pOLVIGÄ DURHAM ONE BAK 10 SMALLPOX tAWYERS I hat is Vaccination, Says Stale Board ol Health Bulletin bescribinq Outbreaks In Oreqon and Defending Preventive Measures is Issued. Will practice in nil the Courts ol the State W . W Calvlg, JackMavllle. lie«. II. tkartua. üraaitPava. 25,000 Smallpox in Oregon—the story of its outbreaks and testimony as to the value ! of vaccination— is the subject matter of DENTIST a bulletin just issued by the State Board All work equal to the best to be had in of Health, Forms of this disease Portland. mentioned are "Cuban itch,” "Manila Crown». Bridge work and Artificial Teeth itch,” ‘ "Bean itch," "Dhobie itch,” black on either rubber or celluloid plater. Jacksonville - - Orason I measles, i,” "black chickenpox,” Filipino Also a full line of all kinds of Nursery stock. itch," " __ itch," etc. 'nigger Delivery grounds in rear of Warner & Davis’ store, “Absolutely the only barrier against smallpox,” says the bulletin, "know n to the medical profession after at least 2'88) UNITED STATES LAND COMMISSIONER years of experience, is vaccination, l.et vaccination fall into abeyance in tile Filings and final proof* for homcMead* healthiest community in the world, and and limiter claim* made. in one generation there will lie a soil for repetition of the horrible epidemic of the Jacksonville Oregon Dark Ages. The inculmtion period re­ quired for a full development of smallpox I is from eight to 14 days. The time re- from either Culm or the Philippines. , quircil for the development of the short I Most authorities now agree with Dr. er lived vaccine germ is, however, only Probst, secretary of the < thio State Board • I »uwu LAWYER i from three to five days, so that if a | of Health, iu tracing the carlist appear­ patient who has been ex|a>scd to small­ ance of the disease to Florida, earlier in Office opposite Court House pox can be vaccinate.*, within three days ' |W8, before the war had Iteen declared J*ck»onviUe • Oraron after his exposure, the slower and more <>r any tr«M>|»s had even set Mil for Culm. serious infection will lie, so to speak, The name appeared to have originated short-circuited, ami he will have his vac­ among the ignorant negroes in whom it L. cine reaction la-fore the smallpox can first appeared, and, wheather there is any develop. This, in seven cases out of ten. truth for it or not, it if is difficult to state. IVe carry a full and will entirely prevent the development ol "Manila itch" spread so rapidly during *« ATTORNEY-AT-LAW small pox, and in the other three cases l8!Man.l IBM), that by the close of the well assorted line of practically insure his not dying of it. In­ latter year it had appeared in well nigh A. E. Reames, district attorney, every state of the Union. Its course was deed, in tnauy cases, vaccination five and 1st Judicial District. Fine Stationery, Per­ even seven days after exposure to small­ mainly up the Mississippi Valley and Jackson* Ule. Oregon pox will prove an effective weapon. along the lines of its tributaries: in Lou i si- fumery, Toilet Soaps "One vaccination practically insures ana, Mississippi and Texas, and north­ Sponges, Magazines against death by smallpox, ami two vac­ westward; and to Tennessee, (thio mid cinations complete immunity from the Indiana, in a northerly and northersterlv Blank Books and 1 PHVMCI4K and Kl'Ui'.k'OK disease. In precise figures the mortality direction. A considerable part of our in­ 1 ' • • PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. of all epidemics of well-marked types of fection aptieared th have come by way of School Supplies. Office in Orth's Building. the disease is, among vaccinated vic­ Texas, California, Nevada ami Southern Idaho. The disease hud become fairly tims, from one-half of 1 per cent to 3 per Hours: 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 p. in. cent, and among unvaccinated victims spread in Oregon by the middle and i latter [xirt of IKHH. Prom Oregon it Jacksonville Oregon from 2D to 40 per cent. "It is difficult to appreciate the chill i ’ appears to have spread to Washington, SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN and panic which runs through a plague- * ! and from Washsngton to Utah ami the TO PRESCRIPTIONS. stricken sommunity after they have seen Dakotas, ami thence into Minnesota, Iowa their dead. The shadow of death seems and Indiana am! Ohio, finally reaching 'S—* ATTO« KFV-AT-I AW ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. to lurk at every corner, men stand hud- : | the Eastern Seaboard States, where it is Will practice in all courts of the I died together in nervous groupa in the ; now raging with great fury, especially in J. W. ROBINSON, M. D. state. Proprietor, : streets in broad daylight, and glance New York mid Pennsylvania. Office on California street one "That Manila itch is smallpox is shown Jacksonville, - Oregon ! fearfully over their ¿holders like fright­ block south of the court house. | by the following consideration: Jacksonville, ■ ■ Oregon ened children. If any one wonders at "First. While cases may show no thor­ this let him go look upon the face of one ' who has died from the touch of Maya's ; oughly characteristic pustule and leave | spear. I say 'face,' but it is a figure of , no scar whatever, vet in almost every I speech—there is no face, but simply a I group of more than four or five cases of • JEWELER : swollen mass at the end of a bloated I the