Show STATE NEWS william J bryan delivered a lecture on his hia trip around the world at the rint methodist church at Salt Lake city on the evening of january on february 2nd and a snow alide in provo camj cannon on near the bridal veil falls fallis covered the denver and rio grande railway track thirty feet deep for a distance of two hundred feet the daughters of the pioneers gave a very successful ball at the lion house salt lake city on the evening of january the ladies appeared in costumes peculiar to pioneer days daya william J bryan was given a cordial reception by the democrats of salt lake city an invitation was extended by the state legislature to mr bryan to address it t but he was unable to accept the invitation an epidemic of meningitis has broken out in salt lake city during january seventeen deaths occurred from that cause in that city and twenty five new cases are reported the health officers have quarantined all cases of in meningitis enin gitis because of the fatal outbreak on january a bill was introduced in the house of representatives by hon john N davis relating to annual road poll tax specifying what per cent shall bu be liable and manner of collecting and expending the same the measure is known as house bill no 72 and was wa referred to the committee on highways and bridges prof byron cummings of the university of utah has recently made a trip to washington D C for the purpose of interesting the utah congressional delegation and the department of the interior in a move to effect the preservation of the ruins of the cliff dwellers and the natural bridges in san juan county it is likely thit a national park in that section will be created the bill known as senate bill no 18 introduced by senator lawrence by request providing that the unclaimed dead bodies of convicts and other per sons shall be sent to the university for the advancement of surgical science the bodies to be held for 60 days to give friends or relatives a chance to claim them and if at the end of that time they are not claimed they are dissected in the interests of science passed the state senate on january |