The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-02-22
DOG QUARANTINE
NOW HAS TEETH
New Law Gives Department Of
Agriculture Power to En-
force Muzzling Order :.

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riculture H. T. Graves several weeks
ago issued an order that all dogs in
ten counties should be muzzled or kept
tied up, the legal right of the commits
sioner to issue and enforce such an or
der was questioned. The legislature
removed all doubt as to the legality
of the quarantine by enacting new leg
islation.
Commissioner Graves has issued a
new order and all dog owners who
violate it will be subject to heavy
fine or Imprisonment and any person
is given the right to kill any unmuz-
zled dog on sight without liability for
his act. -
The new quarantine order follows:
TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:
Whereas the infectious disease ra-
bies or hydrophobia has appeared in
this state and is spreading with alarm
ing rapidity, proper safeguarding
of the lives of the public demand that
every effort be made to Immediately
check the progress of the dread dis
ease fatal alike to livestock and hui
man beings. AS this infection is spread
almost entirely by the bite of rabid
dogs, it becomes of the utmost inn
portance that every dog not closely
confined be provided with and caused
to wear at all times muzzle of dur
able and safe construction until such
time as the Commissioner of Agricul-
ture is convinced that the danger is
over.
Notice of Quarantine
The fact has been determined and
notice is hereby given that a contag-
ious communicable disease, known as
rabies or hydrophobia exists in the
State of Washington. n
Now, therefore, I, H. T. Graves,
Acting Commissioner Of Agriculture,
under authority conferred by Chapter
13, Laws of 1917, do hereby quaran-
tine the entire counties of Spokane,
Pend Oreille, Whitman, Garfield, Aso-
tin, Columbia, Walla Walla, Franklin,
Adams, Lincoln, Ferry, Stevens, Ok
anogan, Chelan, Douglas, Grant, BEN
ton, Kittitas, Klickitat and Yakima,
and establish the following rules and
regulations:
All dogs running at large within
the boundaries of the counties herein
specified shall be properly and secure
ly muzzled so as to prevent their Bit
ing other dogs or animals.
PROVIDED, that this rule shall
not apply to dogs under leash or Sc
curely confined on the premises of the
owner. ~ IS 70
No dogs shall be transported or
moved from the territory hereinbefore
quarantined to any point outside the
quarantined area unless permission
has first been secured from the COM
missioner or his authorized agent.
+. ~ Penalty
Any owner, owners or agents who
willfully violate or negligently allow
this quarantine or these rules and reg
ulations to be violated shall be guilty
Of a misdemeanor and be punished by
fine of not more than two hundred
fifty dollars ($250.00) or be impris-
oned in the county Jail for not more
than ninety days.
Peace officers, under provisions of
Section 5, Chapter 100, Laws of 1915,
are requested to assist in the enforce
ment of said quarantine rules and reg
ulations and any person is authorized
under the provisions Of Chapter 13,
Laws of 1917, to destroy, without liza
bility therefor, any dog not muzzled
as herein provided and found running
at large in the herein defined areas.
II. T. GRAVES,
Acting Commissioner Of Agriculture.
Dated February 10, 1917, and eff
fective five days after date of pub