| Show 74 DEATHS OUT OF FEVER CA spread mosquitoes washed out of gutters and cisterns by thunderstorm increase in new orleans epidemic at new orleans i total cases to noon august 2 total deaths to noon august 2 74 new basea today 1 today 6 at ship island quarantine station in the gulf off mobile bay to date i cases convalescent shreveport to date 1 case montgomery ala to date 1 case cumberton lumberton Lum berton miss to date I 1 case westwego West wego la to date 2 cases and I 1 death algiers la to data case sun rise la to date 1 case empire la to date I 1 case ostrica la to date I 1 case point celeste la to date 1 case vaccaro la to date 1 case the yellow fever situation in too south is not so favorable today high temperatures and heavy rains in new orleans the center of infection not only producing unfavorable climatic conditions but undoing much that has been accomplished in the last twenty four hours in the way of oiling gutters cisterns and ponds and making it necessary for this work to be done over passenger and freight traffic on rall roads in and out of new orleans la practically paralyzed paralysed all suburban service to coast towns wag discontinued a week ago and almost dally the railroads have been dropping one or mote trains until the service on roost of lines is at a minimum there were no developments today in the controversy over the alleged invasion of louisiana by mississippi troops guarding the frontier except the announcement from jackon that governor vardaman had decided to go personally to the scene and invest gate the conditions tor himself the governor acted upon the receipt ot a telea ot complaint from governor blanclard Blanc bard the camps on the raili roads outside of new orleans are filled with refugees the detention camp on the louisville nashville railroad one of the main outlets from the gulf was fixed today arrangements being finally made to havethe station located on the line between louisiana and mississippi all trains carry armed guards the train inspections extending a far north as cairo mobile has tightened its protective cordon and has ordered ord sred in addition to L detention of five days for all boats from central and south american ports 1 texarkana Tex arkana on the line between arkansas and texas has ordered a discontinuance of all trains between shreveport where a case appeared last night and texarkana Tex arkana arkansas as well as mississippi is using its militiamen a quarantine officers and has stationed them at vailous points to prevent the landing of people from infected districts shotgun quarantines prevail in many parts of the far south this emphatic manner of stopping refugees having been in operation near vicks burg tor about a f new orleans aug 2 with a large increase in the number 0 new cases during tha past twenty four hours the fever situation was not so favorable today as it has been thought tho health authorities believe that the con of the serious infection to the quarter 1 below canal street is encouraging cou raging intensely warm weather is thought to have been partly cespon elble for the increases in cases how ever in spite of the most rigid inspection concealed cases among the italians are here and there cropping out the appearance of two or three cases yesterday among persons whose busl ness does not carry tham into the infected districts downtown down town has given an impression that he myla is possibly being carried out of the zone of infection through the medium of street cars it has bean suggested that the authorities take action to prevent street cars from crossing canal A severe rain and thunderstorm during the night caused the ansh away of oil from many miles of gutters and through overflows over flows caused hundreds of cisterns to discharge the oil which had been put into them in consequence the ward organizations today began all gutters cisterns and ponds another phase of tho controversy between the states of louisiana and mississippi has developed in the filing of writs of ejectment and injunction against mississippi militia in tho federal courts the suit was brought by albert baldwin banker and capitalist of this city mr baldwin seeks to enjoin tho mississippi soldiers from taking possession of his fishing and bunting lodge on pearl river seems that permission was asked occupy the place for the military during guard duty on th border and it was refused the troops answered that unless permission was granted in a certain time thy would break open tha place yesterday they broke in and mr baldwin deeded to bring suit federal marshals probably will be sent to the scene henry mccall collector of customs for new orleans has qualified as disbursing agent of the government KAISER OPPOSES REPUBLIC therefore will labor to make norway a Monarchy efty ir copenhagen auga Aug 3 since his arrival at tbt danish court em geror william appears to have be come convinced tha there is no hopa of a prince of abe house of bernadotte becoming king of norway his now favors prince charles of denmark and he Is quoted as baying if prince Charlea oes not be come king norway will bo a re public of corpse I prefect a monarchy and therefore shall hereafter support tho candidacy