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Show ! u ij'iii 'i rKlifti i5i w 'vTi iJjk nH W--' jiii' il 'jt 'ih tflit;1r',i I'r'li SUITS ADVERTISING) KATES Th Sun's display advert iai nr ratM cents an incii pec issue UN lity inch by the month or i.- - Per four local advertisers. Tran-le) lw'iirs-- Ho fifty (50) cents an inch per issue. Position is 25 per cent additional. No display advertising accepted for the dial (front)e page. First page readers are tventjr-fiv(25) cents per line an PER BETTER IN CARBON DISTRICT COLORADO MINES NOT UP PREVIOUS RECORDS TO Large Decrease 8hown la the Larger Fields of the East, But Improved Showings Expected With the Loosening Up of the Railroad Strike-Anthr- acite At Very Low Poiut The AN INDEPENDENT k. non-nni- portation 'difficulties decreased. Losses in Colorado ascribed to transports-- , tion were practically confined to the railroad that recently resumed service after a suspension of several weeks. Mine operators statements show conclusively that the gradual increase in production has not been due to the opening of mines in the strongly unionized districts, but rather to improved n ear and labor supply in the and partly organized fields. As was previously explained, the extent of the strike in districts like Westmoreland and Somerset counties, Pa where the present capacity of many mines now operating shorthanded has been grat-l- y non-unio- reduced. Big Decreases Shown. districts of Southern The West Virginia. Southwestern Virginia. Eastern and Western Kentucky, and Alabama, which last week furnished half of the total United States output, shipped about 7 per cent less coal this week than the week before and 6 per eent less than daring the week before that the first week in August. The decrease occurred principally in the Poeahontaa and Tug River district, in the districts served by the Louisville and Nashville railroad in Eastern Kentucky and by the same road in Western Kentucky. Traffic congestion was the cause of large losses in tonnage. The shipments from the Logan, New River, Winding Gulf and the districts were greater last week than the two weeks before that. The Pocahontas Tug River and the Tennessee districts shipjied less coal than last week, but more than during the first week of August In Ohio, Indiana and Illinois there haa lieen a small increase in tonnage, but the increase is relatively large in comparison with the small total weekly output from these states in preceding weeks. A gradual increase in mine operating is indicated. Production west of the Mississippi this week was less than during last week. . non-nni- on Kenova-Thack- er iib J'lifcl- . - a t '.,ff not want il. liut if you tell most of ths families of t'arUm county through an edict in The dun there la always soma one w ho doea want. A quick sale at A coat of fifty cents is better than no aale at no coat. NEWSPAPER Week Ending August 25, 1922 Carbon countys three commissioners together with Sheriff T. F. Kelter have been called to a conference with Gov. Charles R. Mabey at Salt Lake City. They went in Wednesday. It is given out this meeting is for the purpose of getting the local officials to consent to the removal of the national guard units from the coal damps of Carbon county. Just where the governor gets his inspirations for his conduct of the strike situation is a puzzle to the citizens here. To be sure, nobody in Carbon county wants the guardsmen kept indefinitely. The Sun has repeatedly called for some action looking to the establishment of conditions which would permit the removal of the militia, and has over and over again suggested a real solution of the matter. But then, it was early in the game told to the state's executive that the militia was needed here, but it required the killing of one of the countys best citizens .to add to the long list of violent acts, circumstances of which were daily laid before the governor, before he would act. Sheriff Kelter made a clear cut statement of conditions away back on April 27th, the day on which the trouble at Scofield occurred and in which Sam Dorrity a deputy sheriff was shot, telling the states chief executive just what a seething volcano of rioting and violence was smoldering here. His judgment was vindicated by the happenings of just a few days later, when the same gang shot up the train as it went into Scofield. On both these occasions Kelter implored the state to get out troops and prevent further outbreaks. Holding up stages and automobiles on the road to the various camps and searching every car that passed through Helper by strikers were matters too small to be considered in the light of the possibilities of murder and rioting which were so evident. On May 12th a horde of armed quitters held up the train bound for Hiawatha, broke seals on all the cars, took people off the train and otherwise conducted