| Show GOAT FEVER IN THE OFFICE OF THE TRIBUNE The Salt Lake Tribune editor had a bad attack of last In order to frighten to injure to fill up ifs columns with and to discourage timid the Tribune spread its pages with the following A terrible new hitherto unknown to has broken out among the goat raisers in Kane and and threatens to spread through all the sections of extreme southern where goat raising is one of the chief goat men have died of the insidious and mysterious malady since it first broke out during the kidding and so apprehensive are the authorities over the situation that the state board of health on afternoon decided to dispatch John who occupies the chair of anatomy in the University of to the In Washington the goat fever is raging in Virgin St. George and around the Virgin river and Ash and North The has even crossed over the Arizona and goat raisers around in the southern are frightened by the progress of the It is probable that the dreadful malady will continue to take its heavy toll among the goat raising population for months before a remedy can be There is not one word of truth in the above quotation from the The Tribune undoubtedly learned that some eastern investors intended to go into the goat industry and penned the canard simply to frighten them the Commercial Clubs of Utah do not expose and notify the world of the Tribune's state-injuring the editor of the Utah Independent is unable to The County News ran down the silly sensational and has the following to say about No Such Disease Under the heading Disease in Southern the Salt Lake Tribune publishes a long article which states that terrible new hitherto unknown to is raging in St. and around the Virgin riVer and Ash and North This is not No such disease is in this Since reading the article in the we have made inquiries to ascertain if there was any cases of this disease in the county we fail to learn of a solitary County is free of such cases and also of other serious As is usually the case during our dry the health of the people is F. J. Woodbury of this city informs us that about a year ago he had a patient down with the so-called at La The doctor diagnosed the case as typhoid treated the sick man for that and he fully J. T. Affleck of this city had a patient at Virgin about a year ago who was down with Affleck also diagnosed the disease as the man was treated for typhoid and fully These are the only cases of so that have occurred in Washington The men effected had been working at the goat camps in Kane and in these camps con the The successful treatment of the only two eases that ever in Washington County by local doctors proves the falsity of this paragraph from the Tribune's new disease has defied all efforts of the local doctors in Kane and Washington and the situation is as more goat men are infected every |
