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Show STAGE HELD UP, REPORT STATES Armed Mine Strikers Said to Have Removed Men Near Coal Camp PRTCK. Juno 1. A oound for Hiawatha is reported lo have been held up yesterday and one man taken from It after which 11 v!W allowed to prbceed According 'o th report the tago was held np by armed strikers. strik-ers. Sheriff T. F. Kelter stated that lie had lien unable to verify the ro-port ro-port and that It was merely one of the many rumors horn In Carbon county every fw minutes and whirl! fall of verification. Thorough Investigation WSJ under way here of the holding up of tho Arrow Ar-row Hiage, line inte Tuesday between Price and Sunnyside by striking miners, min-ers, and the Intimidation Of six pas-ngerv. pas-ngerv. Including nipn who were said to he on their way to work In the Sunnyside eoal mines. Sheriff Kelter was conducting the investigation, and he said he hoped within .'4 hours to be able definitely to place the rdama for the affair. NO WRISTS No arrests have been made hut the sheriff said he was obtaining Information, In-formation, including tbe names of participant, whleh would result In arrests shortly. According to the reports In the sheriff's office. 30 striking miners held up the stage whi. h was carrying six passengers to Sunnyside. All the strikers exhibited gun ami - on. pell-d pell-d the p.'LS-ongers to leave the stage and go to the miners' camp, about a mile from the company propertv lin They wre held at the strikers' camp until the next stage arrived, when four were sent back to price. The minora, according to Lavar Rir. h and Ken Xaillon. two of the stage passengers, passen-gers, cursed the four whom thev sent back to Price, calling them "scabs" and cautioning them not to return under penalty of hodllv harm. Among the passengers was a Mexican and his wife and child, It was reported, and Xaillon Is reported to have told thi sheriff that the strikers grossly Insulted the couple. Some of the strikers spat in the faces of the stage passengers, Xaillon Is quoted here 38 saving. TAKEN FROM TRAIN. Tt also was learned that five men Were taken from a D. & R G. w. train Monday near Whites, n switching switch-ing point. W. B. McCue, conductor of the train, made no report of tho occurrence, hut when asked about it this morning is said reluctantly to have ndmittoi thai three and not five men were .taken from his train He said his train wa- stopped at Whites, and that strikers did not compel com-pel him to stop. According to business men here, rarbon county's situation was said to be moro tense han It has been vincr- the strike of oal miners began. be-gan. April I. The miners, it seems, l.elieye tint disorder- h.is been the rule in different camps ai.l thSj appeal to have become more threatening DEMANDS PROTECTION. SALT LAKE, June I. Francisco I. Ramirez. Mexican consul In Salt Lake, called on Governor Mabey yesterdav and insisted upon protection of Mexican Mexi-can nationals In the Carbon county coal fields He made no formal complaint, com-plaint, but asked that the governor investigate the reports that Mexicans who had gone to the coal mines to obtain work had been Intimidated and threatened by strikers. The consul con-sul said he had been unable to locate lo-cate five Mexicans said to have been taken from a Sunnyside train Monday Mon-day and who were said to have returned re-turned to Salt Lake. "I will ask the necessary guarantee guaran-tee for the protection of the Mexican subjects." Mr. Ramirez said. Governor Gover-nor Mabey, It Its understood, asked O. F. McShnne member of the statf Industrial commission, to investigate the report Fernando Duran and wife and Bhlld, the former a Mexican, returned to Salt Take last night from Sunnyside, Sunny-side, where Tuesday afternoon he and his wife, with four others, were taken from .1 Sunnyside stage by striking miners |