Arizona republican., 1902-12-20
UPPER CHA VALLEY
A Variety of News of a Very Interes:
 ing Nature.

SCnCrd, ATiZ., December 19. Especial Correspondence of The Republlcan)- For some time there has been much dissatisfaction among the station agents of the Gila Valley. Globe ard Northern Railway. The revenue de- rived from the express company for handling it's expressage was claimed by the owner of this railroad to belong 10 him exclusively.
 The agents, seven in number, ana their assistants signed petition pray ing that they might be allowed to reap the benefit of handling the eXpressaec which is accorded to agents Of other roads. The petition was sent to the superintendent, MT. Beal at Globe and accompanying it was q refusal to aC- ccpt their salary then due. This ques- ton was too momentous for the super intcudCnt to solve: he confessed n.5 Inability to meet the emergency in ap- pealing to Garland. The owner of tine road came on and soon settled the strikers. He arbitrarily disposed or the troublesome subject; not by yield ing to his employees. but by cutting their salaries as much as the income from the eXpressagc would amount tG. This falls particularly heavy upon Saf- ford, as it does a large business in that department. His cut in wagea has extended to the lowest and hum- blcst of his employees. the section hands. Only one dollar per day to b= paid to a section hand. The white men can find work at something moro rcmunerative ;so. the poor Indian was applied to in the emergency.
 Ni1li~rr1 TPfr~ryt-.a 14 ic omonville charged with the murder Of Paddy Lynch, a raEchman about S5 years of age who lived by himself in a somewhat isolated locality in the Aravaipa canyon. Ringwalt was travel ing through that country and the nighr oI the murder camped about two miles from the house of Lynch. He had visited Lynch to get some hay and a few words passed between them be- cause Lynch refused his request. so Rinswalt said.
 Ringwslt is held on strong circum- stantial evidence. It is to be hoped that the officers will use unusual dill gc1ce to find the perpetrator of the terrible deed. Lynch lived alone. A friends went to see him and found him dead; shot through the back.
 Solomonville has closed it's public schools on account of small pox. The first thing the people seem to think about when a contagious case springs up, is to close the school. instead O. enforcing a strict quarantine Per- sons living there who have small DoX in a light form often do not 20 ;o bed at all, but are up mingIing wit., the well ones, and exposing them to danger. Others as soon as they are able to go about are walking around their communities scattering the es- caping scales wherever they go to some unsuspecting victim. SolomonviIle seems to be particularly unfortunate. It has a large Mexican population, and as 1t seems to enforce no quarantine. regulations, the inha bitants are at the mercy of every Dick and Harry that comes along with a contagious disease. Last year the schools of SolomOnviIIe were closed on account of small pox.
 Diphtheria, measles, scarlet rever small poX and whCOping cough are the contagious diseases most dangerous to children and likely to be communicated ln school Diphtheria is the most dan gerous and difficult to identify If the threat is very sore the child should be kept at hone and a physician called in. child who has been afflicted with diphthcria should not be allowed to at tend school for two weeks acter it has entirely recovered.
 Measles are not go dangerous as some Of the others mentioned: but it is often fatal and should be carefully guarded against. Children from infect ed houses should be kept at home at least a week after the sick child has recovered.
 Scarlet fever is enc of the most pro tracted and contagious of diseases A child may be sick but q few days and still remain capable of communicating the disease to others for a period Of from six to eight weeks. All infected houses should be plaCardcd fer at least six weeks, and ID person from such house should be allowed to return to school for period of at least eight weeks and not less than two weeks af- ter the Immigration of the house, if the disease has been protracted beyond six weeks.
 In case of small poX all persons should be compelled to be vaccinated, and the school children as well.
 The way to keep down these dis