The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-01-18
PARK CITY PICKINGS.
Thomas Williams Killed at
Ontario No. 3.
SOCIAL AND OTHER PLEASURES,
The Weeks Ore Shipments-tPersonal and
y General News OF Interest in the
Great Camp.
SOCIAL AND OTHER PLEASURES,

Park CRY, January IL, 1891
Especial telegram to THE HERALD. l.
Thomas Williams. miner, was killed
this morning at the Ontario No. mine.
He, with others, was just coming off shift
and the bottom deck of the cage being
loaded with men, he got on the top deck on
which was a car Of ore. When they ar
rived at the top the engineer made a mis-
take and ran the cage up into the galllows
frame, believing that he had 100 feet yet
TO run. He thought he was hoist
ing from the 700, but instead
was hosting from the 600 level
Williams was holding to the car and when
the crash came it became loosened and
carried him with it to the floor, about
thirty five feet. His skull was crushed,
killing him instantly. There were ten men
on the cage besides Williams, not one of
whom received a scratch or injury. Will
liams was the tuba player in the Park City
band and was well known in town.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Hon. Abram Hatch, of Heber, was in the
Park Sunday last.
Jos. H. Young, of the Utah Central,
was in the Park Wednesday showing the
sights to Charles c. Tenant, brother Of
Mrs. Henry M. Stanley.
Mrs. E. P. LeCompt was in Salt Lake
part Of the week.
E. p. Ferry was in Salt Lake Monday
f. A. Minis and Francis Smith, of Mus
kegon, Mich, members of the law firm of
Smith, MINIS, Hoyt & Irvine, have been in
the Park during the week.
Mrs. j. c. Trethewey is confined to her
he'd with an attach oF fvuhOj6 favor
Frank J. Mclaughlin, of the firm of Nc
Laughlin & Co., and manager Of the Park
opera house, has been sick with typhoid
fever for three weeks now, but is gradually
recovering.
The youth of the Park are having great
sport now coasting. The many hills around
tbs town ''offer special inducemen ts,n for
this exhilerating pastime.
Little Lord Fauntleroy" will be the
next attraction at the opera house, Janu-
airy %. The 'Private Secretary follows
on the 30th, and the "Clemenceau Casen is
booked for February &c.
Spring weather in January The weather
that we are having in the mountains is I'M
paralleled.
Card parties are now the ego" and the
good people of the park will have merry
times for months to come. This week Mr..
and Mrs. George G.. kidder entertained
their friends with progressive euchre
party and there was not one of the fifty
guests present but declared he had royal
time. Among the guests were Mrs. E. c.
Williamson, Mrs. w. V. Rice, MIR. and Mrs.
c. A. Short Mr.. and Mrs. /. L. Osborne,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. Street and Miss Street,
Mrs. Sharp, Miss Cunningham, Mr. and
Mrs. Chambers, Mr.. and Mrs. Emery, DIR.
and Mrs. LeCompte, Mr. and Mrs Brothers.
Mr. and Mrs. Richardson, Mr.. and Mrs
!. P. Kimbali, Mr. and Mrs. Rookledge,
Mr.. and Mrs. Whitney, MIR. and Mrs. Alb
bolt, Mr. and Mrs. Harding, Mr.. and Mrs.
Snyder, MIR. and Mrs. Bates, Mr. and Mrs.
Fox, Mr.. and Mrs. Radon, Mr.. and Mrs.
Bransford, Mrs. Mclaughlin, Mr. and
Mrs. Austin, Mrs. j. II. Rogers, Misses
Ferguson and Geiger, and Messrs. Payne.
jenkins, NAPLES, Minis and Geiger The
prizes were awarded as follows: Gentle
men-F'irst prize, g. A. Short: second.
Ladies-First prize, Mrs. E. c. William
son. second, Mrs. w. V. Rice; third, Mrs.
c. A. Short.
The police did some good work this week
in breaking up gang of toughs which has
been running wild for some time in the
Park. number OF places have been en-
tered lately and goods stolen, among them
Shields Bros. store, Lu Hillstrom's saloon
and Bettinger's saloon. The marshal got a
clue which he worked out and as a result
arrested Henry Wright Pat Coughlin, Dan
Martin, Dave Arthur, Eph Howells and
Willie Burnes, all under seventeen years
of age, and has evidence enough to convict
some OF them Of burglary. They WILL in
all probability, land in the reform school.
and the superintendent of that institution
will ind that life is burden when he re-
ceives the Park City gang into the institu-
ton.
Officers Muldoon and Dye spotted pair
OF suspects Saturday evening last and
keeping on their trail were successful in
capturing them in the act of relieving a
clothes line of It's weekly washing. They
were allowed to secure their arms full when
they were taken in and escorted to the city
hall. They gave their names as James
Carack and James Wilson. On Monday
Justice Hayt gave them forty days in Jail
each.
The county court met in Coalyille Mon
day, but transacted no business of i'm
portance, more than the usual routine.
MINING NEWS.
THE HERALD correspondent visited the
scene of the late strike, the Eagles Nest
claims, last Saturday, but found every
taing quiet there and no great cause for
excitement
The ore, as it is called, is of dark green
color, and mmencing with width OF
about three feet on the top, narrows down
To nothing in the bottom Of the hole. As
says Of this green rock have as yet pro-
duced no trace Of silver and it is said that
the specimens from which the 13S ounces