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Show DRAFT HORSES ARE HIT BY DISEASE Livestock Inspector Sends Vaccina to Uintah to Check Distemper and Influenza. Pr. It. W. Hoggan, state livestock Inspector, In-spector, reports that draft horses have died recently In and about Tablona, In the Uintah country, from a complication of distemper and Influenza. Ho has sent I a quantity of distemper vaccine wi'.h I which to Inoculate the remaining animals I to prevent a spread of the disease. Dr. Hoggan and Thomas Redmond. Aec- I retary of the btato livestock couunis- I slon, returned yesterday from a tr.p Into I that section of the state. At and near 1 Heber City, Wasatch county, range con- I dltlons ere found to be good and live- stock was In excellent feed. A similar i situation was found in Duchusne and vlrlnlty. Not until they reached Tahlona did j tho livestock officials find any ailment I of a serious character. J. Thomas re- ported to them that within the p::st , month he had lost eighteen valuable draft 1 horses from distemper and Influenza ! Hishop I"avid A. Smith of Salt Uik had also lost a couple of horses withtr ; the past two weeks. Do' tor Hogga 1 ays that there 'will be wholesale inocuia- j tlon, aa a preventive measure In the fall, when several thousa nd horses wUl be brought In from the ranges. j Word was received yesterday that hog cholera has broken out at Tremonton and lr. H. J. Frederick of Logan has gone to make an Investigation. i Today Dr. Hoggan will go to Wendover to investigate the cause of death of sev- i eral horses In that vicinity. J. Erlck- j son of that place reports that recently j he has lost several horv:3 from some af- ! filctlon, the nature of which he does not know. j |