Company, who has a family of children, was quite excited over 1 Q1 

 the affair and this morning asked me to install the regular 

 method of diagnosing diphtheria bacteriologically. So Little 

 Willie gets busy making up Loffler's serum. No work of the 

 kind is being done in the state and we can get such work to do 

 from Butte and other places, at least enough to pay for 

 breakage. 



Those who remember Wherry out of the flesh will appre- 

 ciate what such a story as he tells in the following letter (Janu- 

 ary 21, 1906) meant to him: 



Yesterday afternoon I went to Butte with Dr Spelman and 

 met a lot of the physicians. Most of the men plainly showed 

 their disappointment at the Company establishing a labora- 

 tory in Anaconda, a smaller place. Dr Spelman took delight 

 in stringing them. He started by telling them of our three 

 thousand dollar laboratory here and ended by talking of our 

 five thousand dollar equipment. We will install necessary 

 means for diphtheria diagnosis both here and at Butte and most 

 of the doctors say they will be glad to send their specimens to 

 us instead of east or to San Francisco. 



On January 24, 1906, he wrote: 



I made cultures from the throat of one of the Company's men 

 this afternoon. His membrane is probably due to a strepto- 

 coccus but it served to initiate the West into up-to-date meth- 

 ods. However the scheme for incubating the cultures is old. 

 They are in my inside vest pocket. The only incubator we 

 have at present is at the shop having an electrical regulator 

 installed. — I have just heard that it will be necessary to make 

 a fifteen mile drive to-morrow morning to autopsy a horse 

 which went crazy owing to the effects of smoke and arsenic. 



Sub rosa, he communicated the finish of this horse tale 

 twenty-four hours later: 



I have been working on that crazy horse all day and am just 

 about asleep. The horse had cerebro-spinal meningitis and I 

 am trying to isolate a small bacillus present in large number. 



Before the month was out, Wherry was beginning to feel 

 the smart of partisan battle (January 29, 1906) : 



