Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-02
TEXAS ALARMED.
Nearly All Towns in That State Quar-
antined Against Fever.
Many Yellow Fever Cases in the Crescent
City Dying Through NegIect-Ouaran-
tine Action Observation-Disclosures
from NJ obiIe and Edwards.

earnest. Nearly all towns in eastern,
central and southern Texas have de-
clared shotgun quarantine against
Houston, on account of the suspicious
case of Eva Duncan, the negro woman
whom the state health officer has o.
dered guarded. In Brazos county
County Health Officer Tabor has given
out orders to the effect that every road
entering the county will be closed and
guarded and every suspicious rumor
run down. No passenger trains will
stop in the county hereafter and there
will for the present be no papers or
other mails received. The railroad
company has been notified to put in
all perishable goods, flour and ice at
once from the north in car lots, the
same not to come from nor through an
infected point Trains will no longer
be permitted to take sidings for pass
ing in Brazos county. At Dallas no
passengers from Houston will be per-
mitted to stop, although there has
been no embargo on freight and mail
as yet. The Houston & Texas Central
has practically abandoned its train
service out of Houston, only one train
a day running. The Missouri, Kansas
Sc Texas is running through Houston
to Galveston, the cars being locked
north of Houston and nobody per-
mitted to enter or leave the train.
THE SITUATION AT NEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 29.--The yellow
fever situation here continues exaSper-
atingly the same A daily average of
IS to 20 cases and two deaths has kept
up. But while there is no sign of an
epidemical visitation, the slow prog
ress of the disease puts obstacles daily
in the way of the fretful merchant
pu bile, who are anxious to again re-
sumo trade with the surrounding coun-
try The record yesterday was not
unlike that of many other days, in that
it showed a death through sheer neg
lect of the patient, and of 21 cases up
to date having a fatal termination.
The facts are incon trovertib BILE that at
least half die through neglect or lack
of attention Business is showing fee
BILE signs of revival and the railroads
are putting forth superhuman efforts
to secure modification of the quaran-
tine regulations. In the mean time
the Crescent city finds itself incapable
OF shipping a pound of freight to the
Lone Star state. The result of this, of
course, is the throwing out of employ
ment of hundreds of thousands of peo-
pie here. The railroads, the manu-
factories, the big wholesale and retail
stores shave all dispensed with the
services of many of their employees I'M
til business again picks up. Now that
the force of senSeleSs shotgun quaran-
tine is being felt, theaters and hotels
more than ever are a thermometer of
the injury that is being done this city.
There have been a total of TT cases to
date and 81 deaths.
QUARANTINE ACTION DENOUNCED.
ST. LOUIS. Sept. 29.-The action of
the county health officers at Victoria,
Tex, in instituting a strict quarantine
against all shipments from St. Louis
or any other point in Missouri, is de-
nounced by local business men as an
'unwarranted action, calculated to do
the business interests of this city great
damage if not raised at once. 1t is not
that the quarantine of Victoria county
is itself Important, but it is feared
that the precedent thus set will spread.
Tt is generally believed by local bust
mess men that the Victoria quarantine
arises from the report that New Or
leans merchants are shipping freight
to st. Louis, and, without breaking
bulk, are reshipping and rebilling it
from here to Texas. That this is being
done is positively denied by every road
leading into st. Louis.
INFECTED DISTRICTS BEING CLEANED.
MOBILE, Ala, Sept. 29.-The noon re-
port of the board of health yesterday
showed the effect of the excessive hot
weather of the past six days upon the
populace- The number of cases re-
corded for the past "a hours was ten,
all of the patients having been taken
i'll from the Esd to the Goth. One death
was announced. The boards sum-
mary is "a cases, 9 deaths, so recovered
and 25 under treatment The work of
ombatting the disease goes on unceas-
ingly. The whole fever infected dis
trict has been cleaned and disinfected.
the yards, sinks and drains, streets and
cutters and the districts adjacent are
now receiving like treatment The
exodus. SO called, has apparently come
to standsti1l.
THE SITUATION GROWING WORSE.
EDWARDS, Miss, Sept. 29.-Dr. Dunn,
OF the state board of health, gave the
Associated press the following last
night: There has been one death to-
day from yellow fever; total cases to-
day, 81; total cases to date, 1S9 in town
and eight in the country; number seri-
.OuSly ill six. number cOuyaleSceOf and