The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-28
QUARAN INF BASED BY THE GOVERNOR Only Nine Mississippi Counties
 Now Barred BEGINNING OF THE END Two Men Are Paroled By the Governor on the Recommendation of so-
 Icitors and Trial
 Judges.
BEGINNING OF THE END

Montgomery, October 27.-(Special)- Acting on the recommendation of Dr. w.
 H Sanders, state health officer, the gov ernor. this afternoon, raised the quaran-
 tine against all the counties of Mississippi, save these: Jackson. Harrison, Hancock,
 Warren, Adams, Jefferson, Cleburne, Will kerson and Franklin.
 The counties relieved today were Hinds, Copiah, Lincoln, Lawrence, Amite, Pike Marion, Pearl Ricer. and Walton county
 in Florida.
 This leaves two counties in Florida
 under the ban, Santa Rosa and Escambia.
 The first qurantine proclamation of the
 present seige of yellow jack, was issued
 July %, Governor Jelks coming down from
 Blount Springs to take the matter up.
 It applied to New Orleans, and prohibited
 all but those going through the state.
 A second proclamation, dated July 4' included all the territory along the line
 of the Louisville and Nashville railroad from New Orleans to the Alabama line. The fever having gotten into many parts of the south by August l. the gover-
 nor issued a new proclamation this one
 to take in the state of Louisiana and "any other places in which yellow fever ex- ists." this giving the state health officer the right to extend to infected localities at will.
 From time to time the order has been changed to meet the conditions until last
 week when the governor, on the sugges- tion of Dr. Sanders, raised for all of the northern part of the state. Todays or
 der is only the beginning of the end. It is quite likely that the ban for all of the
 state against infected portions of Louisi-
 ana, Mississippi and Florida, will be re- lieved in a few days.
 Two Paroles Issued.
 The governor this afternoon paroled
 John Patrick of Macon county, in the penitentiary for five years for mansaugh- ter and Hillard Seats of the same coun- ty in for five years for assault with intent to murder In both cases the solicitor and trial judge ask clemency, claiming that Seats has been sufficiently punished and that Patrick's assalant was a bad man.
 Will Scott, who was paroled few days ago to attend the trial of his brother in Sumter county with time limit to Octo- Der 30 has had it extended to November 10 because of the fact that the trial has not yet been called. He is a witness in
 the trial of his frother Robert Scott, charged with the murder of R. H. Sey- mour four years ago.
 l Seats and Patrick are both negroes.
 The fiYst was convicted in the fall of 1904 and giver five years, and the other in the | fall of 1908, with same length of sen l tence.
 The following were the endorsements on | the papers made by the governor "Hillard Seats-Ths man is a one-eyed | and one-legged negro, and weak physical | ly. The trial judge writes me that there was some evidence provoking the diff | fculty that could not be brought out ir l the trial. The solicitor joins the tria l judge in a statement that the prisoner
 has already been sufficiently punished foi | the offense. large number of petition
 CTS, including nearly every county officer
 advise me that it Is a case in which elem 1 ency ought to be exercised. The board
 of pardons advise parole or a pardon
 Hilliard Seats dependent on his future l good conduct"
 John Patrick-This man has served two | of his five years sentence in the peniten 1 tiary The trial judge and the solicitor both recommend clemency for him. A 1 large number of citizens of the county l and practically all of the county officers l also recommend clemency. The board oi l pardons advise it. The petitioners charg, | that the man killed was a turbuent anf | overbearing man and that John Patrick 1 was under 16 years of age at the time o l the killing. It is ordered that a parole | be issued dependent on Patrick's future | good conduct"