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TAIILEQUAII CHEROKEE NATION I T SATURDAY AUGUST 10 1003
NO 28
DEADLY MOSQUITOES
What Yellow Fever Tests
Have Proven in Cuba
Under Government
Supervision
SURE PREVENTIVE FOR FEVER
of money requested for the pur-1 of fever produced bat it msy be
pone of rewarding volunteers who
would submit themselves to ex
perimeot
Money and full authority to pro-
ceed wre promptly grauted and
volunteers from the army offered
themeelvea for experiment in plen
Before the arrangements were
entirely completed Dr Carroll a
member of the commission allowed
himself to be bitten by a mosquito
A Brooklyn Man Give Remedy Which He I that twelve days previously had
Say i a Sure Preventive For Yellow filled Itself with the blood ot a yeU
assumed that It was malarial
Some 40 of the varieties of mos-
quitoes described in the manu-
script have heed recently ideol'fied
in Ceylon all of which goes to
show that the mosquitoes of that
island are of old families which
have not improved with age If
the couutcdou of mosquitoes with
malaria is as is now believed a
matter of fact it is not surprising
that it was noticed ages ego to a
fever ridden laud like CeyloD
age being over seventy She
eaves a eon Riley Keys Jr to
mount tier Ions and the How will
be a severe one as he has lived
right with hi mother all his life
One by ooo the old Cherokeea are
parsing away and it will only be a
short time until all the old timers
will have gone to the h pr hunt-
ing grounds
American investigation has
shown that yellow fsver germ
are disseminated by the mosquito
and now the Liverpool School of
low fever patient lie suffered
from a very severe attack His
was the first experimental case
Dr Lazear also experimented on
' himself at the same lime but was
not infected Some days laW
Below we print an extraot from while in the yellow fever ward he
the Baltimore Sun which we think was bitten by a mosquito and noted
will be of interest to onr readers ' the fact carefully He acquired the
giving as it does a complete ac- disease in its moat terrible form
count of the experiments of the j and died a marly r to science
United State colntnisason headed No other fatality occurred
by Major Walter Reod of the U ! among the brave men who in the
S army in Cuba j oourt-e of the experiments willing-
Ihe appearance of yellow fever ly exposed theui-el ve to the infec-
in New Orleaus and the determi- tion of the dreaded disease
nation of I)r White head of the I The mosquitoes used wore es
federal forces pent there of the j pectally bred from the eggs ami
state and city boards of health and j kept In a building screened by
of practica'ly the whole of the j wire netting When an insect
medical fraternity to appeal to the j was wanted for an experiment it
whole community lor co operation : was takeu into a yellow fever bus
In the effort to apply successfully ! pital and allowed to fill itself with
the dogma that yellow fever Is 1 the blood of a patient afterward
transmitted only by certain species al varying intervals from the time
of mosquito has aroused iutenee j of this meal ofbleodit whs pur-
interest iu the subject of the cause j poeely applied to non linmunes in
of yellow fever epidemics Some I camp
details are given of the wonderful j Five cases of the disease were
results of the experiments o? the ( developed iu December as the re
commission headed by Major Walt suit of such application iu January
er Reed of the United States army J three and in Februrry two making
in Cuba results which it is assert- J in all ten exclusive of the cases
ed have enabled I lie authorities to ' of Dr Carroll and Dr Lazear Im-
make Havana the home of yellow mediately upon the appearance of
fever practically immune after 130 the first recognized symptoms of
years of constant fever I the dieease in any one of theee ex
The whole credit of the develop 1 perimentwi cases the patient was
