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Show A CHINESE LEI'EU. People of Bingham Startled by Reason of an Alleged Case of Leprosy. The little town of Bingham is iu a great stato of excitement and fear over tho report that it has a case of Chinese leprosy. Citizens of the village yesterday discovered dis-covered that bam Lee, a celestial who had lived in the place for several mouths past, was the victim of that dreadful disease The Chinaman is a cook iu a mining camp and has the miners frightened almost al-most to death. It was staled that the Chinaman has of late been ill and incapacitated in-capacitated at times for the performance perform-ance of his duties. As soon as the people of Bingham heard that the Chinamau was afflicted with leprosy, Dr. Richards of this city was sent for, but ho declined to go, saying the best thing to do was to send Dr. Staudavt, a physician who had experience ex-perience in similar cases iu the Sandwich Sand-wich Islands. The physician left for Bingham this morning. |