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Show RAGE WAR IN ! COAL FIELDS IS MINT Attitude of Alien Element in Utah Coal Mining District Dis-trict Prompts Demand for Fighting Supplies TELEGRAM IS SENT TO GOVERNOR MABEY Five Hundred Rifles and Ten Machine Guns Requested Re-quested With Which to Arm Force of 200 Men ' Pltirn, May II. Five hundred rifles. 1 ten machine guns and 10.000 rounds of . ammunition were asked of (iovernor Mabry by the Carbon county commissioners. commis-sioners. In a telegram addressed to Ihe chief executive within three houra after af-ter he left Price lute yesterday. 1'lana for arming at leant 200 special deputy sheriffs to ha recruited from the population popu-lation of thla district formed the basis of the official request for arma. Conditions Con-ditions here are far more aerloua than hna been generally credited and armed w.irf:iro between the American and r" foreign elements hangs on n hulr tng-w tng-w gt r. The altuation la critical; and the tciilnty commissioners, anticipating resistance re-sistance of their proclamation calling nil aliens to disarm, are planning to meet nny development. I iovernor Mabry left here for Helper anil K:ill l.ake late yesterday, after a final conference with the county coin-tnr coin-tnr Miners. Following that session a statement was Issued to Jhe effect that the aovernnr and the county commis-siouets commis-siouets bad agreed upon a line of action calling for the county government to do rveiMliln' within Its power to rc-l rc-l More and maintain law and order throughout the district before calling for the national guard. This plan called for issuance of a proclamation ordering all allena to conform with the law by surrendering all arms by noon of May 22, and calllnf upon all clti-aens clti-aens lo assist in suppressing lawlessness. SEND TELEGRAM. Immediately following the governor'! departure, the commlsisonera went Into executive session with other local officials. offi-cials. The teleKram calling upon the governor to furnlnh the necessary equipment for ai leant U00 special deputies depu-ties Hint a result of this session. After spending three days In the striko district, (Iovernor Mabey left the situation as he found It. Sentiment openly expressed by citizens of this city is that the governor "passed the buck' to th bounty government. The population Is becoming restless at see-Intc see-Intc armed aliens parading the streets, surly, defiant and openly antagonistic to the law abiding element. So fur xL the striker have not been violent. Hut they are uiily and in a mood interpreted interpret-ed i. rally as indicating that Carbon county Is aittlng on a powder magazine, maga-zine, if the aliens surrender their arms und abide by the law, the 20 iqtecial deputies will not be called out. Hut at the first indication of intended law-U'hmim'Hm law-U'hmim'Hm mea sure will be taken to check them and if th force proves In-, adequate, another appeal for the militia mili-tia will be made lo (.governor Mabey, It In said. Reports received here yesterday were that 200 foreigners had been ordered to leave Sunny side by May 2l and to remain forever away from that camp. A large number of these are camped Just outside tlw settlement and are reported lo be stopping .all persona either entering or leaving Sunnyside, and Insisting upon those halted answering an-swering questions as to who they are jind what they want. Investigation of this report will be made today and further molestation of private citisens f will be ordered stopped, It la said. DRAWING TO HEAD. Ill-feeling between th Americans nd 'some of the alien population of ' t this county has been coming to a head tor several years. Some of the alien miners have shown their antagonism j to the population on numerous occa-i, occa-i, i-lons and have frequently made demonstrations dem-onstrations of their strength. About three years ago this sentiment senti-ment came near to the breaking point when one of the miners eloped with a young girl. He was brought back and lodged in Jail here. Some talk of Ivnching was followed by the advent f of between 5(H) and 00 aliens, all armed, from surrounding camps. The former a cordon about the courthouse. court-house. Again, a few weeks ago. at Helper. ' armed aliens threatened the lives of prohibition agents In th,e event that testimony given at a lquortrial re- ' suited in conviction. The two agents esoHped in an automobile, hut were i walned never to again return to Helper as they, "the aliens," would not stand for having their liquor supply stepped. . . The funeral of John Tcnas, killed (Continued on page 2.) RACEWAR (Contliued from ivjra 1.) 8undy near Helper, by n. T. Toutif, special deputy and mine guard, wen more In the nature of a demonetratlon of trenvth. 81s hundred and firry-one firry-one allene. mostly armed, manhrd In double file behind the casket and thirty-one automobiles were In the tine of march. Estimates made by eyewitnesses placed the numhrr of small arms only half-concealed by coats as more than 600. The marchers march-ers paraded with the American fl considerably lowered from the level of another fla beside It. It Is reported. re-ported. No complaint had been filed with County Attorney Henry Rug-era charring' Tense' slayer with murder, but Rugera expected Btyllan Htaes. Oreelc consul, or some othnr person, to file the complelnt today. In case this is not done, the Inquest will probably be reaumed, the county attorney at-torney said. Governor Mabey returned today from Carbon county after a three-day three-day investigation uf conditions In the strike district. He Issued a brief statement as follows: "I visited Carbon county and the various coal camps In that section In order that I might obtain flrat hand Information of conditions regarding the trouble that exists In that county. "I visited the, towns of Col ton. Castle Gate, Helper and all the camps In Bprlng canyon up to and Including Latuda, rno HunnyaMe and Hiawatha. Hia-watha. In all these places I talked with representatives of both operators and strikers and I held conferences with the board of county commissioners commission-ers and the sheriff. "While 1 obtained what I went after, the Information is such that 1 have no comment to make now. I found the elt-uatlon better than I thought, and everywhere that 1 went I waa treated with the utmost courtesy by thoM with whom 1 talked. Further than thla Ihaveno comments to make." . |
