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Show TERRITORIAL TALK. Chief Justice Hunter has gone east. The C. P. Company are building a round house at Ogden. A special election has been ordered by Governor Emery for the purpose of electing some person to the Legislature of this Territory, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. A. P. Rockwood. From the news. A woman named Mary Taylor was on trial in the police court, in Salt Lake, Friday for endeavoring to induce two young girls, Agnes R. Poper and Emma Dommer, to become inmates of a house of prostitution in Brigham. They allege that she offered to rent them two rooms there for $10 a month, and of supply them with money and fine clothes until they could support themselves. The woman Taylor, from Brigham, concerning whose infamous proposition of two girls was spoke of in last evening's News, was sentenced to pay a fine of $22 and costs, the Jury's rendering a verdict of guilty, after a few words of deliberation. She paid the fine, and got off, we think, pretty lightly. A report reached Park City on Thursday, that Jed Snyder, of that town had shot a man named Davis, of Midway, Wasatch county, a day or two previous. The two men were at Current creek, near Strawberry valley, engaged in a quarrel, and Snyder, being badly beaten by Davis, drew his revolver and killed his antagonist. The Utah Central Railroad Company have decided that a round house is one of the necessities of their flourishing business, and preliminary operations on the iron work required have commenced in earnest. The structure, which is to be one of the finest of the kind in the west, will be crowded rapidly to completion. From the Junction: The third district court met in the court house, Ogden, at 11 a.m. on Monday and the Judge called the calendar and continued over three hundred cases. It continued all the equity cases unless both the parties desired a trial, and continued the law issues because it could not have a jury, so no jury panel had been drawn for the term. That leaves but a small number of causes [cases] which can be heard. It is to be hoped that either Congress or the Territorial Legislature will remedy this evil this winter. In the suit in the Third District Court Hatch vs. the U. P. R. R. Co., for damages sustained by the plaintiff, through the crossing of his land in city of Ogden, by the line of the P. P. Co. - a decision was rendered in favor of the defendants. The opinion of Chief Justice Hunter develops a startling theory and one which has occasioned intense excitement in Ogden. As understood the idea of the judge is that the title to the old sections had been granted to the Railroad Company before the lands in Utah had been open to pre-emption, homesteading or other individual appropriations; consequently the title had passed from the government before the City of Ogden had acquired its title to Section 39, and before any individual acquired any pre-emption or homesteader got. The consequences of the decision rip to disturb the rights of all the land holders in Sec. 39, who cannot shield themselves under the statute of limitations by actual adverse possession. The property involved amounts in dollars and cents is at least half the property within the corporate limits? From the Herald: William Clayton, Esq died ??? Salt Lake, last Thursday. This gentleman has been seriously indisposed for several months past, and his life has frequently been despaired of, though he has continually rallied, and hopes have [unreadable] for his ultimate recovery. The complaint instrumental in terminating his earthly career of this highly respected, well known and useful elder was dropsy, and is one from which he had suffered for years. He was born in England, July 17, 1811, and early became a member of the Church, emigrated to America and up to his death remained a faithful and consistent member. |