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Show CANADIAN INDIANS SPREADING SMALLPOX Butte, Mont., Oct. 22. A special to the Miner from Havre, Mont., says that a fearful state of affairs exists as a result of an epidemic of smallpox small-pox among the renegade Cree Indians, who were driven across the country border, it is alleged, by the mounted police. The Crees have a virulent form of the disease and when they were driven across the line wandered aimlessly about, half burying their dead, whose graves can be seen along the roadway. On the Blackfoot reservation reser-vation they spread the infection and it is reported an epidemic is now raging rag-ing there. A rigid quarantine is being maintained by the authorities on a large band near Havre. The situation has become so alarming that Dr. Longeway of the state board of health has taken up the matter and an appeal may be sent to the department at Washington. |