EPIDEMIC
SPREADS.
Real Estate Transfers.
Much Lumpy Jaw in Baker County 1 Two Masked Outlaws Terrorize
a Village.
Furnished by II. T. Botts, Abstracter. ’
B aker C ity , Or., April 13.—Few new |
W hatcom , Wash., April 14—Two Transfers from March 26. to April 13.
developments have manifested them-
masked outlaws held up the village of
i selves during the past two days with re I
S. A. to Ernest A. Chamberlain.
j gard to the reported epidemic of “lumpy | Ferndale in true Missouri style last Ü. Patent. Lots 2, 3 aud 4 sec 12 and
Smallpox of a malignant type is raging
night, shot at every man who appeared
jaw” in Baker County. The arrival of
lot f lee 13, 3 s, 11.
through Eastern Oregon. One death
¡Animal Inspector Hutchinson is being! on the streets, robbed the postoffice of i James E. Rhoades to W. II. Easter. Se,
has been reported, and several patients !
$150, and succeeded in making their
i patiently awaited bv the more alarmed
Ne 24, 4 s, 10. $400,00.
are on the point of death. The disease
escape without leaving the slightest clue ! !
ones. A lew residents are skeptical and I
Elizabeth Laurence to Jim Rhoades.
has spread from Shaniko, its starting
Ne 24, 4 s, 10. $300,00.
refuse to believe anv cases of the disease to their identity.
point, to the surrounding country, and
The outlaws made their first appear
have been found among men or women,
Edward Lowe and wife to State of Ore
has now asserted itself in the Dalles,
ance
in
the
postoffice,
where
they
gon. Quitclaim. N, Ji Nw sec 36
but local medical men frankly admit the
Prineville and other points along the
ordered the postmaster to deliver to
2 N, 8. $1,00.
city is the home of several who undoubt
road.
them the contents of his till. The post- John W. Blodgett and wife to State of
edly
suffer
from
the
affliction.
Dr. Woods Hutchinson, State Health
Oregon. Quitclaim. N, % Nw 36,
master refused, and while one robber I
Butchers say *• lumpy jaw” has been
2 N, 8. $¡,00.
officer, left for the scene of the epidemic
with two revolvers in his hands kept
to personally take charge of the opera 1 prevalent ampng cattle in this county him covered, the other emptied the con I). A. Blodgett and wife to state of Ore
gon. Quit cl rim. N. J2 Nw sec 36
tions and, if possible, Xo stop the spread for the past 30 years, to their knowledge, tents of the till into a sack. Nothing
2 N, 8. $1,00.
of the disease.
I and probably longer, but this is the first but money was taken. Four men who
Isaac Bays and wife to W. N. Bays, E,
time during those years they have heard
The smallpox reported in Eastern Ore
were in the office w hen the robbers came
Ji Ne 29, 3 S, 9» W, Ji Nw & Se. Nw
of the human race being subject to it.
gon is of a different type to that which
in were compelled to leave, the robbers
19, 3 S, 8 and tract in Ne of 24, 3 S,
Archie Murray, one of the most promi
Oregon han seen for some years. The
9. $1000.00.
firing shots over their heads as they
nent and largest owners of cattle in
cases before have been of such a mild
took their departure.
Two mortgages securing $1250.00 filed.
fornj-as to even raise a question among Eastern Oregon, states he has had a
Knowing nothing of what was going
One mortgage securing $150.00 satisfied,
number
of
animals
at
his
place
upon
the physicians as to whether or not they j
on, William Keener started to enter the
Burnt River suffering
from
Lower
were really smallpox. The cases report
office while the robber, were
t'*"- y. S. A. to Janies Tone.«Talent,
_
Se Sw
“ lumpy jaw,’’ but instead of killing
ed thus far in Eastern Oregon are very
w’ork. Two shots which barely missed
sec 3 and ..........
N v
/» -- Nw and - --
Nw Ne sec
them
as
others
do,
he
presented
them
to
10, 2 S, 10 W.
severe, and regarded as highly danger
him caused him to heat a hasty retreat.'
ous. The members of the State Board of the Indians. The red men devoured the
As the robbers departed they shot into U. S. A. to heirs of William Tene. S
Nw. Sw Ne aud Ne Sw 10, 2 S, 10.
