The daily sentinel., 1910-05-31
FALSE STORY
r. g. G. j. TYPHOID
SCARE
A Wild Yam Current That This City
Has One Thousand Cases of Fe-
yer and That an Epidemic is
Raging in Junction.
STRONG DENIALs TO BE PRINTED

This morning the editor of the
Glenwood Springs Avalanche called
up The Sentinel by phone and asked
for confirmation of story that there
was 900 cases of typhoid fever in
this city.
The writer was thunderstruck to
hear any such statement as that being
made over the phone, but the editor
of the Avalanche assured The Sentinel
man that such was the report that
had been brought to their office and
as he did not desire to do this city an
injustice of any kind, because of the
very friendly feeling existing between
this city and Glenwood, took the
trouble to call up to ascertain the
truth or falsity of the story.
The Avalanche was assured that
the writer would risk his reputation
in this city, that the story had no
foundation whatever. He was told
that there was not to exceed at the
present time over thirty cases of
typhoid fever in this city and that all
the cases that had occurred in this
city during the past six months did
not exceed a hundred in a city of ten
thousand people.
The Avalanche man then said that
he would give the true version of
conditions and would print the story
on the first page of his paper tonight,
denying in toto the story that has
been given wide circulation in our
sister town of Glenwood Springs
| Asked If the story -heen --ar-rSri
! in other towns up the road. he said
that such was his impression and that
IL seemed to be travelling all over the
state, especially that portion of the
story which stated that the city auth
critics were not able to cope with the
epidemic at all and that an appeal
had to be made to the public spirited
citizens to contribute to a fund for
the purpose of discovering the causes
leading up to the condition of affairs
that had been reported in this city.
regarding the fever epidemic.
The public will readily see how we
are reaping the whirlwind, in having
1t spread broadcast throughout the
country in box car type, that an awful
epidemic of fever was raging in this
city. which necessitated the calling
upon the citizens for subscription to
stamp out the dread disease.
The Sentinel has made protest
against giving forth the cry of alarm
and it continues to do so. We could
damn the town than to have given
undue publicity to the condition of
the fever epidemic, If such 1t could
be called in this city. 1t will take
long time to stamp out the evil done
in the history of day.
Let it be understood that The Sen
tinel would do all in its power to
eradicate the causes that have been
producing the fever. but 1t would not
blaZon it forth to the world that we
could not cope with such a slight epi-
demic condition, as If we were a
plague spot and that the civic auth
critics were powerless to do anything
in the matter.
To the good graces of the Ava
lanche editor the story will be denied
tonight in that publication and The
Sentinel has taken means to see that
denial of such story is given to
every newspaper in the state.
There was no necessity to have
given such circus poster publicity to
the affair in the least. We will be
the extreme sufferers for such foolish
ness.