Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1905 — ON THE EDGE OF WAR? [ARTICLE]

ON THE EDGE OF WAR?

Yellow Fever Situation Causing Strained Relations Between Louisiana and Mississippi. BLASCHAKD WANTS A GUNBOAT Vardaman Declared to Have Invaded the Sacred Soil of Hia Neighbor. Uncle Sam Also Involved, and a Dispatch Sent to Washington—Favor Report-Case at Montgomery, Ala. Montgomery, Ala., Aug. 2.—lt is officially declared that a case of yellow fever la at the .pest house here. New Orleans, Aug. 2. —The relations between the states of Louisiana and Mississippi have reached an acute stage, and from indications it will change from interviews about the concealment of cases to a much more serious matter. From Information that has come to hand the dignity of the state of Louisiana has been offended by an armed invasion from the sister state, and Governor Blanchard has communicated with the captain of the naval brigade, which has a fully equipped gunboat, with the view of having it dispatched to the borders to protect Louisiana citizens from further indignities. Mississippi has five armed boats patrolling the coast to prevent fishermen from breaking through the quarantine lines. Invasion of Louisiana Territory. These vessels are also assisted by the United States revenue cutter Winona. The Mississippi boats will not allow Louisiana fishermen to even enter Mississippi sound east of St. Joe light, but from reports received here it appears that one of these patrol boats came into Lake Borgne, which is distinctly Louisiana territory, and one report says it came up to the mouth of Lake Borgne canal, which extends from the lake to the Mississippi river, only a distance of four and a half miles. Unala Sam Also an Invader. - Last night it was learned authoritatively that the schooner Grace, of Gulfport, and another vessel, had been ly--ing five miles inside of the Louisiana line most of the time for the past week, and at times even entering the Rigolets, the outlet from “Lake Pontchartrain into Lake Borgne, and during that time had taken eighteen Louisiapa boats, some of them schooners and others luggers, and turned them over to the United States revenue cutter Winona, which towed them to Ship island, where the crews were immured. This brings the federal government into the muddle. Governor Blanchard has wired to Washington, but the text of his message has not been given out.

LOUISIANA TO HAVE A BOAT There la a Dispute mto Jurisdiction Report on the Ferer. The Louisiana naval brigade vessel, Stranger, draws too much water for service along the coast, but a light draft boat will be impressed into service armed with a howitzer or two and manned by officers from the brigade, and will lie sent out to prevent further aggressions. Some of the territory patrolled by the Mississippi boats is now in dispute liefore the supreme court of the United States, both states having laid claim to it since the legislature of Louisiana created an oyster commission and passed laws to protect the valuable oyster lieds. Following is the yellow fever record up to 6 p. m.: New cases, 42; total cases to date. 346; deaths, 5; total deaths to date, 68; riew foci, 4; total foci to date, 50. The day’s record shows a continued improvement so far as the number of new foci i» concerned, and with no secondary infection from any of the existing foci, the general sutiatlon is regarded hopefully. The large number of new cases, the largest yet reported in a single day, shows that the tertiary infection among the panic-stricken people in the original district is appearing, which was to be expected. One of the new cases Is on Jackson avenue, in the residence district, and the victim has returned recently to the city from his summer home on the coast.

The state board of health received official notice of the appearance of fever in three other jiarishes, the victims all behig Italians or Austrians, refugees from this city. Tn the lower part of Plaquemine parish, on the west bauk, fifty miles below the city. Dr. V. 8. Schayot, parish health officer, reports six cases—one at Sunrise, one at Empire, one at Ostrica, one at Point Celeste, and two at Vaccaro. Lieutenant Colonel L. M. Mauson, during his inspection of Fort St. Philip recently, discovered a case five miles from the fort, bnt the patient was nearly well at the time. Shreveport, La., Aug. 2. Barney Tracy, a traveling man of Chicago, is In the detention camp just outside ths corporate limits of this city suffering from yellow fever. The infection has been traced directly to New Orleans, although Tracy spent but a few hours in that city, having probably contracted the disease in going from one railway station to another in New Orleans on July 25.