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Show WESTERN WHISPERS. Utah. A telegram form Richfield, dated July 21, 1880, says: Stanley ?. Davis, of this place, who accidentally shot himself in the leg last month, died today at 6 o'clock. He leaves a wife and seven children. Save the Southern Utah Times. ?? can furnish employment to several more good carpenters, building and improvements being greatly retarded for want of competent workmen. Four of the six prisoners in the Beaver county jail are indicted on charges of murder. Their cases will all be disposed of at the present term of court. It is stated by the Watchman that the Second District takes rank as the ??? Judicial division for crime. A fourteen year old is indicted for killing his father, a youth of 20, for cutting the throat of a woman 63 years old whom he had outraged, and two men with families for killing a fellow being for the price of a pair of boots. This hand will beat four aces. Says the Junction: Secretary Carl Schurz passed through Ogden on Saturday afternoon, on his way west. On his return, he will stop over a few days, to take in Salt Lake City. D. W. Thompson, secretary of the Navy, passed through Ogden on Thursday evening, en route for San Francisco where he is to confer with Capt.??? concerning the debris question. Several prominent citizens from Salt Lake and this city met the gentleman at the depot and had an hour's conversation with him, eliciting from him a promise to stay a few days in our territory, on his return. On Thursday, a man in the employ of Williamson and Smith was engaged in painting the roof of the new residence of Mr. P. J. Barrat on the bench. The rope which held the ladder suddenly broke, precipitating the man to the ground, a distance of between forty or fifty feet. But the strange part of the story is to come. The man, in his descent, broke one ladder to pieces, and nearly demolished another, alighting among debris of rock, brick, etc., on the ground. With the exception of a few scratches the man was uninjured. His was a most miraculous escape, for had he fallen out a trifle to the right or left, he would undoubtedly have been impaled on some spikes used on the scaffolding below him. We learn from the News that Sheriff John W. Turner reached Salt Lake on Sunday with Fred. Welcome, the alleged murderer of young Turner, near Echo. The capture of Welcome, or as he now calls himself, Fredrick Hopt, was effected on Friday last ?? Cheyenne, to which place the vigilant officer had hotly pursued the man. The latter sold one team at Piedmont and one at Green River, he says he has an accomplice, but the two quarreled on the road and took different directions. On Sunday about noon a frightful accident occurred in the 18th ward in Salt Lake. Mr. ??? Selander, who lives half a block north of the depot block took a small can out in the woodshed to fill it with coal oil from a five gallon can which was kept there. He was in the act of pouring the oil into the smaller vessel when it exploded with fearful force, severely burning himself and two children and his wife also, who rushed out to save her children. The unfortunate gentleman had his teeth driven up into his nose, and it is ?? his jaw is broken. Tears were [unreadable lines] he was considered a little better though very low. His injuries from the burning fluid are very serious. His little girl who accompanied her father on his errand was so fearfully scorched that death relieved her of her sufferings two hours afterwards. The other child, a little boy, and the mother of the children were also badly injured, but it is hoped not fatally. The News says: Mr. Heilbrunner, the ?? of Lindsay's Gardens, having an impression that coal might be found on those premises, began making excavations last week in the gulch just east of his house. His labors were crowned with partial success. He had not gone down many feet before he struck a chunk of black rock containing small veins of coal, which evidenced the proximity of larger quantities in the neighborhood. He continued digging and soon came to a body of fine fire clay. He still persevered, thinking he would soon come upon a coal vein and had sunk his shaft about 18 feet, when he observed that the ground beneath sounded hollow. He struck his pick into the earth once more, when to his surprise up spirted [spurted] a stream of water. It continued springing so fast and abundantly that he was soon driven out of the shaft to avoid being drowned. The water continued to run until it reached the surface, and overflowed. It is of an excellent quality, cool and clear, and Mr. Heilbrunner is almost as well satisfied with it as he would have been had he struck what he was after. He intends forming a lake on his grounds, and using the water for irrigating his garden. He thinks a larger stream could be brought from his well, as the present quantity has as its fountain simply the pick hole made at first. He allows the neighbors of the Dry Bench to come and help themselves to the water, which is a great accommodation to the poor people who live above the water line in that valley. |