth prematurely a few days
before to child which is still alive.
board of health was quickly organized
composed of Drs. Hill, Clinkscales and
Fortner The infected places were
tagged and guarded so as to prevent
any possibility of the disease spread
ing. The doctors have been kept busy
day and night vaccinating the people
and at the present writing nearly the
entire population have been inOcu-
lated. There is little or no probabil-
ity that the disease will spread under
the present rigid regulations. With
proper care and observance of the rules
OF the health officers and of the city
authorities it will be stamped out at
once. There are few cases in the
country-at Pat Shanahan's place four
miles west of town. The first case out
there has recovered, and there are
four other cases at the same house IA
man, his wife and child, and a hired
man: but the disease is not hard to
control in the country, there being no
occasion to communicate TO any great
extent with Others. 1t is not pleas
ant duty to record the presence of this
malady in our midst, but regarding it
as a duty the whole truth is told. The
CHIEFTAIN has the confidence of the
country and has no doubt in the world
but this publication will do more to
alloy fear and misapprehension-do
the town more good in a business and
in every other way-than all the gloss
ing-over stories of an ''eruptive fever"
etc, generally INDUCED in at such
times, that could be written.
1t is a mistake, as reported at Tah-
lequah and elsewhere, that no one is
allowed to get on or off the trains at
Vinita, and that no mail is forwarded
from this point. Passengers go and
come at their will, few local but no
terminal or important points quaran-
timing against us. As precaution
against the possibility of the pesti-
lence spreading by reason of outgoing
mail, fumigating box has been con-
stricted at the postofiice and AL mail
is thoroughly cleansed before being
sent out.
An idea of the degree of alarm
which has been aroused at surround
ing towns may be CLEANED from sever
al incidents related. The jurors who
had been attending court here and
who lived at and near Alton were de-
MED the privilege of getting off the
cars at that town, but the train
was stopped short distance outside.
Miss Leila Cook and sister, Juliet, de-
cided Sunday to pay a months visit
with the family OF their uncle at Che
tOpa. They were met at the station
by an officer who implacably refused
to permit them to leave the depot. An
attempt to get out on the Missouri
Pacific TO Edna likewise failed, and
they spent the day in the depot and
got back here in time for supper
Their uncle brought them their din
ners and spent much of the time with
them, but pleasant as is his company.
as many Of our readers know, it was
hardly compensation for the trip.
Thursday morning-There are no
new cases reported and all the sick are
doing well save the young man at the
pest house: he is pretty sick.