themselves in a manner which was actual and open rebellion against all law and authority. The four or five extra deputy sheriffs present were absolutely helpless against a mob of which thirty or forty were in plain view and many others skulking behind rocks and cedars on the hillsides. This trouble was the governors real chance to place troops in this field and at which time he could have claimed real conservatism in awaiting the real need. The Sun at that time said : With aurh a itate of affaire existent, the ordinary lo- Just the other day a labor leader", of national notoriety said of course there is always more or less violence at the time of strikes. Note the of course." With such an understanding it would not be at all amiss to place the soldiery in the field, the day before the announced beginning of a strike. In order to escape the responsibility for the killing of good citizens, a governor of a state would be justified in so protecting himself. But with all the importuning from this section, with all the rough stuff being pulled by the strikers, who so greatly outnumbered any force of deputy sheriffs Kelter was able to put on the job, the governor of Utah sat supinely in his chair. tion was for a lime almost completely blocked. Western Kentucky aim reported acute transportation loss. There was no compensating increase in shipn ments from the fields of Pennsylvania. Final returns show production of all coal in the nineteenth week of the strike as 5,005,000 tons, thousand tons of including twenty-nin- e CONTRACT Even after Kenilworth had been shot up even after Standardville had suffered the same fate-not- hing could induce Mabey to take a part in the matter. Only when emboldened by the refusal of the governor to send troops the strikers made a murderous attack on a trainload of workmen proceeding up Spring Canyon, in which Deputy Sheriff Webb was killed, and after which it was quite apparent that if troops were not brought in the local citizens would turn out and make a cleaning," did the state authority finally on June 14th wake up and get the militia on its way to Carbon county. Now, after all this with undoubted calculation on its effect in the present political campaign the Salt Lake City Commercial club indorses and commends" Governor Mabeys conduct" of the strike. And the governor comes back after this pat on the back, swells up and says: I did do it nicely, didnt I? Why what has been done to "conduct the states affairs? Absolutely nothing. Of course the presence of the militia has prevented murder and rioting but not entirely, at that. Up at Scofield away 'back in April a bird named Simmons, prominent in union affairs, was mixed up in the shooting up of a train as it pulled into town. He has been punished for his put in that affair by a jail sentence. Out of jail but eight days he again falls into the hands of the sheriff through the guardsmen for rioting, and is once again in durance for another sixty days. Pete Ponti, also from Scofield, was given a fifty-dollfine and thirty days in jail. He was released but recently. He fell back into the sheriffs keeping along with Simmons this time for sixty days. Rioting has taken place in several of the camps despite the presence of soldiers. The commanding officers express themselves as extremely apprehensive of the dangers present in this situation as it stands today. The union organizers and agitators from other states are still permitted to foment trouble, and this condition is aggravated now by the fact that while the strike in Eastern fields, and even, in Wyoming where these outside birds belong has been settled in a manner which might be said to indicate that the strikers have "won here in Carbon county it is plain to be seen that those who followed the leadership of these outsiders have lost beyond question. Mot a thing has been done by the state during its occupancy by martial law to bring about any quieting of the riotous and murderous spirit rampant in the ranks of the strikers, no steps taken toward the removal of the agitating outsiders, nothing whatever except to place the troops in camp and wait until the time should come when the soldier boys could be sneaked out and sent home. And now, the governor has written letters to the employers of all these lads thanking them for their patriotic spirit in letting the boys off while they 'should take up their duties in the coal fields. He has also written each of them a similar letter in which he mentions that now that your duties have been finished in such a way as to indicate that the cjiief executive. is still lulled into a sense of false security just because there has been no killing of citizens for some weeks. Should these troops be taken out of Carbon county before steps are taken to bring about a normal, peaceful status the responsibility for any further outrages will be on