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Show TERRITORIAL NEWS. Apostle C. C. Rich is improving steadily though slowly. Pres. (President) John Taylor was 72 years old on November 1st. News: President Taylor and party, who went to Tooele on Saturday to attend the quarterly conference of that Stake, returned this afternoon. Elder Heber J. Grant, of this city, has been appointed President of the Tooele Stake, succeeding President F. M. Lyman. We congratulate Brother Grant on his appointment, and believe the good people of Tooele will never regret the selection. The Junction says: A friend of ours, out in the country, appears to possess a rare sense for symmetry in family arrangements. His first two children were boys, then followed two girls, next came again two boys, two girls were next in order, two more boys to vary the monotony, and this gentleman's latest addition to the census is a girl. Who would not bet the Comstock Lode against A. G. Campbell's election chances that another girl, in the course of time will appear to round off the dozen? Herald: At 6:30 on Tuesday night an accident occurred on the Union Pacific Railway between Washakie and Rawlins. The emigrant train which left Ogden on Monday, with the party of Utah men on board, bound for the Denver and Rio Grande, was run into by a westbound freight train. Five freight cars were wrecked and an engine disabled, but no passengers were hurt. A brakeman jumped from the cars that were smashed, and was hurt in one leg. The Utah party was delayed by the accident until ten o'clock on Wednesday morning, when the train moved on. Silver Reef Miner: For two or three weeks past, every day has witnessed the arrival in our camp of miners from all parts of the Territory in search of employment. The reputation on which the Reef has so justly achieved of being the banner camp of Utah for climate, wages and employment, is probably the one great inducement which is bringing so may down here, but if the influx continues there will soon be miners enough to double the amount of work at present going on in our mine. Those who are coming to the Reef to winter should come "well heeled" and not rich only in the expectation of finding employment. News: At a meeting held last evening in the 17th ward, the presiding quorum of the ward was reorganized, a new bishop appointed to take the place of Elder John Henry Smith, recently called to be an Apostle. There were present on the stand, Apostles Wilford woodruff and John Henry Smith, Presiding Bishop Edward Hunter, Counsellors D. O. Calder and Joseph E. Taylor, of the Stake Presidency, besides the authorities of the ward. Elder John S. Tingey, first counsellor to the late bishop, was chosen and set apart to preside over the ward, with Elders Albert W. Davis and Alonzo F. Hyde as his counsellors. Elder Davis was second counsellor to Bishop Smith in the former quorum. The only addition is that of Elder Hyde. The present quorum is worthy and efficient, and has the full confidence of the saints of the 17th ward and the people of God generally. From the News we get the following account of the death of Mr. B. T. Young. The rumour published last evening that Mr. B. T. Young, of this city had taken morphine and was in a dying condition, proved to be well founded. It appears that he had been in the habit of taking light quantities of morphine for some time, and, it is said, carried it on his person continually, and while under the influence of the drug yesterday, he took an overdose of the narcotic. He was in Payne's shoe shop on Main Street early in the afternoon, purchasing a pair of boots, and was observed to leave the store and start down the street. He had not proceeded but a few steps, when he fell to the pavement. He was immediately picked up and assisted into a hack and taken home. He never regained consciousness afterward, though he partially aroused several times during the first half of the night. Drs. (Doctors) Anderson and Douglas were in attendance on the patient, who received every care and assistance. At 10 o'clock last night he was thought to be out of danger, but the hope proved fallacious, for at half-past 2 o'clock this morning, he breathed his last. Blackfoot Register: During the past summer two men named Talbot and Kennedy have been prospecting in the vicinity of Lost river and Alder creek, about seventy miles from Blackfoot. As is natural among prospectors, the most of their meat was secured with the rifle. About ten days ago, being nearly out of meat, Mr. Talbot started out with his dog, a shepherd, after game. He travelled a mile or two, when he saw a fawn and shot at and wounded it, not however, so but that it could run, which it did. But Mr. Talbot and the dog followed until they came to a small thicket into which he had seen the fawn run. Pushing the brush aside, he was about to plunge through when in a moment he was confronted by a huge grizzly bear, which struck him a severe blow on the shoulder before he hardly knew what it was. He immediately tried to bring his gun to bear on him, but in doing so discharged it. The bear then got his head partially in his mouth, cutting his forehead terribly, but not breaking the skull. In a moment's forethought, he pushed his hand into the bear's mouth, and allowed him to chew it thinking he would thus get an opportunity to reload the gun with his other hand. In the meantime the dog had been attacking the bear's hip in the rear, and did such good work that he finally let Mr. Talbot go, and made for the dog following it through the brush. Exhausted and badly wounded, with blood streaming from his forehead, both knee joints nearly broken, and one hand like a dish rag, Talbot crawled out, and was soon joined by his faithful dog. Tying his handkerchief round the dogs neck he sent him back to camp, and in a short time his partner and the cook, who had followed the dog were on the ground and assisted him to camp, where he is now living and getting along first-rate, and in a short time will have fully recovered; he owes his life to his companion - his dog. |