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Show Park City is to have water works and a newspaper. Salt Lake is to have a municipal election next month. A Spiritualist in Ogden is giving exhibitions of a spirit likeness of his father. An eastern capitalist is very anxious to provide Ogden with water works. His proposition has been taken under advisement. Zions Musical Society has in rehearsal the comic opera. "Sorcerer," which will shortly be produced in Salt Lake. The Salt Lake pigeon shots defeated Ogden's crack [track?] team; and cleared up a few hundred dollars by the operation. The Ogden Junction is exposing Rev. (?) Gallagher, the pious fraud who delivers an alleged lecture on "Mormonism." Thomas Schrasenback and four others have asked the Ogden City Council to grant to them, for the term of twenty-five years, the exclusive right to establish in the city, the "Bell Telephone Exchange System." From the Junction: Mr. James A. Wright has been reappointed Mail Route Messenger on the Utah and Northern Railroad. Mr. Andrew J. Joyce, Jr., has been appointed to the same service on the same road. Mr. Wm. [William] C. Strohm has been transferred from the Local Mail Agency to be Mail Messenger on the Utah and Northern Railroad. Mr. J.O. Conner has been appointed Local Mail Agent at Ogden, vice Strohm. At about a quarter past twelve Tuesday morning a party of some twenty-five masked men called at the office of the Ogden Morning Bustler, and seizing Mr. King, the city editor of that paper, forcibly took him from the office in the presence of the entire force. He was securely held and gagged with a handkerchief which was thrust into his mouth, and conveyed to the rear of a building a little to the south of the Bustler office, where some coal tar was hastily smeared upon his face and neck and a few handfuls of feathers applied, after which the party withdrew in a hurry. Mr. King following with the hope of recognizing some of the party; but, we believe to no purpose. The cause of the indignity is supposed to be articles which have appeared in that paper reflecting on different parties, who took this method of redress, but who they are is of course known only to themselves. Mr. and Mrs. Pearce, of Ogden, met with a severe loss on the 24th inst., in the loss of their bright little daughter Tina, who fell victim to diphtheria. A short time ago, the little girl sang a duet in a concert and became a great favorite with the public. Just previous to dying she called for pen, ink and paper to write a letter to her youthful friends. Finding she was too weak to do so, her father acted as ?????. The letter is a touching evidence of a child ??? ??? resignation. In it she bids all her little friends goodbye, tells them she is going to sing her next song in heaven, and exhorts her play mates to be good and excellent, so that they can come and see her in a place much "better than this." |