Show PLAGUE iooiuiu Twentytwo Cases Have Thus Far Developed ONE EUROPEAN ATTACKED Board of Health Has Taken Heroic Measures to Stamp Out the Disease and it is Believed the Scourge will Soon be Eradicated Buildings Wherein Cases Have Occurred Have Been Burned Council of State Has Appropriated 3273000 with which to Fight the Disease Honolulu Jan S via San Francisco Jan Correspondence of the Associated Asso-ciated Press Since the llrst instant nine case of plague have developed making twentytwo cases to date The Board of Health has adopted heroic measure and It is i believed the work now In progress will stamp out lhat I scourge in a short time Thus far but attacked This one European has > been case was thai t of Ethel Johnson a Norwegian Nor-wegian girl aged 11 years The other cases are dlvdcd as follows Chinese 15 Jipaneso 2 Hawaiian South Sea Islander i 1 The following resolution was adopted by the Board of Health It Is the sense of this meeting thai 11 Is a sound policy lo remove to quarantine as rapIdly rap-Idly as practicable the residents of the Chinatown district and lo take any and and every step without limit noccs sarv to stamp out the plague including includ-ing the destrucllon of buildings and other property Jn accordance with the foregoing t riiinatuwn Is being rapidly burned out Within a week a majority of the residents resi-dents of the plague spot will ho removed re-moved to new and cleaner quariers on the outskirts of the city Thirtyone small buildings are being erected by the Government These Hlructures will accommodate about 3000 persons On the < 1 iflst i the Hoard uf Health declared the entire Judicial district of Honolulu under quarantine I I All persons per-sons ar1 forbidden lo leave the district dis-trict without i permission uf the Hoard I of Health All persons outside of the district are forbidden to harbor any person coming from the district without with-out LILt permission of Urn board The Council of State has appropriated 2700u with which to light the plague and place the city in a proper sanitary condition AttorneyGeneral Cooper has resigned his position as President of the hoard of Health Pressure of business In his regular department SH said to be l the cause He has been succeeded by Dr C B Wood a member of the board Francis M Hatch former Hawaiian I Minister Washington has been made a member of the Board of Health Somi of the captains of the sailing vessels leaving hero for the coast are relaxing from the Btrlctniiss of the rule of taking no passengers from Honolulu and there is now some chance for people peo-ple to go away if they ore willing togo to-go nn sailing vessels The schooner Columbia1 which leaves here next week Is taking passengers She goea 10 Port Townsond rue authorities on the Island nf Kauul have taken action thai seems lo Soinpletely cut the t Island off from communication com-munication with Honolulu I on account of the plague Hven mail cannot come s from there while the present rules are enforced and the island steamship companies com-panies v1ll suffer heavily The steamer ICe Au Hou1 arrived this morning from the Island with out having been able to approach any wharf There were deputy sheriffs with HhotgUis at every landing place and they shouted the order to keep away The result was that the steamer returned to Honolulu absolutely empty Leung Chi THO the Chinese reformer i is now In Honolulu The Chinese Con Pttl has written to the Government V protesting against Leung Chi Tso being be-ing allowed to remain here |