The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-30
THREATENING PORTER
GRUEsOME LETTERS ARE RECEIv-
 ED AT PENSACOLA.
Doctor In Charge of Fever Situation Gets Two Communications Which Read More Forcibiy
 Than Correctly.

Pensacola, Fla, Sept. 2s-(Special.)- Two threatening letters notifying him eight hours and received by pr. .Por- ter. who Is in charge of the local fever situation, have created great deal ot comment in this city this morning, and will be prosecuted In the Federal courts. The punishment is a long term in the Federal penitentiary, and the officers of the United States Government here have taken up the matter and will en- deavor to apprehend the writer.
 The letters were received by pr. Por- were written in lead pencil. and should they have been taken seriously, are sufficient to give a fright to the aver age "'An "Penssacoia' Pens @1 Fla, FI ,p Sept. 2s. Jos. Y Porter, NJ. D., (Mule Driver):
 T have had years experience in yell low fever Brazil, Panama, Cuba--passed through dozen epidemics. but all of the dam fools headed by you is in Pensa- cola Not single case of yellow fever has been in Pensacola this year. yer. pr. H. J. Wright. the pGucky doc- tor knows what he says Dr. Heron says two, three cases yellow fever here, rest all bosh.
 "Dr. McMillan says no yellow fever. Kennedy and DAlemberte are simple tools. Can't tell sour milk from fresh.
 Now, mule driver Porter, we, 70 per cent. of the people here, are tired of your damed foolishness and graft. You killed Abell, Winters and the Norwe- gian consul (take advice and leave the city in 48 hours or take the conse- quences) take fool Anderson and Pier pont your hirelings.
 How about that two thousand you got at Tampa, saying only one case. to 4 thousand cases dangue at Tampa, why are you not solicitous about Tam pa. Of course dollars govern and cause to Arkansas that state of course, you look out for Porter. How about that speech in Key West I will fix Pen- sacola some day. You did it. ten thous-
 'Hurrah for Boulter. Hs has lots of believers. His article is true except stegomyia humbug.
 warning. Leave in AS hours. Men in St. Anthony's hospital. I saw them. Chills they got-nothing else. .~....
 Captain Warning Committed
 sic Semper Tyrannis"
 The second letter reads as follows:
 'Edyct ?, Sept. 2S.
 EXIT, EXIT, EXIT.
 If not the cyclops will attend yore ease. ease-malaria; Milton: BIuf I Springs, pulled wool over peoples eyes long enough. You be dam. No yellow fever In Pensacola--25 cases one day. 8 next, next, bosh, bosh. bosh.
 "As D-: Heron says. hurrah for pr: Brian and Wright You are the biggest stegomia, regular blood sucker-take
 =, ...,'N' Carlos Winters.
 So far as pr. Porter is concerned, he has no fear of results. Immediately upon the Mayor coming into the office of the State Health Officer yesterday, the letters were handed him. Mayor Bliss consulted with the Chief of Po- lice. and it is understood that ther ? were some comparisons of handwriting, and that one or two persons are under suspicion. The letters, however, are in the possession of the United States
 The writer makes reference to Dr. Boulter The last named was the au- thor of an article appearing in The Journal of Atlanta on September 22, and the Chamber of Commerce of this demnatory resolutions on the same. The anonymous writer also makes ref erence to a Dr. Wright. This gentle man wrote a letter the other day to one of the newspapers of the city and dis claimed the authority of the doctors who had visited three patients under the treatment of Dr. Wright The lat ter said they had no yellow fever. al- though the official health report made out that they had.
 Pensacola physicians Anderson is To- cal agent of the State Board of Health and Pierpont is the City Health Of1cer. The Drs. Kennedy and D'Alemberte have been assigned by the State Health Officer. to attend to fumigdtion and screening in the city.
 The publication of the letters today created a furry of excitement, but they are regarded as a dissemination of a diseased brain. and the authoritisk be- vuige his Identity in a few days boa gtinR of the matter.