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Show TERRITORIAL TALK. Utah. The Ogden Rustler has gone he way of many newspapers. Salt lake has a musical prodigy similar to "Blind Tom." Ogden's mining ??? booby ??? is taking a good rest until better weather shall arrive. The Silver Reef Miner is to be made a tri-weekly paper. Success to the new venture. Ground has been broken in Provo for a new theatre. The drama seems to be popular in that city. Judge P. H. Emerson wants to find a suitable residence in Ogden, but cannot do so. David James, Esq. (Esquire), the well known plumber of Salt Lake and Logan has received the contract for putting in the pipes and fixtures of the Park City waterworks. Morris, the child beater, and his accomplice and paramour Henrietta Salisbury, have been acquitted at Salt Lake. The populace became highly enraged at the conclusion of the trial; and loud threats of violence were heard. Ogden is to have presented at the Opera House in that city an original burlesque on "Pinafore." Heaven preserve the inhabitants of the metropolis. James P. Graham, formerly an honored employee of the C. P. Company at Ogden, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment by Judge Hunter for embezzlement. Nellie Sophia Ekelund, a young girl employed as a domestic in the family of Mr. George A. Lowe, Salt Lake City, was poisoned by inhaling gas one night last week. She died on Saturday last. The Home Dramatic Company of Salt Lake City, expects soon to give performances in the Theatre. The business of the association will be managed by Mrssrs. H. L. A. Culmer and H. G. Whitney, the other members confining their responsibilities to the stage. It is stated by the Enquirer that a short time days ago a few of Pitkin's fellow prisoners held a mock trial in his case and condemned him to be hanged. The man, who looked upon the proceedings as serious and no "sham," begged piteously to be shot. He was set to work to dig what he supposed to be his grave. At a recent meeting of Z. C. M. I. directors in Salt Lake City, it was proposed, in addition to the usual half yearly cash dividend to be declared in April next, to declare a stock dividend also, out of accrued earnings of the institution, which will not materially change the real value of the stock. Speculators are now engaged in trying to buy up the stock for the purpose of securing the extra dividend, but if the holders are wise they will make no disposition of their stock for the present, at any rate. A special election has been called in the capital city, for the purpose of deciding the following question. "Shall Salt Lake City incur an indebtedness of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand (250,000) dollars, or so much thereof as the City Council may deem necessary, by the issue of its coupon bonds, or other negotiating securities, for the purpose of procuring money wherewith to construct a canal and other works by means of which to supply the inhabitants of said city with water?" April fifth is the date fixed. Salt Lake and Ogden have got the new craze - a puzzle known as a Gem or Fifteen. It consists of a series of 15 little squares of wood all numbered from 1 to 15. The puzzle consists in getting the 15 numbers stamped on the squares to come out in regular rotation, from 1 to 15. The box is so made as to admit of four squares in a line, the last line having three numbers and one blank space in it which is to be used to move in. The numbered squares should be placed in the box at random and then they are maneuvered around without removing from the box until they stand as follows; 1, 2, 3, 4, on the first line; 5, 6, 7, 8, on the second line; 9, 10, 11, 12, on the third line; and 13, 14, 15, on the last line. The account of a frightful accident at Denver is communicated to the Deseret News under the date of the 8th inst. (Instant). A little girl aged one year and ten months, daughter of Joseph and Mary Briggs, was burned to death at night in her parents' house. The circumstances are as follows. Mrs. Briggs had gone out for about five minutes in the evening leaving her two children, the victim of the mishap and another child aged four years together in the room. When the mother returned she found her youngest child on the floor and the other by her side. The smaller one was so badly burned that she expired in about an hour and thirty minutes. It was a very cold night, and it is supposed the child's dress caught fire while the children were near the stove endeavoring to keep warm. The Salt Lake Herald of Tuesday says: Yesterday afternoon a young man named John Avery went out hunting accompanied by a small boy named Thomas Perry. They were over Jordan, and just after sundown a flock of ducks were observed flying in the direction of the hunters, and they dropped down on their knees, into a hole, so the ducks would not be likely to see them and change their course. As they approached, Avery began to pick up his gun, which was lying on the ground, the muzzle towards him, and while raising it gradually to get it in a position to shoot, the trigger by some means struck against the ground, and the gun went off. The muzzle at the time was pointing square in his face, and could not have been over a foot or eighteen inches from it, so that the whole charge entered the face as near the right side of the nostril as possible without striking it. The young man fell forward, and his head rolled over one side, but as he never spoke a word, made no move, nor even groaned, death must have been instantaneous. Montana. James Blake, alias "Red," in a fit of despondency a few days since, committed suicide at Butte. Wyoming. A terrible storm occurred on the Laramie division of the U. P. Road, and was the cause of a collision between two trains. Engineer Martin was fatally injured. Idaho. A Silver City, Idaho, dispatch says the recent severe storm has resulted in great loss of stock in Mallicur, Jordan, Reynolds Creek and other winter ranges in Idaho and Eastern Oregon. It is estimated that the loss already in these and adjoining valleys reaches nearly 50,000 head, and the losses still continue. The Enterprise says that Mr. B. J. Fisk, of the terminus, U. & N. Railway, one of sheriff Watson's deputies, was arrested upon a warrant issued by Hon. (Honorable) J. T. Morgan, at the insistence of Mr. Dist. Atty. (District Attorney) Crawford on behalf of the people, &c (etc.), charging Fisk with having collected money from L. A. Mason, B. M. Radcliffe and others for liquor licenses, not accounting for the same, by giving memorandum receipts, and not furnishing the paper with the proper license as required by the revenue laws of the territory. On being arraigned, he plead guilty and was bound over in the sum of $50,000 to await the action of the grand jury at the May term. Under all the circumstances we think it proper to suspend judgment in Mr. Fisk's case as well as the tax cases heretofore mentioned, as we believe that the parties may be able to make satisfactory explanation. |
