The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-04-08
WITH BIG JAW .
PEOPLE AT BAKER CITY ARE
VICTIMS OF FATAL CATTLE
DISEASE.
Once Affected, Never Cured-Two
in Hospital Now and Several
Have Died.--Widower
Takes Big Rag Doll
for Wife--Art Gal
lery for Nation.

lery for Nation.
Baker City, Or, April "A num-
Der of cases of lump jaw have de-
veloped in this city and county re-
Gently. It is not often that men
and women are afflicted with this
dread disease, which can only be
contracted by eating diseased beef,
but it is fact that several people
have died from lump jaw during
the last eight or tan months.
There are two cases which have
been diagnosed as lump jaw at the
hospital in this city at the present
time.
There is no known cure for the
malady, once it is thoroughly de-
veloped. The patient always dies
as in a case of malignant cancer.
1t is certain that with little eff
fort the source of the disease can b.
traced ia each case. Lump-jawed
cattle cannot be mistaken. The
outward sign of the disease is the
appearance of lump on the side
and under the jaw, which continues
in size until it becomes hideous in
appearance aud huge in proper
tions. In time it breaks and be-
comes running sore, very often
sive to the sight. It is more usu-
ally met with on the Eastern Ore
gon and Eastern Washington rang
es than in the Willamette Valley.
In some localities it is known as
the s.big jaw" By some cattlemen
it is considered as semi-contagious,
and those of prudent turn of mind,
alwaye shoot the Infected animal IS
soon as the character of the malady
is first discovered. The animal, af-
ter it is attacked with the disease,
soon begins to lose flesh, and if al
lowed TO live, is finally reduced by
the effect of the malady to skin and
bcne.
1t is claimed that animals so af-
f1icted. before the disease had re-
duced them too far in flesh, have
been killed here and sold as beef to
an unsuspecting public. A rigid
investigation has been instituted,
and no effort will be spared to bring
the guilty parties to justice, though
difficulties to be encountered in the
process of detection will be mani
fold.
Watertown, N. Y, April 4.-Car-
rying in his arms huge rag doll |
dressed in the clothing of his dead
wife, Jerry Mooney, a farmer living
near the village Of Montague, Lewis
county, goes to his work in the
fields each day.
For fifteen years, ever since his
wife, Molly, died of paralysis, Moon
ey has carried this dummy about
with him. He refuses to believe
his wife is dead. After her burial
he made rag woman and dressed
it in his wifs's clothes.
He often places the figure in the
favorite chair of his wife and spends
long evenings before the fire talk
ing to it. At meal times he draws
the chair containing the figure up
to the table and helps it to food
On Sund ays he dresses the figure
in the best clothes his wife had at
her death, gets out all of her Jewell
~ and places it about the neck and
an the hands of the doll.
Week days when he..goes to the
field, the rag doll 10 carried by him
and placed under the shelter of
tree in summer or in some protect
ed spot in cold weather. He always
carries luncheon for himself and
the doll, and never eats the latter's
portion.
Mooney and his wife came from
Londonderry, in the north of Ire
land, in the early ffties and settled
On small farm. They were rigid
and, having no chill
dren, lived by themselves. When
his wife died in 1888, neighbors, not
seeing her about, called at the house
and found her dead in bed and her
husband sitting by the side of the
body talking to her.
Mooney will permit no one to en-
ter his house. The existence of the
rag woman was discovered by per-
sons who watched the house and saw
him carrying it back and forth.
New York, April 4.--There is ex-
cellent authority for stating that J.
Pierpont Morgan ia planning toE
build splendid art museum and
present it to the American nation.
Mr.. Morgan's private collections
are by far the rarest and most ex-
tensive owned by any individual in |
The world.
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