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Show down Thains canyon to the Richfield concentrator con-centrator yesterday, about noon, he met with an accident he will not be likely to forget for-get While descending one of the steepest grades in the canyon he discovered a large rock in the road, which he thluks was purposely pur-posely placed there by some mischief-loving miscreant, and tried his best to stop before hitting it. His efforts were unavailing, for with upwards of four tons on his waeron and such a grade stopping was impossible, and is the roadway was too narrow to permit of-passing of-passing it, the rock was struck with the result re-sult of unseating the brake block and ren-lering ren-lering the brake next to useless. The hock threw him from his seat . ut he managed to stay on the wagon and continued his hold on the line. The off -wheel horse was thrown and dragged a distance of seventy-five feet. The driver succeeded in holding the leaders in the road until he reached a space nearly level, when he succeeded in bringing his outfit to a standstill. The wheel horse was very much used up. and only from his having been entangled en-tangled in the harness he would have gone under the load. As it was, the animal escaped es-caped with two broken ribs, a severe fracture frac-ture of the left hip and the loss of a great deal of hair and hide. Dr. A. Barnes, the veterinary surgeon, says if no inflammation sets in from the broken ribs he may recover in a month. The driver escaped without a scratch, but it was owing to his cold nerve and judgment, and altogether it is extremely fortunate he and his team were not killed outright. ALL SORTS. G. E. Wiseman's new building is under roof and will be ready for occupancy the last of next week. The building contains two good sized storerooms, and a number of rooms in the upper story. The north storeroom store-room will be occupied by Mr. Wiseman him sen, as a jewelry store, wnue tne otner win be filled with a tobacconist's outfit with Charlie Carroll in charge. Heber Giles of the firm of Jensen & Giles, is confined to his borne in Heber City with a very severe cold. Pneumonia was threatened but bis physician has hopes of averting that danger. T. B. Hellar and Charles E. Moore, well-known well-known horse dealers of Weber county, are selling some fine horses in this city today. This is their third trip to the Park this season sea-son and still the trade is not supplied. The rumored ore strike in the "Lucky Bill" was found to be incorrect, although several pouches of good ore were found no chute could be discovered. The drifting is being pushed with the usual vigor and the projectors are confident of striking a known lead in a short time. The leasees of the Alice claim received and placed in position a new "common sense" whim this week. The shaft is down 140 feet and depening quite rapidly. PARK CITY. Heavy Shipments of Sheep A Serious Runaway Personal and General. Park City, Sept. 9. Special. The sheep industry is quite prominent in this vicinity, and shipments of large numbers is the order of the dav. E. M. Gibson has iust closed a deal with Parsons Si Eager of Salt Lake City for 9000 head and are loading them from Adkinson station at the rate of 3000 per day. The first train load of fifteen cars was forwarded yesterday. Three thousand thou-sand more were loaded and started today and a similar number will constitute a train for tomorrow. The train that was sent yesterday yes-terday will be at Rock Creek, Wyoming, today, to-day, where they will unload the sheep for food and rest, and after twenty-four hours' creation they will resume their jour-, ney to Clarks, Nebraska, where another an-other resting spell will be accorded them, after which they go to Chicago. The loss in transit when they are thus cared for does not amount to more than one-half of 1 per cent. The mutton meets with a ready sale though the price for the last ten days is rather lower than formerly. This shipment makes a total of 60,000 head that have been marketed by the same growers this season. Th same shipper sent out 5000 head of sheep from Nephi yesterday evening from the flocks of Joseph Jenseu of Brigbam City. PERSONALS. E. Cadwell of Salt Lake City is registered at the Park City hotel. , : " J. G. Stark of Ogden is in the city. J. W. McClain and wife of Salt Lake are guests at the Park hotel. J. A. Wilson came up from the capital last evening. C. A. Kellar and wife of Chetopa. Kansas, are registered at the Park City hotel. J. H. E. Webster of Salt Lake was in town yesterday. W. H. Winder will leave for Chicago this evening for a short visit. escape the pound. The pound-keeper and his aids - were abroad again last evening gathering in the stray bovines in large numbers. Some of the stock objected to the quarters provided and slipped away through an opening under the gate and the pound-keeper will of course do without his fee. When the pound is so defective that stock will walk out when his back is turned, the owners are not to be too severely complained of if their own fences are not kept in proper order. |
