The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-12
WOMEN INHUMANLY TREATED.
GOV. BLANCHARD COMPLAINS OF
THE ARKANSAS QUARANTINE.
Texas Threatens to Stop Southern Pacific
Freight Trains IN the Ground That
Passengers Are SmuEkled by Guards
-Disobcdient Health Board Rem owed.

Passengers are bnuRkleO ny Suhrub
--Dlsobcdient Health Board Rem owed.
New ORLEANS, La, Aug. 1.-THE orders
Of tho Louisiana State Board Of Health.
prohibiting the illegal nonintercourse
o,arantines declared by come OF the
parishes, are being carrod out by most Of
them. Natchitoches, Lafayette and Cal
casieu gave notice to-day that they had
Bastrop the town board Of health refused
to obey the order Of the State Board. and
was removed by the Mayor.
Washington has rescinded Its illegal
quarantine. The Sheriff Of Madison Parish
was ordered to-day to allow trains to go
through to Lake Providence. The parish
health officer OF Madison also surrendered
on this point. and the quarantine situation
in Louisiana Is 80 rapidly improving that
it is no longer thought that it will become
necessary for the Governor to order out the
militia.
Louisiana now has trouble with Arkansas,
growing out Of the inhuman treatment
Of women in the Arkansas State detention
camp near Camden, where they were not
only starved but maltreated. The matter
was called to the attention OF Gov. Davis
of Arkansas by Gov. Blanchard. but no
reply has been received from the former.
The Texas Health officers threaten to
stop all freight trains on the Southern
Pacific, on the ground that passengers are
being struggled in by the quarantine
guards in freight cars. DR.. Tabor, the
health officer. has again consulted Gov.
Ianham In regard to the use of the State
tota To
Louisiana boundary line. 1t is said that he
has obtained the consent OF the Governor
and Adjuta Mt General to hold all the Texas
troops in readiness to be placed at his dis
posal if necessary to patrol the Louisiana
border. There are about eight hundred
militia in the eastern counties OF Texas.
who could be mo- ilized with "a hours.
Many quarantine leaks have been dis
covered. All strangers found in eastern
Texas who cannot prove that they are
not from New Orleans are sent to the State
The Italian character Of the disease
has been less marked in the last few days.
although q majority Of the deaths are
still Italians. The increase in the number
of new cases reported and fhe decrease
in the percentage OF the mortality Is partly
fact that DR.. White insisted in the most
emphatic terms that all cases OF fever
must be reported, however mild. as the
mild cases will transmit the disease
as we'll as the severe ones. The mortality
has consequently dropped to under %
per cent.
, The Italian Relief Society has opened
a free kitchen for their poor countrymen
on Toulouse street, as many OF them are
without work because Of Vhe stoppage OF
the fruit trade. complete search Is being
made of all the Italian settlements around
nra To "a To
has not spread to any Of them through
refugees from New Orleans.
Eleven cases have been discovered on
Reserve Plantation, in st. John Parish.
where there have been two deaths. The
person of an Italian boy brought to the
Charity Hospital In New Orleans about the
middle Of July. When it was known that
1t was yellow fever an attempt was made
to prevent the Italians on the plantation
from running away and scattering 1t else.
plantation, but thirty got away before
action could be taken, and it is these that
the authorities are searching for, fearing
that they may further spread the malady.
With four new cases at Patterson, there
Guiteras, who is in charge, believes that the
fever can be stamped out In twenty-fiv
days An emergency hospital has been
established, and all cisterns will lie screened.
Patterson presents the worst condition
In the State outside Of New Orleans. due
there for some time before its discovery
Reserve plantation, forty miles above
New Orleans on the Mississippi River, with
eleven cases, ranks second. case Of fever
was reported to-day from st. BernardI
the first reported there. st. Bernard has
In no other part Of the State outside
New Orleans Is there considered to be the
slightest Ganger Of the spread OF the disease,
and in most Of the places 1t has already
been crushed out.
A number Of cases supposed to be yellow
emergency hospital, have developed
as maMrial fever. It is estimated that
forty such mistakes have been made, due
to the fact that large number OF the
younger physicians In New Orleans have
never seen yellow fever
A large force OF men was put to work
funigating the houses in the Italian quarter
Of New Orleans this morning Forty.
two blocks, containing nearly thousand
houses, were furnigated with sulfur, every
room in these houses being treated. This
will be continued, each house being fumi
quitoes in the infected section are killed.
The negroes of Franklin, La, have won
the favor Of their white neighbors by turn
out out, cleaning up the towns, cutting down
all weeds. opening all drains and putting
the town in first class sanitary condition.
How easy the shotgun guarantees are
evaded was brought out to-day by the
arrest at Runkie, Ala, OF Dick billiard, a
white lunatic from the Louisiana State
Insane Asylum at jackson. billiard es-
caped FIVE days ago, and although insane
and without cent, wandered through
half dozen parishes and passed as many
alright shotgun guarantees.
Nine persons died Of yellow fever to-day