Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-05-08
Many Complain of Malady Incapacitating Mind in
 Early Morning
MINER SLEPT FOR
 FIFTY SIX HOURS
Tired Feeling Causes Suit for Divorce, Hens Quit
 Laying, Clerks Late

SEATTLE, Wash, May "A strange malady, not unlike the uch-talked-of sleeping sickness, is affecting the peo- | pie of the Pacific northwest.
 Has the comet something to do with the unusual symptoms9 This is the usual question that your neghbor greets you with every morning
 For several days physicians have been reporting an unusual number of callers who complain that they feel sleepy and that it is difficult to arouse one's mind in the morning.
 Say, do you believe it3 had five patients this morning who complained of being sleepy all the time," said Dr. F. c. Gardner, at the County Medi- cal society. "Why," spoke up several other doctors, CT have been pestered for week with men and women who have the same compaint to make''
 A story comes from Juneau, Alaska, to the effect that business men are open ing up their shops and stores later each morning. Up in Alaska they blame the comet for causing a miner to slumber for fifty-six hours without single move ment of the muscles. From Cordova report originated that it is impossible to get as much work out of the gangs of men on the Alaska Central railroad as formerly, because of complaint that is general of sleepiness. ! Tacnno EVapatt pal1ip couver and Victoria. British Columbia, are foremost in declaring that some thing is wrong with the atmosphere of the Pacific northwest this spring. Clerks and employees are reporting from five minutes to an hour late. It is habit fast growing to be tenacious, say the business men. There is not much in- efficiency charged to the tardy clerks, because the same affliction affects the managers and proprietors of the stores, and they are even later than the sub ordinates.
 An occurrence here that seems to be a favorable indication that something is wrong this spring with mankind is the fact that the King County Humane society caused the arrest last week of twenty nine teamsters charged with beating their horses The defense each man advanced for himself was that the "basted mules seemed to be so blast ed lazy
 A divorce suit was filed here yester- day by Mrs. Leslie Parker against her husband because he wouldn t wake up mornings. She complained that he has lost three positions because of tardi ness.
 Out in the neighboring country farm CTS are sleeping overtime. They declare that they do not wake so easily as year ago. A farmer near Enumclaw slept so soundly last week that a bear came down from the mountains and killed eleven spring pigs. Not even the faithful watchdog surprised the wild thief at his work.
 A farmer near Kent tells of finding the bodies of fourteen hens in a pool of water one mOrningA The hens had been in the habit of roasting on a limb that extended over the pool. He is of the opinion that the hens became so ex- hausted from sleep as to cause their toes to weaken and fell
 Here in Seattle Chief Braun of the fire department has had to lecture eleven men soundly because they were slow in answering fire alarm.
 Physicians who were consulted in re- gard to the matter state that since the majority of the population seem affict- ed with the sleepy feeling, that it is caused by some extraordinary condition of the atmosphere. The heavy slumber that is now so common to northwest people is also exhausting. It leaves the victim tired out and unwilling to be- gin the days work The appetite is good and all faculties appear normal, but the slumDering habit is taking the stamina out of the heretofore renowned industry and business is being neglected in every line.
 It may or may not be a spring ailment and it may or may not be caused by some extraordinary condition of the air, but nevertheless the sleeping complaint is worrying lots of people in all the great northwest.