Health are alarmed over the outlook, carcases with evident relish, he reports, a saloon where five men were looking
but never was there an instance where
and say that nothing short of prompt
through a window into the street. The Lew’s Parrish and wife to Frederick
Kabkee. 1 acre in sec 35, 2 N, 10
the germs were contributed to them, at
action can keep the disease from caus-
bullet flattened out against an iron strip |
$2500.
I
least no outside manifestations of the
ing a number of deaths.
acrossit without doing any damage.
No mortgages.
. I piesence of such disease were found.
The officers returned from Ferndale to-1 Two mortgages securing $2600.00 sat
The difference between the present epi-1 Two men have died in the county re
day without being able to get anv trace i isfied.
demic and those of recent years is ac-1
cently and at the time of their death the
of the robbers or a description which
counted for by the fact that it started j
, I exact cause was not given out, but it is
Word reached Pendleton Monday of a
from a case which was contracted in ' now admitted they succumbed tn tallied from any two citizens.
startling epidemicin the John Day region,
Pennsylvania. A man who came to “ lumpy jaw.” Cases are known in this
Frank Birch, an employe on a ranch,
Shaniko tor the purpose of taking up a | community at the present time. One in Head Like a Horse and Body
breaking out in crazy fashion and adopt*
Sixty Feet Long.
timber claim was taken with the disease, |
particular is said to be doomed. The
ing jTracy-like tactics in the neighbor-
and all of the cases can be traced directly germs taken from patients in town have
V ictoria , B.C., April 14.—Officers of hood. Burch worked for E. L. McBroom
to this one.
been compared under a microscope with the cable station at Bamficld Creek are of Monument. He obtained a rifle and
At the time that the visitor came to others secured from cattle in the stock sponsors for a story that a sea serpent
ammunition and ordered W. A. Sweek,
Shaniko he was feeling indisposed, but yards at Chicago and are said to be from 40 to 60 feet long and with a head
the first man he met in the road to get off
did not think that there was anything identical, with no possible chance for a like a horse, has been seen oft the station.
his horse nt the rifle’s point, and took the
serious the matter with him. He went doubt.
The cable operators savin letters to the horse. Then he went to McBroom s
into the mountains by stage, but was
Surgeons aver the disease does not at local newspapers that Indians had been ranch, apparently looking for McBroom.
taken so sick that he had to return at tack the blood and if the germs start telling of the existence of a sea serpent,
He forced H. E. Herse, another employe
once. The drivers never dreamed of from the exterior of the body, some hope but the stories were not credited. David
of McBroom’s, down frotnjin apple tree,
smallpox, and did not think of such a may be had of saving the afflicted one Osborne1, one of the officials, says that
firing one shot. He then located Mc
thing as vaccination or of disinfecting by cutting out the diseased parts, but if a week ago the animal was seen from
Broom. who fled a mile, with Birch after
the stage he had ridden in.
starting in the throat, lungs or other the cable station to raisf a big horse him shooting. Herse got a deputy
I11 their ignorance regarding the dis places where it might be spread through like head and swim out from the month sheriff named Murphy at Monument,
ease, the people of Shaniko were not en eating infested meat or drinking milk, of Bamficld Creek into Barley Sound.
and Herse, Murphy and Fred Wester-
---------------- X is 1—
-,_i out
. for _ re-
Mr. Godson, of the cable staff, says
lightened in the least by the Shaniko phy-' little encouragement
held
berg, of Monument, ambushed Burch.
siciati, who is said to have pronounced | coverv. A person is not doomed to in- that when he first saw the animal it
The incipient Tracy swung off his horse
looked
like
a
massive
sea
w
’
eed,
but
pre
the case a serious case of poison oak, stant death, but to lingering suffering,
as the trio confronted him, threw his
and to have treated the patient for it sometimes for six months and again for sently he saw the head elevated, and the
rifle over the saddle and prepared to
big serjjent moved off, toward the sea.
- a year.
uutill he died a few days later.
fight it out Murphy shot and Burch’s
| As many of the herds are now upon Mr. Godson says it moved off with the
horse plunged so hard that it stunned
the ranges, the work of the state officers sped of a torpedo-boat. O11 April 10th
the shielded man. Burch was landed in
Germany is not likely to lose her trans-
1 will lie difficult. The entire community an Indian saw the thing and was so
Atlantic record for sometime to come. !
