50 YEARS AGO: “A Navajo girl was reported recovering Tuesday from the first known case of bubonic plague in Arizona this year. Two other cases of plague have been reported this year in the Four Corners area. Numerous prairie dogs have died near Gallup, NM, apparently of plague, and a 5-year-old boy died earlier in Utah. Bubonic plague usually spreads through bites from infected fleas, which are picked up from wild rodents.”
25 YEARS AGO: “The longest-living (conjoined) twins ever born in Colorado died Friday of lung failure. The twins were 7 and were born in 1984 at Mercy Medical Center. They shared a liver, most of the intestinal track, and a heart that had only three chambers.”
Most items in this column are taken from Herald archives, Center of Southwest Studies and The Animas Museum. Their accuracy may not be verified.
