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Show 1 v UTA1I STATE NEWS. i ' Fatrvlow citizens tiro making a strong H' effort to eecuro a system of wutonvorki H'"' or that town. . VM Tho total number of men in this state PJK available for military duty, but not HI organized, Ih 27,344. B Tho water In tlio Great Salt Lako is K, filowly but surely rising, increasing at B tho rata of two inches per month. flH . Tho four cases of smallpox in Lehl j bavo about recovered and it is be B , llovcd all danger of tho disease spread B' -nR Is now over. H In a recent decision tbo supremo PJpH court holds that tbo law compelling H barber shops to close on Sunday is P Tho department of agriculture has H recommended Utah as the best state B for producing alfalfa from seed imported BSSBj from Turkestan, Tho ehopmon in tho omploy of tho Oregon Short Lino at Salt Lako City declaro they will not Btrlko, as thoy liavo no grlovaucc. BSSBl. The town board of Price has ordorcd BSSSb' a, special election to bo hold on March SBTj 7 on tho proposition to bond tho town BBV ( for a Byetem a waterworks. BBV ii' Last season over $5,000 was realized BBb ?, Iby the beet raisers of Sovlor county. B..' (Next season thoy. old will bring $10,000, BBj ?' according to all predictions. H'; From Klmberly comes tho report of . another big snow and a llorco blizzard BBy , that shook some of tho largest buildings BBj ' In tho camp from their foundations. BBj Tho two-year-old pod of Mrs. Ilebor J , Seek of Mantl, whilo playing near a BBjf, tub of soap suds fell in head first. Tho T littlo fellow was missed by his mother BBV' , and rescued just in tlmo. fl ! When the county commissioners of H.j Utah county mot to select a county BBwT physician last week each member of BBmS tho board had a candidato and tho mat- BBVp tor, was decided by drawing straws. BBs' Fred S. Crowley of Kaysvillo has a BBh. cow which has given birth to six calves BBV within a period of ten months. Tho HSfl cow is a grade Durham and the calves BBW were born in two batches of threo each. BBS I At a recent meeting tho county com BBB j mUslonera of Sevier county authorh- BBB I ed a bounty of C cents a head on jack BBB4 rabbits. The bounty will obtain tor BBVr Lxtjidoys and a'ppliosto the entire BV i oounty. BBV f Henry Smith, a negro who is un- BBBl,p doubtcnly insane, attempted sulcldo in BBBF Bait Lako City by jumping head first BBBJf Into a vat of whitewash. Ho imagines BBBl ho has been sentenced to life imprison BBB nicnt for murder. BBB)' Intense cold wcathor prevails in tho BBB vicinity of Purowan, and cattle on the , BBBL' rango are suffering from lack of feed, BBB as the snow has formed such a crust BBB j that stock Is unable to got through it BBBu, 'to obtain food. BBS Tho members of tbo Maccabees, BBBj (Modern Woodmen and Ancient Order BBBj of Forresters of Sprlngvllle, are taking BBBj i the preliminary steps to organize a BBBj ctock company to erect a lodge building BBBx and amusement hull. BBBJ t Tho University students who wero BBBl' auspended for throwing vegetables at BBBJ tho principals in a drama presented by BBBb members of tho Unlvorslty, havo ro- BBBl turned to their studies and peace now BBBh prevails In that institution. BBBb , Tho home of G. M. Whltmore, cashier BBBb of tho First National bank of Nephl, BBBl burned to the ground before sun up on BBBb tho morning of the 4th. Ono flromau, BBBb James D Pexton, was struck down with tailing joibib anu oauiy injurcu, BBBj Petitions are being circulated in San- BBBj peto county to bo presented to the leg BBBJ ialaturo asking thut body to appropriate BBBJ the sum of $1,000 to avslst In building a BBBJ new wagon road across the mountains BBBJ west from Richfield to Kanosh BBBJ The lowest temperaturo recorded by BBBJ tho Salt Lake weather bureau during BBBJ the month of January was 15 degrees BBBJ and the highost was 53 degree, while flH during the month thero wero ton clear BBJ days, nlno partly cloudy and twolvo K9B cloudy. HnB Six years ago the gross receipts of IgjLw tho Lhl postofflco for the year ending JEjajfcj December 31, 1800, were $1,341. The tffljf business has Increased since then $SM toearly 02 per cont, and for the year ttjV ending December 31, 1002, tho gross f$B I roteipta wore $2,104. KwBm j A disastrous fire visited Richfield on NffiH I the night of tho 3rd, the loss being over JjpJ i 93,000. Hundreds of men and boys BH j formed into a bucket brigade, and by a BBJ gallant fight subdued tho flames. Some BBJj i of tho bucket brigade wero slightly in- BBJ jurcd but not seriously. BBS Wallace Nuylor, a 10-year-old loy of BJH Prico, was hit in tho bead with a 1mm- BH rncr by William Bodcstad, a lad of 15, EH and Nnylor was fatally Injured. Bode- B etud clulms ho struck Nuylor in self. JH l' defense, after ho hud been attacked by H ? tho former, who had been drinking. H Mrs. Kllzcboth Young Ellsworth died Hj Ji at Lowlsville, Ida., on tho 2nd. She H was tho first child of tho btc Brlghum H Young, her mother bolnglho first wifo, H Miriam Works. Elizabeth was born in H Cayuga county, N. Y., Soptembcr 20, "" J826". several years prior to her father's H joining the churoh. BBb m . i BBBBMt-Mjtr -"3aJMMMBBBBB |