Canyon City Jail and will be tried in
is alarmed with the progress made by frightened that he ran his canoe into the
savs the London representative of the |
May.
the loathsome disease and the one aim is breakers, left it and fled along the beach
Tribune. The contract for the new ,
A dispatch from Washington says •
to stamp it out. Just how or where the to the cable station. The Indian said
Canard liners have not yet been placed,
the thing had a head shaped like a horse The department clerk who for several
first case started is a mystery.
and the new North German Lloyd steam
and its body, ten feet of whifh was months have submitted to Dr. Wiley’s
er Kaiser William II.. which will leave
lifted, wa9 the size of a barrel. The borax-curcd food experiments are’slowlv
Ship Sunk by Dewey.
Bremen today on her maiden voyage ■
Indians in the neighborhood are terrified. assuming a pink complexion. Dr. Wiley's
across the Atlantic will, it is confidently
food experiments are conducted with the
M anila , April 13.—The warship Reinn
expected, wrest from the Kronprinz
John de Falco, the Italian convict who strictest secrecy. A dozen or more
Christina, the flagship of Admiral Mon-
Wilhelm the honor of being the fastest
tejo, which was sunk by Admiral Dewey, was serving a life sentence at the peni young men connected with the Depart
trans-Atlantic liner afloat, and as she is
w’as floated and beached yesterday. The tentiary for killing his wife in Portland ment of Agriculture have for several
over 706 feet long, she will lie the long
on February 26th, through jealousy, months been living on a diet prescribed
1 skeletons of about 80 of her crew were
est. Some idea of the magnitude of the!
ended his existence at the prison by by Dr. Wiley, who is seeking to deter
new steamer may be judged from the found in the bulk.
One skeleton was evidently that of an cutting his throat and severing his wind mine the chemical effects of borax and
fact that she has eight decks and four 1
officer, for it had a sword bv its side. pipe with an instrument known as a cell other chemicals on prepared food. It
sets of quadruple expansion engines, an
knife, with a blade about one-inch long. has only developed within the last week
aggregate of 40,000-horse power. There There are 15 shell holes in the hull of the
After a careful survey of conditions in that all who have been at the doctor’s
Reina
Christina,
one
made
bv
an
eight*
are accommodations for 775 first class,
inch and others smaller. The main in the West, George J. Gould, who has been table are taking on the pink complexion.
343 second-class and 750 steerage pas
on a trip over the Missouri Pacific and It is not thought that this is due to
sengers, and the crew will number over jection valve is missing, showing the ship Wabash lines, is convinced that the pre
borax which has been given to the
was scuttled when abandoned. The hull
600.
sent era of prosperity which the West is ' young men in their food, but to some
I is in fair condition.
I
Dr. Charles Lowrv, secretary of the
Captain Albert R. Couden, command* enjoying will continue for at least ano-' chemical ingredient which has been
Kan«as State Board of Health, has gone ¡ng the naval station at Cavite, took ther year.
mixed with the food unknown to the
Governor Peabody, of Colorado, has subjects. The only admission that will
to Kiev Couuty to investigate the report charge of the remains of the Sailors, ex-
that several railroad laborers are the prrsslI1g a desire to give them an Ameri- notified the members of the fire and be made at the Department is that the
vietims ot the bubonic plague. A tramp | can naT1| llinera|. The Spnnish residents police board of Denver to appear before drugs used in the food have, up to date,
hired to work with a section gang re- are anxjouti however, to ship the skele- him this week to show cause why they proved absolutely harmless. The pink
cently started a disease which quickly ,on, to Sonin, and it is suggested that should not be removed for alleged ma I. complexion which some chemical evi.
killed nine. The surrounding territory ! transport Summer convey them to Spain feasance and misfeasance in office. The dcntlv causes gives the men a healthy
is in strict quarantine. One physician by tbe waTofthe Sues Cannl in June,
particular charge for which they must appearance, such as would result from
pronounces the plague black smallpox.! A wrecking company is endeavoring to stand trial is permitting gambling in the good circulation of blood brought on bv
Icitv in violation of the law.
Every case has proven fatal.
j rajK a|| the sunken Spanish warships.
outdoor cxcrci.sc.
Violent Form of Smallpox
Eastern Oregon.