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Show PIONEER MINER IS KILLED BY CAR Special to The Tribune. BINGHAM, May 2. John Galligran, 72 years of age. an old pioneer and mining man of Bingham for the past twenty-five years, was killed here today, when a handrar that was standing on the railroad rail-road track, where he was engaged In picking up some coal while in the employ em-ploy of the Utah Coper company, started down the inclined track and hit him on the head, fracturing ilia skull and arm. He died nlmost immediately. He was a Weal Ay man and had made most of his fortune in the leases which he used to operate here years ago. He was the partner and business associate of Francis W. Quinn, clerk of the town board, with whom he had been associated for the past twenty years. Services will be held at the Catholic church at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon. He had many friends in Bingham. He was associated with Mark Twain and Judge C. C. Goodwin when they were in Virginia City. |