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DAVENPORT REPUBLITHE SMALLPOX IN IOWA : sia.ts can prosecute him undor the crlm-! Inal statutes of the state. This Is the I proper proceeding. Hereafter the board IT TROUBLES THE STATE BOARD’*of Health will take up these mattersrather than the medical examiners. WeOF HEALTH.Greatest Difficulty.is at Tama Among the. Musquakie Indians—Uncertainty, as to Limits, of Authority Embarrasses the Board—Congressional Action May Be Necessary to Control Indians. *believe that it will be easier to reach the cases of certain doctors in this way.” «:IRVING CLAIMS TO HAVE THROWN A BULL.Des Moines, Nov. 27.—It the smallpox troubles of the state board of health of Iowa grow with the advent of cold weather as the smallpox is supposed to increase, there will be few tq envy those who have places on the hoard. The situation in regard tq the Musquakie Indians is not wholly clear as yet. The board will proceed as if clothed with full authority, but it recognizes that much of the success of the board in handling the epidemic must depend on the voluntary acquiescence of the Indians themselves and the co-Aqtor Who Plays Part of Ursus in Quo Vadis Proves Possibility.James Montgomery-Irving, who will play the part of Ursus In Quo Vadis” at the Burtis Thanksgiving day, der Clares that he himself has twisted a hull’s neck and thrown the beapt to the ground, and, therefore, he regards Slenr kiewiscz’s description of how Ursus saved Lygia in the arena at Rome a? not overdrawn. 1 However, the text makes the real Ursus not only twist but break the neck of the bull. Mr. Montgomery-Irving- does not claim to have performed that feat. His exper-eservation. There is some contem plation of a movement to have congressional action placing the Indians directly under control of some competent board in sucii cases. The uncertainty as to the limits of authority is an embarrassment to the board, but this trouble with the Indians js as nothing compared to the worry which some white men give to the state board. OneCaracas, Venezuela, South America, in 1898, and the feat of throwing the bulj was performed before President Crespo and a few friends. It was in rehearsal for a public affair which was indefinitely postponed on account of the assassin nation of Crespo, Montgomery-Irving was touring the southern countries in 1898 giving athletic exhibitions.member talked frankly of this at the,close of the recent session. ident Crespo ^nd beca^e h'* est for'These quarrels among physicians,*Ithe bull fights. Walking among thehe asid are sufficient to make nno!bul! pens one dfly h(? s^w » chance to wVr# wo uJ ft 225 25! try bis strength on a bull while protect-sick.- .Here we are asked to Spend two S “7 , wm*fLS wsrtssfcte1 l “ -ftghts over smallpox tatpTotessonal \jealousy or something incidental to I This he did, and after a-terrible strug.political tight. For instance, in thlt; I £°SSS WiSa*^soughtto eg Jrry f: a v o r ni t hp atr ons b yj ™concealing the disease, that he defied j ~ ’ _the regularly constituted health an-j .............thorities, etc. On the other hand itj WINTER IN CALIFORNIA, was charged that the health officers: Winter tourists can avail themselvesdidn’t know smallpox, that they sought of the usual low round trip rates to to harass certain lt;V and throw California and Pacific coast points nowodium on them anil : i?re wasn’t any effect via the Iowa Central route, smallpox in the town .anyway. But A trip to California in four days from when we got down to the bottom we St. Paul, Mason City, Marshalltown, found it was one of those chronic fights Qskaloosa. Hedrick, Peoria and inter-between factions in a town, and one mediate points v.a the Iowa Central that we ought not to settle. and Southern route is a feature worthy• The state board of medical eximin- of recognition. The popular Pullman ers -it its recent session resolved upon tourist car sery.ee has again been m-taking a new tack. We consulted with augurated for the season placing the the attorney general and found that the . ft VtZ£VZmedical examiners could not reprimand da* of moderu‘?ra“e? Fo,'illustratedor censure a doctor for playing fast and ^ 3 ‘,loose with the smallpox situation. We!na^Dhiets cairon fowrCeDtra^ agents desired that the accused doctors should n r tt t abe warned and be Riven to understand ; 'that they were going all wrong, but the Marsnaiiiown, la.board of medical examiners could do nothing more lior less than revoke aEdward North, professor of Greek inci
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Davenport Daily Republican
Davenport, Iowa, US
Thu, Nov 28, 1901
Page 6
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