TEXAS’ SANITARY METHODS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 359, 26 March 1903, Page 6

TEXAS’ SANITARY METHODS.

■•liwau Offered Armed BnlfMie* Bit tii* Banner* llclpifl Baforce Hpgalatinni. La it rear, fay? the writer of an article on “The Texas Hangers." in Prank Leslie's Popular Monthly, there was an outbreak »f smallpox in flic Mexican quarter of f.areclo, and the inhabitants would neither be vaccinated nor would they permit the amallpox patients among them to be removed to the hospital. Capt. Ropers and seven rancors were ordered to the ■eene to enforee tlie sanitary regulations. Thr Mexicans organised and armed themselves to resist. Aa son as the troop arrived in the town Capt.. Rogers, with one man, went to the street in which a smallpox p&tTent was located. As he was walking up the street he was shot from cover by a Mexican, who was promptly killed by the private who accompanied the captain. The sound of firing brought the remaining rangers to the scene, and they advanced up the street, firing as they went. Hundreds of armed Mexicans had gathered in the street to kill off the hated Americans, but the back-door exodus that accompanied the advance of the rangers would have ludicrous, except for the accompanying spectacle of the wounded Mexicans, a half-dozen of whom were left in the street after the rangers had passed. The official report of ths affair naively concludes: "After thia the> removal of smallpox patients was an easy matter.”