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Yreka Journal, March 26, 1871.

Reports have it that the influenza that laid low the city all during the past winter season has surfaced now in the mining camps. Not content to have decimated the ranks of Yreka’s finest just at the moment of the New Year’s balls, it has moved on now to more modest quarters. The miners out in the camps are said to be suffering what are by now all-too-familiar complaints. We are told, however, that they are content to weather their storm by staying inside and keeping warm, awaiting a more salubrious time. A group of volunteers has been organized to carry provisions out to them, whenever the weather permits it. Those of us in this city who preceded the miners in their agues can send our sympathies -- and cans of beans -- via those wagon drivers.

Elsewhere, it is observed that this will be an early Spring. Already the snows have receded, and the bulbs in our gardens are putting up their first greetings. The mercantile association wants all citizens to know that soon every implement for home planting and goods the ladies will be wanting for Easter will be on the shelves.