Show LIPPMAN AT GAPE NOME Ten Days Quarantine at Egg Island for Smallp x ALL THE PARTY ARE WELL 1 Ten Days r of Ideal June Weather Such as is Typical of TJtah Amusements Amuse-ments While the DetentionLasted Disquieting Humors about Disasters Disas-ters to Ships and to Stories About Lawlessness at Cape NomerNo Chance for Mail While in Quarantine Quaran-tine or at Sea Arrival June 26th orrospondenco Tribune In Quarantine KEPT Island Alaska Sunday June 16 1UOO This note la l written hurriedly to inform in-form people who have friends on the Ohio us to our general health as well as the condition which we find sIn s-In at tho present time There is a ship near and I shall try to get this letter off ot that but it will necessarily be brief as she is liable to sail at any minute I will write more at length later and it may bo that both letters will reach you at the same time as the going and the coming of mall In this northern land Is very uncertain We are quarantined off Egg Island a picturesque little body of land situated I I twenty miles north of St Michael I slxts miles north of the mouth of the Yukon and ninety miles southeast of Nome City We are to be quarantined for ten days from the 14th day of June j on account of two cases of smallpox on our steamer Otherwlse the health of thoso on board is excellent and all are in good spirits and while naturally restive I rest-ive at the doluy they are settling down to inevitable with rl resignatIon certainly I I cer-tainly commendable and which Indicates Indi-cates the high general character of our I crowd The people 1 on the Ohio are I certainly of a high class and like Americans I Amer-icans everywhere they make the best I of things Yesterday I was vaccinated and I am taking every precaution My health Js better than II has been for years No one need worry about us as the smallpox cases are well in hand and there is no probability of an Increase The patients have good comfortable quarters Egg Island and they are given great care and have good nursing They are in quite as good shape as if I I they were In the Salt Lake pcsthousc The weather is magnificent and the surroundings sur-roundings are cheerful and pleasant t JOSEPH LIPPMAN |