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Show WESTERN WHISPERS Ogden wants to have the Territorial Insane Asylum. The Home Dramatic Club of Salt Lake have been very successful. Republicans at Salt Lake are not a happy family unless discord constitutes happiness. The Utah Southern Extension is being pushed forward with commendable speed. Salt Lake and Ogden have got innumerable bicycles. The inanimate steeds are cheap and useful. A movement is being agitated at the capital city, for the purpose of making arrangements to give a grand celebration on the Fourth of July next. Carroll & Deo of Ogden have recently received two car loads of very fine horses, from the eastern and middle states. People find it a measure of economy to have either good horses or none. A debating society at Park city has decided that Grant was a greater general than Napoleon Bonaparte. If Napoleon were alive he would want to cease to breathe immediately after hearing the verdict. Ogden is enterprising. The new Central school building there is progressing finely. An additional tax of three fourths of one per cent is to be collected for the purpose of continuing the work on this magnificent structure. From the JUNCTION we learn that a destructive fire broke out in the Decker House, at Sandy Station, a few miles below Salt Lake city, Tuesday morning. A high wind was prevailing at the time, and water not being attainable, the hotel was not only soon reduced to ashes, but the flames communicated to the railroad station building, which was soon consumed. The railroad office furniture, and part of the telegraph instruments were saved. The Park MINING RECORD says that about noon last Saturday, John Kammerman, better known as "Dutch John", and long known to the citizens of Park City, committed suicide by taking thirty-five grains of strychnine. He was a native of Switzerland, and came to this country in 1871, being, we are informed, the first miner in the Park. He was universally esteemed as a good hearted, honest man, and although he leaves no family or relatives to mourn his departure, he leaves many friends who will miss him and no enemies. It is supposed that he was demented. Last Sunday night two of the inmates of Salt Lake county jail made a desperate and almost successful effort to escape. During the dark hours the flag stones in the southeast corner of their cell were raised-some weighing as high as 300 pounds and over; they then dug down to the bottom of the foundation and removed some of the foundation rocks, and then turned up, and when found in the morning, had reached within a foot of the surface, and had they known it, could probably have forced the ground up and got away. The tunnel thus made was about four feet in width, and large enough for a couple of men to go through. The only instrument found on them to assist them in the work was a small piece of iron, and with this it is presumed they did the work. |