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Show Sontb Jordan. . From a resident of South Jordan we learn that considarable Bickni-sa prevails in that district among children. child-ren. Ten deathi of children have occurred there aince January, the principal causes being whooping cough and lung fever. Medical aid and advice have been aecured from this city and Provo, but the diseases have batlled the skill of tbe physicians. physi-cians. Quite a gloom has been cast over the inhabitants of that settlement, settle-ment, in consequence of the prevailing prevail-ing bickneaj, a number of children being now prostrated. Tbe gloom is felt more on account of the hitherto healthy condition there, the death-rate death-rate since the first settlement of South Jordan being very low. Work on the Utah and Salt Lake canal has been suspended, hut on the South Jordan conduit the improvements im-provements have been constantly going on whenever the weather has been favorable. All the laud under both the canals had been entered and j those who have located there have begun cultivating, improving and building. Houses and fsnoea have been put up all over, And it is expected ex-pected that large crops will be raised the present season under tbe last-named last-named artificial water course. Several Sev-eral families have moved there and located, and the prospect are that South Jordan will increase and grow in aize and population. |