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Show Thirty Dollars Bay for Nurse During the "Flu WINNEMUCCA. Nevada. Dec. 2. Thirty dollars a day for waiting on a family was the wage at which a colored col-ored woman was hired here by a Basque sheep man to go to his ranch near McDermitt, on the Oregon lino, all tho members of his family being down with influenza. Tho shecpnmn had tried In vain to get help nearer here, and falling, came to Winnemuc-ca. Winnemuc-ca. There were a number of cases of the disease here, and that, together with tho fact that many people are afraid of contracting Influenza, made it difficult to find a woman to go. The colored woman was offored $20 a day. She said It wns worth 530, and without with-out any parleying the Basque consented con-sented to pay It. oo |