Show PARK CITY The Lynching of Murphy Vigilantes Vigil-antes and Invincibles With a Brief Reference to the Outlook Park city is dull ibut the dullness is rather abnormal than a natural outgrowth and will in all probability probabil-ity pass off in a couple of weeks The Ortario still keeps its 400 men or theraboutsemployed and jev era other mines which are tributary to Park citys financial stream se ° p large forces constantly employed em-ployed pay up promptly and are themselves making money The Crescent a combination of rare i claimsnext to the Ontario has assumed importance in that camp and beyond question that importance import-ance is natural J be Apex is looming loom-ing up a rich strike has been made in a newly developed prospect called by way of paradox tie Disappointment Dis-appointment The Minnie Wheeler mining company is spoken of as an organization with a promising future and any num her of properties situated in all directions of the compass from Park City are looking up and inspiring a feeling of confidence in the camp which leads to the belief that it is yet in its infancy as a prosperous mining section Leaving prospects aside however there is enough that is assured sufficient mines paying wellto justify the prediction that Park City is anything any-thing but a declining mining camp vet vetThe The prevailing dullness is generally gener-ally ascribed to the events connected with the killing of Mat Brennan and the subsequent lynching of Jack Murphy who from the evidence evi-dence that is to be discovered to be in common report was conclusively found guilty by the strong chaiace of the circumstantialevideiice elicited elicit-ed before and after His violent death The party who went to Coalville for him evidently understood their business and must have been sober and well organized to have preserved pre-served their invogniio so admirably Two men were employed to watch Murphy sleeping over the cell in which he was shackled to a young fellow who was detained for cutting a man The guards are credited with the statement that they were asleep and on awakening discovered the room to be full of men securely masked and armed for business and pernaps twenty guns leveled at them It is needless to state that the order Hold up your hands omitting the elegant and idiomatic form of expression customary on such occasions was obeyed with an alacrity that would cause a wifes heart to break with rapture could she enforce similar responses from her better half The hands of the guards were tied behind them they were laid on the floor face downward and two men left to guard them while the remainder proceeded to the cell in which Murphy was held The young fellow fastened to Murphy Mur-phy states that the latter jumped to his feet on hearing the tramps overhead and with a face ghastly white exclaimed My Godl my time is up As quick as thought he seized a quilt and stuck it in a hole through which he manifestly dreaded being shot and then got as close to the wall as possible as the masked avengers came rapidly down the steps and towards the cell It happened that the Io3k on the cell door was of a pattern so peculiar that none in the party cnuld open it and the demand to the bound guards that they should open it was met by a solemn protest on the part of the officers that though it cost them their lives they could noL unlock un-lock the jail as the manner was known only to the jailer and he was not nresent The men then cjllect edly proceeded to work and severed the fastenings of the door until I I they secured an entrance The condition con-dition of mind of Murphy during this period must have been appalling appall-ing As soon as an entrance was affected the masked men rushed in and one of them struck Murphy on the base of the head with a gun felling him it is said a rope was placed around his neck and he was dragged to the cell door The avengers evidently evi-dently had failed to notice that the boy and Murphy were shackled and the formers cries to be released were at first unheeded Discovering finally that it was impossible to get Murphy though they discovered the difficulty and endeavored to unlock the shackles but were unable una-ble to do so and finally gave the key to the boy who released his ankle from the iron crip when he was thrown violently back into the cell the door closed on him and Murphy was dragged away What followed is of course known only to those who partici patd in the affair until on bunday morning Murphys body was seen hanging from a telegraph pole at the lower end of the town his person per-son exposed and in the shackle that still remained about his leg was found a piece of paper folded on which were the figures 77 roughly drawn as though one per son or a number of persons had drawn a pencil over the outline repeatedly I re-peatedly I Regarding the excitement that followed nothing need be said it is a portion of the matter which every reader can picture to himself with as much accuracy as a verbal painting would bo likely to produce but there has been an uneasy feel ing since Two or three persons who have been more or less free to comment on the affair in a manner calculated to excite sympathy for Murphy have received warning notes signed 77 From this it is presumed vigilance committee has been organized and a later belief is that those who are opposed toMu phys death and were his friends have banded together inv ncibf s this belief being founded on the report re-port that one individual had ie I ceived a note warning him to beware of the vigilantes on a certain cer-tain evening From some expressions it might te inferred that the opposing factioi s were composed of the friends ot Brennan and of Murphy and that they are kindling a mutual hatred which could readily be tanned into an outbreak to be suppressed or spent only after the loss of much blood But among the less interested class it is the prevailing pre-vailing idea that good quiet peaceful peace-ful citizens had taken part in the I lynchingand it is certain that most of ttem feel tetter satilI iEd since Murphy has passed away Every day however tends to reassure business busi-ness mpn are resuming work and everything quieting down In such a case it is difficult to predict the outcome but in a place like Park city M here the people have endured so much is seems hardly probable that any public demonstration demonstra-tion would grow out of the affair It is even a matter of grave doubt in the minds of some it there is such a tiling as either a vigilante organization organ-ization or secret society cpposed to it We feel like predicting that the matter will rest where it is and where it should ani that Parkites will calm down to routine life and all will move along again as merry as Byrons marriage bell I The public at large is unaffecf by these internal undercurrent commotions com-motions as can be seen by reference to the register of the Park City hotel which shows the house to be packed ail the time by residents and transients pleasure and fortune seekers The hotel is managed by Mr Jfiscbel who has the benefit of the advice of the shrewd Joe Baumgarten and between the two the guests ave cmrtesly treated the house is kept clean and the food is excellent I |