Show QUARANTINE AT PAYETTE i Mayor of the Idaho Town Victim of His Own Regulations The bull ptn Isnt the only matter that Is occupying our attention In Idaho said C C Allen of JSolse Vo lauvo smallpox out there and wo are having citilto an exciting time uf It quarantining against each other A man going from i ono town lo another In the State Isnt I suro ho will not be turned back at his Journeys end Some of the towns hae gnarls on duly lo prevent poson enter 1 Ing from places where there la known to be smallpox At PaycUe a small town a short distance dis-tance from J3olse they wcro having more than ordinary excitement over tin llseao II and n ui line wficn smallpox bugun lo appear In Iho Slato Mayor CoutfliPiionr of Puyulto Itsued a proclamation declaring the town quarantined jiguln all the places whet smallpox Is known to exist and ho appointed special tuber to enlnrrn the order lie declared ihat any jicrson who came from an Infected loun and on trod Juyoilo in apltc of the guards should be lined 2j and expelled from the town townThe guards had no trouble with any person As soon aa a man who came from ono of the places under the Mayors ban was Informed of the proclamation ho turned back at the line and inadu 10 ai tenipl lo run ito quarantine Through this precaution Payotic sin Kept free from contagion ihe Mayor liollr ed Iul Boise WHS also free uf it wllhriUl it qiur anllnc The Mayor had occasion to po lo BoIse and under hue circumstances he did not believe titer was any risk Hut tho t day ho landed thor a COHO of smallpox developed In the town Tho story of It was printed In the Boise newspapers iid hi I reached Payetto before Ito Mivor lift for homo He had nol heard of II and In furl knew mulling of ll until he VUH slopped on Ihc outskirts of Payette by ono of his own guards and askcJ whence he came From Boise he answered You cant enter this town wild the guard and he began to read to him his own iiroclamatlon But I am Mayor Coughunour Bill ho mid to the guard t know that Mayor the yunrd replied re-plied but dutys duty Youll huve togo to-go back Tho Mayor skulked around unll amid nlKht and then sneakod home by a lack wuy Next morning he was tit Ills rftlce early and he opened his court before any of tim citizens could learn of his running tIm quarantine The llrnt case on his docket was thai of the People cgalrst Couglmnour He sat In Judgment iu It accepted the plea of guilty of dlsro ard lug tho quarantine regulatIons fom Iho defendant who was himself lined himself him-self 25 and suspended sentence in the matter of expulsion from iho town lime wind was tItus taken entirely out of the wills of tho Indignant citizens Plttsburg News |