Show NOT MEN WILL STRIKE salt 11 lake 4 k e april april 17 news newa the M e E electrical aa c workers union has a contract with the bil bell telephone Tolo phone company comy orr y covering oo vering operations la in salt gait lake for one year from may u A 1 next at wages obtaining at tho the present time als also contracts coy covering erins 0 osden Os den until auguar Au guat next and cheyenne until november aleo mso for or one year for men working on the toll linoa lines the men want more wage a bmw of 76 75 cents a day all round ana and a closed shop the latter meaning mean ins that none hut but union men shall be allowed to work for the thal telephone company at a recent conference the tho committee from the men was asked by the company officials it if the th 0 union would guarantee to furnish all the help needed should a closed shop be conceded but dut it la is stated that no do answer to this was waa received it Is hardly believed at 91 the telephone offices that tho men inen will strike in view of existing contracts no matter what the agitators my may tell toll thorn them a engral superintendent summers has returned from leavingston lAv ingston aront where whore he reports the strike situation as having calmed down particularly since the local labor unions do not agree with the state federation of labor in proclaiming a boycott against the telephone company CAUGHT IN A BELT salt lake rake april IT 17 news fred aged 21 years a nat native ve of logan was the victim of a painful pain fill and serious erious r accident at the knutsford hotel this morning about the young man is now at st marks hospital where ho he is being cared tor for by police surgeon paul it tt la in feared that the accident will III cost him bla his right arm BlIckens derfer was employed at the knutsford ag a yard man thia this morning he was at work in the ice fee room where ice Is chopped and cream frozen by machinery in some manner the soung man got his right arm caught in a belt and in an instant his hand and arm am was frightfully broken and lacerated how ho escaped more serious injury he was unable to explain his IDs screams of pain attracted the engineer who quickly entered the room and rendered what assistance he could to the unfortunate man the engineer called up the police station and sergt hempel and officer brown went to the hotel in the patrol wagon blick ens derfer was placed on a stretched etched and taken to the police station and dr paul quickly summoned Blickens derfer was not tot taken into the emergency hospital ward but remained in the patrol wagon until the arrival of dr paul the wounded man displayed wonderful courage and endurance his arm from the elbow to finger tips was terribly fractured and out the benes in the hand were broken in two or three places and the fingers turned bak back the flesh was literally torn from the bonea bones but the young man did not utter a murmur although he suffered awful pain upon the arrival of dr paul ens derfer was ordered sent to st marks hospital there was considerable delay in making arrangements for proper care tare of the case as the police could not bo be responsible at the hospital finally the chief clerk at the knutsford telephoned that the hotel would be responsible the injured man says that his parents are dead but that he has brothers at logan CLEARING THE GROUND salt lake april 17 work of tearing down a portion of the old tithing office preparatory to the erection of a new temple avenue is being pushed vigorously the force of men employed is under the supervision of bishop james Wax maxwell well the section of the historic structure truc ture tha thai is being razed is the newest part the north end which Is entirely of frame work and was put up as a meat market about 20 years ears ago upon the ground where the new building will stand are hundreds of cords of red sandstone which Is now being moved to one eide side in order that the work of excavation may be commenced the stone will be trimmed and used in the foundation and basement of the structure that ts is intended as a new now home tor for the presiding OP aps ops s office the general relief so society clotY the young ladles ladies IVIl mutual improvement association and the primary association mc lation the plans of which have already been published in the news TRIED TO HANG HIMSELF salt lake april IT 17 ballan murray aged 26 years arrested and locked up on the charge of drunkenness made two attempts to commit suicide in the city jail this morning but both times hla his efforts were frustrated young murray has been arrested three times within tho the past 10 days for drunkenness the last time he was drought brought in by officer cassidy and placed in a cell at 6 5 this morning a trusty observed murray hanging by the neck with one end of a belt around his neck and the other end tied to the top bars of his cell the trusty gave the alarm and murray was hauled down and the belt way was taken away from him at 6 this morning jailer ripley vac was making malting IN rounds of the cells aa as usual and found murray suspended Is from tho bars aa as before with the difference that the prisoner had an old towel for the hang mans rope instead of a belt the towel was taken away from murray and he was placed in another cell with a companion who was given instructions to watch him young murray has been drinking heavily of late and became despond I 1 ent according to the police ho be has been on the ta verge of the D T B s on several occasions and this morning decided to end it all by suicide APPEAL FILED IN SHEETS CASE salt lake april 17 notice of an appeal from the Aft decision ision of judge armstrong quashing the information against chief of police george sheets was filed in the county clerks office this afternoon by attorney general M A breeden Br an appeal Is to be taken to the supreme court |