Show OV salv salu ven FEB ouk OOK readers will perceive by a notice in another column that his excellency J allson aileon shaffer governor of this territory died at his residence in this city at five this morning the tenure of office of mr Bh Sha shaffer ammer affer as governor of utah territory has as been very brief he oni only having arrived hero here last march since his sojourn in our midst he has kept himself aloof almost entirely from the people he being seldom seen in public on any occasion this has been owing no doubt to a seriously impaired state of hp health aith alth from which we believe be he wab was was suffering when he arrived here the illness and death of mrs shaffor and the journey of the governor to the east on that account probably increased his utah uth has been seemingly a rather unfavorable place for governors although our climate is considered very healthy and salubrious it is not very long since governor doty died here very much respected and esteemed by the citizens of the territory and that very amiable gentleman the late governor durkee after a protracted residence in our midst was so far weakened in constitution that he died at omaha while en route to his very pleasant home at kenosha in wisconsin sin on the borders of lake michigan ISlic hIgan we dont suppose that either of these cases were caused by any climatic influence that could be injurious to the lives of the deceased gentlemen but their deaths may rather be attributed to impaired constitutions acquired previous to coming hereof to the common course of nature this has been most emphatically the case with mr shaffer Bh ammer affer who has been in a deplorable state of health since his arrival which may have been induced by his excessive labor fatigue and exposure during the late war we are not in possession of accurate data and are not sufficiently acquainted with his antecedents to give an autobiography to of his excellency we shall therefore be under the necessity of leaving anything of that nature until a future time his death will no doubt be severely felt by his bis friends although the very precarious state of his health for a L long iong time past has probably prepared them to hear of his demise |