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Show Knerr Obtain Pledge From Miner By JOHN T. HALL taff Corraepone'ent RCOFIKI.I. Vtah. May 1 After n briftllng with armed men .Raturday. h ready to fight to prevent atrlkebreak- t era from reaching Wlnterquartera. b Rcofleid aettled down yeaterdny to ob- t aervlng an ordinary Hunday. At a p chanic at the Peerless mine in Spring Cunyon. and Thomas Davis, employed In thfi mine, as they were coming from Helper last night, according to t.eorre Murphy, superintendent of the Hprlng Canyon oal . company's mine at 1 to rre, Mrs. Thomas and Mrs. Ia-vi.i Ia-vi.i were In the car. Two bullets hit the car, but none was Injured. The men Jumped on the running hoard of Alger car. When they were puhed off they fired on the car. This Is the first violence reported In the Hprlng Canyon mining disnrlct. Samuel A. K Ing. attorney for the miners said that he had been informed by Wllhum Houston, representative rep-resentative of the International, that he had talked to the men who had fired on the Alger automobile and had obtained- their pledge that nothing of the king would happen again. The men told Houston. Mr. King said, that they were under the Impression that they had a right to stop automobiles that might bo carrying strikebreakers Into Spring Canyon, as this was being done In Scofleld. The miners said that one of the men In the automobile had exhibited ex-hibited a six-shunter and had fired the firer shot, which the miners returned ' with three shots, making a twtal of , four In all that was fired, j "Houston told the men that they had absolutely no authority or right to , atop automobile- and that their tents I would be moved away from the road 'today unless they gave everv assurance assur-ance that nothing f the kind would i happen again." Mr. King said. "Houston "Hous-ton was accompanied on his Investigation Investi-gation by two members of the town board of Helper, who were satisfied that the men would live up to their pledge." meeting of the atrlkera In one of the halla of the town the men pledged that there would be no further trouble trou-ble to WUIIatn M. Knerr. member of the alata tnduetiia) rommlaalon and peraonal repreaentatlva of Oovernor Charlea R. Mabey. Tha atrlkera blame all the trouble that haa occurred during the laet week on tha guarda of the Utah Fuel company. com-pany. lnaena of the mlnera ttejran making affldavlta to preeent to Knerr for obaervatlon by Oovernor Mabey. The announcement at the union meeting that the national guardamen were not to be aent into the region unleaa there la another outbreak met with unqualified approval of all of the mlnera. They were addreaaed by Knerr. who warned the men to refrain from tha uae of firearm. If they wlahed to prevent dl. patch of guard-men. guard-men. Knerr told the mlnera that he had been empowered by Oovernor Mabey to confer with I'tah Kuel company com-pany offlclala and to demand that the company guarda be kept upon company com-pany property. Thla atatement brought the pledge from tha mlnera that there would be no further trouble. trou-ble. BULLETS HIT TRAIN. After the pledge waa given. Knerr alaowarned the mlnera to keen away from the ridge of hill, that Ilea between be-tween Hcofleld and Wlnterquartera. from where long dlatance flnftf waa carried on Saturday after the mlnera atnpned the train bound for Wlnterquartera Wlnter-quartera aa It paaaed through Hcofleld. Hco-fleld. A aurvey of tha train ahowed that one bullet penetrated the ateam-box ateam-box of the engine and that aevera! other, hit the mall and expreaa car. Affldavlta under preparation by the mlnera cite doaena of lnatancea of alleged al-leged mlaconduct on the part of the company guarda. It la charged that the guarda fired on an unarmed man who approached, Wlnterquartera carrying car-rying a all montha old bahy. that the guarda cloaed the county road leading from Scofleld to Clear Creek and threatened to ahoot a party of mlnera that attempted to go to Clear Creek a week ago, that the guarda continually took poaltlona on the hill, overlooking Rcofleid to frighten Scofleld realdente. that Sam Dorrlty, guard, waa the ag-greaaor ag-greaaor In tha fight In which he waa wounded laet Thuraday and that the whole attitude of the guard, haa been Intended to Irritate the atrlkera and provoke them Into retaliating. Knerr declared that he expected to remain In Scofleld at leaat a week. He exprraaed hla confidence that order would be kept In the town aa aoon aa the company guarda were ordered to keep away from tha city and the hill, overlooking It. Despite promises that there will be no further gun play, the arrival of the next train carrying strikebreakers Is anxiously awaited, as only this can show the real temper of the men. At the union meeting all the speaker, Including In-cluding Charlea Lerose. president, and Mayor I -are Jensen, declared that no more trains will be stopped. Phillip S. Juranovlch. district representative of the I'nlted Mine Workers, sat at the speakers' table, but d.d not address the men. PRICK." May 1 BtrHilnf miners fired twenty shots at an automobile occupied by Ralper Alger, jmaeler nie- |
