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Show TERRITORIAL NEWS. ZION'S Central Board of Trade, Salt Lake, is collecting valuable information and statistics relative to the resources of this Territory. THE Ogden Herald says: That town's prospects for iron works are steadily improving. The iron master is on the road from Pittsburgh hither, the necessary capital is deposited in a New York bank and everything works fair. NEWS: On Tuesday morning, Peter McFarlane, a brakeman on the C. P. freight, brought a lamp in too close proximity to an oil tank on the train. The gaseous emanation from the oil exploded, throwing him a distance of nearly ten feet, and burning him badly. He reached Ogden the same evening, where he is receiving medical attendance. NEWS, 12th: The case of the People vs. David Frazier, on trial in the Third District Court, for bigamy, was given to the jury this morning, who returned a verdict of Guilty. Sentence has not yet been passed upon him. Frazier came to Utah a few months since and soon afterwards married a girl name ??. It was afterwards discovered that he had a wife living in Sacramento and the charge of bigamy followed. THERE is to be another railroad in Utah. It will be called the Pleasant Valley branch of the Utah Central Rail Road, and will run from a point near Spanish Fork, through Spanish Fork canyon, to certain coal lands in Pleasant Valley, a distance of about 60 miles. NEWS: We are indebted to Mr. Alexander ?? for particulars, by mail of a fatal accident that occurred near Heber City, Wasatch county on Saturday, Oct. 8th, by which a young man named Samuel Ogden lost his life within a few hours. He had been working for McMullen & Co., at their saw mill, in Daniel's Creek Canyon. The hands at this mill left about ? o'clock, being Saturday afternoon, and he was left in charge of the mill. It appears by the evidence that he was alone at the time, but when last seen, previous to the accident, he was cleaning a gun, and must have loaded it heavily. In the act of firing it off it burst, knocking out one eye, and cutting his cheek and nose, and otherwise dreadfully injuring his face. He was conveyed to Heber City, and surgical aid procured, but he died at half past one on Sunday morning. He was a young man well respected, had not relations living there, and although he had been working between two and three months at the saw mill, no clue could be obtained that showed where his relatives lived, excepting the testimony of a person who stated that he heard him say his father lived south, he believed it was Spanish Fork. |