Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-10-27
LETTER FROM TEXAS.
The Yellvw Fever Scare Greatly increased
Dengue Fever Almost the Same as
Yellow Fever
Missouri City Under Shotgun Quarantine.

CYCLONE RANCH, Oct. 13. Give
have sure enough got the Yellow Jack
scare on hand now. 1t has been very
amusing to me all the time until yes
terday.l vent to Missouri City and
cav man walking along the railroad,
and when he reached the depot some
half dozen men were standing there
and with guns la hand. told him TO re-
trace his steps and go back, and he
went.
Three men passed Sugarland, five
miles west from here, and wanted to
buy something to eat and get some
water, but they walked them through
and gave them no time for food or
drink; then came Gu to Missouri City
and were passed throuph the same way;
tis eighteen miles to Houston and
about eight miles to the first chance
for food or water. and the poor fellows
certainly suffered before they got
either Today every road Is guarded, no
one allowed to go in or out of Missouri
City. live two miles from town, and
started IN to get some groceries and
was met at the end OF Main Street by
one OF the yellow ribbon brigade and
told could 90 no further, so had to
come back. Fort Bend County, the one
live iu, allows no train to stop within
her boundaries only for water, no pas.
sengers received or allowed to get off.
Section hands are rot working only
every other day, and that will not
more than pay their board. Our town
cotton gin has stopped. stores are
closed, and what the Deuce will be
done next can 7 tell. The merchants
are about out of flour, bacon and meal
and that is the farmers dependence
for grub. Houston was quarantined
before our merchants knew or thought
of such thing and at time when all
were about out of these essentials; 80
l guess we will have to do like they do
in Kansas, burn COW chips and live on
wind. EVERYBODY here now wants to 20
to Klondike but me, don know what
the Deuce do want. All business is
closed down and everybody wants to
crawl into hole and pull the hole in
after them. Jack Rabbits never run in
hole, but they often squat in the high
grass until the dog has passed, then
take the back track, but when all aven
ues on the back tracks are closed it is
better to he still.
Some of them have had whst they
call depgue fever; II is said to be very
near the yellow fever. suppose they
bear about the same relation to each
other as the green apple bellyache and
collie. The dengue is in much milder
form, as no one has died with it; the
patient has very high fever, his bones
ache and he breaks out like chicken
pox and has chilly feeling down the
spine, and besides all that he don t
feel very we'll himself. A man went to
Houston after goods after being warned
by his neighbors that he should not
come back, but he came back to the
quarantine line about 10 O'Clock that
night and they wouldn't let him pass
he wanted to send bis goods in, but
they told him no, he nor his goods
neither one could come inside the linn
its; to take them and 60 back to Hous
ton, and he went. They will put him
under guard If he scouts his way back
home, If they don't treat him worse
than that, and there are some people
here who would just as soon counsel
Judge Lynch"
II stranger was to come along here
sick now no one would take him in and
he might lay out until the hair would
slip from his head and the meat fall
from his bones and the buzzards pick
his eyes out.
In thinking over these things an old
saying comes to my mind: "What fools
we mortals be-" 1t has never been my
lot to see just such an excitement as
prevails now; some men are scared so
bad the sweat runs over their shoetops
and actually are afraid to do anything.
Freight trains coming from the west
to Houston are not allowed to 60 in
town, far enough to reach Y or turn
table, but sidetrack, then get on to che
main line and the yard engine bring
out the freight cars and they come
back tender end foremost with their
load.
October 15.-Missouri City is still un
der strict quarantine against Harris
County and Houston, but farmers in the
nei9hborhood are allowed to go into
town aud about their business as usual.
The passenger train went through here
today at the rates Of fifty or sixty miles
per hour; 1t almost got up and flew
and reeled like drunk man.
DR.. Guiteras, Government yellow
fever expert, has been in Houston and
went from there to Galveston, and at
1890 o'clock last night DR.. Stuart re
ceived the following:
DIR. d. e. Stuart. Prasidant of the