Show RED PEST IN TEXAS of the order kaw cases it Hong toa AUSTIN texas jan 8 owing to mii apprehension of governor boas anar as to small pos ne was kept up last night answering a dozen or more telegrams from as many different places on th subject in some instances the mayors of towns construed the proclamation to be mandatory requiring quarantine to bo established against every infected point and thus materially and unnecessarily interrupting trade travel and even the united states mails some places had gone so far as to resort to the shot gun policy even keate health officer rutherford had biscon miscon the order and the governor has telegraphed him to couie here for more explicit directions the governors abject is to have quarantine established only where necessary under order of the state health officer and executive sanction so as to avoid more local conflicts and misapprehension aa to the quarantine laws and thereby regulate local action by direction from general headquarters in a word to exercise state instead of local or divided control of the trouble and thus avoid unnecessary arbitrary local measures to this end he desires the aid of quieting apprehension and the cooperation of the different communities |