The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-21

| Has the city
| No the city has done no such foo
thing, is the proper and universal repll
Of the mayor.
Arkansas City, Winfield. Wichita To
peka, Wellington and nearly all of the
towns have what Kay county has. call i
what You choose.
Arkansas City has today just nine
houses quarantined and the patients il
I'VE Of them are practically well In fact
scarcely any of them have been confined
to their beds for minute on account OF
sickness.
These facts were secured from compe-
tent authority and can be relied upon as
strictly true and official"
The proclamation issued by DR.. Swan
OF Kansas may become historical, and
for that reason is given. 1t reads as fol-
lows:
Whereas, It appears that the disease of
smallpox, the same being an infectious or
contagious disease, is now prevalent all
over Kay county, Oklahoma, which is i'm
mediately south of the southern line of
Kansas, and,
Whereas. There is great danger of the
citizens of the state of Kansas, and es-
pecially the citizens of Cowley, Sumner
and Harper counties of said state, by
reason of their railroad connections and
proximity, becoming exposed and liable
to become sick with said infectious or
contagious disease, by coming in contact
with persons from said infected district,
by reason of the exposure
Now therefore. the state board OF
health Of the state Of Kansas, by virtue
Of the authority in it vested by law, do
hereby declare and proclaim that said
counties of .Cowley, Sumner and Harper
and the state OF Kansas shall be and are
frcm this date, declared under quarantine
against said infected district, for period
OF thirty 800 days, and all rules and or
der, to carry out and rigidly enforce this
proclamation must be strictly obeyed as
Ions as the same shall be in force.
And this proclamation shall apply to
any or all persons passing to or through
said infected district, or travelling to or
through said infected district, by car
riage, wagon, horseback or otherwise,
and all such persons are hereby prohibit
ed from entering said counties of Cowley.
Sumner and Harper and also the state of
Kansas and any and all persons in said
counties and state are hereby prohibited
from going to or through said infected
district, and returning into said counties
and state. until this quarantine shall have
been raised.
And any person or corporation owning,
occupying or controlling any house, build
ing, dwelling, premises or places, of
whatsoever kind, or any railway train,
passenger coach and other public vehicle
o. conveyance, who shall violate or re-
fuse to obey any of the rules, regulations
Or orders of said board, when duly made
and published, shall be deemed guilty Of
4 misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined in the sum of not
more than five hundred dollars $500 for
Zach offense, or be confined in the county
Jail for period of thirty 900 days or
10Th fine and imprisonment in the discre- (
ion of the court.
And also. all mail and packages from /.
,aid infected district shall be thoroughly
purified and disinfected before the same
hall be transported into said counties
md state for distribution.
The sherlffs of Cowley Sumner and |
Harper counties, Kansas, are hereby
empowered and directed to
AIRY out and enforce this proclamation. |
Dated at the city of Topeka, Kansas, |
his 10Th day of January, A D. 1900.