Epidemic Hits Thistle Meantime in Utah Valley
Measles sweep Thistle with widespread illness among children and adults. The report notes urban and rural cases, stressing the outbreak's reach across the community.
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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1898
Page
2
Measles sweep Thistle with widespread illness among children and adults. The report notes urban and rural cases, stressing the outbreak's reach across the community.
A devastating blaze in Spokane’s Great Eastern Lualness block on Riverside Avenue trapped residents on the fourth and fifth floors. Eight live were lost and many others escaped through smoke filled corridors as firemen battled the flames. several named victims include Alice Wilson and Maud Wilson among others.
Correspondence from Toronto reports Canadian officers consenting to restrict all supplies entering the Klondike via the U S relief expedition. The measure links to the government expedition and flags a display of food stocks at the entry site, with payments required for aid supplies.
Dr W O Xoldot, a renowned physician at the municipal medical and surgical institute, died at his home by suicide. The act is linked to fear over the coroners jury verdict in the death of Mary Janks, a young German woman who reportedly submitted to a criminal operation. The jury ruled death by own action in the Janks case and did not directly implicate him.
A Consignment totaling about 1400 pounds of provisions and 200000 pratas of quinine was sent to Havana for suffering people under General le iguaul general at tlavana. A separate shipment to General Tee included eighteen tons of provisions donated by the Philadelphia Grocers' and Import Arveshange.
Crowded steamers bound for Dyew and Skaguay leave within hours as people rush to Alaska from Tuget. The exodus swells the city departures, with nearly 1,000 travelers heading north in a single day amid crowded docks and bustling ports.
Washington debate on paying government bonds with silver coin. Senators Allison and Teller argued legality and policy while Foraker McKean and others pressed that gold and silver parity must guide this action. The discussion touched public faith, debt payments, and treasury authority amid shifting monetary views.
The Senate confirms IT W Griggs of New Jersey as attorney general of the United States succeeding McKenna. Griggs, 48, former governor elected in 1895 by 27 000 votes, faces Republican opposition but gains the post as a senior statesman with a strong party standing.
The Genoa Nevada grand jury report on the Ute lynching Chau is unsatisfactory. Court foreman notes lack of evidence and witnesses, indicating no indictments will be returned. Judge Mack remains noncommittal as talks proceed, while a river flood and weather loom over the area.
Washington report by Commissioner Thetmann of the general land office criticizes Representative King for a bill to cede public lands to Utah. The commissioner argues the proposed transfer would harm public interests and outlines multiple reasons supporting his adverse stance.
A crowd of about 84 hundred observers gathered at the Stamford railway station last evening to bid farewell to a party of 62 men headed for the Alaskan world field. The party included 34 members of the Alaskan Mining and Dyading regulation. They come from this and nearby districts after leaving good posts or business interests. The group will travel by rail and then by a specially chartered schooner Moonlight Crestions. Washington, Tan 2. Public business may delay or complicate the party senior. The president will likely visit the Pacific quest during the coming summer after addressing Yellowstone and then Tacoma before Washington. Riots continue with looting in Jewish stores.
The long, fragmented update covers estate appraisals in Wyoming, mail routes, rail prospects in Leagues county, refinery value shifts, and Casper electric light plans. It notes Copper and gold placer activity, a skeleton found in Deer Lodge, a mass meeting in Douglas for Trans Mississippi exposition funds, jury selections in Caspar, and talk of canal classifications by the mineral land commission.
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