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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. Fairview citizens are making a strong ffort to secure a system of waterworks (or that town. - .; The total number of men in this state available for military duty, but not organised, is 27,344. The water in the Great Salt Lake is Blowly but surely rising, increasing at the rate of two inches per month. ' The four cases of smallpox in Lehi have about recovered and 'it is believed be-lieved all danger of the disease spreading spread-ing is now over. In a recent decision the supreme court holds that the law compelling barber shops to close on Sunday is constitutional. The department of agriculture has recommended Utah as the best state for producing alfalfa from seed imported from Turkestan. The shopmen in the employ of the Oregon Short Line at Salt Lake City declare they will not strike, as they have no grievance. The town board of Price has ordered a special election to be held on March T on the proposition to bond the town for a system a waterworks. Last season over $5,000 was realized by the beet raisers of Sevier county. Next season the yield will bring $10,000, according to all predictions. From Kimberly comes the report of another big snow and a fierce blizzard that shook some of the largest buildings In the camp from their foundations. The two-year-old son of Mrs. Heber Seek of Manti, while playing near a tub of soap suds fell in head first. The little fellow was missed by his mother and rescued just in time. When the county commissioners of Utah county met to select a county physician last week each member of the board had a candidate and the matter mat-ter was decided by drawing straws. Fred S. Crowley of Kaysville has a cow which has given birth to six calves within a period of ten months. The cow is a grade Durham and the calves were born in two batches of three each. At a recent meeting the county com- . jB0Tissioners of Sevier -. jL.ty . ed a bounty of 5 cents a head on jack rabbits. The bounty will obtain for sixty days and appliesto the entire county. Henry Smith, a negro who is un-doubtenly un-doubtenly insane, attempted suicide in Bait Lake City by jumping head first into a vat of whitewash. He imagines he has been sentenced to life imprisonment imprison-ment for murder. Intense cold weather prevails in the Ticinity of Parowan,- and cattle on the range are suffering from lack of feed, as the snow has formed such a crust that stock is unable to get through it to obtain food. The members of the Maccabees, Modern "Woodmen and Ancient Order bf Forresters of Springville, are taking the preliminary steps to organize a stock company to erect a lodge building and amusement hall. The University students who were suspended for throwing vegetables at the principals in a drama presented by members of the University, have returned re-turned to their studies and peace now prevails in that institution. The home of G. M. Whitmore, cashier of the First National bank of Nephi, burned to the ground before sun up on the morninsr of the 4th. One fireman, James D. Pexton, was struck down with falling joists and badly injured. Petitions are being circulated in Sanpete San-pete county to be presented to the legislature leg-islature asking that body to appropriate the sum of $1 ,000 to assist in building a new wagon road across the mountains west from Richfield to Kanosh The lowest temperature recorded by the Salt Lake weather bureau during the month of January was 15 degrees and the highest was 53 degrees, while during the month there were ten clear days, nine partly cloudy and twelve cloudy. Six years ago the gross receipts of the Lehi postoffice for the year ending December 31, 1886, were $1,341. The business has increased since then nearly 62 per cent, and for the year ending December 31, 1902, the gross reteipts were $2,164. A disastrous fire visited Richfield on the night of the 3rd, the loss being over $3,000. Hundreds of men and boys formed into a bucket brigade, and by a gallant fight subdued the flames. Some of the bucket brigade were slightly injured in-jured but not. seriously. |