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Show SICK IMI iSTDMED Dim ey HOSPITAL Charity Refused fo Applicant for Treat nicnt on Plea of Full House.. Special to Tho Tribune. OGDEX. Feb. IS. Picked up at tho North Slar saloon, a week ago, suffering from erysipelas In Us most malignant form. Oscar Johnson, a Swede, was taken to the Opden general hospital for treatment. treat-ment. At tho door of tho Institution, where charity Is supposed to prevail, the unfortuuato man was Informed that he could not bo accommodated on account of a "full house," whatever that moans. Since that tlmo tho city and county ! officials have been playing a game of nhiK-pons. uslntr Johnson as the ball. From the city jail he was sent to the county Jull for treatment. On account of tho man's condition, and tho lack of means to treat him at the Jail. It was finally decided to send him to tho poor farm, where ho Is now under the treatment treat-ment of County Physician J. W. Pldcock. Dr. Pldcock says the man Is suffering from one of the worst cases of the malady ho has ever seen, but tnat he will probably prob-ably recover. |