Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-01-09
Heroic Measures Being Taken att
Honolulu to Stamp II
Out.
All Infected Houses to Be Burned
and Strict Quarantine
Enforced.
Seventeen Cases Have Been Re
ported May Have Been
Others.

Il SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. o. g a. letter
from Honolulu dated Dec. 30 says:
The curions spectacle is presented
here Of the revival of the shotgun guar
antine around the plague-infected dis
trict, while sanitary measures and dis
infection have been practically aban-
doned The board of health called ont
the national guard three days after
Christmas, because of the discovery Of
FIVE newcases Of plague, two of which
proved fatal. It is now paying 81 900 a
day for this projection, and the main
tenance of this strict guard is demoral-
izing, and many poor Chinese and
and japanese who worked in the Amer
ican quarantine are starving.
The Gordon drawn around the Ash
attic district includes many of the lead
ing Chinese and Japanese dealers who
live in sanitary fashion, and who are
making a strong protest against need
less hardships to. which they are sub
jected. The original method of fumi-
eating all Oriental merchandise im-
ported has been abandoned and much
Of this unfumigated freight is handled
by HaWaiians. 5ss5
Destroying Infected Buildings.
Another dispatch dated Jan. Il says:
A portion of the Infected district was
condemned and burned to the ground.
Three buildings and a large warehouse
was destroyed By fire. The future pol
icy of the health authorities will be to
destroy all infected buildings The
board of health here is severely criIi-
cized by the two leading papers here
The Star and The Advertiser. In short
these Journals claim that the members
of the health board appear to be in
competent and therefore are incapable
of handling the present trouble. There
is still feeling of donbt as to the mo-
ture of the disease. The majority Of
intelligent people do not consider it
plague. But the fact remains that the
victims are stricken and die very sud-
denly. IF the trouble is not plague, it
is something akin to it. The presence
of the plague in this city IS commence
ing to worry the sugar men. They have
an idea that Hawaiian sugar may be-
refused at United States ports if shipper
from Honolulu. To get around this
difficulty, the new crop may be shipped
from ports outside of Honolulu. Hon
olulu being the only infected port, it is
believed that the federal authorities
will agree to this plan and allow the
marketing of the 1899 crop.
rs Seventeen nown Cases. ss
There have been IL known cases OF
bubonic plague in Honolulu to date.
There have been q number of other
deaths which were probably death from
plague, but the board of health has not
officially SO declared them. Passenger
traffic between the islands is practically
at standstill The inter-island steam
ship companies refuse to take passen-
gers on account of the onerous quaraal-
tine conditions imposed. Fumigated
freight is accepted. but is loaded and
discharged from lighters away from the
wharves.
HI The America Maru, which arrived
here from San Francisco on Dec 81, dis
charged her passengers and freight by
means.of lighters.
81 The transport Grant with the Forty
eighth infantry arrived few hours
after the America Maru. Her COM
mander refused to come into the har-
Dor or have any thing but the barest
communication with the pilots and port
officials and started for Manila after a
stop of not more than an hour.