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Show ! EARTHQUAKE SHOCK IS ; fELlJHfliS CIH j Seismograph at University Out ! of Order and Fails to Rcc- ord Disturbance. i Humors were rife about the eity Tuesday Tues-day evening that between G and 7 o'clock a slight earthquake shock was felt here. Tho report first started from guests who were dining in the cafe at the Wilson. A number of those, who wero seated in different parts of the dining room, reported re-ported to Landlord Wey that they had distinctly felt tho shock, nnd that the tables nnd lloor seemed to tremble for an Instant. Owing to tho awful calamity in southern Italy and the newspaper accounts ac-counts of it, it was believed they had surmised t lie shock from reading the papers, and no credence was placed In tho report at the time, but so many people peo-ple persisted In tho stalemcnl that the opinion became general that something of the sort really occurred. In years past earthquake shocks have been felt hero, and of sufficient force to cause dishes on shelves to rattle, but no damage over resulted. According to geologists, the country In U1I5 locality is such that it might prove susceptible to an earthquake. They claim that the hills and mountains in tliJs vicinity havo not attained their full height and are constantly con-stantly increasing. This, they assert, Is good ground for their supposition. At the University of Utah a seismograph, seismo-graph, which records all disturbances of 1 tho earth, was examined lato Tuesday evening to ascertain whether or not thero had been, a shock, but tho Instrument was found to be out of order, and, therefore, it Is Impossible to r.tatc definitely whether there was any disturbance or not. j |