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Show CANAL AUDITOR HAS THE FEVER Falls Victim to Yellow Plague. Present Condition Is Said to Be Quite Favorable. Favor-able. Fact of New Cases Being Among Intelligent In-telligent Class Causes Disagreeable Disagree-able Impression. WASHINGTON, May 4 The office of administration of Isthmian canal affairs has received a cablegram from Governor liavis r. porting that R. R. West of this city, deputy auditor of tho canal zone. Is III there w ith v ellow fever, but that his loi.dltlon Is mw comfortable Gov lavls says that Mr. West cannot sail home be-fore be-fore two v.e.-ks. The cablegram reports two other c.i-.-s, Charles Leech and M m Barrett. Causes Apprehension. The news "f these n.-w f.-v.-r cases, coming com-ing so soon after the recent favorable report re-port of Gov. Davis has made a disagreeable disagree-able Impi onion fur the reason that the titw patients are of a class of employees regarded as Intelligent and competent to "I'm i v. ah the rules of hygiene and follow fol-low closely the well-established method of protection against the fevei Conditions Abnormally Bad. Recent reports from tho Isthmus, however how-ever show that conditions arc abnormally bad. owing to almost a water famine and to bad woathei It Is believed by the official offi-cial here that the conditions will Improve Steadily and that the American colony Is now going through its worst experience. Ol. TTT : 1 1 T- -.I viLy w in joe v.jl"UU. Within a f w vvi.-ks the new water supply sup-ply System. bringing pure mountain water into Panama, will be In operation. ami when the city is paved with vitrified brick and sewered It will be the . leanest city In the tropics, with little danger of contagion. |