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Show Territorial Talk. Salt Lake and Ogden are to have Wilhelmj?, the world's greatest violinist. "Grand Duchesse" is to be performed by a juvenile company, in the capital city. The bullion product of Utah for the year 1880, it is claimed, will reach $10,000,000. <br><br>From all indications at the time of writing the re-appointment of George W. Emery, as governor of this Territory, is an assured certainty. All friends of peace and justice will earnestly hope that such may be the case. <br><br> From the Junction: On New Year's day, U. S. Marshall Chase and and Sheriff Jones, of Malad, Idaho, arrive in Ogden, having in charge Moroni Ricks, recently convicted there of murder in the second degree and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in the Territorial penitentiary at Boise. Ricks claims that an unusual and unjust pressure was brought to bear upon him because he is a "Mormon" and the man he killed was a Gentile, stating that Mr. Houston, particularly, said on one occasion that he (Ricks) was only a "stiff starched Mormon," and he proposed to take some of the starch out of him. Ricks also claims that the Judge had a similar disposition as was evinced by his rulings, his general demeanor and the severity of the sentence. The prisoner and his custodians left per the C.P.R.R. on a freight train, for Winnemucca, the same afternoon. From that point they take the stage for Boise. <br><br>---- One of those shocking accidents which are momentarily expected, and which are liable to happen at any instant to those engaged about ponderous machines, occurred on the Central Pacific, near Promontory, on Thursday the victim this time being Mr. Joseph A. Kelly, a brakeman, residing in this city. No one witnessed the accident, but the indications are that while walking on top of the moving cars, he slipped, or missed his footing, and on falling to the track was frightfully mangled by the wheels of the cars. The remains were brought to the city yesterday and interred. Deceased leaves a wife and three small children. |