The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-04
One Is Industrially Lively, With
All the Wide-0pen Features
of a Mining Camp.
THE OTHER DISTINCTLY AND
GENERALLY DISCREDITABLE
CowardIy Murder Condoned by
AnarchiStic Make Believe
Newspaper.
By MAC.


Were you ever in Bingham! Espe
clally were you ever iu that we'll known
mining camp during the winter months!
Lively enough, from an industrial stand
point, isu't it! Plenty of gambling
there, too In fact, the gamb oilers con
fess that officers of the law periodical
" shake them down. And thev thus
purchase immunity from arrest, and, un
molested, proceed 10 take the coin away
from every sucker VINO is willing TO
20 up against their games
Plenty Of booze there, too. some Of
which is even more vile than the cele-
brated ''Vauey Tan" manufactured in
the old days by the saints Of Salt Lake
City.
Nery' little recreation in Bingham.
The average man aud woman has moth
ing to do but work and sleep. The
only places of amusement are the NOV.
lp2 picture shows, in gambling dens
and saloons In these places men and
boys coneTegate in large numbers, while
the ''spielers try to get them into1i-
Gated and in sufficient frame of mind
10 make the piles of silver on the
gambling machines unusually alluriug
There rs a stockade in Bingham also,
protected by Sheriff Sbarp's deputies,
and Systematically made to '"pun gle
up. -
But there arc lot Of fjrst-class poo.
pie IN the camp, who work bard, attend
strictly To their own business spend
their evenings with their families and
respectable nelghbors and ke the
most possible out of their unattractivo
surroundings.
OF all the vile things in Bingham.
the ylIest, most nauseating, sepseless
bnnderbuSs of an affair Is the Press
Bulletin, edited by one T. L. Holman
who blew !pto Utah few years ago
and was elected member OF the leg
islature before he became eligible. bluff
cd his wav through and became a cham
plon of some special interests.
One incident only need be recited to
show the cahber OF Holman aud his
newspaper. While cbsmpioning the
cause of some Of the mining interests
of Bingham, Holman is proving him
self 10 be The worst agitator in the
camp. He is continually doing the very
things that provoke labor disturbances
that embitter the minds of men who
tod against corporations that employ
them. And unless he is cbokcd off verv
soon, the probability is that minin
companies will be charged up with
Holman s insane uttcrances, under the
impression that he acts through die.
tation and not out of his own desire
to make himself solid with the power
ful forces Of the camp.
ployed at the Boston Consolidated.
named Steve Chathis. who had but
recently come TO America 10 join some
of bis countrymcu. He was but a
boy, IN fact. unfamiliar with American
terms. American methods, and was
hardly able to understand the simplest
English. EIis work at the mine was
ON the night shift, leaving the property
at 1 O'Clock in the morning for Q
miserable hoycl midway in the canyon.
where he and several others were keep
ing batch In returning to his
home he crossed the property Of au-
other mining company-cich and power
ful-and WAS accompanied hv n mum
Der of his newly found friends. He
had his dinner pail with him. He |
stopped beside pile of coal, filled his |
dinner pail, and was in the act Of |
filing his pockets. when a wstch hman !
named Charles Nelson fred a bullet |
into bis thigh, which ranged upward |
young fellow died in the salt Lake
hospital a couple Of DAYS later.
The special officer explained that ne |
commanded the young Greek TO halt |
and ou the Greek 3 failure to do SO he /
shot him. Witnesses claim that Mel |
son shot promiscuousIy into the crowd |
Of returning workmen, striking Chathis |
Is he was in the act of picking up some
coal.
The dinner pail and few pocketsful |
Of coal-mind you-wss The considera.
tionl Not trespass, because it was n
common thing for miners 10 cross this
compauy's property. But he was steal |.
ing coal
This officer iustlfes himself i'm putting
the young Greek TO death by claiming
that il was bis duty 10 FIRE bullet
into another man body,
There vas no claim made that there
was any resistance In fact the Young
Greek S friends saw that if Chathis had
been commanded 10 dcsist he possibly
would not have understood And It
all happened so quick. The officer saw
the bunch Of miners around the coal
pile and took pot shot for luck,
That is precisely the history of the
case. Nelson was arrested and tho
degree lie has been recently ar
raigncd in The district court for man.
slaughter. pleading not guilty.
Now, here is where the Press Bulle-
tin comes in. In its issue of November
10 il said:
YESTERDAY Charles Nelson, special
deputy for Tho Utah Copper company,
was arraigucd before the local court, {
charged with murder in tho first de. {
gree The fact is that he caught = ,
Greek in the act of stealing coal, at I
WHEN THE THIEF ATTEMPTED
TO MAKE HIS ESCAPE. The Greck :
died few DAYS later. Subsequently :
the officer WAS arrested and charged |
with murder in the first degree. The |