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Show rORLY 500 DRAFT SLACK-x SLACK-x BB III IB BIREtiAM Only Two Deserters Found Out of This Large Number, and Thirty-two Others Held to Iinvestigatipn Before the Examining Examin-ing Board Those to Be Held for Trial Are Largely Austrian Miners Many Innocent Citizens Arrested Falsely, But Released in a Short Time One Man Attempts to Beat It, But Is Captured in Auto Stage When Attempting to Leave Camp. ', There was some surprise in iBing-. ham Wednesday evening . when Sheriff Sher-iff John S, Corlessi and about 100 deputies depu-ties suddenly appeared in iBingham without notice. A regular train of. automobiles brought them to town, Practically every man on the sheriff's force was here. The people did not ' know the officers were coming, and they wondered what was going to happen, hap-pen, but they did not have to wait long for the deputies at once started to work and commenced to lick up every fellow that they thought might be In a position, to render sirvice In the army. The officers felt that they were going to dd a land office business so . they brought along with them a member mem-ber of the editorial staff of the Salt Lake Tribune to be sure that they v would get a good WTiteup. They commenced to arrest fellows right and left and in a little while there was a great crowd in the Commercial Com-mercial Club awaiting their turn to stand trial. The court was conducted by Captain F. V. (John)-Fitzgerald, private secretary to the governor, and C. W. Aldrich, chairman of the local draft board. In the roundup there were 478 men and 32 of these were W" ; h-i( for further Investigation, and two 1 Ui(Ki'd in to Salt Lake as de-, " aertera.' " ' 1. . The men brought to trial appeared j very nervous and they were question-iLy question-iLy ea in a very interesting manner by Captain Fitzgerald, iHe would first ask the name of the defendant and then call for his classification and registration cards. Very few of the men carried their credential with them, but the greater part were pre-pared pre-pared to have their cards in short J order. A large number of the foreigners for-eigners expressed a willingness to join the American army, but there were a few who said that they preferred to be returned to their native country. The men were instructed that they should always carry their classification classifica-tion on their person in order that' they might be In a position to present them to an officer at any time, There were quite a number of men over and under the draft age who were arrested es the officers were anxious to get everybody in court who looked like he might pass inspection. One man, who is evidently over the draft age, and was sauntering along pleasantly with his lady love, was accosted ac-costed by a deputy and In spit of the most reasonable protests was carried to the club rooms. This man, of course, soon found the high sheriff and was . let go. There were quite a number of young men in the camp who the officers failed to pick up and they are Inclined to boast of the fact that they were not molested. The districts included in the roundup round-up were iBingham, Copperfield and Highland !Boy and they werj all pretty well combed. The object of this mat- , ter was to find out who the men were who did not have their cards, and to find If any had been classified wrong. There were very few Americans caught up. In fact there are very few Americans in Bingham now between the ages of 21 and 3il, and practically all of them are married men. Th two deserters taken in were James Caravanus and Bsteban Buste-za. Buste-za. The former made an effort to get away after, being taken to the Commercial Com-mercial Club, but was caught again before he got out of the canyon. The latter, who is a Mexican, held what appeared to be a bogus registration card from the state of New York. The raid was planned about a week ago and was kept a profound secret, only the most trusted officers of the sheriff's force and the newspaper men being let in on the secret. Deputy Sheriff Cayias, who took a leading part In the big roundup here ome months ago of allegede bootleggers, bootleg-gers, was with the bunch and acted as interpreter. |
