Arizona silver belt., 1902-12-18
UPPER CHA VALLEY
wm. Rlngwalt Bound Over on Charge of kur'
 der-Closing of Schools.

der--Closing of Schools.
 Wm. Ringwalt, a man who was tray cling through Aravaipa canyon, is now in jail at Solomonvile, charged with the murder of Paddy Lynch, a rauchman of about S3 years of age, who lived by himself in an isolated location. The night of the murder, | Ringwalt camped about two miles from Lynch'S house. He had visi ted Lynch to get some hay and a few words passed between them because 1 Lynch refused bis request, so Ring walt said. The man is held un strong circumStantial evidence. [ is to be hoped that the officers will use unuSu al diligence tO find the perpetrator of the terrible deed A friend went to see Lynch aud found him dead sue through the back
 The store uf J r Owens was broken into. Twenty dollars and some sun dries were taken. The thief has been found-a small boy, ten years old, by the name of Jones. This is not the first offence, so it is said
 Central America is offering big in- ducements to persuade emigrants to settle within it's domains. X large number of Nnrmons have departed and more are expected soon to follow.
 Solnmouylle has closed it's public schools on account of smallpox. The irst thing the people seem to think about when contagious case springs up ia to close school instead of enforc- ing a strict quarantine. Persons liv- ing there who have smallpox in light form often do no 20 tu bed at all, but are up mingling with the well ones and exposing them to danger. OtlI- CTS, as soon as they are able to 20 about, are walking around their com munitieS scattering escaping scales wherever they go to some unsuspect- ing victim. Solomonville seems to be particularly unfortunate. It has large Mexican population, and as it seems to enforceno quarantine regu- latiOns, the inhabitants are at the mer- cy of every Tom, Dick and Harry that comes along with a contagious disease. Last year the school at Sclo- monville was closed on account of smallpox.
 Diphtheria, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox and whooping cough are the contagious diseases most dangerous to children and likely to be communica. ted in school.
 The way to keep down these diseases is for the doctors to enforce the guar , antine upon the homes of those ai- fected with diseases that seem suspi- ciouS, and allow no coming or going of inmates or friends. These diseases are spread principally by allowing the patients to return to school too sOon; also by carelesSness of parents, nurses and others occupying positions of re Sponsibility, and by allowing occu. pants from infected houses to careless , ly mingle with the well persons. Gen eral preventive measures at home, abroad and at school is the most def. nite action to check contagious dis eases and not the closing of school.
 Well children had better be taken care of in the school room than to be running over town into danger una wares. Sick families had better be quarantined than to deprive the en- tire town of its legal rights because of the illness of a few persons. Money had better be spent to enforce quaran- tine regulations than to endanger the lives of whole community and to al most break up school for the year to give it such a setback that it will hardly recover from the bad effects for the rest of the term.
 One of the finest rains that has fal- len for several years took place re- gently, and came in a steady down. pour, lasting about twenty -four hours. There was heavy snowfall on Mount Graham.
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