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Show NEWS FROM SCHOFIELD A Strange Disease Playing Sad Havoc with Children. The Rowdy Element In Danger of Interference Inter-ference From the Police. SCHOFIELD, Emery county, Utah Juneu25. Special to the Dispatch. Among your numerous readers there are many, no doubt, who would like to hear from Schofield. especially as this place has been the temporary home of many who are now settled in Utah county. Work is lively at present livelier than it has been for some months past, and were it not for the great amount of sickness prevailing here the people would be happy. There is a disease "going the rounds" among the children that is playing sad havoc with them. This disease is something akin to diptheria, and quite a number of deaths have already occurred, while many are dangerously ill. On account of this disease the public (district) schools, Sunday schools and primaries have, by the advice of the physicians, been closed down, in consequence of which our public assemblies assem-blies are only attended by a few grown people. Five missionaries have been called from this place, four of whom have already al-ready departed. The fifth leaves on the 24th. They all go to Europe. Their names are Roderick Davis, John Henry Davis, (grandfather and grandson), Jas. W. Gatherum, Jas. S. Anderson, and T. Evans. While most of our people are law-abiding enough, we have in our midst a certain lawless element who have no respect for law, order, nor anything else, not even for themselves. Their last exploit was on the 21st, whan they broke the stillness of the peaceful Sabbath-day with profanity and abuse showered upon the head of one of our most peacable citizens, J. K. Parcell, because he asked them not destroy his property. Warrants War-rants are out for their arrest. The wave of excitement caused by the national political parties being organized or-ganized in Utah, has not struck us very hard up here as yet, but there is a feeling, an undercurrent, or it may be the tail end of the political storm, that has set the citizens to whispering that we should fall into line. Last Saturday at Huntington the assembled as-sembled county convention of the. People's Peo-ple's party delegates, voted to disband. As no other organization now exists, we will have to get a move on us if we intend to do anything at next election. The citizens of Schofield are whispering Democracy to each other, and Democratic Demo-cratic principles are being quietly discussed. dis-cussed. So don't be surprised if you hear of a solid Democratic club here before long. A little Democratic literature liter-ature would be a good thing at present. pres-ent. On account of the immense" depth of snow in the mountains, yery few herds of sheep have arrived in the valley. Observer. |
