Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-09-24
SITUATION IN THE
COUNTRY HOPEFUL
Authorities Believe They, Will
Soon Control Fever.
IS NEW CASES AND 2 DEATHS
If the Officials of Arkansas Refuse to
Allow the Presidents Train to Enter
that State, RooseveIt's Visit May
Be Postponed.

AIloW hHG TISSluSHb ! dfl W GHACt
that State, RooseveIt's Visit May
Be Postponed.
New Orleans, Sept. 23.-Up to noon
today there were 13 new cases of yel-
low fever and two deaths.
New Orleans, Sept 23.-Today was
again clear and cool with early reports
indicating a fever record, approximat-
ing that of yesterday. Only one death
occurred during the night In spite
of the fever the records now being
made up at the board of health point
to the fact that the death rate for
! August this year is about the same
as last with the same likely also to be
true of the month of September
President e. c.. Foster, of the New
Orleans railways company who al
though from Boston, has remained all
throughout the fever, shows by the
figures Of his company that the fares
collected during August and thus far
In Septehbef have fallen barely / per
I cent behind what was collected dur
ing the same months of the previous
year, showing the small percentage of
| people who left the city owing to t1e
| fever
Conditions in County Hopeful.
If the present rate of progress is
kept up the state board of health be-
lieves that the fever in the country
parishes will disappear almost as soon
as that at New Orleans. with the pros
pect that some of the country settle
ments will be free earlier, due to the
fact that frost appears in many pars
of the state before it does in New
Orleans.
Lake Providence, in the northern
part of the state, which was a hot
bed of fever a couple of weeks ago,
Is rapidly driving out the disaese, the
new cases now having dwindled to
four a day. The disease has lost it's
fatal character and there are only 80
cases altogether under treatment
For the fourth day all the new cases
, in Tullah are negroes. All the
whites i'll the1e have recovered or
are convalescent
Seventeen cases are under treat
ment in the Barataria district, which
DR.. Stanley covered before his i'll
mss but the Catholic church there
has been converted into hospital
and it is thought there will be few
more deaths in that section. DIR. Shan
ley has recovered, and is preparing
to go back to work.
Strenuous efforts are being made
in all the country districts to eradi.
cate the fever so that quarantines
may be lifted or modified now that the
busy season in the fields is nearly
upon the planters.
Movement of Cotton Handicapped.
In central Louisiana picking and
moving of cotton is somewhat hand
capped for the want of sufficient la
Dor and owing to the fumigation re-
quirements ginners are having some
trouble in getting cars which is hurt
ing business in the country towns, all
of which ere now eager to see inter
course reopened.
Business men in Lafayette have
filed an injunction suit against the DO.
lice jury and parish health board en
joining the quarantine which they say
is not uniform and which is unneces-
sary because there is no fever in the
town and damages are claimed in the
the sum of 81 600 a day.
Among the new cases reported here
is one in the German Protestant or
phan asylum up town. 1t is the first
case in any of the Protestant insti-
tutions. Extraordinary precautions
have been taken to protect the case.
Work was resumed today on the
levee front and traffic will again move
freely. The settlement decided on
by Adam Lorch, the arbitrator was
accepted by both sides and there will
be no more cotton labor trouble dur
ing the present season.
EADDeAAAP1AOl 1AeAoJ JCNOAA AAOuSC, OF.
notified the authorities that they will
| take laborers from New Orleans who
are properly certifcated and it is ex-
l>pected that the remaining sugar parish
es will follow suit.
Details of the reception of Presi-
dent Rooseven will await a final de-
cision from Oyster Bay and. Arkan-
sas. The president, however, is un-
able to change his route so as to visit
Arkansas first and unless the Arkan-
sas authorities yield, it is possible
that the date of his coming to New
| Orleans will have to be deferred.
Six New Cases at Pensacola.
Mobile, Sept. ga Pensacola, Fla.
special to the Daily Item says:
Six new cases of yellow fever were
reported here today. Mrs Ragan, near
Perdido wharf; w Cole, West Gov
ernment street; M. E. Cross, South
Olivia street; Tom Clopton, a negro,
Anthony's hospital, and Henry Miller,
I East Chase street are tho new vic.