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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. A water famine is feared in Salt Lake City if the present cold weather continues. ' A number of sportsmen of Lehi were last week arrested and fined for shooting quail. The Black Hawk war veterans have organized a post at Lehi, twenty-two members being enrolled. f Mrs. Elizabeth Treseder of Salt Lake City last week coughed so hard that he broke one of her ribs. , Ex-Senator Frank J. Cannon, who, tt was feared, would not survive an operation oper-ation for appendicitis, is rapidly recovering. recov-ering. Th report comes from Deseret that . Sheep are dying by the hundreds on the desert from the severe cold weather. The Pleasant Grove meeting house wasydestroyed by fire last week. The building had just been finished at a cost of $5,000. A plan is on foot to tear down the Kenyon hotel building in Salt Lake City and erect a million dollar building build-ing on the site. The Arizona legislature has denied the request of Utah's delegation relative rela-tive to the proposed cession -of a strip of northern Arizona to Utah. Hay is very scarce In tne southern .portion of Seveir county and in Piute and Wayne counties, and the price per ton is rapidly soaring upward. The Atlas and Central blocks in Salt Lake City, which were destroyed by Are last week, entailing a loss of about $450,000, will be rebuilt at once. Quite a number of farmers of Charleston Char-leston have signed contracts to raise beets, and about 100 acres will be planted in that vicinity next season. A picked ten from Mt Pleasant's crack gun club was defeated last week in a rabbit hunt by ten sports from Fairview, the score being 217 to 232. William Burdistal of Price, who hit Wallace Naylor over the head with a hammer, inflicting fatai injuries, has been convicted of involuntary man-, man-, slaughter. Salt Lake county is to have Its first t canning factory within the present year, it will be located at Draper, , and- will be a large plant, first-class throughout The overland flyer struck a broken rail near Echo on the 9th, and was ditched, the entire train of seven cars being derailed, but, strange to say not a soul was hurt. ' A number of the farmers of Santa-quin Santa-quin have decided to raise sugar beets. j-uia orancn or farming has never been tried in that vicinity as yet, but it is believed the scheme will prove a winner. win-ner. , Phineas Howe Young, the youngest on of the late Brigham Young, died in Salt Lake City Sunday night Mr. Young was 41 years of age, and was toe sob of Brigham and Harriet Barney Bar-ney Young. - , . . . Annie Peterson, aged llwas so badly bad-ly frostbitten while walking to school In Salt Lake City one morning last week that she fell fainting when she reached the school house, and' Is now under the doctor's care. The.,report of the city sexton of Lehi is interesting, in that it shows that the death rate in that town for the past year was less than nine per thousand. thou-sand. The principal causes of death were old age and pneumonia. The officials of the Mormon church have received the news from the Society-islands that two missionaries TwLff La. e had arrived from Tuamatu, where they had a narrow n tPK. lrm 5he recent terril flood drowei a - UBand Peple W6re The election to bond Springville for 120,000 to put in an electric light plant resulted in a victory for the electric light people by a vote of 194 for to 67 against. The plant will be put in next summer. The bonds will be issued Immediately. . Charles and Joseph Hill, half-breed Indians, became involved in a quarrel over a woman, near Ephraim, when Joe ased a pocket knife upon his brother, inflicting a number of wounds none of which, however, were fatal.'-Both fatal.'-Both arenow in ja.ll at MantL- ... Minerva Reed and Eva Curtis, two 17-year-oJd girls, inmates of the reform re-form school, have been bound over the district court to answer to a charge! of arson for having made an attempt to burn the state industrial '-. .schoopn the night of February 2. t ; -i - - - - |