The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1905-09-12
STICKS TO IT
CAIRO BULLETIN INSISTS ON ITS
..pJuT PADuCAH.
We send No One Away-Evcryone Is
Welcome Ga Come Here and
Stay.

The Cairo Bulletin insists on It's
fake about Paducah sending man
who came here from the infected dis
,rlcts. down to Cairo on the Dick
Fowler. The absurdity OF the
charge is manifest when IL Is remem-
bered that Paducah admits anyone,
no matter where he halls from, and
had Just as soon. as evidenced by the
action of the health boards of state,
county and city. have people from the
infected districts as anywhere else
as we are not afraid Of yellow fever
here. Paducah would have no cause
TO send such a person to Cairo. as ht
would be welcome to come here and
stay hare. The man went TO Cairo
because he wanted to, or probably
has simply imposed on the credulity
of the gulllble Egyptians. The Bull
letin of today says:
Yesterday was a quiet one in the
quarantine service. Secretary Eagan
ana Assistant Palmer returned from
Paducah and Brookport. where they
went to see that the regulations of
the Illinois state board of health
we're not being violated by skin fer
ries. The Paducah authorities were
extremely courteous and pleasant aud
assured the Illinois physicians they
would do nothing that would in any
way interfere with the Illinois regula-
lions. -.v srsnry
THE report published in the Bulie-
tin yesterday morning that J. X
Pierce harnes maker who recently
arrived in Paducah from the fever
infected districts OF Mississippi, had
been nut aboard the Fowler and sent
20 the Illinois shore few miles above
Cairo. and that the man had succeed
cd in slipping past the guards at the
upper nd OF town, but was later cap
tuTed. has been denied by the officials
OF the Fowler.
THE latter say that the story Il
impossible. because the Fowler did
not make a trip on Sunday. The Bul-
letin did not state that he was landed
Sunday. He was put of Thursday
and worked Friday ana Saturday in a
local harness shop. Sunday he let
chance mark drop to fellow work
man, disclosing the fact that he had
been from the infected district only
about twelve days and showed
health certificate issued to- him In
Mississippi town. The man reported
the matter to Dr. Galleond, who was
then in charge. and accompanied by
another health officer found him at
his lodging house and shipped him to
st. Louis on the next train. Before
leaving he made a complete state
ment of the matter and told that he
had been put aboard the Fowler at
Paducah and made to get off the
boat In a mud bank a few miles above
here"
Mr.. S. A. Fowler, of the packet
company, has sent the following let
ter to Cairo, exploding the Bulletins
saion:"
Paducah, Sept. l2. 1905.
To the Editors of the Cairo Telegram.
Cairo, III.
Dear sirs:-
Attention has been called to the
article in the Bulletin under date of
Sept 11th, which does the steamer
Dick Fowler, as well as the city of
Paducah, an injustice refer to tn,
statement made that the health Off
cefs here shipped on the Fowler on
harness maker by the name of J. r.
Pierce, he having been in the infected
district of Mississippi, In order to get
him out of the city. | have made a
personal investigation of this state
ment ana md that no certificate was
issued, and no order was given to
transport any such man to Cairo o.
anywhere else. Neither does the reg
lister of the steamer Dick Fowle,
show any such passenger having EN-
barked here at Paducah. The facts
are these: The officers of the boat
found man beating his way on deck
to Cairo. and landed him at Gran
Chain. he having gotten on the boa