The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-16
But One European Attacked, the 9th
er Patients Being Chinese, Jap
anese and Hawaiians.
CHINATOWN TO BE PURIFIED
RESIDENTS MOVED TO NEW QUAR-
TIERS AND OLD HOUSES BURNED.
Strict Quarantine Maintained-The
Disease Said to BE Spreading I'm Ja-
pan-Many Cases Reported.

China arrived to-day from the Orient, via
Honolulu. The China did not dock at Homo
lulu, but anchored off that port, the
Hawaiian mail being carried out on tugs.
Up to Jan. there had been nineteen new
cases of the plague. The disease is now
thought to be we'll under control of the
authorities. The Honolulu correspondent
of the Associated Press, under date of
Jan. s, says:
"Since the 1st instant nine cases of
plague have developed. making twenty-five
cases to date. The Board of Health has
adopted heroic measures, and it is believed
that the work now in progress will stamp
out the scourge in a short time. Thus far
but one European has been attacked. This
case was that of Ethel Johnson, a Nor
wegian girl, aged fourteen years. The
other twenty-one cases are divided as fol-
lows: Chinese. fifteen: Japanese. two:
Hawaiians, three; South Sea Islander, one.
"The following resolution was adopted
by the Board of Health: 1t is the sense of
this meeting that 1t Is sound policy to re-
move to quarantine rapidly possible
the residents of the Chinatown district,
and to take every step. without limit.
necessary to stamp out the plague. in
cluding the destruction Of buildings and
other property In accordance with the
foregoing Chinatown is being rapidly
burned out. Within a week a majority of
the residents of the plague spot will be
removed to new and cleaner quarters on
the outskirts of the city. Thirty-one small
buildings are being erected by the govern
ment. These structures will accommodate
about three thousand persons.
ION the third instant the Board of Health
declared the entire judicial district of
Honolulu under quarantine. All persons
are forbidden to leave the district without
permission of the Board of Health. All
persons outside of the district are forbid
den to harbor any persons coming from
the district without the permission of the
Board of Health. The Council of State
has appropriated s273,OOO with which to
fight the plague and place the city in a
proper sanitary condition.
Attorney General Cooper has resigned
his position as president of the Board of
Health. Pressure of business in his regu-
lar department is said to be the cause. He
has been succeeded by DR.. c. b. Wood, a
| member of the board. Francis M. Hatch,
formerly Hawaiian minister at Washing
ton, has been made a member of the
health board
"Some of the captains Of the sailing ves-
sells leaving here for the coast are relaxing
from the strictness of the rule Of taking
no passengers from Honolulu, and there is
now some chance for people to go away
| If they are willing to go on sailing vessels.
The schooner Columbia, which leaves here
I next week, is taking passengers. She goes
to Port Townsend.
1.-The bubonic plague appears to be
spreading in japan, as shown by advices up
to Dec. 80 received this morning via steam
ship China. At Taihoku four fresh cases
and one death were reported on the oath,
and on the following day there were four
deaths and two new cases. Up to the 26th
there have been twenty-five cases at Osaka
and twenty-five in Kobe.
Sixty immigrants to Hawaii arrived at
| Tennoji Station. Osaka, on the oath inst,
| from Wakayama, en- route to Yokohama.
After sanitary inspection at the station one
| of the laborers was found to be suffering
with a disease supposed TO be the plague.
| The patient was conveyed to the hospital
and the other immigrants were taken there
| for disinfection. The Japanese papers do
not say whether they were allowed to con-
| tinue their journey to Honolulu, but 1T is
not stated that there was any detained, so
| they are presumably on the China or some
other vessel.
1.-The authorities on the island of Tauai
| have taken action that seems TO completely
cut the island off from communication with
| Honolulu on account of the plague. Even
mail cannot come from there while the
present rules are enforced, and the islands
steamship company will suffer heavily in
| loss of business. The steamer Ke-Au- Hou
arrived this morning from the island with
out having been able TO APPROACH any wharf.
There were deputy sheriffs with shotguns
at every landing place. and they shouted
| the order to keep away. The result was
that the steamer returned to Honolulu alb
| solutely empty.
'Leung Chi Tso, the Chinese reformer is
now in Honolulu. The Chinese consul has
| written TO the government protesting
against Leung Chi Tso being allowed to
remain here"