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EPIDEMIE * SPREADS. 1 Much Lumpy Jaw in Baker County Two Masked Outlaws Terrorize a Village. Real Estate Transfers. pent acco othe Mari unni Spec rival light that worl 110m He out Brov nan nani ind xfhii :• ai Hern be b 11 0 reati .nd Furnished by II. T. Botts, Abstracter. ' B aker C ity , Or.. April 13.—Few new Violent Form of Smallpox in developments have manifested them W hatcom , Wash., April 14-.—Two Transfers from March 26, to April 13, Eastern Oregon. selves during the past two days with re masked outlaws held up the village of Ferndale in true Missouri style last u. S. A. to Ernest A. Chamberlain. Smallpox of a mnligfiant type is raging , gard to the reported epidemic of “lumpy night, shot at every num who appeared Patent. Lots 2, 3 and 4 sec 12 and jaw ” in Baker County. The arrival of lot I sec 13, 3». 11. through Eastern Oregon. One death on the streets, robbed the postoffice of Animal Inspector Hutchinson is being has been reported, and several patients $150, and succeeded in making their James E. Rhoades to VV. H. Easter. Se, Ne 24, 4 s, 10. $400,00. are on the point of death. The disease patiently awaited by the more alarmed escape without ¡caving the slightest clue Elizabeth Laurence to Jim Rhoades. Se, has spread from SI aniko, its starting ones. A lew residents are skeptical and to their identity. Ne 24, 4 s, io. $300,00. point, to the surrounding country, and refuse to believe anv cases of the disease The outlaws made their first appear has now asserted itself in the Dalles, have been found among men or women, ance in the postoffice, where they Edward Lowe and wife to State of Ore gon. Quitclaim. N, % Nw sec 36 Prineville and other points along the but local medical men frankly admit the ordered the postmaster to deliver to 2 N, 8. $1 ,00. city is the home ofseyeral who undoubt road. them the contents of his till. The post John W. Blodgett and wife to State of Dr. Woods Hutchinson, State Health edly suffer from the affliction. master refused, and while one robber Oregon. Quitclaim. N, Nw 36, Butchers say “ lumpy jaw” has been officer, left tor the scene of the epidemic 2 N, 8. $1,00. with two revolvers in his hands kept to personally take charge of the opera prevalent ampng cattle in this county him covered, the other emptied the con D. A. Blodgett and wife to state of Ore gon. Quit cl rim. N. % 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 2N, 8. $i,oo. and probably longer, but this is the first of the disease. but money win taken. Four men who I Isaac Bays and wife to W. N. Bays. E, x.«. smallpox reported in ... Eastern Orc- time during those years they have heard The were in the office w hen the robbers came Ji Ne 29, 3 S, 9» W, Nw & Se. Nw gotl is of a different type to that which I of the ho™an race being subject to it. in were compelled to leave, the robbers 19, 3 S, 8 and tract in Ne of 24, 3 S, Oregon has seen for some years. The Archie Murray, one of the most promi. firing shots over their heads as they 9. $1000.00. cases before have been of such a mild "ent and la'gest owners of cattle in took their departure. Two mortgages securing $1250.00 filed. forni-as to even raise a question among Eastern Oregon, states he has had a Knowing nothing of what was going the physicians as to whether or not "they , number of animals at bis place upon on. William Keener started to enter the One mortgage securing $150.00 satisfied. were really smallpox. The cases report Lower Burnt River suffering from office while the robbers were at their U. S. A. to James Tone.^I atcnt. Se Sw ed thus far in Eastern Oregon are very “ lumpy jaw,*’ but instead of killing work. Two shots which barely missed sec 3 and N '/» Nw and Nw Ne sec them as others do, he presented them to severe, and regarded as highly danger 10, 2 S, 10 W. him caused him to beat a hasty retreat. the Indians. The red men devoured the ous. The members of the State Board of As the robbers departed they shot into U. S. A. to heirs of William T^ne. S % carcases with evident relish, he reports, Nw. Sw Ne and Ne Sw 10, 2 S, 10. Health arc alarmed over the outlook, a saloon where five men were looking and say that nothing short of prompt but never was there an instance where through a window into the street. The Lew’s Parrish and wife to Frederick Kabkee. 1 acre in sec 35, 2 N, 10 action can keep the disease from caus. the germs were contributed to them, at bullet flattened out against an iron strip ' $25.00. least no outside manifestations of the ing a number of deaths. acrossit without doing any damage. No mortgages. piesence of such disease were found. The officers returned from Ferndale to. I Two mortgages securing $2600.00 sat The difference between the present epi Two men have died in the county re day without being able to get any trace isfied. demic and those of recent years is ac cently and at the time of their death the counted for by the fact that it started of the robbers or a description which exact cause was not given out, but it is Word reached Pendleton Monday ol a from a case which was contracted in tallied from any two citizens. now admitted they succumbed to startling epidemic in the John Day region, Pennsylvania. A man who came to “ lumpy jaw.’* Cases are known in this Body Frank Birch, an employe on a ranch, Shaniko lor the purpose of taking up a community at the present time. One in Head Like a Horse and breaking out in crazy fashion and adopt timlier claim was taken with the disease, Sixty Feet Long. particular is said to be doomed. The ing JTmcy-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 Shaniko he was feeling indisposed, but yards at Chicago and are said to be from 40 to 60 leet Ion« and with a head ammunition and ordered W. A. Sweek, did not think that there was anything identical, with no possible chance for a like a horse, lias been seen oft the station. the first man he met in the road to get off his horse nt the rifle's point,and took the serious the matter with him. He went doubt. The cable operators sav in 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 taken so sick that he had to return at tack the bloud and if the germs start telling of the existence of a sea serpent, ranch, apparently looking for McBroom. once. The drivers never dreamed of from the exterior of the body, some hope but the stories were not