Arizona republican., 1896-10-30
SMALLPOX AMONG PAPAGOS.
Fears That it Will Spread Over
 the Border.
Larg Numbers of Afflicted Papagos in Sonora Die From the Disease Efforts to Stop It's Spread Made by Agent Young.

OOuCId, MtA1CO, HUH u-.c ldNd5So Ol smallpox and grave fears are enter tained G1hat Fhe scourge will cross fthe border to this country. Au- thentic news is very hard to get, as the Mexican authorities are doing all in their power to prevent the news of the dreaded disease from spreading.
 A few days ago Collector of Customs Sam Webb of Nogales telegraphed Governor Franklin that smallpox had broken out on the Mexican side of the border and stated that there was no sanitary inspector stationed at that point to prevent the plague from spreading to the American side of the border. He recommended that George w. Cheneweth be appointed to fill the position. The dispatch was for warded to Washington to Governor Franklin and itis not known whether he has taken any action in the matter
 A gentleman who came in from the south yesterday morning reported that smallpox had appeared in the Sacaton Indian agency. Col. J. Roe Young, the Indian agent, arrived in the city yesterday morning and he was asked by Republican representative if there was any truth in the report ldhat the disease was epidemic among his h. dians.
 'There is not solitary case of smallpox on the reservation,h he an swered, although the Indians in So- nora are dying in large numbers. was warned several days ago of the epidemic in Sonora, and immediately took all necessary precautions to keep the plague from appearing among the Papagos on the reservation. I have established strict quarantine on the railroad from Gila Bend to Tucson and all along the line. Not a Papago is allowed to cross the line, and I have issued orders to the Papagos living along the Mexican border to stay at home, and not make any attempt to come into the Sacaton agency. They generally pay attention to my orders and will in this case, unless they be- come panic stricken.
 T have sent a squad of policemen to patrol the border to drive back all Indians who attempt to cross and to investigate all the villages where smallpox is reported.
 There is no cause for alarm what ever, as am satisfied that the strict quarantine have instituted will keep the disease from appearing i'm this sec tion of the country. I have sent the agency physician to the affected dis tricts to make thorough investiga- tion and to diagnose the cases, and I am now awaiting his report"
 Col. Young said that from what he has learned the smallpox now epidemic in Mexico is different from the cases of that disease that have previ- ously come under his notice. In the cases reported to him the patients are covered with large sores that fill with maggdts, making it very aggravating to treat them. ,.
 The Indians on the Sacaton reserva- tion are in a remarkably 'healthy eondi- tion and there is very little sickness ot any nature, due to the stringent sani- tary rules enforced by the agent and the. physician. The Indians fully ap- preciate the danger of smallpox ani are taking proper precautions to pre-, vent outside Indians from coming or the reservation. There is absolutely no danger to this section. as nothing will be left. undone to confine tht plague to the districts now affected