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Show UTAH STATE NEWS. The fifth annual session of the Western West-ern Negro Press Association was held in Salt Lake last week. One case of smallpox has developed at Mt. Nebo, the patient having contracted con-tracted the disease in Wyoming. ine attorneys for Abe Majors are now confident of getting a rehearing cf his case before the supreme court. The school census for Tooele county this year shows a total of 1,807 children chil-dren of school age, 879 boys and 933 girls. - State Senator Smoot of Provo lost $50 while bathing at Saltair one day last week, the money being stolen from his bathroom. The annual reunion of Utah Indian war veterans was held at the Provo lake resort last week, a large crowd being in attendance. A forest fire has been raging in the Blue mountains recently, the light of which could be plainly seen on the I mesa above vMoabv sixty miles from the Ere' . - '" ' Threshing is iii full blast in Cache' eonnty and the yield per. acre indicates that about 1,300,000 bushels of cereals will be garnered in Cache county this Tear. .', There are about l,000:wild horses on the leased'laniis"'of the Uintah reservation reserva-tion and they will be rounded up by the lessees in a short, time and some disposition made of them. During the celebration of Merchants' day at Saratoga springs, one man is aid to have actually taken his mother-In-law in a trait wagori so as to have the whole family represented. The three-year-old ' son of Deputy County Clerk Seare, of Salt Lake, got hold of a bottle of carbolic acid and poured the consuming liquid over his head, the child's scalp and face being fearfully burned. William Neebush was shot by Halvor Dope at Salt Lake, but fortunately tha I bullet glanced from Neebush's skull, making only a slight flesh wound, tha trouble all occurring over a trespassing cow. . The report of the surveyors of Piute and Sevier counties shows Koosharem, which has heretofore beeu considered and treated as being in Piute county, j 'sin Sevier county by at least a quarter of a mile. 1 J3ee men of Vernal are smashing all records this year, one firm having extracted ex-tracted 400 pounds of honey to tha colony up to date, and have now between be-tween 40,000 and 50,000 pounds ready for the market. Peter Blixt has sued Solomon Peterson Peter-son ia the Provo court for S ,000 damages dam-ages and 8150 expended in litigation, claiming that Peterson had him prosecuted prose-cuted wrongfully on the charge of unlawfully inclosing public lands. John G. Willey, a packer in the employ em-ploy of F. AueVbach & Co., Salt Lake, has confessed to systematically robbing i his employers for the past five years, I and in that time he had stolen prob- ably 83,000. His salary was SlOa week and he had 81,800 in the bank. Win. Pearson of Salt Lake was sent ' to the pest house last week, suffering with smallpox. His bride of three j weeks accompanied him, rather than ' be separated from her liege lord, and ! they will spend the rest of their honev. i moon in the pesthouse. Frank B. Lefevre, a yonng man of Orton, Garfield county, was killed by I lightning on the Hh inst. as he was re- j turi.l.ig from the range where he had ' been hunting cattle. It is supposed he had been dead an hour when found, j His horse was also killed. It is said that no two men conld be more unlike than the condemned murderers mur-derers now awaiting death at the penitentiaryMajors peni-tentiaryMajors and naworth. The former is good natured and in good spirits, while the latter is but a shadow of his former self. . Julius Livingston, a fiften-year-old Jockey, was hurled from a running horse at Calder's Park, Salt Lake City, and received injuries which may prove fatal. He was riding Silver Star on the track when the surcingle broke, casting him violently to the ground. Don F. Carroll, the ten-year-old son of Manager Frank Carroll of the People's Peo-ple's Mercantile company at Castle Dale, was drowned near Orangeville, . while attempting to ' cross a pool of " water on a barbed wire fence during a heavy rainstorm. j |