credited. David He forced H. E. Ilerse, another employe smallpox, and did not think of such a may be had of saving the afflicted one Osborne, one of the officials, says that of McBroom’s, down from,an apple tree, thing as vaccination or of disinfecting by cutting out the diseased parts, but if a week ago the animal was seen from firing one shot. He then located Mc 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 raisy a big horse- him shooting. Herse got a deputy In their ignorance regarding the dis places where it might be spread through like head and swim out from the mouth sheriff named Murphy at Monument, ease, the people of Shaniko were not en eating infested meat or drinking milk, of Bamfield Creek into Barley Sound. and Herse, Murphy and Fred Wester- lightened in the least by the Shaniko phy-' little encouragement is held out for rc- Mr. Godson, of the cable staff, says berg, of Monument, ambushed Burch. sicinn. who is said to have pronounced coverv. A person is not doomed to in- that when he first saw the animal it the case a serious case of poison oak, stant death, but to lingering suffering, looked like a massive sea weed, but pre The incipient Tracy swung off his horse and to have treated the patient for it sometimes for six months and again for sently he saw the head elevated, and the as the trio confronted him, threw his untill he died a few days later. j a year. big serpent moved off, toward the sea. rifle over the saddle and prepared to 1 As many of the herds are now upon Mr. Godson says it moved off with the fight it out Murphy shot and Burch's the ranges, the work of the state officers S|ieel of a torpedo-boat. O11 April 10th horse plunged so hard that it stunned Germany is not likely to lose her trans. will be difficult. The entire community an Indian saw the thing and was so the shielded man. Burch was landed in Atlantic record for sometime to come.' is alarmed with the progress made by frightened that he ran his canoe into the Canyon City Jail and will be tried in savs the London representative of the the loathsome disease and the one aim is breakers, left it and fled along the beach May. Tribune. The contract for the new , A dispatch from W ashington says • to stamp it out. Just how or where the to the cable station. The Indian said Cunard liners have not yet been placed, first case started is a mystery. the thing had a head shaped like a horse The department clerk who for several and the new North German Llovdsteam and its body, ten feet of whiph was months have submitted to Dr. Wiley's er Kaiser William II.. which will leave j lifted, was the size of a barrel. The borax-curcd food experiments are’slow ly Ship Sunk by Dewey. Bremen today on her maiden vovage Indians in the neighborhood are terrified. assuming a pink complexion. Dr. Wiley’s across the Atlantic will, it is confidently I food experiments are conducted with the M anila , April 13.—The warship Reina 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 j was serving a life sentence at the peni trans-Atlantic liner afloat, and as she is( tejo, which was sunk by Admiral Dewey, tentiary for killing his wife in Portland young men connected with the Depart, was floated and beached yesterday. The 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 skeletons of about 80 of her crew were ' est. Some idea of the magnitude of the ended his existence at the prison by bv Dr. Wiley, who is seeking to deter, new steamer may be judged from the found in the bulk. cutting his throat and severing his wind mine the chemical effects of borax and One skeleton was evidently that of an fact that she has eight decks and four pipe with an instrument known as a cell other chemicals on prepared food. It officer, for it had a sword by its side. sets of quadruple expansion engines, an knite, with a blade about one-inch long. has only developed within the last week There are 15 shell holes in the hull of the aggregate of 40,000-horse power. There Aftet a careful survey ol conditions in that all who have been at the doctor's Reina Christina, one made bv an eight are accommodations for 775 first class, the West, George J. Gould, who has been table are taking on the pink complexion. inch and others smaller. The main in 343 second-class and 75U 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 W est is young men in they food, but to some is in fair condition. I Dr. Charles Lowry, secretary of the Captain Albert R. Couden, command enjoying will continue for at least ano chemical ingredient which has been Kansas State Board of Health, has gone ing the naval station at Cavite, took ther year. mixed with the food unknown to the to Rice Couuty to investigate the report charge of the remains of the Sailors, ex. Governor Peabody, of Colorado, has subjects. The only admission that will that several railroad laborers are the pressing a desire to give them an Amen- notified the members of the fire and be made at the Department is that the victims of the bul»onic plague. A tramp j can naval luneral. The Spanish residents police board ot Denver to appear before drugs used in the food have, up to date, hired to work with a section gang re ■ are anxious, however, to ship the skele- him this week to show cause why they proved absolutely harmless. The pink cently started a disease which quickly tons to Spain, and it is suggested that should not be removed for alleged mal. complexion which some chemical evi. killed nine. The surrounding territory ! transport Summer con ve, them to Spain feasance and misfeasance in office. The dentlv causes gives the men a healthy is in strict quarantine. One physician by the way of the Suez Canal in June. particular charge for which thev must appearance, such as would result from pronounces the plague black smallpox. A wrecking company isendeavoring to stand trial is permitting gambling in the good circulation of blood brought on bv Every case has proven fatal. raise all the sunken Spanish warships. | city in v iolation of the 1 outdoor cxirci.se. At J4th lern Wl >ver he I he ci ic w< .'hail X M a loco apti ifter tilled issnt Jespi orts. il Ai able erioi tmer Th< >n M tad lying wait vhicl 3ersk ortifi ey's ¡helle lesda aval if ine ■ nd mail The ully I ward roop ifteri n.idc wall. The oacoi to ba Maj Sorth monk has f which colttw 1 The the pi The not d bible. The is WOl ance. Ami from I ingoi Whs the pi