Show INDIANS HAVE SMALLPOX DISEASE HAS BROKEN OUT ON I SEVERAL RESERVES On Port Hall Rensrvaticn Pest is Reported to be Increasing and Many Cases Arc Predlctsd Washington Oct 30 Smallpox has broken out on a number of Indian res ervationsin West and it Is feared that when the cold weather sets in the epidemic wHl become more widespread wide-spread and assume a more malignant form ISvery possible effort Is being made to stop its progress and Ibo Indian In-dian bureau Is forwarding vaccine virus to the various agencies LieutCol Handled in charge of the Kiowa Indian agency in Oklahoma telegraphs that sjnallpdx is I epidemic on the Wichita reservation and that i fifty cases have occurred among the children at the Riverside Indian boarding board-ing school on that reservation Tho < disease also has appeared at the Cache Creek mission Sincl at the St Patrick mission on the Apache Kiowa and Corrsnchc reservations No deaths have been reported thus far and no alarm Is manifested by the Indians From the Colville agency at MIles Wash Agent Anderson reports that smallpox is provajont among the Tn diunaon the Coeur dAlenc reservation nlndcdscs having developed so far A strict quarantine of the Infected district dis-trict has been established and dlsin fcctrtnts and vaccine have been pur chascJ by 1 the agent From the Fort IlaU agency In Idaho Agent Caldwell reports that the smallpox small-pox Is Increasing In that vicinity and that many cases are predicted when cold weather begins A thorough vaccination vac-cination of pupils la the only protection protec-tion for the Fort Hall school pupils Complaint IK made of the vaccine available only three out of fifty primary pri-mary vaccinations of small children proving successful United States Senator Shoup of Idaho reports that smallpox Is prevalent at Blackfoot and Pocatollo and that fear is entertained that It will extend to the Indians The dlssnsc also has been reported from Valentine Nob the chipping point for the Rosebud agency |