The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-12-06
Utah News.

THREE TRAGEDIES IN THK TERRIToRY-ARRIvAL OF
MISSIONARIES, AND GENERAL NEWS.
We have received es Of the Descret Neaos up Nov
3, from which CLEAN the following
Mcdonald, or Cunningham, who recently shot William
Cooke, the Mormon policeman at the Salt Lake City Gala
bose, killed at Blacks Fork few weeks after he
his way to the States Mr. Edwin p Jones, mail
conductor having spread the the Plains, Gun
bingham swore vengeance should they meet They met
at the above place the 2Is OF October. Cunningham
fred at Jones as he dsmounting the ball passing
through the collar OF his Jones returned the fire
and his ball passed through Cunningham's throat and
neck killing him instantly The companions of Cunning
ham Immediately prepared their rifles for Jones, but he
mounted and made tracks for Salt Lake.
person represented AZ teamster attempted 10
der on the 3osh Of October person named Peter Priest
residing at Dry Creek Salt Lake Valley He had stopped
night in Priests shanty and the following morning.
while Priest was paying him for revolver that he had
purchased from him. the stranger shot him the eft
Side and while tho wounded struggled with him, the
stranger shot him again in tho dock and made OH Tho
wounded mans life was despaired OF, and the stranger
escaped.
Two Mormons, named Josiah Call and Samuel Brown,
killed short time previous between Salt Creek and
Fillmore, by indians. The bodies of the two
found within about two hundred yards Of each other strip
ped OF every particle Of clothing Mr. Brown says the
Ns was shot through the heart scalpcd and his throat
The birds had the flesh from Mr. Calls
bones, with the exception of his leg below knee and
his left arm; but evident his had been shot three
tmes-once through the right breast the ball lodging in
the back bone; through the left ankle and
through the head the ball entering the back part Of the
skull near the seam and coming the left side Of the
II is supposed his throat also cut as the blood
had run from where his neck lay and his right
entirely gone and not found.
The MormOns seem 10 put faith in tho Pixies Peak gold
mines. large space Of the paper devoted
OF the mines and editorial the likelihood Of gold
being found there The editor Of the Ne,os having been
in Captain Stansbnrys exploring expedition refers the
indications OF the precious metal that the captains
pany had observed, and concludes that there now
chance for the folks in Utah to accumulate fortunes
easily and rapidly"
Secretary Hartnett acknowledges signing the letter in
wiling Judge Eches to dinner before leaving the Territory
for the Stacsa letter in which the Judge congratu
sucL abominabc place Great Salt City for
abodes Of civilization and in his acknowledgment says
" signed il after merely CHANGING its contents but
not with the slightest idea that there expression
contained in it TO east ree the smallest any
community or person--nor did suppose for a
that tho letter to be used has been subserve
political purpose l. did many others of the sgners
Of the letter referred TO- put name to in the full
ddence that was only what purpored to DO, invita-
ton to take dinner.n
Elder +. A. H. F. Mitchell arrived in Salt Lake
city on the 9th inst, from his mission to the
Sandwich Islands. He conducted a company OF sixteen
persons from California. They le Sacramento the 9Th
Of September and arrived in Ogden City Oct 26 all well
Missionaries in company-Iienry w. Bgier, John 3
Woodbury. and Thomas A. Dowell Of the Sandwich Islands
Mission and David H. Stuart Slas c. Higgins Lorenzo r.
Harmon and John H. Winsow, Of the Oregon Mission.