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Show TERRITORIAL NEWS. News, 9th: Yesterday afternoon the wife of John Larson left her house on the First Ward Bench for an hour or two. When she returned she found the place had been entered by a burglar, who had turned everything in one of the rooms topsy turvy and carried off a small sum of money. It is probable the thief was frightened off before completing his programme [program], as the adjoining room was untouched. A suspicious looking individual had been observed near the premises during the earlier part of the day. No trace of the burglar has been found. Ogden Herald, 10th: A young man living near the Iron Works, yesterday afternoon, met with a serious accident. While in the act of striking a sharp axe into the hay rack on his wagon standing on Main St. [Street], near Fourth, the axe slipped and went into his left foot, making a gash about three inches long, cutting the bone of the great toe. He was taken to the office of H. ?. Powers, who treated the wound. After this the wounded man was taken home by his friends. This morning when the doctor visited him, he was resting reasonably well. Last Saturday an old Indian called on Geo. [George] W. Hill, Indian Interpreter, and informed him that there had been a sanguinary fight in a camp of Goshutes near Jordan Bridge the night previous, and that his son had been killed and a squaw stabbed in the fleshly part of the arm. It appears some whisky found its way among the Indians and the above were the results. - News. Jack Emerson, whose real name is McCormick, was sentenced to imprisonment for life by Judge Hunter, on the 10th inst. [instant] for complicity in the murder of John F. Turner, near Park City, July 4th, 1880. The jury found him guilty of murder in the first degree, but recommended him to the mercy of the court, otherwise this would have been a death sentence. |