ment of the theory into a scientific I taken to a yellow fever hospital
fact is due to Major Reed who Every nernon iu camp was rigidly
with other officers and privates of protected trom accidental mosqui
According to medical authari
ties “foci” the plural of ‘ focus”
roeaus the starling place of the
fever as applied in this particular
instance For isslance if a case
of yellow fever is found ia a Louse
auew “focus' for tin fever to start
from lus been created Should
cases of fever bo fouud in several
ptntious of the city it would then
be described as several 'foci’’
Should a ct-e of ydlovsr fever be
discovered at any particular house
this fact would constitute a “foci”
Should a ease of yellow fever be
discovered at any parlicul r bouse
this fact would constitute a'ocu-’’
and aiioull it second case develop
iu this same hou-e llio second case
would be a 'bUl-foi ua’
TO THE PUBLIC
Until the present time we have
nt always bean able to furaitk
tickets to any und all points with
out previous notice to enable us
to procare tickets This bss
inconvenienced some atronssod
has been to our mutual disadvan-
tage and loss We now have ou
hand practically a full and corn
plete stock of coupou tickets d4
can ticket the traveling pultlis to
any desired point Iu every in-
stance we can sell tickets from
Tah’equah as cheap a cau tie sold
Tropical Medicine is about tnjfrom Muskogee Fort (Iibioa
end a second expedition to the
Westville and Fayetteville and ta
Amazon to discover If possible groat majority of instance! w
the actual cacae of the disease At) can save yen the fare between
ram on the Amazon the disease j Tahlequah and the ulmve named
is constantly prescut in a greater poiute Ifyou expect to taka a
or lcs degree j trip let ua figure with yon and
— — we will save v ou money We will
Slim n OR StoLKY— I brawn j pleased to qoote you rate and
h-Tse pony 12 hnd high brand faruieFs any infornittiioa pns-ibl
ed MC on left ehoulder short1
rd I
mane I will pay $10(l rewa
for recovery of the horee
Tou Ghiits
I'mmmI hiv informatien ia cure af
the Advocate Taklaqaaa I T
Our aim is to aerie and plaaaa
you
J 1) Parson
Tahlequah I T
L W Brice
Joplin Mo
(Plinne 40 1
the United States army risked
their lives in the demonstration
Assistant Surg-ou Lazear loat his
life in the attempt Major Reed
auccnmbed three years ago to an
attack of appendicitis in Washing
ton
Major R-ed was sent to Cuba in
June 1900 a- president of the
bond to study tbe infectious dis-
eases of tne couutry but more es-
pecially yellow fever lie was
convinced from the first that gen
eral sanitary measures alone would
not check the disease but that its
tram-mission was partly due to an
insect Mr Used believed that the
unknown infective agent has to
audergn a period of incubation of
from teu to fifteen days and proba-
bly in the body of the biting in-
sect Iu June July and August 11)00
the commission gave its entire at
tention to the b icteriological study
of the blood of yellow fever pa
tients and the po-t mortem ex
animation of the organs of those
dying of the diease In twenty
four cases where th Mood was re-
peatedly examined as well as in
eleven carefully studied autopsies
bacillns iceterouls were not dis-
covered nor whs there any indica
tion of the pres?nce in the blood
of a f p“cifi canse of the disease
Application was made to Gener-
al Leonard Wood tbe military
to bites and not iu a single instance
did yellow fever develop iu the
camp except at the will of th ex-
perimenters The experiments
were conducted at a sea-ou when
there was the leu-t chance o! ac
mrally acquiring the di-ease and
the mosquitoes used were kept
active by maintaining them at a
summer temperature
A brave non immune entered and
remained long enough to allow
himself to be bitten several times
lie was attacked by yellow Vvcr
while two susceptible men in t lie
other compartment did not acquire j
the disease although sleeping j
there thirteen nights This would !
