Show acute stage in the strike in chicago chicago aug 31 an acute stage has been reached in a new labor war in chicago nineteen ot the larger printing houses of chicago were without union compositors this evening a result of a series of strikes inaugurated by typographical union no 16 against members of the chicago the purpose of the strike being to compel the as an organization lo 10 accept the demands of closed shops and that eight hours constitute a days work further are expected in case other houses undertake to do work for concerns at which strikes have been begun as the result of the posting ot notices of an intention to inaugurate open shops and nine hours where it Is claimed contrary conditions had been the rule pending such assistance to strike affected firms the strike leaders pronounced the strike complete and declared the a matter af pf endurance a spread here or to other cities not being contemplated cpr the present at least not counting other employed emp loyes 0 the nineteen printing houses involved printers to the number ol 01 nearly SOO are idle the strikers claim that eight large establishments will remain neutral not accepting work tor houses where strikes are in progress and that in the eight establishments and elsewhere 2600 members ot the union will be at work helping to supply funds tor strike benefits among the establishments at which the latest strikes were inaugurated today were poole brothers M A donohue and company and the Meth odlat book concern contrary to assertion of the officials of the typographical union secretary hamm ot the says emphatically that he does not know of a single desertion and that the effect 0 the strike here would be overcome in short oder following as a summary of developments as viewed by the officers of typographical Un ionNo 16 firms in the who were allowed to run today with union compositors po are so privileged either because they have not to aid the opponents of an eight hour day in the unions present struggle as an organization or because they employ only a few printers and can be permitted to run without interference by the union the concerns not being molested will shield the attitude of eight employers belonging to the and who have pledged themselves to remain non combative january ast 1st when the proposed eight hour work day plan will go into effect in every union composing room in the country in the meantime no house employing union printers will be allowed to do work for any of the struck places the other side of the situation was presented by the secretary of the employing printers association he said employers in this controversy feel confident of success at present we have nonunion non union printers at work in the plants there are more men on their way 0 o chicago from outside places and it will not be long before the strike will cease to affect the chicago members at the union headquarters hodax it leaked out that union printers from various parts of the country are taking advantage ot the offer of chicago strike affected print shops to come to this city in the guise ot strike breakers all traveling expenses paid after reaching here the unionists desert instantly st THE STATE BUY asphaltum CLAIMS price august 31 discussing tho purchase of SOO acres of sand aspdal turn claims above tho iown of sunny side in the eastern part of athla carbon county from a syndicate of locators by A V taylor of salt lake city for the oil company the consideration tor which Is around county commissioner james A harridon Harri aon and sheriff william hill state to our correspondent that great things are contemplated in the aspdal turn industry for this section of utah in the very near future the plana of the pittsburg people mean the building of big reduction works above Sunn and the expenditure pend iture of many thousands of dollars with the coming 0 next spring the manner of working the properties la to reduce the asphaltum to a liquid state and convey it by pipe line for seven miles or more to the town 0 where it is to bo shipped in tanks similar to the coal oil cars to the east in the eastern cities where the product Is to go into paving material the sand and lime ingredients for street work will be added the sand Is removed by the process to be used at the mines because of the difference in freight its remaining with the asphaltum would make the plant proposed is to hare a capacity at the beginning of operations of tons dally but this may be increased to whatever the demand for the product will warrant the treatment is lo 10 be with naphtha there Is plenty of water tor all purposes and ample room for the proposed works on the nineteen claims which have just changed hands there Is a to asoo foot ledge of the material in fact seven ledges in all it varies in width from ten to eighty four copt in thick ness and Is cheaply worked being easy shooting with ordinary black powder air harrlson who la a practical miner declares he would be delighted to have a contract at 60 cents a ton for mining the stuff single handed he recently drilled twenty five feet through and into main ledge in an eight hour days work the city council of salt lake city Is to be asked for permission to pave a portion of some street in alon just to show that the utah product Is as good as that coming from trinidad and california the pittsburg company already has a market established for the stuff in eastern cities GAMBLED AWAY HIS MONEY vernal utah aug 31 frank all lern a barber of glenwood springs colo committed suicide wednesday morning at 5 by shooting himself through the bead with a 38 calibre smith wesson revolver he came to vernal two days before intending to open up a barber shop but lost con eid erable money gambling and beang a man of a family became despondent over his loss and it la thought that this led him to commit the deed all lern was a respected citizen of glenwood springs and a member of the I 1 0 0 F lodge no 68 he leaves a wife and two children the filing on uintah lands moves on like clock work so far names have been called and out of that num her have filed six of the were declaratory statements of soldiers sixty two filed today out of the names called and were easily disposed of at the land office by 3 p m most of the filings have been on land adjacent to the town of mo tat myton and the site at the junction of the duchessi chesni Du and strawberry rivers quite a number have taken places along the duchesne bottoms but aa yet the bench land particularly the blue bench country Is practically untouched this bench is reported as a valuable tract of land and will not be to irrigate the latest arrivals from the reservation country report numbers of tarn alies camped there having their household fleets cows horses etc with them many of these did not dray numbers but are simply waiting the expiration of the sixty days when they will have an opportunity to file on tract tor a home the best of feeling prevails among ac people at vernal and the people who were lucky enough to get numbers are generally we pleased an attempt was made monday night to kidnap frank nakano the japanese cook at the elk hotel the fellow got hold of him and would have made away with him but he struggled loose from the death grip at his throat and shouted tor help which frightened the assailants away he was terribly bruised and beaten it la supposed that it waa an attempt to rid the hotel 0 a japanese cook and put an american in his stead no arrests have been made but a strong clew has been found jamar 11 dines one of the plo beera of uintah county passed away today mr gellnes was a member of the mormon battalion x ERECT FIREPROOF FIRE PROOF BUILDING park city august 31 the first work in the way of the construction of the utah independent telephone company Is being commenced here today and the ground upon which the new building Is to be put Is being cleared so that the real work of will be commenced on the first moi day of the month 1 the building Is to bo a one story fireproof fire proof building and Is to toe located upon tho old theriot butcher shon sit adjoining the building of the M s aschheim Asch helm mercantile company tm mediately with the beginning 0 work on the building the work of con of lines and the settle conduits la to be started so thail system may be complete and working by the first of the year at the very latest that the new company has finally begun and the prospects for a good telephone service are brighter the public of park city are rejoicing A break in the main pipes of the water system at the junction of park avenue and main street created not a little trouble yesterday as the break was so large that a heavy stream ot water was allowed to escape and tha pressure was weakened over the entire town after quite a little work the pipe was repaired and things are moving along as usual the special train run out of here by the elks returned last lugat preather pr rather this morning about 2 the run from ogden was made in good time less than three hours being taken to make the trip PLEADED GUILTY TO LARCENY richfield august 31 christian poulson of this city was arrested this week charged with taking a cowhide from behind the empire meat market some three weeks ago the officers at the time the hide was missing mada a search for it and found it in mr Poul sons barn saturday a hide buyer bought the hide of mr poulson which led up to his arrest mr poulson upon being brought before justice J M lauritzen pleaded guilty and was fined mr poulson Is one of the wealthiest men in sevier county |