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Show TERRITORIAL NEWS. Our Salt Lake exchanges teem with accounts of burglaries and the arrest and examination or trials of the burglars. The Deseret News says: Hattie Mansfield, colored, was arrested Monday night for keeping an opium den. Four other persons who were found there, presumably for the purpose of indulging in the destructive vice, were also taken into custody by the officers. The Ogden Herald gives an account of the death of Elder Wm. [William] Butler, a native of Weber county, in Birmingham, England, while laboring as a missionary. Deceased left on his mission about 18 months ago, and had been ill two months. He died Febr. 24th. Elder Butler was a faithful young man and very highly spoken of. His father and an elder brother were in England laboring with him in the ministry. On Monday last, a strike was in progress at the German?? smelting Works, just south of Salt Lake city and a posse of officers were obliged to repair to the spot to restore order. The men demanded a reduction of 4 hours, making the shifts 8 instead of 12 hours, without decrease of pay. The works stopped and the bullion cooled in the pots and will have to be cut out with chisels. The strike will cost the company $5,000. On the afternoon of the 9th inst. [instant], in a water hole 2-1/2 feet deep on the county road, ?? from Chester to Moroni, in Sanpete County, the body of Andrew Jorgensen was found dead. The little fellow, who was two and a half years old, was on a visit to his grandfather, Filby. His father, James Jorgensen, is absent on a mission, and this is the second time death has invaded his home since he left. The inquest elicited no facts for ceasure?. No doubt the flooded condition of the highway led to the unfortunate again. --Ter.? Enquirer. |