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Show SINGLE PISTOL HANDED OVER Alien Miners Make No Move to Obey Mandate on Giving Up Arms PRICE, May 23 A small pistol of antiquated make was turned over to one of the deputies of sheriff T. F. I Kelter yesterday ln answer to nil request re-quest for unnaturalized aliens tu sur-. sur-. render firearms. Additional aepuly sheriffs arrived I on Denver A Hio Grande u eot n ! tntln No. 4 yesterday, brlngmu w.ili them a trucklood of ammunition and tlflc-x. The urnio were t.ik-n to th. courthouse-, when- between .mi, I lou deputies arc awaiting assignment to the different coal iields of the county. coun-ty. Some of the men wore par'.s of army uniforms and their presenci on ihe street-s c.iusc-d eonsi.f i a l.i . .. ii.--i nient for a tim.-. Later in Che after-' after-' noon r tralnload ot deputies left, for Helper. Bnerlff Kelter said hm instructions instruc-tions to his deputies were to Uphold the law in the camps to i which thoy wer- assigned No pu-j pu-j radea or put.itc- demonstrations will lie permitted in close proximity to min ng company property, he said, and suci demonstrations would be construed intimidation The sheriff told his dep-I dep-I utles that, thefe must tc no molesta- lion of men who dexire to urk TO Mam H FOR AK.Ms j The she-rut said that he did not look for any of the foreigners to surrendt I Itheii firearms volumarliy, but that he nnil u , t. . j -.. ..,o uvk, liiim nuuiu procc'cci oy legal le-gal methods, to obtain possession of I I weapons now in the nanus of foreign-,'ers. foreign-,'ers. B.v legal methods, h- explain. i, , he Intends to flrst ue search and sc-i.-ur. warrants One si ii ad of deputies was sent to Wattls, as this camp has little or no protection Sheriff Kelter says he Is capable of handling the situation, sol tar as this is possible, with the aid of , civil authorities. The deput Les sent out from here will be assigned In nc-cordance nc-cordance with the proclamation is.-u.-d bv the Bheriff on May Is. in which he called for all unnaturalized foreign-born foreign-born persons in Carbon county to surrender sur-render their arms by noon vesterdav The deputies authorized to receive th weapons and their locations are: J w. Gentry, Winterquarters; Frank Cottrell, Clear Creek D Arlamsun, Bcofield; Tom Nichols. Ito-lapp; Ito-lapp; Bill Burns. Cast legate; A D. IdacLean, llemcr, Jess Halverson, Helper, William Roblson, Peerless; Heroert Barlow, Storrs. Dan Jacobs, Standardvllle, Scott l'ausett. Rains, Lehi Jessoh, Latuda; ; .Miller. Sprtm,' i;if-n E Pranks, Kenll-wofth; Kenll-wofth; T F Kelter, Wattls; Qrpver Lewis Hiawatha, and George Colling-h.-im. Bunnyside. ONI1 TWO i.ISS HELPER, May 23. Unly two firearms fire-arms a double-harreled shotgun and a 18 calibre revolver were turned over to City Marshal Jess Halvorson here in response to the proclamation f Sheriff T. E Kelter of Carbon countv, calling upon all unnaturalized f r igners to surrender their firearms by noon yesterday Marshal Halvorson Halvor-son said be did not look for any further fur-ther voluntary surrender of arms. He said, however, that the foreigners will be compelled to turn over their arms About 20 sprclal deputy sheriffs arrived ar-rived here from Price under Deputy Sheriff Cook. All carried rifles. Several Sev-eral are former service men. Although Al-though tlie streets here were well flll-i flll-i tonight, with miners., who ;ippear to have nothing else to do but spend their time pitching horseshoes and K"--Iihk. the situation is quiet Mar-sh-il Mi I vorson s.ild he did not look for any further outbreak? although there Is a possibility h- intimated, ot a more ten-, situation when the tun.. arrives for the serving of search warrants war-rants lor firearms and the taking of such firearms under such procedure. NONE TURNED IN" SCOF1ELD, May 23 Although Car-bor Car-bor county officers In this coal mining min-ing camp know that there are many high-pCfwered rifloa In the hands of unnaturalized foreigners lure, no weapons tntned over to D. M Adam-son, Adam-son, scpecial deputy sheriff authorized to receive them. Mr. Adamson 6ald that officials of the local union of the t'niltd Mine Workers bad called on him during the day and promised to visit the foreigners in the camp and advice them to surrender their fire- I arms. I They asked Mr Adamson for an extension ex-tension of time until 11 o clock today, assuring him, he said, that if such extension ex-tension were granted, thej would see to It that all arms In the possession ol thosi U'jt ( ii ns would be rendered. ren-dered. 00 |