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Show DEPUTIES GO TO I CARBON COUNTY Fifty Special Officers Assigned As-signed to Keep Order in Camps SALT LAKE. Mav 2 Fifty depute depu-te i c i Mite. I in Salt I-'ike, I 'tab ;i nil Davl counties cr' sent to Carbon county yesterday to aid In preserving; order. Prior to their departure word was received thu conditions in the iclnlty of the coal camps were quiet and that there were no disorders The special train, consisting of two coaches and a buggagc cnr. left Salt Lake shortly after midnight, the Idea being to arrive In Brofield at about 6 o'clock In the morning, so that the men will bo able to get in place with as little danger of friction at the start as possible. Governor Mabey yesterday requested O. P. McShunc, member of the Industrial Indus-trial commission, who is in Carbon county, to act as his representative In: calling meeting! ot miners at Helper, I at Peerless and at Storrs, In Spring canyon. VDJUTANT GOING The governor announced that Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Colonel W .G. Williams, ndjut-l ant general of the state, will go to Sc. .field this morning In uniform. The governor said the Carbon county coun-ty commissioners had told him of the message from Sheriff T P Keltcr at Winter-quarters, asking that the new deputy sherirfR should be held back for a day or two. The chief executive however, had been assured by Mr Knerr that. In the latler's belief, tho deputies would not be molested In tho lightest Frank Hicks, Justice of the peaco and a deputy game warden of Carbon Car-bon county, was up from Sco field yesterday. yes-terday. He will return there today, aft, r having conferred with Governor Mabey and strongly protestr-d against sending the national guard to Sco-field. Sco-field. GRITH M s OF! ICERS Mr Hicks Is severe In his criticism of Sam Dorrlty and Sheriff Keltcr He declares that Dorrlty started the trouble trou-ble through ulng foolish methods In dealing with the miners and riding his horse Into a crowd of men women and children The sheriff, he says, sent In his appeal and followed It with a second appeal to the governor for aid without even Investigating the situation. sit-uation. "The men down there would be peaceable and law-abiding." said Mr Hicks, "and would give up tbeln armr to the local authorities if the mine owners would withdraw tho guards and not send any more guards don n there. People have the Iden that the miners are Just a bunch of foreigners but there are many Americans there and the are good citizens. The miners min-ers themselves refused to allow mem bers of the I W. W to enter the camp " OPPOSE GUARD Protests against any proposal to send the military forces of the state of L'tah Into Carbon county in tho present pres-ent Industrial crisis were received by Governor Mabey yesterda. from division divi-sion 382 of the Amalgamated Association Asso-ciation of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America, and from M P Hales, president of th- Utah State oFd-eratlon oFd-eratlon of Uihor The former protest which Is signed for the division by tho --. eretary, j. j. Sullivan, contents itself with condemning the attitude of the mining companies "In their efforts to discredit the miners by making It appear ap-pear that troops aro necessary In order or-der to preserve law and order In that district, when, as a matter of fact, it Is not the miners, but the hirelings Of the mining companies who are responsible re-sponsible for any lawlessness that docs exist." NO PUBLIC CEREMONIES STOIflELD. May 2 There were no public ceremonies yesterday in observance obser-vance of the anniversary of the mine disaster at Winterquarters where 22 years ago 201 men lost their lives Rut few of the older citizens w6nl to the graveyard Crowds gathered during the afternoon after-noon for the arrival of the train but dispersed soon afterwards. on |