LEPER IS FOUND 1 ROAMING STREETS John Kokas Picked Up by City Health Officers After Long Search in DISEASE SHOWS IN FACE FOREIGNER HELD PRISONER IN INTENT INTENT INTENT TENT PENDING ACTION 1 i John a Greek Creek who has hl been at large In Salt Lake for tel the tho last Ja t 18 IS months while suffering from rem what is Ie pronounced to be 2 a well developed ease case on o of or leprosy was captured yesterday ye afternoon by Dr Ir S G o Paul city lq health mJ elener and T DeWitt Foster Footer clerk of oC the health board beard Kokas was waa taken to a point a quarter of ot a mile beyond the city oI Isolation hospital h pUal in Emigration canyon whore hr he Ite to Is quartered In la a 8 tent pending further investigation which may lead to t his hie deportation to his hie ne native tive coun Gun country country try It developed yesterday that Kokas has not been in hiding although the authorities have been boon searching for tor him for tor more than a week For two to weeks of lest last month he was a patient at the L T 1 D S hospital ho and was die dis discharged dl charged from front that institution with the statement that although the dane who had examined him did not know what his trouble was they could not Dot cure cur him One On local 10 l physician however is ia said salti tM d to have told the man that he could effect a cure in about three months month time and it would oula cost him I Brought DI so nero Here Kokas has baa the appearance of or a 8 aman aman man suffering from Crom an aggravated case awe of or ringworm and erysipelas ery and Rd although Incapacitated for tor manual man labor he says he suffers utters no DO pain and his appetite Is la good He first noticed the disease d while living JIving at Itan Kansas as City about two years ago apt and has no idea how he contracted it His con condition condition improved slightly at the time he came to w Salt Lake Lako IS months month ago and Rd it was Wail last Jut April that tb t It became I bad enough to inconvenience him Most of the time he has hu been In Salt Sail Lake Like Kokas Koku said Id he ho had bad been work working big ing for tor the Oregon Short Line railroad company compan and anel the James Kennedy Construction company Two T months p pago ago BIrO however the disease attacked his hh I right hand and aDd wrist and the appear appearance appearance ance of or the Ute blotches was followed by b local bOCsI anaesthesia so au that he could no nc longer hold a 8 pick and RAd shoveL One large blotch Is ts present on Jib hie hl I right cheek smaller blotches blotch were discovered on isis his 1 neck neek and Rd shoulder and anti others ethers oth on his bale right hand and arni i wrist The immigration authorities wore wort I notified yesterday ret that Kokas Koka had been found and was being cared eared for forby forby forby by the city elt and it Is probable that an Investigation will bo be made Im Inn Immediately Immediately mediately to se see He if IC he be can be deported Kogas says ya however that he has haa been In la tho the United States for tor more than three years yea Other Foreigners With Uh Him When the city health commission commissioner er en and his h clerk went out to search for Cor the man yesterday they went through all aM of the saloons and stores in III in West Second South street and finally spotted their man as M he was starting for his home This home was wa found fouad to be at H 1 South Third West V street instead of oC In North Fifth Firth West street treet as no wa given as an his hie address to the Ute state board boardo of o health The error so 80 far tar as u could be hi ascertained yesterday was wag made through the lb Interpreter and Kokas Koku made no DO objection to being taken in custody by the commissioner The house hOUM in which Kokas had been flying is a It latIn lath and plaster shanty 17 and It is III believed that several other foreigners occupied the prem premises lees s gh there was waa no DO one there when It wee was w visited dated by Kokas Koku and RAI the health yesterday ay afternoon