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Show WESTERN WHISPERS. Utah. The Herald says that the amount expended on the city canal during the month of June was $8,277.08. President A. O. Smoot and his son Reed arrived in Salt Lake City on Sunday from the Sandwich Islands. Nearly 600 letters remained uncalled for in the Salt Lake office and were advertised in the papers last week. A change has been made in the editorial department of the Southern Utah Times. Mr. Frederic Lockley, in "accordance with previous arrangements," retires from the editor's chair, which will now be occupied by Mr. W. H. Taylor. We learn from the Watchman that the man killed at Silver Reef on the Fourth was named William Hillburn. The parties to the affair were James Pollard and J. B. Stevens. Stevens formerly lived at Bioche, and Pollard at one time lived in Beaver County, where he is generally known. Their trial will take place in Beaver, most likely during the present term of court. In speaking of earthquake shocks, the news of the 19th says: "Mr. J. D. Gibbs, writing from Portage, Box Elder County, of the 15th inst., informs us that on the 11th inst., at about 10 p. m., that place experienced a terrible shaking from earthquake. There were two shocks, at an interval of three or four minutes, each shock lasting two or three seconds. No damage is reported. Some of the inhabitants rushed out into the streets, badly frightened for a little while, but went back to bed on finding their houses were still on their foundations." We learn from the Junction that Mr. Bauman, the German peddler, who was fearfully beaten a few nights since by a couple of tramps, is rapidly recovering. In about three days he will be able to sit up. The swelling on his face and head is rapidly subsiding, and when he today took a glance at himself in the mirror, with grim humor he stated that he would "soon be able to know who he was." Mr. Bauman has survived blows which would have killed ninety-nine others, and we congratulate the gentleman on his good prospects for and early recovery. From the Junction we learn that a drama called "Through Death Valley" was performed in the Opera House there on Saturday night. Of the affair our contemporary speaks as follows: "Despite the assurances given by the agent to us - and that in the face of the published synopsis of the piece - that the play is not, in any way a reflection upon the people who have settled Utah, and made her what she is, the piece, as presented on Saturday evening, gave a contradiction to his assertion. "Through Death Valley," while it may have merit as a dramatic effusion, is full of misrepresentation and is a gross insult to the people of Utah. The party who arranged the piece claims to know something in regard to the people whom he thus maligns, but the expression he puts into the mouths of some of his actors, clearly show to all, who have passed any time at all among the people, that he knows nothing at all of the matter. The author of this piece has dramatized one of Bendle's novels, and the introduced a garrulous female character to interlard several selections ??? Unreadable ??? that no community but this would breed such expressions from any author in regard to them as used in this piece against the Utah people. This may not be "the opinion of John Henry," - who, by the way, epitomized the story - but all honest minded people, who know anything at all of this community will bear us out in our assertion. It is a pity that so much dramatic talent of the author was wasted on a tissue of lies and malicious calumnies, and that such good artistic talent is used up in its performance. Idaho. A grand ball was given at Blackfoot. The name of the young man who was drowned in Bear River last week, is Daniel A. Manvill. Idaho, according to the commissioner of the general land office, has a larger area of agricultural land than the entire State of Illinois. Our census returns indicate that we have the smallest population of any territory in the Union, with the single exception of Wyoming. |