of prince charles v funds to be wed in an effort to prevent the present fever from developing into an epidemic ample money will be at the disposal of dr white and hl corps to carry on their woric pro vision having been made by the last congress to meet just such an emergency as has developed here the ursual august excursions to chicago st louis and the large cities of the north east and west by the railroad lines will be abandoned this year up to noon today there hal been six deaths from yellow fever the total deaths to date 74 all these deaths occurred in the emergency hos there waa one new case mak ing a total of most of the physicians make their reports ct new cases during the afternoon 1 haars hoars so that until late in the evening it Is not possible to give an accurate idea ot the days progress of the disease the board of health today dispatched a squad of inspectors to milne barg which Is situated on lake pont chartrain in the suburbs of the city A sick frenchman was taken from there on saturday and it was reported today that there was much sickness there METHODS adopted by mississippi to be brought to an end new orleans la aug blanchard today issued orders to captain J W Bostl cb in command of the louisiana naval reserves to proceed wath a sufficient force to lake borgna mcanal and adopt measures for the pro lection of louisiana fishermen catl boatmen the oyster commis eion has been instructed to tt the oyster float to captain baick for services in this matter and the nava commander has instructions to add by charter or whatever boats he deems desirable for bis j elon gov Blanc bards action ia based on the telegrams received today showing that the mississippi quarantine offlie cers are reported to be employing highhanded measures and interfering with Coul siana citizen captain bostock today made a w port to by wire that arc ed bad been crossing the louisiana line thai mississippi launches had been interfering traffic in lake and capi turing that they have stopped in lake Borgne and that traffic in lake borgne canal has been interrupted NO NOTICE OF CONFLICT washington aug 2 surgeon general wyman of the public health and marine hospital service said today that he bad not received any official notification of the conflict between the state authorities of louisiana and mississippi over the question of quarantine he added the email boats that went into lake borgne and to the mouth of lake borgne inlet were probably bunder the state and local authorities of appl surgeon of the public health and marine hospital service a assisting in protecting the towns of the gulf coast of mississippi in accordance cor dance with the request of the authorities of that state H ja using the revenue cutter winona to notify vessels which carry refugees from new orleans that they cannot land at those places and that they have tb option of either boits back proceeding to island quarantine where they can be held under observation the bureau declines to take over the email of the state which arp said to have gone into the waters of louisiana GOVERNOR investigating jackson miss aug vardaman left here today for the gulf coast to make a rigid investigation of the complaint from governor blanch ard of louisiana troops have invaded louisiana territory and are patrolling near laka rig ellets governor vardaman declined to make any statement in advance of his investigation SUSPECTS discharged isea york aug 2 four of the alva persons taken from the steamer san jacinto from galveston and cent to hoffmans Hoff island yesterday for ob gerv atlon as to fever symptoms were discharged from quarantine today the two patients from the were fast convalescing today SPREAD OF THE FEVER new orleans aug 2 ot tha new points of infection is the lower part of parish onabe west bank fifty miles below the city dr V S chabot parish health officer ren ported six cases from that vicinity yesterday one at sunrise one at em pire one at ostrica one at point 0 leste and two at these persons are all fishermen or truck farmers and three ct them are austrians Aust rians lieutenant colonel L M maraon dur ing bis inspection of fort st philip recently discovered a case five miles BE NO PEACE new york aug at A staff correspondent of the now york herald on board the steamer kaiser dr gross his pa per the following dispatch by wireless telegraph M witte the russian envoy said tuesday night 1 I am that negotiations wilt ended within a week as the japanese terms will be so intolerably na notto admit of discussion from the tort but the patient was nearly well at tho time another case of infection is on ara dyne plantation terrebonne Terra bonne parish between houma and schriever lever west wego just across the river from aubon park jefferson parish where there Is a small settlement has developed two cases among italians who refugees refu geed there from yellow fever infected districts one Is dead but i the other is doing well the texas scare has evidently grown gome in the last day or two monday the quarantine against the whole state 0 louisiana was reinstated and today dr tabor practically put an eni to communication between the two states and to the transcontinental traffic as well |