duion8trttte that the infectious-
ness of the building was due only
to the presence of the inn-c's
Lvery attempt wue made to in-
fe t individuals by means of bid-
ding clothes and other articles
that had been used und soiled by
patients snffeiiig with vindent
yellow fever
I)r Carroll in hm report jud:
‘‘Naturally yellow feter is trans
mitied by the mosquito and al ways
and only by the mocqiiit o’'
Coleman Newmau of3l Smith
St Brooklyn is auxious that the
people of the county should know
of what lie claims t be a po-ilive
preventive of yellow f evir aud ali
contagious diseases
Mr Newtnan rays tint a big
worn over the chest containing a
small lump of nsufuetida a lump of
camphor aud a pod of girlie will
stave off all infections mi l c onta-
gious diseases lie says tins pre-
ventive bus always been used iu
Polaud with great success even
being efficacious in the time of the
black p ague Mr New uun say s it
is well worth trying aud that it
will be found to he the means
should fear of n epidemic prevail
of reaMtariug the people Objec-
tion might be made to the combi-
nation of odors but lie says they
will not he offen-ivrly noticeable
if tin Ingredients are carefully in-car-ed
in a muslin bag
September IG 1003— One black
mate mule 3 years old past ubost
14 hands liigh branded W on Is ft
sirtilder Unbroken when take
up-
John Carlil
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day of each week until OcL 1st
IDO Good returning following furnish
THE OPPORTUNITY OF TODAY
The opportunity for the man
with little means is probably bet-
ter today in the prairie states of
the Southwest than ever before in
the history of the nation To be
sure there is roi Mu- ia-t open
choice of land for ti e homesteads
that existed in the ’70s The
lands then taken tin under Gov
ernment laws are now prosperous
farms and tain he There is ueed
of more hands to develop the
couutry Iu the Southwest In-
dian Territory Oklahoma and
Texas are va-t areas of unim-
proved land tint yet produc ing llie
crops of w hich it is capable Vac
tically tho eamo thing is Hue of
the towns Few line of buriness
are adequately represented There
sre openings of all sorts for wide
awake men Are you on
It you sre intetested tail us
what you want how much y ou
have to invet and we will gladly
the infot mation Write
PROCLAMATION
You are liertby notified to cut
tho weeds on your premises dean
! up your hack yard remove there
i from all rubbish trash decayed
I vegitable matter and weeds clean
j your privy and other out houses
! and see that the privy constructed
I according to law using therein
lime and other dieenfectants and
have the excrement therefrom
i hauled away ns often ns good sen-
itation demands All parties not
complying with this order ant li
able to urtest and tiue agreeable
to the ordinance of the town af-
ter ten days from service of this
notice By order of the Mayor
N lj M IILKU Marsha!
M RSKKTiTlTliAP
Ou Tuesday evening ia-t Mrs
Minerva Kys widow of Judge
Riley Keys died at Icr home on
Barren Foik near Welling alter an
illness of out c a few !mh It has
Monday For further information
connections etc call on or write
J D Parsons Ag’t
Tahlequah T
L W Brice I) I A
Joplin Mo
for a copy of otr paper “The
Coming Country’’ It’s free Address
r k o n t i it ov
C P A M K A T RY
BOX 911 ST LOUIS MO
TIME TABLE Ifl EFFECT DEC 5 IS04
ST LOUIS AND SAN FRANCISCO RAILROAD GO
That those win do not ki iw only been n I tile more than h week
malaria to he iv result of mosquito since Mrs Keys who in town aud
bites are very much behind the the riter hud quite a long and in-
£
p i
times is showu bv dm Sanskrit
manuscript on fevers recently
brought to light in Ceylon
This document 1400 y iir old as the B mdinot farm
governor of Cuba for permission i enumerate 07 kinds of mosquitoes east of town on the Illinois river
to conduct experiments on non J the bites of which produce fever Mr Key s was tho last of h large
immune persons aud u libetal mm It does not fully describe the kind family of trolhi-rs and sisters her
Nos fl and o2 passengers daily
day e Vedueniays and Fridays only
No 53 local Ti eight nin- JJcn-
- No fC lend f e ig 1 1 1 (hu
teresting iii’k ltb her Mr Key s Tosday s Thm sdays and Rat urday m only Close mmcctin masiir
wus a datigbtiT of Henry Nave j et Fsy ettevillo with traiu No G for Monett lirgliel! St Lwi
Ivaiirtis City and all points North ami East Close w-sde
at Okmulgee for points West and South Rates (! iecions etc
furnished upon eppheutinn It is no trouble to answer inqtvrif
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