The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-06-01
NEWS Of THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

Seattle, June 1.-The protection
of the travelling public from disease
by safeguarding trains from infec-
ton, regulating the travel of diseased
persons, and scientific and unremit-
ting sanitation in every phase of
travel within the states, is the plan
evolved at a recent conference of
health officers at Washington, D. c..
and DR.. Elmer E. Hegg, state health
commissioner of this state, has been
assigned the task Of planning the
work west of the Mississippi river.
DR.. Hegg has just returned from
Washington, and is now arranging
for conference in Seattle. of health
officials from western states.
DR.. Hegg believes that even if the
| Owens bill, providing for a national
department of health, is not passed,
the state health officers can accom-
plish by cooperation the same re-
suits for which national depart
ment is needed. Uniform sanitation
laws to protect travellers are need
Ell, so that epidemics will not he
allowed to be introduced from one
section into another. There is no
place where all sorts of people are
brought in such close contact, with
such few sanitary precautions as on
trains. Consumptives travel with i'm
punity. Convalescent patients and
half sick people use the cars where
there is no chance for taking proper
precautions. All of these conditions,
DR.. Hegg believes can be improved by
cooperation between state health
departments.
An important step toward preserv-
ing the forests of the Northwest
from damaging fires, has been taken
by the state fire wardens of Wash
ington, in ordering all locomotives
to use practical spark arresters.
Railroads falling to comply with this
order will see their engines stopped
from operating by state officials. A
great percentage of forest fires are
started by locomotive sparks, or
sparks from logging engines. The
trans-continental lines have general
ly shown willingness to take prop
er precautions but even the big roads
have been occasional offenders, and
smaller lines, including mang log
ging roads have never paid any at
tention to the law requiring spark
arresters. The Washington Fire as
sociation, organized by timber own
ers to protect the forests, brought
the matter to the attention of the
state officers and the law will be
strictly enforced. Other northwest
ern states will be asked to cooper
ate in this plan in the hope of saw
ing many thousand dollars worth OF
timber each year.
The University of Washington won
the rowing championship of the Pa
cific Coast from Stanford University
in the race on Lake Washington on
May 26th, and the winners left i'm
mediately to race against the Uni
versity of Wisconsin eight at Madi-
son on June 4th. The beautiful aQu-
attic sport is gaining many followers
in the northwest, and the racing en-
thusiasts hope to introduce it into
high schools and into such colleges
as have bodies of water near by
where rowing can be enjoyed.
With the arrest in Seattle last
week of Darby" Theilman, the gov
eminent secret service Officials have
rounded up the last of the famous
Maybray gang Of fake prize-fight
and phoney wrestling match opera
tors, who are said TO have made mill
lions from their victims in the last