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Show W. H. WATTIS COMING HOME E. O. Wall is has received a message mes-sage from San Francisco stating that W. II. Wattis will leave the hospital Saturday or Sunday and depart for Ogden, arriving here Monday or Tuesday. Tues-day. A week ago last Monday, as Ed and Will Wattis were walking along Market Mar-ket street, both seemingly in the best of health, Will Wattis was seized with severe pains in the side and soon thereafter he was hurried to a hospital, hos-pital, where live physicians diagnosed his case as appendicitis. An operation opera-tion was performed without delay. The appendix when opened disclosed pus, and Its highly inflamed condition condi-tion proved that the operation could not have been deferred without danger dan-ger of the appendix breaking. Since the operation, the patient has shown rapid Improvement and his complete recovery is now a matter of onlv a few weeks. E1 Wattis, who came here for a family reunion which Included L. R. Wattis and family and E. E. Wattis from Eugene, Oregon, will await Will Wattis" return and then proceed to the San Francisco headquarters of the Utah Construction company, located locat-ed at 522 Pholan building. Ho has charge of the coast work of the company, com-pany, including thirty-two miles of heavy rock work on the road building from Willits north to Eureka with a tunnel 4,000 miles long; also sixteen miles of a new road, known as tho PorterUlIe & Northeastern, which Li to enter the redwood belt of central California. E. O. Wattis, as well as his brother, has bad au appendicitis experience, but the brother now here thinks his attack of a car ago cost him more grief and suffering than the head of the Utah Construction company, for, while he was never operated on he went through the ordeal of getting ready for the surgeons when a nurse, mistaking carbolic acid for an alcohol alco-hol wash, poured the burning liquid over his abdomen, causing the operation opera-tion to bo deferred and contlnlng him to the hospital with deep bums for thirty days. He says he suffered mor than If the knife had been applied, ap-plied, and, worst of all. he may yet have to undergo the operation. J oo ( |