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Show CMP KEARNY TROOPS MOVED TO UTAH FIELD Carbon County Fuel Mines Expected to Continue Full Operation Today. Report of Supply in Railroad Rail-road Cars to Be Made Daily for Government. SAN DIEGO, Oat, Nov. 2. A provisional company composed of five officers and 110 men of tho 32nd infantry left. Camp Kearny for strike duty in Utah today. The company took four machine guns. The remaining troops at Camp Kearny were held in camp today, ready to leave at short notice. Coal from Uta'h mines was held up yesterday at convenient points' along the various railroads of the state by officials of tho roads, acting under orders or-ders from the United States railroad administration. It will be distributed in the order of priority in accordance with the preference list issued by Director Di-rector General Walker D. Hines. It was estimated that there were 15,000 tons of fuel on the Denver & Rio Grande alone, awaiting orders for consignment. con-signment. As far as the mines themselves were concerned, yesterday brought uo change. - None of the properties operated oper-ated on Sunda.v and coat producers had no accurate check on the effect of tho strike in Utah. Expect Normal Operation. "There is every reason to expect that the mines of Carbon county will be operating normally tomorrow," A. D. Piersou, general sales agent of the Utah Fuel company and spokesman for the mine owners, said last night. In view of tin; fact that only six of eighteen mines were short any mcu Saturday they are optimistic that today to-day wjli see tho properties going full swing. Quiet was reported yesterday in all of the coal mining towns of the state. Daily Report Asked. A report of every ear of coal held on the Los Angeles and Salt Lake, the Oregon Short Line and the Denver & Rio Grande railroads in Utah is to be made each day and sent to the general offices, from which it wjll be communicated communi-cated to tho railroad administration. The kind of coal and weight of each car and the name of tho consignee and consignor must, bo included in the word sent to. Washington. The coal will be moved in accordance with the preference prefer-ence lists issued by the railroad administration. admin-istration. Distribution Arranged. All cal mined today will be billed in tho normal way, railroad officials say. hut will be held up aloug the roads and distributed according to the order of priority. H. V. Piatt, general manager of the Oregon Short Line railroad, has appointed ap-pointed a committee of three officials to take charge of coal distribution in the Los Angeles and Salt Lake route and Oregon Short Line territory. The committee js composed of T. S. Kinnorsley, car service agent of the Oregon Short Line; John Moran, attorney attor-ney for the Oregon Short Line, and II. E. Godwin of the traffic department of the Oregon Short Line railroad. Dave Gersbon, chief special agent of the bureau of investigation of the department de-partment of justice for the interuioun-iain interuioun-iain district, said yesterday, as no strike has been called in Utah, he will go to the Wyoming coal fields to take charge of the situation there. Two men from' the department of justice are on ditty betweeD Rock Springs and Kouinierer. he said. According to Mr. Gcrshon, a troop of cavalrv arrived at Rock Springs vesterdav from Fort D. A. Russell. ROCK SPRINGS IS QUIET; CAVALRYMEN PATROL STREETS Special to The Tribune. ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., Nov. C The I ninety. two cavalry men who arrived here this morning from Port I). A. Russell, Rus-sell, arc patrolling the streets 3Dd standing gru.ird at the mines iu Rock Springs tonight. Three thousand two hundred men are out, divided as follows: fol-lows: Rock Springs mine, 1100: Reliance Re-liance mine. tSO; Lion. 100; Gunn. 100; Sweetwater, 50; Dines, 150; Winton, 200; Point of Rocks. 50; Superior. 1000. The strikers today fraternized with the soldiers and there was. no indiea- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) TROOPS ARE MOVED J 01 GOAL FIELD (Continued From Page Onv) tion of disturbance. The jvliee here are on the lookout for . . W. ngita-I ngita-I 'on. One I. W. W. was given fifty I d. at work on tl' street! tor threats and disl urbance. A scale committee, i .omiprt.'!lnti the distriot president, viee i president, secretary, ! Mill board i number and a rabaistriet board mem-', mem-', ber, has ti"no to Cheyenne td meet the Wrominu operators la conference Mon- day. A force nt wftrk in mine No. 10, supplying sup-plying coal for the power house, quit I their jobs today as a protest against troops belnlf brought in. Many eoiu-I eoiu-I puny nu'u have remniiscd at work, rc j pairing and timbering. |
