The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-02
TEXAS PUTS UP FEVER BARS.
.iGAJN Vt QTARANTINES AGAINST
All or LOUISIANA.
Five DaSs Detention Necessary to Enter
Mississippi From New Oriesns-Towns
Forbid the Receipt Of Any Fruit Except
Len, ony--AOme IntePnecine Fights Over

NEW ORLEANS, aug L. Inc annouhco-
ment OF CAKE OF yellow fever In Morgan
CITY, La. on the line OF the Southern Pacific
Railroad between New Orleans and Hous-
ton, stirred UP another batch OF guarantees
o-day and resulted in Texas again putting
on its prohibition against the entire State
OF Louisiana. The quarantine was estab-
lshed originally when the fever was first
announced, was then modified SO as to
cover only yellow fever points and is now
restored The Morgan City case revived
the scare The border Texas counties,
Jefferson and Orange, Joined Galveston In
putting All all-round quarantine In force,
and the State health officer, Tabor. fol-
lowed suit. There have been rumors for
a week Of case Of yellow fever at Morgan
City which were denied As a matter OF
fact the case developed only yesterday.
A family OF italian refugees from the in
fected district In New Orleans were de-
tanned by the Morgan City health officials
and kept Isolated under guard. One OF
them developed an unquestioned case OF
yellow fever yesterday. The result was
to stiffen all the State guarantees. Texas
has quarantined against all Louisiana.
Mississippi has similar quarantine, but
will allow persons who have spent five days
in theUnited States detention camps to enter
the State something II has heretofore re-
fused to do Alabama has Guaranteed
agai all Louisiana that is the State health
Office has done so. although the law requires
. proclamation from the Governor to make
the quarantine effective, and no such
proclamation has been issued.
Arkansas which has taken no action
heretofore In the fever situation, has finally
ouarantined, through its State board OF
health, against all infected points In Louisi-
ana. As the board Ia without funds. the
State militia will he used for quarantine
guards. What has confused the situation
Is that In addition to the State guarantees
every county and town hasa special quaran-
tine OF It's own, In all cases different and in
many cases In conflict with the orders is
sued by the several State boards Of health.
In Mississippi the quarantine epidemic
| is nilder to-day. Laurel has taken of its
quarantine against the world. and Natchez
has asked to be allowed to do 80 jackson
will also adopt milder measures. On the
other hand Purvis has sealed Itself UP her
metically. At Port Gibson al! strangers
must submit to police surveillance during
their stay In town. or the same basis IA
ticket OF leave man. Utica has gone the
extreme limit OF refusing to accept mail
! unless 1t Is fulnigated. The post office
authorities, under the advice OF the United
| States Marine Hospital Service, have re-
! fused to funigate it. and the Utica malls
| will remain In the post oAic. here until the
| scare 10 over.
Passengers entering New Orleans from
Mississippi are required to have health
certificates that they have not been near
an infected point. number OF persons
who have reached the city from various
Mississippi points complain of the very
harsh treatment to which they were SUBJ
oS s % tESan n Se %oo saa
The Louisiana State Board Of Health to-
day instructed all local boards that Ave
days was sufficient quarantine and that
they must not require longer detention
Of ten. fifteen and even twenty-one days,
as some have done 1t also advised the
local boards that 1t was entirely unneces.
sary and absurd to fumigate freight and
that all guarantees against freights should
he removed. but 1t did not make this an
there is still some confusion in Louisiana
guarantees, though not. so bad as in
Mississippi. Shreveport has quarantined
against all the rest Of the State in order
to put itself in line with Texas. No cars
OF any kind freight or passenger. from New
Orleans are allowed to enter the town.
At Baton Rouge the quarantine has been
made a shotgun affair and turned over
to the local militia. 1t is not. however.
very rigid one.
citizens voted down the local quarantine
by a vote Of two to one. The Red River
steamboats, have had to surrender, like
those on the Mississippi River, to the numer-
Gus guarantees on orders not to land
This cuts of number of river points from
connection with the whole world.
Most Of the internal quarantine fights
have been settled by mutual compromises.
hatcher and Yidalia have resolved to
seSe The pshes o and
ton. On the other hand. the warfare
between the towns OH the Mobile, Jack
son and Kansas City Railroad is hotter than
ever and HattieissarE ana taurel have
has no quarantine against New Orleans,
but its people who enter the city for bust
ness must return home before 6 p. Nj. or
they will be barred out. No one il allowed
to sleep in the city and no Italians are per-
mitted TO enter the parish under any cir
cumstances or at any time.
All farmers institutes. Confederate re,
unions and other conventions in mississippi
and Louisiana have been called of until
after the fever, and all intertown baseball
the Mississippi and Louisiana towns quaran-
tine against fruit. the only exception being
made in favor of the lemon. The banana.
on the contrary, Ia viewed with the greatest
suspicion as coming from yellow fever
country, and nearly all the quarantine
proclamations specifically prohibit it's intro
duotion under any conditions.
The doctors report 1925 yellow fever pa
tents under treatment in New Orleans
to-day. The others who have had the
Ferdinand Leineheber, a saloonman in the
infected district, was hit over the head
to-day with beer mug and his skull frao-
tured In dispute on tho question whether
or not the yellow fever Ia propagated by
mosquitoes Leinelieber taking the mega
tive. The doctors say he will die.
There were six deaths to-day and forty
two new cases.
Not q Bit OF Yellow Fever Here.