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Show TERRITORIAL NEWS. <br><br> The Salt Lake papers say that (unreadable) teamsters at $4 per ton; and it is expected that the supply will soon equal the demand. <br><br> On the strength of a pitiful 1,357 votes, A. G. Campbell claims the certificate of election as Utah's delegate to Congress. In the face of the 18,508 votes cast for Hon.[Honorable] Geo. [George] Q. Cannon. Colossal cheek! <br><br> Herald: The three girls arrested on Wednesday night were each fined $50 or given fifty days imprisonment. Their names are Annie Nelson, Lizzie Nailram?, who said she had poisoned herself, and Annie Jones, the dusky maiden. <br><br> Communications from the terminus of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad to the Herald give accounts of the suffering from cold and poor provisions of the men taken there from Utah by Martin Florida. The men feel greatly outraged by Florida. Several have died and many are sick. The cold was very excessive. Out of 220 taken there, but 14 remain, the balance being scattered all along the road from there home. <br><br> Herald: The Gas Company, last week, reduced the price of gas to the city from $55 to 50 a lamp post per annum. This is the second reduction made by the company, bringing the rate down to that of San Francisco, where the gas coal costs $8 per ton, as against $14 in Salt Lake. The reduction will result in a saving by the corporation of about $1,000 per annum. <br><br> The editor of the Idaho Enterprise was assaulted and battered on the 11th by a man named Coffin, about whose family affairs the Enterprise had published some disagreeable things. We are not an admirer of the Enterprise man, nor of the policy he is adopting in the conduct of his paper, nor of its general tone, but it was a cowardly act to way lay and assault him in the manner detailed in his paper of Dec. 16th. <br><br> The News of the 17th last says: Eight more indictments were brought in by the Grand Jury this morning. One under the laws of the United States, and the others under the laws of the Territory. <br><br> The jury are working almost incessantly and have done some fast work since they began, less than two weeks ago. They have returned 28 indictments in all and their labors are drawing to a close. <br><br> Blackfoot Register: Lieut.[Lieutenant]Reynolds brought from Utah a number of new recruits for Fort Hall; among them was a bugler?, and one who was to act in the capacity of servant to the Lieutenant. Those two on Saturday night broke open the safe in Lieut.[Lieutenant] Reynolds' quarters and abstracted about $700 in money belonging to the government, and $50 belonging to Lieut. [Lieutenant] Reynolds. Lieut. [Lieutenant] Yeatman?, with a party of men went in pursuit of them. Officers were notified, and on Wednesday, a telegram was received form the sheriff at Laramie City, that they had been captured and $2?6 was found on them. They had purchased citizens' clothing in Ogden and were traveling east on the emigrant train. <br><br> Their names are Marlon and Fitzgerald. They were turned over to the military authorities, and will be brought back here for trial, |