the governors head just as surely as the killing of Webb can be laid to the failure to send the troops in earlier, and as was pointed out in these columns on May 12th, thirty-thre- e days before that slaying. ar 1$ HI HiDAV LAST FOR mal. Anthracite Is Low. There has been no break in the anthracite miners strike and production remains practically zero. The total output in the week ended August 12th thouswas approximately twenty-nin- e and net tons, principally steam sizes recovered by river dredges. In the corresponding week a year ago 1,772,000 were produced. Shipments from storage yards continue to decrease slowly as the supply grows smaller, and are composed chiefly of pea coal and the smaller sizes. Cumulative production dnring 1922 to date stands at about 22,850,000 tons against 57,600,000 duriMade. Are Comparison ng1 the corresponding period in 192L Car supply improved in certain dis- Stocks of anthracite are low. The totricts of Southern West Virginia and tal quantity in the yards of retail dealKentucky, bnt in Harlan county and ers in Massachusetts on August 1st was the adjacent fields of Southeastern Kentucky and Tennessee transports- (Continued on Page Eight) Contract was let at Salt Lake City last Monday for the building of the Carbon County railroad to the Construction company by the Columbia Steel corporation. The figures are not given out. It involves the grading of a line a little over four miles in length from a point near Icelander Springs on theftannyside branch of the Denver and Rio Grande Western system to the Utah Coal and Coke companys holdings in Ilorse Canyon, some four or five miles south of the poking camp of Utah Fuel company. Also the grading for the tipple yards and the gravity trackline and the driving of a tunnel to open np the coal deposits. The contract was executed by D. IT. Botchford of San Francisco, the manager of the Columbia Steel, and who was in Salt Lake City to attend to this and other matters relating to the preliminary operations of the y in Utah. Work is to be started as soon as the construction equipment can be assembled on the ground. The opening of the coal property is for the irpose of obtaining coke for blast furnace operations. Extensive tests of the enal in recent months have demonstrated to the satisfaction of the organizers of the Columbia Steel the coking properties of the deposit. The steel oorj (oration also has outlined the lv cnnf-pan- IN Again in May, it ia declared, she was struck by hia fists, and in October ha ia said to have kicked her in the shins with heavy shoes. On August 24th of this year he is alleged to have called and othsr her a "lying a of a b rile, obscene and indecent names, and to have told her that she and the children could no longer live at the Olaon Flats, which was the family home. He also ia declared to have stated that he would no longer provide for her nor the children, and threatened to die (Kmc of his property, to continue the cruel end inhuman treatment as complained of and to turn her and the ehil dren into the street. The wife aska for a divorce, custody of the little girls, wants a thousand dollars to conduct the court proceedings, ownership of the Olson Flats and asks for a hundred and fifty dollars a month to provide for the children. It ia cited that the property lielonging to the ronple inrlndes the flats, worth $16,600; an equity in the Eko theater building amounting to $8000; farm lands worth $11,000, tiesides various property of a total value approaching $75,000. A restraining order to prt vent Olson from duqioiting of his property or encumbering the same and to atop him from drawing his money out of the banka ia asked for. It ia also asked the he be prevented from molesting or visiting her nr the children. Permission to occupy their rooms in the Olson Flats is also prayed for. An order was issued from the Sevto this life. During the month of July, 1921, it is enth Judicial District court by Judga alleged that Olson struck the defend- F. E. Woods this morning citing Olaon ant, knocking her from a chair in which to show cause why such restraint she waa sitting and under a table. should not be put upon him. -- CL I E Arthur J. Lee of Price, central committeeman for Cartion county, j (resided at the meeting of the republican state committee at Salt Lake City last Wednesday afternoon. It was through his efforts that Carl R. Mareusen of this city was named state chairman a jKilitical honor that ia appreciated not only by the recipient, but by that gentlmana friends in both fmrtiea locally. The meeting was delayed an hour. During thia time the wLws were kept busy between Zion and Price, since Mareusen a permission had not been secured earlier in the day. After a conference with officials of the Price Commercial and Savings bank and Mareusen himself the honor was accepted. Gov, Charles R. Mabey and