Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-16
RIGID RULES
Must Be Adopted to Prevent
Spread Of Disease.
~SCARLETFEVER INCREASING
! Slackness of Quarantine Regulations
Skilled Operation Performed
Sheriff Fransl,ap Returns.
S~CARLETFEVER INCREASING
Bozeman, April IA, 1900.

Bozeman, April IA, 1900.
There is but little doubt that nothing
but the most rigid and exacting quaran-
tine rules can prevent a spread of scarlet
fever in this city. The disease is mild
when confined to children. but during the
past few days several grown people have
been taken down and it is Still spread
ing. At first the doctors supposed the
mild form of the disease was a sufficient
justification for them to leave the COM
ml:nity unwardeu of it's prevalence and
reasoned that now was as good a time
as any for the young children of the city
to take the disease and become immunes
from it's terrors in later life. This feel
ing has led to a about quaran-
tine regulations that is little short of
criminal if deaths ensue from the cases
now in town o.. to he developed later. The
health officer is making all efforts with
in his power to check the spread of the
disease ant with a proper dread of the
infection no harm will result from the
cases now in town. If, however, the pub
liz apathy in the matter continues there
is liable to be a costly epidemic in the
city.
Last evening I'm Darkest Russia was
the attraction at the BoZeman opera
/ house. The play was a good one, but was
/ greeted by a very small audience. ORA
! matte interest was in the air when the
curtain rose and increased as the plot un-
folded in the spirited way to the climax
of the piece. The thrilling situations
were applauded and the actors We're en-
couraged to good effort. The play was a
long one, but the we'll sustained interest
made the time pass without seeming ted1-
Gus to those nno waited for the
OF the well written play.
1t is not generally known in this city
that n t. Nav ic tho n16oSt S1hScIihQr
to the New York Tribune that that noted
paper has IN it's list. Such is the case,
however. For nearly sixty years ne has
taken the Tribune with regularity and
read AND believed Its utterances as only
a good republican can. When a boy Col.
May was a wing of the uncompromising
SORT and he stayed by his colors during
; the war of the COS until he came in one
OF going to Jail for his abolition principles
in the state of Maryland. Some years
age Col. May was in New York and called
at the office of the Tribune and was glad
! ly greeted by the management as the old
est living subscriber on the lists Of the
paper.
H. Ahnen who was operated upon by
Drs. Hogan, Holmes and Schulin some
time ago for a depression on his skull
which had rendered him blind, is able to
see dimly at present and there is every
hope that he will eventually have his
sight restored. The patient had no money
TO pay the doctors and the medical men
die the work and furnished the instru-
ments gratis. Their reward will be the
satisfaction of seeing the once blinded
man rescued from q life of rkn and
able, with his sight restored, to point to
three Bozeman doctors as having pre-
scented him with a gift as great almost as
life itself.
Sheriff Franshap returned this morning
\ from a trip to the state asylum for the
insane at Warm Springs. He took Mrs
Mellia NJ. Wheaton to the insane asylum
> for detention under an order from George
Ellis, temporary chairman of the board
OF county commissioners, acting in thu
absence of Judge Armstrong. Mrs
Wheaton was sane on all subjects excep
\ one. She imagined that her son who haC
been in the army in Co. c, First Mon
tana. had never returned and persisted
in this belief until her faculties were al
\ at sea. She never recognized her sol
4 since his return and admitted that hi
I absence had so preyed Upon her mine
that she vas incapable of coheren
thought.
\ County Attorney Smith was in the cit.
4 to. day from his home in Lewiston. Fl
has been spending some time at Hunter
1 Hot Springs resting and regaining hi
health. His health appears to be excel
4 lent DIT DICSt1iL III lc Idu NCIy PiCdS
= ant visit with the members Of the loca
lodge of Elks. Attorney Smith is eX
halted ruler of the lodge at Lewiston an
\ as a mark of due respect to the cff1cia
= all the local Elks set their watches a
y eleven O'Clock when he arrived in town.
Considerable rain has fallen in this cit
to-day. The mud which has been lack
n ing in the composition OF the streets 10
the past month is again in evidence an
. is reminding the city councilmen that tn
4 annual problem Of street legislation is u
\ to the city dads again. 1t is though
that something can be done this year t
= do away with the mud.
: On Starvation Schedule.
New YORK. April 16.-Giovanni Branch
the Italian consul general, deplores til
cepd;Oo of tcnopS to the Scpnp Of III