Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-19
CITY. AND COUNTY
COUNTY PHYSICIAN OBJECTS TO
TREATING SMALLPOX
- PATIENT.
HE WILL REQUIRE EXTRA PAY.
Contract Dose Not Cover Such Cases
Crops Prospects are
Fine.
Bozeman, May 16.
HE WILL REQUIRE EXTRA PAY.

The question of smallpox quarantine
has aroused considerable discussion in
this city and the n in which the one
patient afflicted with the disease has
found his way TO the doctors care has
aroused more than ordinary speculation
on what law is applicable to such cases
as confront a board of commissioners
when epidemics break out in a commu-
nifty. The county physician, DR.. L. e.
Safely, told the board of county commits
sioners that his contract With the county
of Gallatin did not cover cases of this
kind and for that reason he would require
extra compensation if he attended the
case now on the lands of the county. He
stated that the man who had contracted
the disease of smallpox and thrust him
self on the charity of the county, was not
a Citizen of the county and for that reason
could not come under the contract of the
county physician. He also commended that
the diseased man a come under the
head Of a public nuisance and 1T was the
duty of the health officer to see to it that
the public health was preserved and con-
tagion prevented. For these reasons he
avered that he was not held to perform
his contract with the county in this in
stance as there could be nc contract COW
eling such special cases that in it's pro-
visions would provide for an epidemic
anu give IIlc ply SlCldH SulldulC IG"oA"
for his services if a stated yearly salary
was the pay. The board Of commissioners
acquiesed in this decision and employed
DR.. Garrett Hogan, paying him $5OO per
month for the work. The. pest house pa
tient is getting along nicely and will soon
be able to be out. His two
detained with him are almost certain to
take the disease and if they are taken i'll
at a date which will indicate that the dis
ease was contracted in the pest house in
stead of before being taken there there
is a very strong likelihood of the county
being made a party to a damage suit.
Gallatin county has been particularly
fortunate in the way of rainfall this
spring. For the past few weeks the
warm spring rains have visited this val
ley with gratifying regularity and done
an in~calculable mount of good in
bringing up the newly sown seed and
promoting the growth of grain that has
been some time In the ground or has been
planted since last fall. The spring and
winter grain is now about eve as far as
growth and greenness is concerned and
there is every indication of a famous crop.
Gallatin has the proud distinction Of be-
ing the banner grain county OF, the state
and makes the wheat into flour at local
mills. The presence of the agricultural
college here has done a great deal for the
FARMING luLeIeSlS VI LIE Ndlcy. Ioi II
stance the rower of small grains were
troubled for years with smut in the grain
anain and scaJb on potatoes. In some
cases whole crops of these products We're
almost entirely destroyed by being affect
ed by smut or scab. Thanks to diligent
experimenting by the staff at the college
and on the government farm a prepare
ton has been discovered n prepared for
use that will destroy the minute insect
in the seed that causes these impediments
to good crops. FOr years it has been a
we'll recognized fact that irrigation was
the best NEAR of raising grain and the
surest to produce a crop. This being the
case nothing initiated against the
| chances of success in ranching except
insect life which, in the form of smut and
scab has proven terribly injurious to
grain and potatoes. This impeachment
happily removed by the scientific pro-
cesses provided by the men at the ex-
pertinent station there is nothing now to
prevent the yearly crops in the Gallatin
county from being the most certain and
! mailing sources of wealth that the state
can depend upon.
The citizens of the city of BoZeman
have decided to take immediate steps to-
ward the improvement of the depot
grounds. Some time ago application was
made to the Northern Pacific railway
company Tor PERMISSION 10 LuTIl the plolS
of ground near the depot and parallel
to the platform into a park and last Mon
day the required permission was granted
by the railroad officials at st. Paul. A
meeting was called Monday evening and
the work of identifying the park will be-
gin in a few days. The railway company
will provide for fencing the park and the
sectionmen will be ,requiredt o put the
ground in order after the citizens COM
nlittee provide the water for irrigation
and SOW the lawn to grass seed.
Mrs. William Car was in the city over
Sunday from her home in Livingston.
Her sister is i'll in this city and is receiv-
ing medical treatment from one of the
physicians here.
Alex Van Brocklin was In Bozeman
from his home in Livingston Sunday. He
states that his wife, who is at the Sana-
tarium is rapidly recovering from her
illness.
Miss Ernestine Burg of Livingston was
in Rozeman Sunday, with a party Of
friends from the Gateway city.
George A. Bruffy, was in the city Sun
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