The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-15
Al INQUEST TO Be HELD
Over the Remains of Kenney
Phelan To-Day.
THERE MAY BE AN AUTOPSY
It Is Feared That Little OF Real Value
Can Be Obtained From Any Exam
ination-There Was a Popular
Demand for an Inquest.

1t has been decided TO hold an in
quest over the body of Kenney Phelan
ana IL will be held this morning in
JSdge williams court room at il
O'Clock. Coroner H~ardenbrook, Coun-
" Attorney Trippet and Commissioner
Walker held a consultation yesterday
and this action was determined upon
in Difference to a popular demand for
an inquest. 1t is not believed by the
medical men that an inquest Will re-
suit in bringing out anything new out
il will not do any harm.
There was some talk last night that
an autopsy might also be MADE lo-uay'
An autopsy alone. would not. 1t is be-
iIeyed. teach much regarding the pol
s,n from the indirect effects of whlcn
Mr. Phelan died. II any autopsy IS
made IL is probable that the stomach
of he dead man will be removed ana
eent to some irst-class analytical chem
1st for analysis. There is no one in
Anaconda who would care to take the
responsibility of making this test, ana
there are those who doubt very much
~. after the analysis is made 1t will
tell very much. Ii is said by these peo-
ME that at the time Mr.. Phelan died
there was very little If anything LETT
"a his stomach TO analyze, ana mat
nothing but Inflammation OF those or
cans would be discovered. Even II any
thing were found to ~analyze, IT is
claimed that it could not be told which
of the different kinds of food eaten con-
tanned the poison. n that is just ex-
actly what the public would like 10
know-whether ii was in the ice cream.
chicken fricasee or something else.
grhe medical opinion appears to be
that all the men who were attacked
with disease in Carroll are suffering
from the same complaint; that is food
infection. Such cases are common 10
the medical books. and as one author
ity states. the disease has been much
more prevalent since the preserving III
foods has become more general. TIT
medical works contain an instance
where 200 people were affected by food
infections from eating portions OF on
aaimaI. Even those who only ate sour
made from this animal were taken III
while many of those that ate the meal
in an improperly cooked state dlet
Those that ate the meat of the ANNA
the best cooked suffered the least. An
other ease reported where a COW wa
killed was not in a healthy condition
The meat looked all right and passe'
a inspectors examination n approN
"a. but 40 persons who ate her hesl
mere X violently i'll. All the case
come under the head of food infec
ton. The books say that in cases q
meat the flesh may be that of health!
animals, but after 1t is killed 1t ma!
come in contact or be subjected 10 sucl
conditions as to produce food infec
ton. Further han this food such a
meats. fish and cheese may be infect
ed. so as to have a disagreeable smell
IA when cooked this odor will leave
but the germs of food infection are still
mere. II is an interesting subject, upol
which columns might be written from
the medical works.
All the men at Carroll who were af
fected seriously, TO the number of abou
Is. have been removed to the hospital
The report last night was that all thes
cases were progressing favorably, wit
the exception of job cannon. Hi
Condition was causing the doctors con
slderable anxiety. The medical me-
appear TO have no doubt that all tn
others will get all right soon. The fac
that the men were removed from Car
roll to the hospital made many person
think the condition of the men wa
worse than il is. They were remove
as there are more facilities for treat
ing them properly than there is a
the boarding house.