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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. There are three lawyers in the lower house of the legislature. A new map of Utah has just been published by the land department. In American Fork and vicinity over 850 people have had smallpox since last April. A case of smallpox developed in the Utah county infirmary last week, and that institution has been quarantined. It is an assured fact that an electric plant will be installed at the mines of the Sterling Coal & Coke company at Morrison .in the near future. The new school building at Charles-. Charles-. ton was formally opened on tfie 6th, with impressive ceremonies. One hundred hun-dred and fifty pupils were enrolled. At the joint, caucus of the Democratic Demo-cratic senators and . representatives, Joseph L. . Rawlins was unanimously nominated as the party's candidate for senator. . A rabbit 'hunt for a wager of $50 between be-tween picked-crowds of fifteen men each from Ephraim and Manti, resulted result-ed in a victory for Ephraim by a score of 185 to 153. The state board of equalization has filed its annual report with Governor Wells. The total assessment for the year 1902 is $118,047,216. This is an increase oer 1901 of $5,445,56x 1 The 5-year-old son of H. P. Hansen of Ephraim, struck a horse on the leg with a stick, the horse retaliated, kicking the little fellow in the face, inflicting in-flicting serious injuries. He may lose his eyesight. Six young men of Salt Lake are confined con-fined to their homes with smallpox, having contracted the disease at a dance, when they danced with a young lady who had the disease and did not ' know wbai" ailed her. Myron Tanner, who came to Utah in the Mormon battalion in 1847, is dead at his he in Salt Lake. Mr. Tenner was B of JProvo for a number of rerms," and had held vari ous positions of trust. James Larson, a member of the faculty fac-ulty of the L. D. S. university, died at the detention hospital near Salt Lake City last week, from smallpox! Mr. Larson caught the disease from his wife, and died after eight days. j Two boys, while skating on the pond in Liberty Park, Sat Lake, Sunday Sun-day last, broke through the ice, and for half an hour stood with their noses just out of the water until rescued by the motorman of a passing street car. Joseph Felts, the 18-year-old boy of St. George who recently stole two horses and made his escape from the county jail, being captured after an exciting chase, has been sentenced to three years in the reform school. A meeting was held in Springville last week to consider the proposition of calling a special election to vote on the question of bonding the city to put in an electric light plant in Hobble Creek canyon. The sentiment of the meeting was almost unanimously in favor of the proposal. The Salt Lake Medical society wants a law passed that will give the bodies of the unclaimed dead to the physicians for dissection. They claim that other states have such a law, and that it is a good one; that the bodies of such people can be used for the benefit of science and will be of use in the curing of those living. A summary of the weather report for 1902 shows that there have been only three years in the history of the Utah weather bureau that were drier. The driest year on record was 1863, when the total precipitation for the year was a little over six inches. The total precipitation for last year waa 11.41 inches. While a number of children were playing in the public school grounds at Mt. Pleasant, the 7-year-old son of Christian Hansen was knocked down by a horse which stepped upon him. inflicting injuries which may prove fatal. Each of the four wards of American Fork are busy now getting rock on the ground for their new meeting houses. They each have 100,000 brick bought, and will commence to lay the foundations founda-tions and brick as soon as spring opens up. At a meeting of the leading citizens of Draper, held in the Draper ward house, Saturday, it was decided to organize or-ganize a club for the purpose of bettering bet-tering any and all conditions in the town that may call for possible improvement |