Arizona republican., 1905-10-27
A PHOENIX MAN
 FROM QUARANTINE
Return of Jas. 4. Tarney From Fever
 Ridden South.

James A. Tarney, Of the S. F. P & P. railroad, returned yesterday morning f om his old home, Louisville Miss, where he had been called by the illness of his sister. The journey was attend ed by many difficulties on account of the rigid quarantine through which MT. Tarney had to pass. He left Phoe- nix, three wekks ago, armed with a health certificate which he thought would take him through. But the quarantine clapped upon him at Cor sicana, Texas, and ha, with all other passengers were kept constantly under guard until they had reached their verious destinations, or had passed through the infected district.
 The cars were kept locked, ex- cept at stations where changes had to be made, and then the passen- gers were transferred from one train to another, and sometimes from one station to another. between rows of policemen and quarantine guards There were two marine hospital guards in every car, and the windows were screened against the deadly stegomyia. Whatever doubt may exist in other parts of the country in regard to the relation between the mosquito and vel low fever, there is none in the yellow fever district. When one is bitten he at once imagines his assaiIant is the stegomyia, and that he is doomed.
 When MT. Tarney reached his des- tinatiOn, he learned that a niece living at Memphis had been stricken with the fever, but he could not visit her for the reason that he would have been de- tained for at least a month He had a hard enough time getting out of the country, as it was. He could not pass through Louisiana, Arkansas or Texas. He had to follow up the right bank of the river until he reached the northern border of Tennessee, where the quar- antine ended. He came by the way of St. Louis. He has since telegraphed the health authorities at Vfcksburg regarding the condition of his niece, but has been unable to get a reply from any source.
 The quarantine, MT. Tarney said, ap- pears to be a little more rigid than is necessary, still, one who has ever lived in fever stricken district is not fn- clined to find fault. A little more dis elimination, he thinks, might be used by the quarantine guards, most of whom have been taken from the cotton fields and put at this new kind of work. They seemed to think that the passengers whom they were set to watch were criminals, and they were treated accordingly. MT. Tarney said that whenever he could get into com munication with a physician, or any one in authority, the restrictions which had been placed upon him were some what relaxed.
 The people in that part of the coun- try have great faith in the present means of fighting fever, and much of their terror of the disease has passed away. They remmember the last epi- demic in which as many people died Tn a single day, as have died altogether through the present scourge. The lit tie town of Grenada, not far from the home of Mir. Tarney, was almost de- populated in 1878. At the end of the epidemic there was nobody left but l lew Sisters of Charity and Catholic priests who had waited to minister to the sick and at last to bury them.
 MT. Tarney, who had not visited his old home since 1894, said that the part Of the south which he saw on this trip IS more prosperous than it had ever been. There is a good cotton crop. which is selling at ten cents a pound. Ten years ago cotton was worth three