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Show ; CHIPS AND SHAVINGS AROUND BINGHAM Edwin Davis, an employee on the county roads, is a citizen of this camp we are proud of. While going to his daily toil on Monday morning he picked up a pocket-book pocket-book on Main street, containing checks and currency. There was ' no clue to the ownership contained con-tained therein, but he hied off i to the City Hall and handed it over to Marshal Thompson, who at once returned it to the owner, Vic Erickson of the Eagle Hotel and Grocery, who rewarded Mr. . Davies for his honesty. Quite a I comparison to the story of the . lady's handbag of which we wrote last week. Some of the old-timers of the 4 camp will learn with regret that one of Bingham's pioneers, L. C. Jeffries, is seriously indisposed ;; ' at the Gross Ranch at Kingman, ; Arizona. Mr. Jeffries was a res-n res-n ident of Bingham for many years and was a member of the local j order of Odd Fellows. "Chappie" Atkinson, of the wholesale firm of Gibson & Co. of Salt Lake, was in Bingham on Tuesday in the interests of his company. Bob Shaw, a former resident of - Bingham, stepped off at Salt Lake on Monday last to meet old-time friends there. Bob was coming from Denver and was en route to California. The home of Sam Condas, near the Lead Mill, was completely t ; destroyed by fire on Saturday last. The fire was caused by an overheated stove. The estimated esti-mated losses ' are about $1000, without any insurance. Joe Sorich, 39 years of age, a resident of the Highland Boy district since 1906, and a native of Austria, died at the Bingham ; hosnital on Thursday from in- juries received at the Highland Boy mine on September 22nd. t Deceased is survived by his widow, wid-ow, Manda Rakivina Sorich, and several children. Funeral scr-1 scr-1 vices were held from the O'Don-nell O'Don-nell funeral chapel on Tuesday, " with Father Ryan of the Holy ' Rosary Church officiating. In-t In-t terment was made in the Bingham Bing-ham cemetery. Robert Lovato, born March 2, 1898, at Holman, New Mexico, --' and a resident of Bingham for the past six months, was instantly in-stantly killed at the United States mine on Sunday, at 12:15 p. m. He was employed as a mucker and was killed by a fall of ore, which slipped from the footwall. The body was shipped to his former home at Holman, New Mexico, where his parents reside. The arrangements were carried out by the O'Donnell Undertaking Company. A mass meeting is being called by the Citizens' Party, to be held in Society Hall (tonight) Saturday, Satur-day, October 20th, at 8 o'clock, for the purpose of nominating a president and four trustees for the town of Bingham Canyon, the election to be held here on November 6th. The present Town Board will be candidates, together with a number of others. A. G. Deals, one of Bingham's popular prospectors, was in camp this week and spoke in glowing terms of the splendid showing he has on his claim .in Butter-field, Butter-field, adjoining the notable I'ark-Bineha I'ark-Bineha mnroperty. |