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Show yesterday lfKjO have perished. On the range north Of Rawlins the storm has been less severe, and there have been no losses of any consequence. Nevada. RENO: R. E. Merrill of Reno, who has been confined to his home with a sever attack of pneumonia. Is now nearlng complete com-plete recovery. Mr. Merrill is a prominent promi-nent mining man. with larpe interests In Tonopah, Sodaviile and other camps of the State. I NEWSfR0M1S j FOUR STATES, j! Utah. ! PROVO: A. U. Bott died at his home in Provo of'asthma, yesterday. Deceased waa born In Denmark sixty-seven years ago. He came to the United States ten years ago and settled at Kirby, Kan., where he resided for six years and then removed to I'rovo. The funeral services will be held In the Congregational church Thursday, at 1 o'clock. PAYSON: Peter Wilde of Tayson was struck by a party of cOanters yesterday and severely hurt. He did not regain consciousness con-sciousness for several hours, and may be permanently injured. PROVO: The Committee on Irrigation of the Provo City Council has submitted , the following- schedule of water taxes for Provo City for the year 19U3, which was adopted: All city lots, farm, meadow and pasture land irrigated or benefited, by irrigation, 75 cents for -each lot, or In th same proportion for fractions thereof, and 1 bO cents for each acre of land. RICHFIELD: S. C. Sorensen of Richfield, Rich-field, who recently returned from Wyoming, Wyo-ming, Is In a critical condition from rheumatism rheu-matism contracted while herding sheep, and little hopes are entertained for his recovery. PAYSON: Payson sheepmen who are running their herd In the western part of the State, principally in Juab county, report a great loss of sheep since the last storm by the severe cold weather. Before this, they say, their flocks never looked better and were doing well, the loss being comparatively small. The recent storm has put a great deal of snow on the win- I representing Fsstem capitalists, four . claims on' Profile creek. The claims ere In the best portion of the district. The price paid has not been made public. BOISEr The House yesterday kild the Senate bill to create Anderson county out of the northern part of Bingham, with the county seat at Idaho Falls. A motion to indefinitely postpone the bill prevailed by a vote of 25 to 20, after a sharp debate. BOISE: A joint Republican caucus was .held last night. It agreed to-abolish the office of Insurance Commissioner and make the State Treasurer ex-ofilclo commissioner; com-missioner; to pass the Dllatush fish and-game and-game bill: to kill all bills for roads and bridges. The eight-hour bill wan debated Ht length, but action was postponed until today. BOISE: The Senate yesterday passed the following Senate gills; Changing the terms of school trustees of Independent school districts from six to three years; making it unlawful to obstruct or destroy any line used for the transmission of electricity; giving married women absolute abso-lute control of their separate properly; prohibiting the husband from disposing of a major portion of the community property without the consent of the wife; providing that in case of death of the husband or wife without Issue the entire estate shall fall to the survivor. Wyoming. CHEYENNE: The lower hotis- of the Wyoming legislature has passed a bill taxing the gross output of coal mines, despite de-spite strenuous opposition. The vote was 40 to 6. A similar measure had twice been defeated in the House. It is freely predicted pre-dicted that the bill will meet Its death in the Senate. RAWLINS: Cosgrlff brothers brought 90no head of sheep from the desert to Knobs station for shipment, reaching the road when the storm was at its worst, and it was impossible to ship or secure feed. As a result, according to a report ter range, and the cold weather has frozen froz-en a crust over It that prevents the sheep Xrom getting down to the feed, and as a consequence they are dying by the hundreds. hun-dreds. PROVO: The funeral services over the remains of Miss Mary Woodruff were held this afternoon In the Tabernacle, attended attend-ed by the faculty and students of the Brlgham Young academy and many friends of the departed. The remains were shipped to Salt Lake this morning, where they will be interred In the family burial ground. 8AL1NA: Mr. Sophia Crane of Ballna died 8unday of heart failure. She was president of the Woman's club and was prominent in charitable work. Her husband. hus-band. William Crane, Is suffering from smallpox. - VERNAL: The body of Oran Curry arrived ar-rived In Vernal last night for burial. He leaves a wife and three children, who re-sld re-sld In Vernal. Ill-health and straitened circumstances are assigned as the cause of bis suicide. LOGAN: A farmers', excursion to the Agricultural college; in Logan, will take place next Saturday, February 21st. The ' new barns and the recently purchased pure-bred live stock will be Inspected, and the experiments In progress with sheep, steers, dairy cows and poultry will be ex- flalned. The dairy, greenhouse, shops, aboratorles, museums and other practical practi-cal departments of the college will be visited. Idaho. WEISERj An important transfer of Thunder mountain mining property was made In Weiser yesterday, when D. J. Brown, who 1 better known as Thunder Mountain Brown, sold to D. Mackenzie, |