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Show TERRITORIAL TALK. Hon. [Honorable] George Q. Cannon reached home last Thursday morning, and departed again for Washington yesterday. Through fear of storms and detention on the road he started on his return two days earlier than he would otherwise have done. <br><br> The Pattie concerts in Salt Lake did not draw crowded houses. <br><br> The Beaver Watchman says that, in his struggle to retain his present position, Governor Emery cannot have its help. Emery's fate is sealed. <br><br> From the Watchman: A man, his wife and six children were caught in a snow-fall last week in Fremont's Pass and their team refusing to pull, they were stuck for three days without fire or water in two feet of the "beautiful." Aid was sent out to them from Beaver. <br><br> From the Herald: An accident occurred on the Salt Lake and Jordan Canal, Wednesday of last week, which resulted in the death of an unfortunate young man named John G. Swenson. He was employed on Condie & Burt's contract at the Point of the Mountain, and in the morning was engaged in undermining a bank of earth. Having dug under the bank a couple of feet the foreman considered it would be unsafe to work there any more, and put Swenson on another part of the contract. After dinner Swenson, returned to hi s work, remarked that he did not think the bank had been sufficiently undermined, and taking a pick struck a few blows, when the bank caved, burying him under two tons of earth. He was immediately extricated but life was extinct, and must have been almost instantaneous. <br><br> From the News: The project of building a railroad from Salt Lake City to Coalville, it seems, has now assumed a definite [definite] shape. The articles of incorporation have been signed and filed in the office of the Territorial Auditor. The name of the new Line is to be the Utah Eastern Railroad. The length of the proposed route is about 50 miles. $700,000, divided into 7,000 shares will constitute the capital stock of the corporation. The estimated cost of constructing, furnishing, and equipping the road, is $600,000. |