Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-10-14
PRESCOTT TRApPER BITTEN TWO WEEKS AGO, IS VICTIM OF
 RABIES
DREAD SEIZURE OF HYDRoPHo, BIA FOLLOWS BITE OF
 DEADLY SKUNK
J. W. Scantlin Ignores Opportunity to GO to Pasteur Instituts-Gashes Itch- ing Cheek with Fingernails and Tears Out His Hair.

PRESCOTT, October l3.-Overcast by the shadow of impending death, at the county hospital sits J. B. Scantlin, the trapper, who on August 2S was bit ten in the forehead by skunk.
 The first fell symptoms that hydropho- bia is in his blood have shown the end.
 When the mysterious impulse of the seizure grips the doomed trapper, brok- en nails spasmodieally tear at bleed ing cheek already furrowcd with ruts and frantic finger nails tear out tufts of gray hair.
 In his moments of relief he mutters. "I oughtn't to do that, l know. I oughtn't to do that. .'
 When those about him move to leave he begs not to be left alone.
 Scantlin was bitten by the hydropho- bia skunk while asleep early in the morning in his tent in Lawler gulch, two miles from the Hillside mine. He was brought here yesterday from Hill side station by Erwin Shultz and lodged in the hospital.
 The victim appears to realize his dreadful fate.
 After his arrival in the hospital and while under observation of the attend ing physicians, he was handed drink of water He immediately dropped the cup to the floor, spilling the water. Afterwards he tried to push the cup out of his apartment between the bars of the door. He immediately regained consciousness, however, and said to those around him, "I know better than that, but I can't help it. "
 Physicians believe the refusal to drink of water under such circumstances is an unmistakable sign of hydrophobia, from which tt is believed there is ab- solutely no chance of recovery. Scantlin while on his way here from Hillside informed Schultz that he felt i'll the first time the day before yester. day at his trapper camp in the sink or Date creek. His seventeen year old son was absent at the time, searching for their burros that had strayed away | from camp.
 Realizing that his affection might be the preliminary symptoms of hydropho- bia, he immediately left for Hillside the nearest railroad station, but only after he had fund himself involuntariiy scratching the left side of his race and pulling out his hair.
 Arriving at Hillside he grew so bad that his condition was noticed by those around him. The authorities here were notified and Clerk Peter of the board | of, supervisors tclephoncd to bring him to the hospital at once.
 On the way here he talked inteiii' gently with Schutz, suffering only two attacks of scratching and pulling ms hair. From these he promptly recovered when seized by Shutz.
 At the depot he appeared haggard and on reaching the sunlight on the south side of the building, before going into an express wagon, involuntarily yelled He gave second shout when he Jay down in the wagon, as soon as his face was exposed to the sunshine. He ther covered his face with his hands and act ed quietly until he reached the hospital
 He insists on not being left alone ano insures those around him that he does not wish to harm anyone,
 It is feared that the attacks will de velop into convulsions soon. The con vulsion stage will be an absolute proot that he is the victim of hydrophobia
 The wound on his forehead where h'