Show UTAH STATE NEWS fairview c eizens are making a strong effort to secure a system of n waterworks uter works for that town the total number of men in this state available for military arv duty but not organized is 27 44 the water in the great salt lake is slowly but surely rising increasing at the rate of two inches per month the to fo ir cases of smallpox in lehi have about recovered and it is be lieveld all danger of the disease spread ing is now over in a recent decision the supreme rne 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 Turk estan the 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 7 on the proposition to bond the town for a system a waterworks last season over 5 was realized by the beet raisers of sevier county next season the yield will bring 10 am according to all predictions from kimberly kimberl y 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 airs heber seek of manti mand while playing near a tub of soap suds fell in head 11 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 mat ter was decided by drawing straws fred S crowley of kaysville Kays ville 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 bathes of three each at a recent meeting the county corn com Int lOners of sevier county auth authorize oriz ed a bounty of 5 cents a head oa on jack rabbits the bounty will obtain for blaty days and applies to the entire bounty henry smith a negro who is 18 un doub tenly insane attempted suicide in salt lake city by jumping head first into a vat of whitewash he imagines he has been sentenced to life imprison ment for murder intense cold weather prevails in the vicinity of carowan 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 modern woodmen and ancient order of For resters of Spring springville ville are taking the preliminary steps to organize a stock company to erect a lodge building and amusement hall the university students who were suspended eus for throwing vegetables at the principals in a drama presented by members of the university have re turned to their studies and peace now prevails in that institution the home of G AT whitmore cashier of the first national bank of nephi burned to the ground before sun up on the morning of the fth one fireman james jamesd D pexton was struck down with falling joists and badly injured petitions are being circulated in san pete county to be presented to the legislature asking that body to appropriate the sum of 1 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 degre ei 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 post office for the year ending december 31 1896 were 1341 the business has increased since then nearly 62 per cent and for the year ja ending december 31 1902 the gross receipts were 3 2 A disastrous fire visited richfield on the night of the 3rd the loss being beina over 83 3 hundreds of men and boys formed into a bucket brigade and by a gallant fight subdued the flames some a of the bucket brigade were slightly in aured but not seriously wallace naylor a 16 year old boy of price was hit in the head with a hammer by william bogestad Bod estad a lad of 15 I 1 and naylor was fatally injured bode atad stad claims he be struck naylor in self defense after he had been attacked by the former who had bad been drinking mrs elizabeth eliabeth young alls borth died at lewisville Lewis ville ida on the 2nd she was the first child of the late brieba in young her mother bein being c the first wife miriam works E izabeth w was a s born it in cayuga county N 1 september 26 18 6 several years prior to her father a joining the church |