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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.
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