The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-01-27
TWO MORE COUNTIES
Belong in the List of Those
Guaranteed.
SEDGWICK AND SHAWNEE
Make Five TO Which 0kIaho-
ma Is Forbidden.

Guthrie, o. T, Jan. 26.-From the text
Of the official proclamation issued by the
Oklahoma health board quarantining
against certain counties IN Kansas it ap-
pears that the order extends to Sedgwick
and Shawnee counties as well as the
counties Of Sumner, Cowley and Har-
per. The official proclamation is as fol-
lows:
To Kay county board of health, DR.. Will
lam D. Elzell, superintendent and
Grant county board of health, DR.. J. S.
Wallace, superintendent, and to whom
soever it may concern:
Whereas Representation has been made
to the territorial board Of health Of Okla
homa that smallpox, a contagious dis
ease, is now prevailing to an alarming
extent in the counties OF Cowley, Sumner,
Harper. .Sedgwick and Shawnee in the
the state of kansas, and
Whereas, There exists great danger to
the citizens of this territory from the
same, and
Whereas Already contagion from these
counties has been communicated to num-
erous persons in Oklahoma, and great
loss to abe health of our citizens and the
commercial interest of said territory by
a coming in contact with persons from
said infected counties has resulted.
Now, therefore, the territorial board of
health of the Territory of Oklahoma, by
virtue of authority vested in them,
chapter s, statute of Oklahoma territory,
do hereby declare and proclaim that the
Territory of Oklahoma is hereby quaran-
tined against the aforesaid counties of
the state of Kansas, and is hereby after
this date declared to be quarantined
against said infected counties for a period
of thirty days from this date.
The statutes of Oklahoma and the regu-
lations of the various county boards must
be strictly observed and Obeyed under
penalty of law, so long IS this quaran-
tine shall be in force.
This proclamation especially shall apply
to any person or persons coming from
any Of the aforesaid counties into any
portion of this territory, or of any person
or persons who shall pass through said
infected counties, by carriage, wagon, or
otherwise, and all persons to whom this
proclamation shall apply are hereby pro-
hiblted under penalty Of law, from en-
tering said Territory of Oklahoma, from
any of the aforesaid counties OF. Kansas;
ana it is hereby prohibited and directed
that no person from this territory shah
80 20 or through said infected counties
and return therefrom into the said Ter
ritory Of Oklahoma until this quarantine
shall have been raised.
Any person or persons, or any corpora
ton owning. occupying or controlling any
public conveyance of any kind whatso-
ever. are hereby prohibited from trans
ferring. carrying or selling tickets to any
person CT persons from the aforesaid in
fected counties Of the stateeof Kansas, to
or into this territory.
The various county boards Of health
of Oklahoma territory, and the sheIiffs
Of the various counties Of this territory
are hereby commanded to enforce this
proclamation made by this board, this
2tth day Of January, A. D. 1900.
L. HAYNES BUXTON,
Superintendent of Public Health and Sec
rotary of the Territorial Board Of
Health Of Oklahoma Territory