Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1901-08-16
WESTERN LIBERAL.
1oRDsBURG. AUGUST lo, 1901.


ma, California, to visit relatives.
j.. X Cauthen came in from Waxa-
bachle, Texas, Wednesday, aud con
templates erecting a new building on
the ground now occupied by the Cliff
ton saloon, which he owns.
The Arizona s. New Mexico railroad
received a new turntable this week
which will be placed at Clifton.
There is scarce room there for a Y on
which to turn the big engines now in
use.
James 2. McCabe and J.. b. Jerni-
gan, who have been spending a few
weeks at Catalina Island, have re-
turned, and report having a great time.
They claim to have caught all the fish
in the ocean west OF the California
coast.
Mrs. Oscar Jennings left yesterday
for Phoenix, where she intends to
make her future home. Mr.. Jennings
being interested II a mining operation
near that town. She was accompanied
by her sister aud nephew, Mrs, John
Rumsey, and sou Lester, Of Chicago,
who have been visiting her.
VIM. Morris was 10 from STEMS
Pass the lrst of the week. He re-
ports that he has been down the San
Simon valley, and travelled over a
great deal of country In the last week
or so, and lever has he seen such fine
grass as is in the country this summer.
If any cattle starve to death during
the next year it will be because they
are kept In a pasture and cannot get
at the range.
The last issue of the Clifton Era has
an untrue and misleading article, or
rather a series of articles, on the sub
ject Of smallpox. 1t says there is
smallpox In Clifton, Duncan and
Lordsburg. The LIBERAL cannot
speak with certainty regarding Clifton
and Duncan, but it can regarding
Lordsburg, and it asserts there is not
a case of small pox in the town, and
there has not been a case for a long
IillGt 5CNClul lGdlCs 4ilClC uuo uCtI
an eruptive disease here. some twenty
five cases, that is similar to smallpox
in one particular, that is there is an
eruption on the skin, but the eruption
is not at all like that of smallpox.
In-smallpox the eruption comes outon
each patient in one crop. In this
disease it comes in several crops, the
last eruption often being several days
after the Grst. 1t is very probable
that what has appeared at Clifton and
Duncan, and is described by the Texas
horse doctor who furnishes medical
Information for the columns Of the
Era, as smallpox, is the same disease
as has appeared in Lordsburg. 1t is a
fact that the county health officer of
Graham county has examined the
cases and pronounced them not small.
pox La this opinion he is supported
by the highest legal-medlcal authority
of this section of Grant county. The
disease is a vascular influenza, whose
history and habits arc not thoroughly
known. L. has come to this country
from some foreign source, as the grip
came from Russia some years ago, and
like the grip, might be called a new
disease. In the Philadelphia Medical
Journal of July 9Th. Jaw f. Scham-
berg, NJ. D., an eminent Philadelphia
practitioner, describes the disease in a
page article fully illustrated, and
calls it an epidemic of a Peculiar
and Unfamiliar Diseases of the Skim
DR.. Schamberg treated ome ten or
twelve cases in the Skin Department
of the Philadelphia Polytechnic, and
after describing it says; Several
members of the same household are
commonly affected. These we have
observed on one occasion in husband,
wife and infant, on another in brother
and sister, and several times in hus'
band and wife. AS far as we have
been able to determine the affection
usually begins spontaneously 10 the
several members of the same family.
1t is too early to say whether or not
we are dealing with a disease sui
generis, and IT is likewise difficult to
state anything definite concerning it's
nature. The frequency with which
the affection attacks several members
of the same family would suggest that
it is contagious, and possibly of the
nature of an acute infectious disease,
On the other hand, 1t must not be for,
COTTON that a common cause, such as
the ingestion of a certain foodstuh
might simulate a transmisslble disease
In the production of such a series Of
cases. 1t is, perhaps, wisest at This
time, to record observations, ratheI
than to elaborate theories. Tit
disease appears to occur in individual
living 10 widely separated districts o
the city" In Lordsburg there has no
been a death produced by this disease
although one case was an infant, VIII,
was attacked BY it when less than Tel