mittee and the various local organizations. I shall give my unqualified support to the election of Bamberger, Cherry, Colton, Leatherwood and Jensen. t Dispenses Patronage. Authorization was unanimously voted the chairman to call any committee meetings whenever he feels they may be necessary, and the sense of the meeting was that the exjienses of members should he assumed by the state committee when traveling ia done in the interest of any campaign work. The funds would b6 taken from contributions. It was pointed out that a quorum waa essential at state 'committee meetings during a campaign, and .that it frequently was too much of an expense to many members to traval a long distance every week or two. Chairman Mareusen holds the pi for two years and will have the political patronage of Utah so far as the republican party if concerned under his thumb. He went in to Kelt Lake City yesterday to line up for the coming campaign. He will name his own secretary and numerous commit tees political. Mareusen . succeeds .William Spry, now commissioner of the general land office at Washington, D. C. WASHED OUT TRACK DELAYS LOCAL TRAIN SERVICE BID- - plans for constructing a branch line from Lund to the iron fields in Iron county and has made application to the interstte commerce commission for permission to build the line. The situation has been (implicated within the past few days, however, by the filing of an appliration with the interstate commerce commission by the Union Pari fie or Los Angeles and Salt Lake asking permission to build a branch line through the same teritory, but extending q)out twelve miles farther eastward to Cedar City. It ia the opinion of members of the steel corporation that a hearing before the interstate commerce commission will be necessary to determine who shall be permitted to build the road. It is considered probable that such a hearing would entail more or less delay to starting construction. It has been stated that the grading of the Carbon railroad will cost around three bun dred thousand dollars, including steel bridges and tunnel work. And another eight hundred thousand will be spent in improving and developing the coal mines. The product will be coked at some point on Utah Lake not far from Provo. " Emmett K. Olson, well known in Carbon county and holding the ositiou of United States commissioner for the District of Utah, is made defendant in a suit filed this ( Friday) morning by his wife, Edith M. C)1mu. The complaint recites that the utrties were married September 3, 1917, and that two children girls have lieen born of the union. Cruel and inhumau treatment is alleged as the cause of action, such existing ever since November, 1917. It ia cited in particular that in tiie mouth mentioned, while the plaintiff was pregnant, Olson told her that if she had a child she would have to supiMirt it herself. Also that he angrily declared he never wanted to see it, and that he violently shoved her into the wall, lie refused to buy baby clothes, and also to allow her to re main at home for the birth of the child, she being obliged to go to her mother's home at Castle Gate for that event. Late in March, 1918 before the birth of this child1 Olson ia alleged to have struck his wife uKn the liody and her face with hia fists. In February, 1920, while pregnant with her second child, he again refused to allow the confinement to take place at his house, and again her mothers home became a refuge for that event. Olson is alleged to have refused to iay any of the expenses incident to the arrival of this child, and to have aaid that "if she wanted to have children she must suit-po- rt He refused to atthem herself. tend at the time the children rame in- non-unio- anthracite. In the corresponding week of 1921 the output of bituminous was 7,770, 000 and of anthracite 1,770.000 tons, a to tal for all coal raised of 9,540,000. The ear before that the total was 1280,-00- 0 tons. Considering anthracite and bituminous coal as a common source of supply, the present weekly output is five or six million tons below nor- implicating and triplicating sales books. Eastern prices. The dun. DEm" LetUs Get Below Surface Bun Special Service. WASHINGTON, D. Aug. 2L-- With the seven days ending with August 5th the mines of Utah produced 91.6 per cent of fulltime rapacity. Total losses from all causes amounted to 8.4; transportation disability, 0.1; labor shortage, 6, and mine disability, 2.3 per rent. Twenty-tw- o mines with a eapaeity of a hundred and eighteen . thousand tons made reimrte. For the same time the Colorado properties worked 86.4 per rent of fulltime. Total losses from all causes amounted to 13.6 per rent. Fifty-nin- e mines with a weekly tonnage of a hundred and sixty thousand made report. New Mexico is working close to 100 ter eent, while Wyoming is idle. It ia too early to learn the immediate