| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION This wastime whenUtahn withyen to travel could ride to Chicago and back by rail for only 44 50 However 44 50 was difficult to come by and there is no indication people were standing in line to buy tickets One week the news columns of the Record related that five tramps had stolen gold watch chains at ShriverClothing Store necessitating Marshall Stilman coming over from Eure ka The marshall caught the culprits and dispensed quick justice four were given 30 minutes to get out of town and the fifth was held for trial in district court Not long thereafter the newspaper enthusiastically re ported that the County Commission had decided to buildjail in Mammoth Not only was it the communityfirst place in which lawbreakers could be incarcerated but it was also the first brick building in Mammoth ture which would accommodate marshalloffice was to cost 000 The 867 square foot structwo steel cells and the Wrote the Recordeditor This iswise investment by the County Commission as it will reduce by at least one half the expense occasioned by making an arrest and conveying the prisoner to Eureka and then back to Mammoth for trial Aside from the trivial though the Record reported with regularity on Tinticprincipal industry mining and related the down-to-earth news which resulted from confrontations of the various ethnic backgrounds which followed that work Hard-rock miners worked hard and lived hard -and when they played the same way there was frequently much to occupy the time of law enforcement officers and to fill the newspapercolumns When the Record reported in holier-than-thou manner that 25 fist-fights had taken place in Eureka insingle day the editor of the Eureka Reporter retorted The Mammoth Record is authority forstatement that there were 25 fights in Eureka on Christmas Day This paper has madecareful canvass of the situation and we are under the necessity of calling the Record editor down for exaggerating the immorality of the camp There were but 24 fights here on that day Tke Diehl wrote with dry wit as evidenced by his wry ob 478 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
