The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-28
TEN NEW CASES OEYEL OF
Smallpox Is Spreading With
Alarming Rapidly.
PANIC AMONG OFFICIALS
Two Stricken Men Clean Out the City
Hall in Double Quick Order
SIX Patients Sent to the
Pest House.

Two smallpox victims We're respon
sible for the city hall being abandoned
by officials and clerks for time yes
terday. 1t was during the morning
hours that John Graney strolled into
the hall and asked one of the officials
where he could find the health officer.
That official did not chance to know.
and inquired Graney's mission. Graney
replied that he thought he had small
pox. The words were scarcely out of
the mans mouth when there was
scamper for the exit, and just at that
minute Jailer Tom Boyle whistled up
through the speaking tube from the Jail
that he had a smallpox case down
stairs. 1t did not take many seconds
for officials and clerks to decide they
had emergency calls in other direc-
tons.
Dan SwitZer was Jalier Boyles visi-
tor. He walked in almost at the same
instant that Graney appeared upstairs,
and coolly sat down in the jailer's office,
remarking that he would like to see a
doctor, as he believed he had smallpox.
Instantly the speaking tube commune
eating with the upper part of the hall
gave a whistle that suggested that all
the prisoners in the bastile were break
ing jail.
Both of the unfortunates were speed
lily hurried into the receiving hospi-
| tall as the alley in the rear of the Jail
has come to be styled since smallpox
has been raging, where they We're de-
tanned till DR.. Monroe could be sum
moned and they We're then sent to the
pest house. Graney came from Nevin's
boarding house in Dublin gulch and
Switzer said he had just come from
Rocker. 1t is stated that Switzer is
| friends of Charles McCants and visited
| him while he was sick and that this
was where he became exposed.
In connection with the scare the two
| men gave the officials it may be stated
| that the business men of the locality
| Immediately adjacent to the city hall
| are complaining against the custom of
| herding smallpox patients in the Jail
| alley. 1t is the opinion of people in this
| locality that smallpox victims ought
not TO be brought into the very heart
of the city in this way and kept there
| for any length of time. as the curious
cannot be kept away from them and
many people think it simply exposes
| the whole community.
! A. L. Phillips, bill collector, living
| at 81 East Woolman street, was found
| ill of the disease yesterday morning and
| ordered to the pest house. George
| Arkell, living in room 81 at the Silver
block in East Park street, David WEIGH,
at 43 East Galena street and William
Smith, living in South Arizona street,
We're the other victims sent to the pest
| house. DIR. Monroe also found two
| children, George Earl Smith and Lizzie
| Smith, with the disease at their home
at AT Walker avenue, and DR.. O'Leary
| diagnosed a case as smallpox in the
| family of Frank Stairway, who lives
near Columbia Springs, in the vicinity
of Big butte. The victim is baby four
| weeks old. 81
| 1t is said there are several suspicious
cases in this particular locality.
| At 10 o'clock last night the 10th case
| of the day was reported to DR.. Monroe.
| The victim was said to be Mrs.
| Pearce. who lives just below Platinum
street in South Main street.
All of the places where the disease
was found We're placed under quaran-
| tine,