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Show STRIKER SHOT BY NON-UNION MEN tiattle Near Short Litis Stockndu Between Be-tween Warring Faction:. End In BModsned Man Who Shot Ell'ng Olson Qlves Up to Police. ' Salt I-akj City, Feb. 1. KIIIuk Til-den, Til-den, 718 West Fourth North Btrccl. a Btrlklng union shopman, as nbo' In the left hip shortly after 7 o'clock Ins; night by II. O. Thu.'iiar., a nonunion non-union boilcrmarker, In a battle among trie, tiul non-union railway employ-M employ-M vhiWi was wngcJ nt ' S'th West it-d f .i It North street. Olson was very badly injured, but will recover. An hour later Thurman wnlkcd into police headquarters nnd surrendered to Lieutenant John Hem-pel. Hem-pel. Friday the Oregon Short Lino stockade at Ninth North .nnd Fif'h West streets, which has protected non-union employes several months, was nbandoncd. This Intelligence enme tu tiro cars of striking union rallwnymen yesterday nnd toward evening they began flocking toward the Oregon Short Lino Bhops. lney remained under cover until work was discontinued and the non-union men began to seek their now homes. The non-union men walked In body south In Fifth West Street At Fifth North It Is declared that they wero attacked by the strikers, who hurled stones and wclldcd clubs. Officer Of-ficer sof various railway unions stated last night that nono ot the un Ion men were armed with w'enpons, und that those who threw stonos.and assailed non-union men were not members of the federated shopmen. "Stones wero beginning to fly, several sev-eral hit me, and numerous strikers were running townrd mo with clubs," said Thurmun nt the city prison hist night, "I wns In a dangerous position. Another rock struck mo In the side, audin self-defense I drew n revolver and discharged It nt thoBe who were advancing on me. I did not nlm nt Olsen. whom I Miot, or anyone In particular. par-ticular. I aimed low so that" I would not kill, and I am glad to hear that Olssn was not seriously Injured. |