The Nenana daily news., 1918-11-14

house those who will be detained l until the quarantine period has ! elapsed, with messing facilities, ,etc, l has been secured. Beyond the end of the graded works on the right of way, in the neighborhood of the Nenana Canyon, the engineering party under H. K. Ward have in- structions to detain and examine travellers headed towards Nenana; they will be directed to the quaran- tine station at Mile 373 for deten- tion. All of the camps and quar- antine stations have been connected by telephone and the authorities here will, be notified of any arrivals at any one of the camps and what steps have been taken.
 The quarantine organization has been so arranged, Mir. Browne said, that at a moments notice the guards canbe doubled or even quadrupled if necessary, the cordon drawn tighter and temporary structures erected to meet any emergency.
 For the purpose of discouraging travel from the coast to Nenana, Anchorage has been notified of the stringent measures adopted and has been requested to give publicity to the fact that people coming in over the Broad Pass trail will be turned back Nenana is little differently situated as regards trail travel from Fairbanks, and the same conditions that obtain on the Valdez trail are not present on the Broad Pass trail, where travel conditions are rather more severe. Mir. Browne thought that it would take a traveller at least six days to make the jour ney from Anchorage to the Nenana Crossing over the Broad Pass trail, and that we could not very well turn back anyone who succeeds in reaching the Crossing, and so it is the intention to detain them at the quarantine station here.
 Some discussion was entered into regarding the Indians and their free movements; both Drs. More and Sutherland being of the opinion that the greatest danger of infection lay through them. The regulations governing Indian travel, etc., adopted at Nenana were thought to meet the requirements along these lines. It was understood that the Indians were all leaving the village on hunt ing trips and that they would be gone about three months. Mir. Hagan said that the hunting grounds of the Nenana Indians were in the neigh borhood of the Middle river, and in the Toklat and kantishna country and that they did not come into con- tact with the Mckinley Indians, as suggested by Dr. Sutherland; and MT. Hagen thought that their move ments could be easily kept track of and all danger avoided.
 Dr. Sutherland said that the people of Fairbanks felt rather hurt at Nenana's action in establishing quarantine against that town. They did not have the disease and had taken all necessary precautions even to the extent of arranging for ample accommodations and an ade- quate nursing staff to take care of the sick in case of an outbreak. Mir. Browne thought that it was un- wise to allow intercommunication, travel during the winter season be- ing really not necessary. The people of Nenana, he thought, would not feel hurt if Fairbanks establishes a strict quarantine against this town. Precautionary measures of the most stringent variety were more neces- sary here than at Fairbanks, in view of the fact that large number of men are housed in the dormitories and great numbers congregated at meal times in the Commission mess house of the A. E. c.
 Dr. Sutherland was set right on many points on which he appeared to he noisin nforued and the meeting