Show INDIANS ARE STRICKEN I II I Smallpox Is I Epidemic on Many BAD BAB BA AT FORT HALL HL AGENT ALDWELL SAYS SAS THE DISEASE IS INCREASING Oct oc Mi Smallpox ba ba brok n out on OR a number of or Indian reser reservation r r in the tie wet ve t and It IL I Is I feared fere that tbt when the Ute cold weather wether sets seta ta in ID the te e deml will wU become more me widespread and assume a more malignant form for Every Ev effort is i e being made to BlY It Iu Its progress and the Indian bureau bru bruIs JH Is forwarding vaccine vaci virus vines vr to the te niri Tr TrUS ous lus US agencies enIN lieutenant Rt Colonel In lit chars ch of oC the Kiowa Indian Inn agency In Oklahoma telegraphs that ageny ut x U Is I epidemic on the Wichita reservation and that fifty lifty cases ce have o mou the children cidre at the Indian Inin boarding school lol on that reservation The disease also alo has baa all ba ap appeared peered peare at the Cache Creek Crek mission and ind nd ut at the th St Patrick mission on the te Apache 1 Iowa and ad Commanche reservation No deaths have been reported thus thu far and no alarm Is La manifested by the Indians Indiana From irum ru the agency at Miles le Wash A agent Rent Anderson reports that tit is Ia prevalent among the Indians on the th Coeur Cour dAlene tAlene d reservation nine iHs asea als having developed ao so far A strict of the Infected dietrict nas been established and an disinfectants and vaccine acne have been purchased by the agent From the Fort Hall 1111 agency In I Idaho Agent A r Caldwell c reH reports rt that r the e eI em smallpox m f i 1 Is increasing in that vicinity and that many cases t arc ar predicted when cold oId ll weather begins A thorough vaccination of pupil is the only protection t for the Die Fort ofU Hall hail school rJ pupils II lt t is Ia mude made of the vaccine available vala le only three out of lifty tit primary vaccinations of or small email I children proving successful United States State Senator Shoup of Idaho Idaho reports I that smallpox is II prevalent at itt and Pocatello and that leer fear is entertain entertained ed cd that it I will wm extend to the Indians The disease also al has been reported from Crom Valentine Neb eb the shipping point pint tor br I the thu agency |