Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1905-08-19
This Stage Being Watched For In
TerrebOnne Parish.
CASES AT PATTERSON
There Are Fifty.fise Patients, bat
the Mortality Has Been 10 Lit.
tie as TO Excite Hardly
Any Alarm.

OF the report for Thursday shows that
thlrty-two OF the seventy-four new
cases of yellow fever appeared In the
heart OF the originally infected quarter.
The explanation given by inspectors Is
that after their own houses are dlsln-
fected and the mosquitoes killed that
some Italians go around and pay visits
20 sick friends. becomei Infected and
carry the fever home with them.
The situation shows Canal street con-
tinues TO improve IN that section obe-
dience 20 government regulations Is
more general and the results are plain.
While the report Friday morning show
ed i've new cases. only three new
squares are Infected.
The unexpected decline IN the death
rate is giving such a feeling OF satisfac-
tion here that people are beginning to
believe the possibilities Of the visitation
have been overdrawn. Doctors. how
ever say the low death rate II due TO
the fact that practically the whole COM
munlty has been educated up 10 the ne
cessity Of calling a doctor the moment
high temperature develops In conse-
quence of which most cases arc taken
hold of In their incipiency and are soon
on the road 10 eonvalescence. one Of
the results of the campaign IL likely 20
be an inslstent demand hereafter that
all doctors and all citizens shall pledge
themselves 20 make known the appear
ance Of the FIRST suspicious case.
So successful have the authorities
been In removing foci In the upper sec
tion o. the city that the belief Is genera.
that n the first cases here had been
promptly reported they could have been
handled. the Infection stamped out and
New Orleans spared a quarantine Of
long duration.
Bon Ami and Arodyne plantations. IN
Terrebonne parish. are practically free
of fever now. but a close watch Is 10 be
kept for secondary Infection.
AZ Patterson. while the total cases
reached ffty-fve. the death rate has
been 50 Insignificant that the early
alarm has passed. Alexandria has still
only one case. but desires an expert 20
be sent thither IN order that the entire
town may be examined for suspicious
fever.
There Is considerable interest here
over the proposed house 20 house in
spection az Gulfport. because Gulfport
has been doing a large maritime trade.
There has always been some apprehen-
sion here that the fever might slip into
that city.
The board ~ health az Lake Charles
hnds itself helpless 10 make headway
against the state OF public opinion In
the town. The health authorities desire
20 put on a sane quarantine. but munic-
ipal officials and citizens generally have
ranged themselves on the other side.
All efforts 20 open the doors TO freight
from New Orleans have been unsuccess
President Souehon has asked the
railroads 20 run small trains 10 infect
ed points In order 20 furnish supplies
10 the people. Or. White has endorsed
the recommendation both as a means
OF relief 10 the people OF the stricken
oommunities and as a sanitary meas.
ure of the highest Importance.
Zachary. La. has ordered the Mis-
sissippi Valley railroad 10 move all its
camps In the vicinity OF that town. This
action Is based on reports that Ital-
ians are Joining the camps and may Ia
feet the locality.
Only one death was reported Thurs
DAY night at New Orleans.
Up 90 noon Friday there were four.
teen new cases and one death.
TIE state board Of health here
learned from a physician who had done
duty among the sick on Riverside plan
iatiou. 81 Mary's parish. that there
had been total Of forty-eight cases
and three deaths.
Colonel Mosby win resume investiga-
ton OF Indian guardianshlps at Mus
kogee.
Shreveport citizens appeal 10 Texas
and Arkansas authorities TO raise quar-
antine.
Galveston saloons must close from
70 o'clock midnight 20 4 next mornigg-
four hours.
Dcnison city council appropriated
800 per month for three months Tor
quarantine purposes.
A. c. Young. charged with killing his |
uncle. was rcmandcd 20 isil a. Kauf- |
man. Tex without ball
San Antonio business men protest
against municipal muddle and demand
IRE Insurance protection.
Oklahoma School Superintendent |
Baxter Is flooded with applications |
from parties desiring TO teach.
Judge Roweli. serving his fourth term
as county Judge Of Marion county. |
Texas, has resigned 10 practice law.
Application OF coal oil saved little !
Pauline Boyd. bitten on a foot by a |
copperhead snake az Clarksville. Tex.
AZ Marlin. Tex. Jim Young. a negro. |
was convicted of criminal assault on a
little girl Of his race and given twenty
ave years.