The Mena weekly star., 1922-01-19

ran, who had been ordered home and
 his Tenth street residence placed un- der quarantine because of an unau- thorized visit to Heavener last week, was the chief sufferer.
 Dr. Cochran stated to 8 Star repre- sentative that he had big business deal on in Texas. in which he and his brother from Tecumseh, Neb., were interested The Nebraska brother came to Mena on No. 3 Monday. Knowing of this the doctor asked per mission to leave his home, go to No. 3 and 20 on to Texas with his broth CT. Permission was refused him, the doctor states, and then he notified the officials he was coming up town. Dep utv Sheriff Hazel was informed over the telephone in advance of the doc tors intentions and took charge of him on the way down.
 Taken before Justice Smith, Dr. Cochran was fined $50 for violation of the regulations and was ordered back home, returning under escort of Buck Seyier. The doctor did not get to see his Nebraska brother, who upon be- ing informed at the train of pr. Coch- ran's quarantine, thanked Officer Jackson and stepped back on the train, saying he was going on to Texas.
 Before being taken back to his home, Dr. Cochran stated to a Star representative:
 You tell 'em it has cost me $16,000 by not being able to meet my brother ard go on to Texas. We had big oil deal on and being treated like this will cause me to lose out"
 Dr. Cochran did not pay the $50 fine.
 J. M. Jackson, local manager of the Commonwealth company, was an- other defendant in Justice Smiths court. He was charged with violat- ing the quarantine in that he went in service car and brought Lee Olney, the acting head of the company from Potter 10 Mena, after Mir. Olney had been refused permission to leave the train in Mena. Jackson was fined $10 and costs and it is likely an appeal will be taken.
 Vaccination Order Issued.
 An order was issued Monday re- blfc NdCCiudllOIl Ol all lGdCn- CTS and children attending the public schools who have not been vaccinated within five years, and additional guards have been ordered for the country roads entering Mena from the southwest.
 According to a message from Hat field, Paul White, one of the county commissioners of Le Fibre county died Sunday at his home at Octavia. Mir. White had been in Poteau on off, cial business some days ago and is believed to have contracted the dis ease while visiting at the county jail Before his death he is said to have ex- posed a number of 0ctavia residents to the disease. Because of the lack of quarantine regulations in that section l 1t is believed that contagion is more likely to spread from there than from Poteau, where every known precaution is being taken.
 Sunday passed with but few at tempts made to evade Mena's quar- antine. Guards had to turn back a few who attempted to come in and | Officer Jackson sent one unwelcome | visitor back to his Oklahoma home. This visitor, man named Dugan, was found in rooming house on Seventh street, and had walked to Mena from his home just across the Oklahoma line. The officer upon learning of his | presence, hustled him back via the hotfoot route.
 | J. N. Koch, who lives southeast of Mena, but who has been looking after property interests in western Okla
 homa, had hard time getting home
 Saturday. At Oklahoma City, Mir.
 Koch learned of the smallpox quaran- tine and was vaccinated and given a health certificate. He was assured this would get him thru Howe, where he had to change cars. When Howe was reached the officials insisted on vac cinating MT. Koch again and supply ing him with another certificate. Armed with pair of certificates and bearing two vaccination marks Mir. Mena and had to go on to Potter, from which point he went on to his coun- try home. Dr. J. G. Hilton, county health officer, upon learning of the att fair, went out Sunday and placed the Koch family in quarantine, as a further precaution.
 No Smallpox at Muse. Sumpter Winton of Muse, Ok. was in Mena Tuesday to get goods needed for the Winton store at that place. Tho Muse is in Le Fibre county and that county is under quarantine, the young man got thru Mena without trouble, save the usual ones with the rocky roads. He brought health cer- tificate with him and reported there was no signs of disease at Muse. The people there fear the plague which has broken out at Octavia, just over the mountains south of Muse, and are talk ing the precaution of being vaccinat- ed. The Muse doctor ordered 250 vac cine points from Mena Monday. There are no public roads between Muse and Octavia, and travel between the two points is difficult.