effect upon coal production from the agreements signed at Cleveland between the workers and bituminous operators. The production during the laat week August 14th to 10th from mines that were already working will be about four million three hundred thousand tons. It is unlikely that the union mines now reopening in Ohio and elsewhere will raise the total output for the week much above the 4,576, (TOO last-weeFor while mines produced long closed by the strike are reopening there has been a recurrence of aeute railroad disability in certain of and the openshop fields. the Loadings on Monday, August 14th, were 15,722 ears, a decrease of 3 per cent as compared with tba week preceding. Thereafter they declined very steadily to 12,530 ran on Wednesday. The loadings on Thursday, 1363 ears, gave the first indication of shipments cal law enforcing machinery even supplemented by adfrom mines reopened under the Cleve- ditional deputies as at present is utterly inadequate to land agreement. preserve an order through which the ordinary and usual of everyday life and business can with any deactivities Car Supply Better. of safety lie carried on. And it at once becomea the Mine reporta confirm previous state- gree both legally and morally of the machinery of the ments that the increase in production duty state to crush such a revolt in its incipienry. That this in the week ended August 5th waa due was not done in the first instance has undoubtedly served largely to improvement in transjKirta-tion- . to embolden the vicious element among the strikers, and All districts of the Middle Apany startling and untoward circumstances that may arise where traffic field congespalachian as a consequence will always be laid to the failure to act tion has been worst reports a better on the part of the head of the state. promptly car supply, and losses through trans- f, 'ii you depend up advertising. on telling your acquaintances they may Volume 9, Number IS MI A! W jftrij IF Issue. HUT -- If you have anything worth aeillnf It is worth If nt Coupon books of several denominations. Kept in stock. The Sun. iff ' - f BC 31 Carl R. Mareusen, Last Wednesday Chosen Chatman of the Republican State Committee. Clondbursts between Woodside and Mounds on Tuesday last took out three bridges end considerable of the track of the Denver and Rio Grande West- era between Mounds and Woodside. As a result train service both east and west was much hanqiered. Around a hundred hridgenien and trackworkera were sent to the scene, where the repairs were nnder the iiersonal direction of I. IL Luke, general superintendent. Trouble was experienced at about the si rue time up near Rolapp, when a huge boulder came down the aide of the hill and wiped out several joints of track and some grade. A trestle between Price and Helper also went out. These washouts and cloudbursts are an annual event during August. Ernest Bamberger were at the time in Price conferring with the new chairman. Their visit was brief.. Marcu-sen- a career at Price and hia political activities are too well known locally for rehearsal by The Sun. He is a worker and an organizer. In a' state- FORMER PRICE GREEK PRIEST IS COMING BACK ment to the press he says: Down Gulps Mabey. Rev. Mark Petnkis, formerly in "I feel it an honor to conduct the charge of the Greek Orthodox church campaign for the present republican at Price, is returning here at the renominees and I am proud of the type quest of the trustees and a very large of men already nominated by the state, portion of church membership. A telejudicial and congressional conventions. gram was received from him this (FriI feel assured that county conventions day) morning from St. Lou's, Mo., statwill place equally strong and meritoing that he will arrive in abont two rious men and women in nomination. weeks with his family. Since leaving I shall wage a vigorous campaign, free Price he has been stationed at Savan from personalities. I am proud of the nah, Ga and at the Missouri metropomembership in the party of Hamilton, lis. He is a very able man and is held Lincoln, Grant, McKinley, Rooeevelt in high esteem not only by his countryand Harding, and I am equally proud men. lint all others as well who came of the work of the republican party in to know him when he lived here. He this state under the leadership of Cut- did splendid work in Carbon county ler, Wells, Spry and Mabey. I shall for the liherty loan drives. He will be ap;ieal for the active support of all welcomed back. who lielieve in the principles of the This new buttonless underwear isn't republican party and shall depend for Mechanical stokers of various de- advice and counsel ujxm the state rom- - signs are used in industrial plants. new. Ask (lie laundryman. REGISTRATION DATES FOR THE COMING GENERAL ELECTION ARE AUGUST 26th AND OCTOBER 10th, 11th, 17th, AND 31st. ' " |