Show WYOMING WHISPERS Accidents at AIinyThe Chinese General Notes J Correspondence THE HERALD The Mormon town of Almy is now the Chinese question settled pursuing the even tenor of its way and judging from the number of new cabins erected within jhe last sir months s and the increase In-crease of the population It is brought forcibly to the mind of the observer that the present crusade against the Mormons has had no effect on the general prosperity of Almy < jOn j-On Christmas the young folks enjoyed en-joyed themselves in the meetinghouse where a Christmas tree and a great quantity of presents had been provided pro-vided for the mutual benefitof the children as rewards for conduct and attendance at the Sunday Schools On expressing my surprise at the num ber of children present I was informed that there was over 400 children in slImy under the age of 12 years The population is compo ed of First English Welsh and Scotch miners who live here regularity second Men Who come froiu the northern par of Utah for a winters work and leave in the spring to attend to their farms 1 third Wbat we cony call the transient I pop lation coni posed of Bosein1amsof nearly nil nationaliti s men wh rove about simply to prove the truth of the old saYing a rolling stone gathers no moss inasmuch as they come here broke and also leave broke It is from this class that we get the bad element that is to be found in every mining camp to a more or less extent whisky bloatsgamblers and desperadoes The mines running now are 103 and owned bythe UP and Ko 3 belonging be-longing to the C P I The superintendent of the OP mines is a Mormon Mr Fawkes arid Under him in charge of So 3 are Bishop Brown Nearly all the other bosses are Mormons No 3 employs about 175 hands No4 about 200 No 2 is also em plo ing a full crew For this xtontn UI to the 23th over 2000 cars of coal have been sent from the three mines No 3 is not working today as through a key working out the engineer engin-eer lost control of the engifieand could not stop consequentlyrurming the trip with greatfdrceInto the dump i resulting in a smash up of beams all pulleys To an old miner one of the most noticeable features here this winter is the totaLabsence jChinamen and like heIrishsanscat they are missed but not wanted But to keep us in mm 1 of the Chinese trouble we hava the barracks bar-racks thathhve been erected at Evans tonand a company soldiers stationed I there Instead of the Chinese we have quite a numerous body of Finland ers who are in the eyes of the ott < r miners only a slight improvemep o the Chinese These Fins are aaid drinkers as a rule They save enough cash to dress well and then drink the rest most of them cannot speak one word ot the Americanlanguage The flour sold here has the Utah brands upon the sacks I was pleased oil going into Beckwithb store to read un the ticket on a blanket W Jennings Jen-nings 1 Sons Deseret Woollen Mills Besides these articles we see stuck upon up-on saloons Salt Lake Beer for sale here As coal mining is a dirty trade and a great quantity of soap being used could not Mr Snell put a little on the market here for it is the merit of the goods and the integrity of the manufacturers manu-facturers that will eventually tell the taleThe The calendar of crime for December israther light leaving out drunkenness amid lighting saloons There has been one case of robberyin which a trio of bums from Evanston participated Theybroke open a valise Delonging to a man working the same mine and stole his pocketbook and a considerable sum of money We have had quite a few accidents this month some being very severe A short time ago as the cars were being let down the slope of the mine two of them became uncoupled and flew away at a terrific speed tilrthey jumped the track and turned over There were two men hi the cars one of these escaped with but a severe cut on the leg the other man named DennisStorerwas found doubled upunder the cars badly skinned and bruised he was thoughtto be badly hurt but he turned out better i than could be expecte3 ashe has been I able to resumehis orkitPr wOn j w-On the 24th or 25th a man named I George Southern left Evanston for the purpose of going to his ranch to feed his stock Not returning when expected I ex-pected search was made for him His wagon was found in Bear River east of Evnnston Both the horses were found dead andafter unremitting sear fI I of two days and a half the body ira1 I found under the ice quite adistance from the wagon The unfortunate mans neck was broken but whether it was caused by falling irons the wagon or by a kick from the horses can not be explained On the 20th a man named Robert Griffits had his leg broke bY itus cf coal falling on Mm at No J mine As they were bringing him from the mouth of the slope another man was heanf calling for help and on going to his assistance it was found that some timber had fallen upon him pinning him to thegroum One of his feet was injured though io what extent I hats not been able to loam We have about four inches of SHOT as yet but it is very cold today AKMY December 281885 |