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Show BANGER FROM THE EAST. People Fear Importation, of Typhoid Fever From Leadvillo, Whero nn Epidemic Exists. It Is feared that travelery will bring typhoid fever to Salt Lake from Lcad-ville. Lcad-ville. Colo., where an epidemic is raging, there being over r00 cases at the present time. Claude E. Cooper, secretary of the State Board of Health of Cblorado, has made a thorough in-fpcctlon in-fpcctlon of the water supply of Lead-vllle Lead-vllle and thinks it Is contaminated. There Is no doubt about the diagnosis of tho disease. A source of danger to the border towns Is the Arkansas river, which Is likely to become contaminated. contam-inated. The situation Is serious, as the disease Is spreading rapidly. |