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Show PARK CITY NEWS. Park Cm-, Sept. S3.-Spccial cor-respondence cor-respondence -At about 7:30 yesterday mHHin 1Cf0f,nu 0f Ascheim's ol3 Ac lil nS3.nearthtnimwaybut it was detected in time to avoid a contlagra-tion. contlagra-tion. These old fire traps are not very useful neither are they ornamental ami should be removed from Main street before they burn down and perhaps set tire to some other place. .'. An employe, called "Sunbeam," at the Ontario mine No. 3. had a narrow escape from a horrible death yesterday at noon. Sunbeam is a car man and was running a car on the three hundred foot level, when he carelessly stepped into the mainway connecting" this level with the lower ones. He had only fallen about six feet when he caught liimself ou one of the timbers and' scrambled out much the worse for his scare. Had he fallen by this timber he would have been picked up a lifeless corpse three hundred feet below. A great many men meet with their death in this manner. They become so accustomed to walking over dangerous places that they get careless and do not heed the danger that awaits a misstep at any time. T. S. Merchant from Healdsburg, California, is in town again. Mr. Merchant is the principal owner in tho Healdsburg canning factory and always al-ways does a good business in' Park City. W. II. Beniz is in the Park, representing represent-ing the Nave McCork mercantile company com-pany of Kansas Oily. Today's ore shipments were: Ontario 84,900; Crescent, 01,800. Total, 14(1,700. Hotel arrivals:-M. 11. Wilkinson, W. H. Bentz, John F. Bennett, L. J. Laeh-man, Laeh-man, Thos. Butts, Loto Josey and brother, broth-er, H. K. Moore, Salt Lake; O. E. Burbaker. Kansas City; S. C. Rosenberg, Rosen-berg, Chicago: T. S. Merchant, California. |