The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-29
MILITIA CALLED.
Governor of Mississippi Takes
Strenuous Measures
To Protect the State From yell
low Fever Invasion.
PANIC IS INCREASING.
Smaller Towns Refuse Anything
Coming From New Orleans.
Demands for FumigatiOn of
Mails Are Being Made.
Crescent City Sees Loss of a Lot
of Business.

New York, July ga dispatch to
the Tribune from New Orleans says
Governor Vardaman of Mississippi last
night called out the militia to protect
the line of that state against the en-
trance of people from Louisiana.
Panic Is Increasing.
New Orleans, July 29.-The most
disquieting news in the yellow fever
situation today is the evidence that
panic is increasing in the smaller
towns and that a disposition is grow
ing to revive the disastrous CONNER
cial guarantees of 1897, when some of
the country towns even refused to re-
ceive ice or hardware from New Or
leans. Several towns in Tennessee and
others in the Mississippi valley refused
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 suffer much
more seriously than from fever itself
Up to the present there has been no
local apprehension of a dangerous epi-
denlic, and it was believed that if
boards of health in other states lived up
to their agreement not to place any re-
strictions upon the transportation of
freight there would be only a slight re-
duction of business and the chief incon-
venience would be the inability of coun-
try people to come here and of New Or
leans people TO go into the southern
towns and cities.
The history of the case of yellow fever
reported at Lamberton, Miss, the first
in the state has not yet been learned but
i= ~ or11 cid hob T1of 10
victim is one of the many Italians who
fed from the French market district
here. Very probably cases will develop
at other points though the danger is
constantly lessening because the Gordon
drawn around New Orleans is now so
tight that it is doubtful if any more
Italians will be able to leave the city.
DR.. Wasdin of the Marine Island
hospital is in charge of the Lamber-
ton case which has been screened and
is being scientifically treated. Tt is not
considered probable there will be any
spread there.
Cleaning Up.
The cleaning campaign continues
to be carried on with great energy and
every calling has been requisitioned by
the public works department and the
citizens committee. Hundreds of
barges of lime are being used in the
effort to purify streets. cutters and
back yards.
The Era club, one of the chief wo-
mans organizations of the CITY, has
volunteered it's services to DIR. Beverly
meetings daily in order that the
women of the city may be instructed
in the crusade against the mosquitoes
and the best methods of Kidding the
city of them.
The depopulation of the Mississippi
gulf towns of summer visitors from
New Orleans continues owing to Cover
nor Vardamans determination that
to-,
ton with New Orleans. The governor
said that leaving out the cost of human
life, an epidemic of the fever on the
coast would mean $40, ,000, 900 in depreci-
alton of real estate alone.
Much sympathy is felt here for Mem
phis which has been compelled to quar-
antine against New Orleans against her
will. On the first report Of the fever
put himself in close touch with the
situation and saw no necessity for
quarantine and the health authorities
would doubtless have kept their prom
ise not to bar refugees if the imposition
of quarantine by other cities against
Memphis had not forced Memphis to act
in self defense.
The quarantines have greatly dis
arranged railroad service: All the
roads have had to take off local trains.
All weekly and semi-weekly excur-
SionS to nearby resorts have been
abandoned. Through trains are
carrying large NUMBERS OF passengers
bound for the northern and eastern
resorts, but travel south has naturally
fallen off, though the hotel registers
daily show arrivals of people from the
north coming here on business.
Mayors Statement.
Mayor Martin Berhman today gave
out the following signed statement to
! the newspapers:
New Orleans is suffering more from
the rigid quarantines than from yellow
fever, of which the citizens here have
the fullest control. The mosquito the
ory is accepted by our physicians and
laymen alike and there is nothing re-
naming to be done but to fight the
mosquitoes, which is being done by oil
ing the cutters and screening and OIL
ing the cisterns. The number of new
cases were less yesterday by five than
on the preceding day. We have the sit
uation thoroughly in hand and believe
will shortly convince the world that by
working on the mosquito theory yellow
fever will be entirely robbed of it's
perils and that shotgun quarantfnes are
senseless as a method to fight yellow
fever as such a method cannot prevent
the spread of the mosquitoes. This is
a fight wholly against the stegomya
faseiatia mosquito"
VardamaIf Is Challenged.
Baton Rouge. La, July Ex-Governor
Blanchard has give out the following:
a'The governor of Mississippi in an
address to the people of that state on
the afternoon of the 26th relative to the
existence of yellow fever in New Or
leans, used the following language:
The usual dissimulation and evasion
were practiced by the health authorities
of New Orleans and the state of Louisi-
ana but finally an admission was ex-
torted that yellow fever existed there