Show washington COUNTY SANTA CLARA march 22 1896 quite a calamity has befallen fallen Lel Le alleo the people of santa clare clara within the past lime weeks the mea mo eele in a very severe form accompanied by sore throat croup nose bleeding vomiting and other ailments are now raging in the settlement there are about orty five cases of children wat are down at the present time and every day brings some new coo coos s some borne families famille have shAVe give five and six aix at a time which makes it is rather severe on the mothers school has been SUB suspended for a while vernou vernon graf a 8 young man about 20 years of age died of h heart eart failure and dropsy he was a very promising young man and was respected by all there is also another trial for the relatives of brother Bye Rye saker he Is a little deranged in III ahli mind and causes considerable looking after the other day be left home and iwan wan gone twenty four hours before he was found he spent the night in roaming over the hille wad and came home the next morning carrying a pair of shoes he had bad taken with him I 1 he fields are now very beautiful bean ticul to look at the grain and lucern are four to five inches high and the fruit trees are in bloom the cotton cottonwoods woods aie leaving out and nature looks a as though spring is here the weather to la extremely warm for this time of year and it we do not have some rain before long our crops se as well an our stock will suffer A |