disease, one case will rxrcur which in fever and pitting is unquestion­ | body—no eye, no nose, no forehead, are I eruption, ' Watches and clocks repaired smallpox. ’ to be seen. The li[»s only are discerni- ably 1 promptly and all work guaran­ "Second. Scarcely a neighborhood can ble bv the bloody froth which bubbles in teed. and out of them at each horrible, creak - | l»e ' found in which out of 50, 75 or 100 Office opposite U. S. Hotel. form -- of vour friend Ci”*s there has not been five to ten cases ing respiration. The ------ ----- ......... Having opened Strain Cleaning " furious, ' ~ ‘‘| m x . The dis- _ confluent smallj Jacksonville, Oregon has Ixrcome a swollen, hideous mass of ami Pressing Works in Medford, carrion, which—horror of horrors—still «“* w'11 run apparently in its mildest we arc prepared to do anything ! breathes.______________________________ i type «nd almost uncheckeatdli of pustules cease to wonder at the terror that small­ METROPOIITAN pox has always inspired in all ages of the { will >>e found. STEAM CLEANING fit PRESSING WORKS, "Third. Vaccination, if sufficiently re­ world and the panic that runs through a cent, absolutely protects against it. community even today at its approach. Upstairs, Opposite Postofflc«. "Fourth. Those who have bad the dis­ It is not because the disease is so exces­ MEDFORD, • . OREGON sively fatal—a severe form of diphtheria, ease will not respond to vaccination. A FINE BARGAIN, SOUTH­ pneumonia, or even typhoid fever will "Fifth. Those who have suffered from WEST MEDFORD—2^ acres land, show a higher mortality than it can, and, smallpox in earlier epidemics arc abso­ fenced all around with picket fence, of course, since the days of vaccination, lutely immune. one-half under cultivation, suitable any one of these diseases claims from "Sixth. In certain regions this epi­ for garden or chicken ranch; about three to 20 times the number of victims demic has suddenly developed malig­ 1(8) fruit trees; good 8-room house, 28- that smallpox does. It is the horrible, nancy almost equal to tnat of the classic x28 feet, well finished at a cost of and, until seen, almost incredible disfig­ type, as for instance, in Pennsylvania a ¿1000; barn 30x48, cost J400; new ured it inflicts upon its victims days be­ I year ago; in New York at present where chicken house, 10x12; good well with fore it kills them. Almost any other dis­ the mortality is something like 15 or 21) • • pump on porch; 4 blocks from school ease decently allows its victim to die be­ per cent instead of the barely 1 or 2 per house; one-fourth mile to postoffice cent as in our Shaniko-Prineville out- • • fore he begins to decay; smallpox literal­ and depot. Great bargain if sold ly reverses the process. It is this living | break.” • • quickly. The bulletin narrates the career of Ma- putrefaction which makes the horror of it. Put your hand upon what was once j nila itch in Oregon in 118)1-2, and de- GOOD PROPERTY IN TALENT your friend, try to life it from the couch I scrilies the disease as it existed at Moro, Praying and heavy —Good house, 28x28, hot and cold into the coffin, and it slips from your Prineville, Shaniko, Coos Bay in Douglas team work. Light water with range and pipes through­ careful hold, leaving a handful of flesh County, and at other places in the state. express t ra ns fir red. out the house; lW bearing fruit trees, in your shuddering grasp. 10 acres of good alfalfa ground, or can Prompt delivery to "Never before, at least in modern When You Have a Cold. be cut up in town lots; good barn, 30x times, has there been an epidemic at once id! parts of the city 48, and other buildings. So widespread and so mild as in the last The first action when you have a cold three or four years in the United States. should lie to releive the lungs, This b Ohargog Roasonabto So few have been the fatalities, that it best accomplished by the free us< <»( has been exceedingly difficult to induce a Chamberlain's Cough remedy. This large percentage of the community to re­ Remedy liquifies the tough mucous and ORDGON PHOENIX, gard the disease as at all serious, or even causes its expulsion from the air cells of as smallpox at all. Many cases have the lungs, produces a free exjiectoration, never called in a physician, and all have and opens the secretions. A complete What Are They? been most unwilling to submit to any­ cure soon follows. This remedy will Chamberlain’s Stomach and Liver thing like strict quarantine regulations. cure a severe cold in less time than any Professional Carpet Weaver Tablets. A new remedy for stomach To this must be attributed a large meas­ other treatment and it leaves the system Has a new Flying Shuttle Loom troubles, biliousness, and constipation, ure of its spread. Contrary to the gener­ in a natural and healthy condition. It mid is prepared to do strictly first class work on carpets an<( rugs and a good one. Price 25 cents. For al impression” Manila itch” was not counteracts any tendency toward pneu­ brought back by the returning troops monia. For sale by City Drug Store. sale by City Drug Store. EAGLE POINT P)R. T. T. SHAW IOHN S. YELLOW NEWTOWN PIPPINS SPITZENBURGS, JONATHANS ORTH FOR SALE BY ; R. N E I L A E REAMES R G. GALE, M. D (GUS I L. B. WARNER, w City Drug Store NEWBURY W. H I C K E L Clothes Made Like New /. H. Messner, FOR SALE! --------------- _> CHAS. DUNFORD JACKSONVILLE TRANSFER M. CALHOUN Mrs. A. L. PEACHEY OREGON