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Show TYPHOID FEVER llf Tl REFUGEE MP Mormon Colonists From Mexico Suffering as Result Re-sult of ' Exposure. ' s SpecUl to The. 'J'ribnn'?. EL PASO. Tex.. Nov. 11. Typhoid fever has broken out at tho hornet of tbe Mormon, re ftigeofl and a number of additional cases arc reported. The pa-ticuls pa-ticuls arc those who were living in tho refugeo camps here prior to tho rental of houses for them. Because of tbe lack of sanitation and the lack of bathing facilitios it is bclioved that the cases- were developed after the exodus from Mexico. Bricrham Pierre has been very ill with the fever, but i:i now out of danger. Tho small sou of L L. Wilson has also been suffering from, the same disease and is now in tho Sisters' hospital. Tho ITfc of Loren Farnsworth. son of D. V. Vamsworth, 0110 of tho leading mon of tho colonies, has been despaired, of because of the ravages of the fever, but is now improving. im-proving. "Beause of the presence of the threatened epidemic among the Mor-monn Mor-monn the church officials are now making mak-ing an effort to obtain a colony ranch in the Pecos valley for those who remain re-main here in. order that they mav not ib exposed. |