The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-07-31

.ADJUTAAT GENERAL PLACED IN CHARGE

DETAILS OF SOLDIERS EsTAB..
LlsHED AT STATIONS ON
STATE LINE.
*z Gulf Port. Miss, July. 81 Governor
Vardaman, acting for the state board
of Mississippi, has placed Adjutant
General Fridge in charge of the state.
quarantine service and all future ag-
gressions against the yellow plague in
Mississippi will be conducted under
the auspices Of the adjutant generals
Office. The advance detail of officers
and men stationed at Camp B. r.
Ward, who were preparing the camp,
grounds for the eneampment Of the.
Mississippi national guard, will be
utilized to supplement the. civil force
now on duty throughout the state and
the most stringent quarantine will be
maintained. General Fridge has is
to maintain the quarantine at the point
of the bayonet. The scoastline has been
divided into divisions and details of
soldiers will be established at all sta
tions. III
PANIC in NEARBY TOWNS.
Commercial Quarantine Against New
Orleans.
New Orleans, July 3l.The most
disquieti1lg news in the yellow fever
situation is the evidence that panic is
increasing in the smaller towns Of Lou
isiana and Mississippi and that dis
position is growing to revive the dis
astrous commercial quarantines of
1897, when some of the country towns
even refused to receive ice or hard
ware from New Orleans. Columbia,
La, bars all kinds of merchandise ex-
scept hardware; Utica, Miss, will not
receive freight Of any kind; Osyka,
Miss, will take no fruit or vegetables,
and jackson, La, wants no household
articles from New Orleans. Several
towns in Tennessee and others along
the Mississippi Valley road in Missis-
sippi refuse to allow express matter Of
any kind to be put off ]; Port Gibson
will not take bread nor anything
wrapped in burlap that may be shipped
from this city. Some of the Texas
towns are asking that the mails be
fumigated.
If the movement to quarantine
freight spreads New Orleans will suf-5
fer much more seriously than from
the fever itself. Up to the present
there has been no local apprehension
of a dangerous epidemic and it was
believed that II the boards of health in
other states lived up rigidly to their
agreement not to place any restric-
tions on the transportation of freight
there would only be q slight reduction
of business and the chief inconveni-
ence would be the inability of the coun-
try people to come here and of New
Orleans people to go into the South
ern towns and cities.
SUSPICIOUS ILLNESS ON BOARD.
3ss s4t
Passengers Of Steamer From Colon
Sent to Hospital.
New York, July Seventeen per-
sons were removed from the steamer
Seguranca and transferred to the de-
tention hospital for observation when
the steamer arrived from Colon dur
ing the day. Two of these were first
class and five second class cabin pas
sengers and ten we're members of the.
steamers crew. n Eight of the crew
had been i'll during the entire passage.
from the steamer, but six of them were
reported to be convalescent when the
Seguranca arrived.
Four members of the crew suffering
FROM yellow fever were removed from
the steamer just prior to her departure
from Colon.
8 Only two of the seventeen persons
removed from the steamer were
thought to be very i'll. Both of these
were members of the crew. They had
been i'll for several days and their con-
dition showed no Improvement.
The men taken to Swinburne have
been placed in the pesthouse, which
had been prepared for the reception of
possible yellow fever patients. There
they will be detained in screened COM
partments until it has been officially
determined whether the ailment really
is yellow fever or merely some form
of malaTial fever.
PREPARED TO FIGHT FIRES.
Russians Anticipate Bombardment Of
vIadiyostok.
Vladivostok, July 81 anticipa-
ton of Japanese bombardment the
ccmmandant of the fortress has is
Sued rules for the protection of prop
erty and prevention or spread Of fires.
The city has been divided into sections
and all ablebodied Inhabitants will be
required to participate in extinguishing
such Arss.