Show chinese merchant I 1 killed in crash I 1 wong S sing 69 a wealthy chinese merchant of white rocks near fort duchesne and one of the most romantic figures of 0 the west met instant death monday morning at 1018 1015 when a truck in which he was riding overturned near the fletcher ranch six and a half miles north of park city I 1 I 1 homer hoynes haynes 43 who was driving the truck suffered a fractured right leg and concussion of the brain it was at first believed that haynes suffered a fractured skull but advices advises from the miners hospital indicated his condition was fair and he probably would recover tuesday mr haynes was taken to a salt lake hospital by relatives I 1 wong sing and haynes were on their way to salt lake to purchase stock for I 1 wong SI sings store the truck in which they were riding balma apparently was traveling at high speed alma and hyrum nielson Nl elson who were e traveling in their car a mile truck saw a cloud of dust when they reached the scene ot of the accident they found wong sing dead 65 teet feet from the truck haynes haynee had been hurled teet feet removed to ranch the dead man and his injured companion were removed to the fletcher ranch a quarter of a mile from rom the mishap and later wore were taken to park city coroner john C green ot of park city who investigated said eald the truck apparently left the highway and struck a shoulder tracks indicated the driver had swung the car back to the road where he ha sp apparently parent ly lost control tot for the machine again hit the soft shoulder struck an Im bedded culvert and overturned six or seven times the cab of the truck wax was I 1 er arto to bits coroner own green attributed the accident I 1 to the tact fact that haynes had but one arm and ana was unable to property properly guide th the e machane after it first struck the soft sho shoulder ulder wong C sing jr son of the mishap victim arrived at park city monday at af hernoon and made arrangements arrange menta tor for the disposition ot of the body the hie body was taken to Dru duchesne chesne tuesday evening by geo M archer and wednesday morning was taken to denver where it was cremated learned indian language wong sing had been a business man at white rock for 45 years to facilitate his business he learned the indian language and established a thumbprint system for dealings with indians who could not read nor write wong sings ings life story properly told would read like a romance picture a country general store located off the rn main in highways and miles from anywhere labost almost yet drawing trade from many miles around and with a credit for his spoken word in the nations markets that proved more efficient than the formal pledges of strong financial institutions wong so far as his neighbors knew came to the uintah basin as a laundryman serving fort duchesne when it was a military establishment subsequently he started a little general store outside the reservation and some distance away from it there lie he continued in business until his death the little old shack it could hardly be called more appears from the outside something like the ruins of what might have been a ge r w veranda in front and all of the eighties inside it Is to the uninitiated a veritable mass of disorder cosmopolitan store but wong sing and his assistants knew their stock here one could find almost anything in the way of merchandise that Is sold for it had bad to be a cosmopolitan store wong had a large indian trade and he often remarked on the honesty of the redman bedman in their dealings with him he also supplied the whites in the basin tor for many miles around and the officers of the indian service at fort duchesne bongs method of accounting was a m mystery to white business men and patrons but he usually had what the cus tomer wanted and his price was right it was told of him that when a large larg e machine was needed in a hurry tor for some som e development work the eastern h house 0 se supplying it was unwilling to take a telegraphic order until it was assured of payment but on the word of wong sing the needed machinery was on its way west by nightfall many were the stories of freakish merchandising chan dising told about the little store on a side road far from human habitation I 1 the usual moral was that there was something to the yarn about the man who made a better mouse trap and had the world beating a path to his door |