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Show -p" pAtjisFir" Indications of Much Damage From High Water. Hrof. Koch's Discovery Applied Ap-plied to Oneof the City Councilmen. Bench Land Owners Incensed Incens-ed Oyer the Damage Caus- edby Loose Animals. Spanish Fork has legatned unwonted un-wonted condition of health, and evn v-body v-body feels happier. John S. Thomas has been re appointed ap-pointed Superintendent for one jear for the Young Men's Co op. It was a wise move. It will take another week before ail the ditches will be cleaned out ready to carry watr. In the meanwhile scores of men are at work ou them. Horses and cattle are being gathered gath-ered up lrom all around and urivt-n on to the bench fields, much to the anuoy-iiuce anuoy-iiuce of the laud owners there and an injury to their property. County Asskssok Hall, of Spring-yille, Spring-yille, has spent considerable time here in rectifying errors in the valuation aud quantity of properly to the apparent ap-parent satisfaction of the people. Mr. Hall is approachable and just, aud consequently has the confidence of the masses. The immense deposits of snow in the mountains denote very high water in the near luture, and if indications are not misleauing some of li e low lands will be submerged, roads will be Hooded and uiidts. wsi.ui away. Now is the time lo us.c necessmy precautions. AN error appeared in the laat issue of The Dispatch in which a was staled that the West Field hrigaiing Co., was plaintiff and Spa11.su For City defendant in a suit now peniuny between ihe above parties, it siioaiu read: Spanish Fork City, piaintiff, vs. West Field Irrigating Co., defendant. In a previous issue the stock of the Co-operative store was made to read $35,000, whereas it should have been $45,000. Since the discovery of the tubercolis baccilli by Prof. Koch, considerable atttntiou has been paid here by prominent promi-nent investigators as to the kind of a microbe that has caused such a general gen-eral stampede herein the legislative circles. The last report is louu-ie-l upon an a'nulytical exaiuation on the body of one or our Citv Counciluien, w ho has but recently recovered from a severe attack. The report is too voluminous to be inserted :n full. Here is one of the c.-uutial parts. "I found a microscopic incision right over the jugular vein into which ihe hideous trumpum crawlum (the na;n,j of the microbe; poured iu his poisonous hydrophobic M;U-lingual juice. 11. e tii st sensation ititistuat ot a crawling crawl-ing feeling, ioliowed ty menul disgust dis-gust with a disposition of revenge. Sudden movements of I he hands quickly quick-ly follow, accompanied by an unuoii-trolable unuoii-trolable tendency lo press the timinb nails together with considerable f-ne asifttjingto press the life blood of the intrnding microbe through its nostrils. nos-trils. In short the disease is identical with that of the third Egyptian plague. "What remedy voi;M ;u recommend?" was asked the anai.vrl. Said he: "I would bu:ld a new j iii and have it entirely separate from the City Hall. In it I would have microbe proof walls and doors, in to w hich the weary tramp could l.oi-i solemn sol-emn communion with h:s natural a.s sociates to his content or otheiwn-e. 1 would hare a separate room for offenders of-fenders and a water pond of hot water between the prison an the halls of law and t-quity where the solons could meet and deliberate without fear of intrusion." Satisfied w ith the explanation explan-ation and suggestion, your correspondent correspond-ent seeked other news and the Professor Profes-sor left to superintend an excavation close bv. - |