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Show TERRITORIAL TALK. Mayor Skinner of Beaver is dead. Leap year balls are the rage at Salt Lake and Ogden. Sleighing was recently a failure in the capital and junction cities. Considerable rivalry exists between various districts in this Territory with regard to which can produce the largest cow or fattest hog. Ogden is to celebrate Bobby Burn s birthday in grand style. A free for all ball is to be given by the Scots in Union Hall next Monday evening. The office of the Junction in Ogden has been removed from its old location on Fourth street to the Dooly-Stevens block on Main. Better and more convenient quarters. Last Saturday evening, the Utah Southern freight train, while running into Salt Lake, collided with a cow. The track and one or two cars were badly damaged and the cow was scattered to the four winds. From the Enquirer: A fish pond has recently been made at Grantsville, Tooele county, and was this week stocked with 4,000 salmon. The good but afflicted folks of American Fork have petitioned the Legislature to pass a law compelling a uniformity of method for the destruction of codling moth throughout the Territory. A copy of the petition will appear in our next. From the Junction: On Friday night last a person by the name of Sam McMillan was killed in a house of ill-fame in Ogden. He had gone there, it is supposed, with the intention of driving out or levying blackmail on one Ed. Morton, who was there at the time in bed; but he was foiled in the attempt. In the affray, both parties discharged their pistols several times, and each received three or four wounds. McMillan died at four o clock the next morning. Morton still survives and will probably recover. On the morning of the 13th inst. There occurred one of those fearful accidents which we record with anguish, but which our duty as journalists demand us to chronicle. It appears that on terday [yesterday] morning, train No. 5 was standing at Lake Stallon? Station?, when suddenly the boiler of the engine exploded, driving two sheets of the boiler sky-high. Mr. Sim Tooker, the driver, was stuck in one of his eyes with some of the glass from the cab, and the optic totally destroyed, the other eye is considerably injured. Eli H. Murray of Kentucky, has been appointed Governor of Utah. In response to numerous inquiries already handed in, and anticipating those which may come, as to who is Murray, we will state that the gentleman was a brigadier general in the Union army during the war; that he has been U.S. Marshal of the judicial district of Kentucky of which Louisville is the most conspicuous eastern point, for several years, he is held to be a first-class gentleman, and though a Republican, is conservative and moderate. Personally, he is about the size and build of Governor Emery, does not look vastly unlike him, and is quite young, being perhaps under 40. If the Utah radicals expect to find in him a tool, they will certainly be disappointed. More than this we are unable to say unless it be to extend a welcome to the new official. From the News: Quite a serious affair occurred at a dance in Silver City, Jan. 17th. Two men from Provo, named F. M. Peck, Jr. and V.L. Thomas, had some trouble in a saloon near by. Peck cut Thomas across the head and breast with a knife, and ran out of doors, Thomas followed with a self-cocking revolver in his hand. A short time after, the pistol was discharged, and Thomas thinks that, in his excitement, he must have pulled the trigger without realizing the fact. The ball passed through the side of the building where the dance was going on, and shot a Miss Lydia Green. She was sitting on a bench, with her arm resting on her lap. The bullet passed through the fleshy part of the hip and entered her arm; it is supposed to be in the elbow joint. A doctor has been sent for to extract it. The man gave himself up, and regrets the affair very much. |