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Show : VICTOR 1 (Correspondence Intermountaln Catholic.) Victor, July 10. George H. Clark of Randsberg, Cal., is the guest of Sec-reary Sec-reary Jerry Kelly. 5 Richard Shannon, who went to Maine several weeks ago, returned July 1, with an attractive young New England lady, who will share the joys of the popular young miner in a home on Seventh Sev-enth street. J. E. Smith of Goldfield and Victor reports an unprecedented demand for fireworks this Fourth. The parting of a larger bolt in the St. Patrick mine last Tuesday evening, releasing the supporter post and the two timbers and dropping them down the shaft on Patrick Curleydnd Thomas Thom-as Mulvahill, causing the former three fractures of the right leg and the latter severe scalp wounds. They were immediately imme-diately removed to their home and surgical sur-gical attention summoned. At last reports re-ports the patients were resting easy. Judge Kavanaugh is enjoying a few days' outing in a lower altitude. John M. Dunn of Buford, Colo., is visiting his brother, Coroner Dunn. Miss Dot Harrington of Goldfield returned re-turned Friday from an extended visit with friends in Canon City. Frank Murray, chief of the fire department, de-partment, is visiting in Denver. His place is being filled by William Sullivan, Sulli-van, who has lately been elected assistant as-sistant chief by the council. Arthur Branigan, widely and popularly popu-larly known, died at his home in Gold-field Gold-field Friday morning of appendicitis. The funeral took place Sunday at 1:30. Mr. Branigan was a member of the Victor Miners' union and the Snsfield club, and his demise is the subject of general grief. Local miners are highly elated and very proud of their representatives, Andregs and Chamberlains, the double-hand double-hand drilling team sent to Leadville to do up the Cloud City boys, McKenzie and Neely. The first day's contest resulted re-sulted in a tie of 35 15-32 inches. In the next event our boys went down in the granite 39 inches. " Edward O'Malley departed Saturday morning for Cape Nome. His wife and little son accompanied him as far as Denver, and are going to Scranton, Pa., to spend the summer. Mrs. Bessie Miller, wife of C. J. Miller, Mil-ler, died at the family residence at 9 a. m. Saturday of tuberculosis. She was 31 years old. The funeral took place from Dunn's undertaking parlors at 10 1 a, m. yesterday and services were held' in St. Victor's Catholic church. On the afternoon of the. Fourth the little 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Gallagher was smothered and scorched in a fire that destroyed the family residence. The mother had locked lock-ed the child in the house while she made an errand to the business section. sec-tion. In her absence a blaze started in the kitchen, presumably through the child playing with fireworks, and before be-fore the grief and terror-stricken mother moth-er could reach home to appraise the firemen of the child's presence, the smoke and flames had ended his life. The little lad had made a heroic and courageous struggle. The smoke find fire drove him from room to room, until un-til at last, in the farthermost room, with his body and face drawn into a contortion of pain and terror, with his arms shielding his face, he had died. The child possessed much intelligence, and his sweet disposition made him a general favorite. The funeral took place Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. |