Deseret Evening News | 1900-01-04 | Page 1 | Alarmed by the Smallpox Talk

ALARMED BY TIlE THE SMALLPOX TALK i Passengers R Refused fused to Get Off Their Trains This Mornings Morning SENT UP UJ FOR THEIR MAIL or of the UIO or of Seola Sensa lional Men lUu Dl DI ka The tact fact that there thero In fa smallpox In Snit Salt LaJ Lake e has been widelY circulated all over the country and the conditions must have hae been exaggerated d dout out 01 o all al proportion because cause travelers who stopping over oer her Insist on through Without leaving their Judging from Irom their actions today they appear to think that they would ho g lives In their hands by coming un UD town This ThUI morning and other tray dora elers w wio o had arranged to stop over changed their plans PIM And practically nil through went on They would not come up town but sent to the hotels for tor their mall and had hadit It brought down to them The rhe hotel keepers keepen are dismayed not Over smallpox but over oer the alarm of th the traveling public Their rooms are being emptied and the effect on their business will be diSAstrous should this state of affAirs continue u a Of co course re there IJ Ii no such sucha II a Icar The traveler have probably read some rome exaggerated and sensational report anti imagine Salt Lake to be II a plague stricken n city when as 08 II a matter maller ot of tact fart less than halt a dozen dOen caSCI casca al all told d developed here The cases last lall night In the while not creating public alarm have IncrEased perCeptibly the on the part of at the public There ivas for tor instance Q a marked de demand demand mand for tor washwomen a today and the are to notice DOUce II a consider able falling oft art In the number of bun bundIes bundIes I dIes they receIve