Considerable excitement was occasioned…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

Considerable excitement was occasioned in this city on Sunday last by the arrival on the train of a man with a well defined case of small-pox. Acting Mayor Jo E. Sheridan gave him temporary shelter in the city building, and on Monday morning made arrangements with Howard H. Betts for the use of a power house about a quarter of a mile north of the water works, where he was conveyed and made com- fortable. The city employed Dr. Woodville and a nurse to wait on the patient. The case is so well isolated that there is little danger of the disease spreading. The patient’s name is John Miller, and he claims to hail from Rincon. He states that a small, well-dressed doctor in Deming told him that he had small-pox, and