Weekly journal-miner., 1918-10-09
CITY AS INFLUENZA
 LIST GROWS
EPIDEMIC TAKES NEW TOLL AMONG SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS, AND ALL PUBLIC c ATH RINGS ARE FORBIDDEN.
(From Tuesdays Daily.l

4SSuCu lOCdlly Dy LIT. J. w. funn,
 city health officer, Chief of Police
 Bloom yesterday. afternoon gave mo- tice that until further orders no pub lie gathering of any sort will be al- lowed in this city, the order having
 had the effect of closing the city schools, churches, lodges and picture show. The order, which is said by the officials to be nationwide in its scope, came from the office of the sur
 geon general at Washington, being
 transmitted here from the State health authorities at Phoenix
 The closing edict came at a time when the spread of the so-called | Spanish influenza is becoming quite
 rapid both locally and in the north
 ern part of the State Several new
 cases of the malady were reported i from among the local civilian popula- ton. and Colonel Holmberg, com
 mandant at Fort Whipple stated yes terday evening that there were four new cases of the disease at the bar
 racks which had developed over Sun day, the increase bringing the total number of cases at the post up to
 40. Yesterday afternoon a contingent of l2 invalid soldiers arrived at the
 barracks from Camp Fremont, Cali fornia. and one of the boys in this part was soon found to be infected. All of the new cases, as we'll as the old ones. are of the mild type and
 Colonel Holmberg does not look for
 any fatalities from the epidemic which
 is sweeping through the post. One
 of the patients yesterday acquired mild case of phenmonia in addition
 to the attack of the flu but even
 the additional burden of the new mal- adv was not considered sufficiently
 grave IS to endanger the young mans life.
 The fact that there were two deaths at the post on Sunday afternoon gave
 rise to the rumor that the influenza , had claimed its first victims here, but Colonel Holmberg emphatically de-
 nied that the men passed away as result of being infected with the Span fish disease. and stated that the boys, who were both colored. had arrived
 here a few weeks ago from an east crn army camp in the last stages Of
 pulmonary tuberculosis and that their
 deaths had come solely from this
 disease. Persons who are in advan- ced stages of tuberculosis, Colonel Holmberg explained. were usually
 not susceptible to the ravages of the
 Hue. and for that reason the epidemic
 had nothing to do with the passing ot the boys on Sunday last. None of the patients at the post were even re- motely in danger of the disease, the commaudant stated.
 Chief Bloom is under the impress sion that the closing order as it ap- plies to schools. theatres, etc, may last anywhere from 10 days to two weeks. its duration being largely con- tingent upon how well the malady IS held in check in this county.
 The plans for presenting the opening number of the lyceum course here on Saturday evening next, were of course knocked higher than kite, and Sec retary Sparkes of the Chamber or Commerce stated yesterday evening that some other number of similar character would probably be substi- -rted for the one which was billed for Saturday. or else arrangements would be made to have the company here at some later date.
 Nine Dead At Winslow.
 During the past week many rumors as to he general prevalence of the influenza at Winslow have been afloat in this city, and yesterday Man aeer K. NJ. Buehler of the local tele- phone system received a confirmation of the news that the city had at pres cnt more than 400 well-developed cases of the malady, and that 9 per sons had already died from the ef- fects of the disease. The message re- ceived by Mir Buehler came from the manager of the telephone office at that place. The Winslow manager stated that his force of telephone girls had been sadly depleted by the epidemic and that one of his most operators had died during the past few days Mir Buehler at once made arrangements to send competent operator from Prescott to help relieve the situation in the main line town. According to the message. five physicians and five trained nur- ses had been sent to WinslOw to help care for the sick people. It IS gem orally believed that the disease was brought into the community by the members of the Gentry Circus troupe which exhibited there a couple of weeks ago. Five doctors and five nurses have been sent from Los Angeles to Winslow to help fight the disease.
 At Flagstaff, Mir. Buehler was in- n -E