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Show AUTO FIRED ON IN SOUTH UTAH Two Bullets Hit Machine; Coal Strike Zone Reported Re-ported Quiet PRICK. May 1. An automobile driven by Ralph Aiger. master mechanic me-chanic at the Peerlees mine In Spring canyon, and .ontalning Thomas Davis' and his wife, nnd Mrs. Alger, was fired upon Sunday night, the OCCU- pant narrowly escaping Injury. About 2o shot. were fired at the cur. Two of the bullets struck the niarhclne. one passing through the back of the seat where. Just a moment before Mrs. Alger had been sitting. Mr. Davis t an employe at the Peerleai mine. COrVTY MUST ACT SALT LAKE, May 1. State troop j v ill not be sent to Carbon county until county officials have exhausted every 'possibility of maintaining ord r. This announcement was made Sunday night J by Governor Mabey, following three conferences Sunday with Carbon conn-ty conn-ty commissioners and Lieutenant Col-; one w. G. Williams. Present at the Conference! were County Commissioners Commission-ers A. E. Gibson, William BSdman and Eugene Santschi. Sr., of Carbon coun- J ty. who came to Salt Luke at the re- j quest of- the governor Th commissioners commis-sioners notified Sheriff T. F. Kelter to recruit 100 additional deputies for, duty in the county. The officials of the various coal companies operating in Carbon county coun-ty after learning of the presence, In Salt Lake Sunday atrrnoon of the county commissioners, made demands on them for the protection of tho i property nnd the citizens of the various vari-ous coul camps. K N ERR REPORTS V' " ' Conditions at Scofleld and Winter-quart, Winter-quart, th Sunday M-re quiet WTlllam M. Knerr, state Industrial commlsslon-.i. commlsslon-.i. who Ii.im been :it S ..field for several sev-eral days Investigating the situation for Governor Mabey. telephoned the governor, saying that the. camps were very quiet and orderly and that then had been no disturbances. Following the mass meeting at Seo-fleld, Seo-fleld, assembled Sunday morning at 10 0'ClOCh in the 1 O ( F. hall, there, Mr. Knerr said he believed the situation situa-tion at that town had Improved fully 100 per cent. About 35o striking miners attended the mass meeting of Sunday morning The assemblnge listened patiently and ntiVOl 'o what Mr Knerr, who spoke to them as the representative of Governor Mabey. bad to say. He spoke In English, and his talk was afterwards after-wards interpreted to the Greeks, leader lead-er of men of Italian races present said thru Mr. Knorr'n talk was understood under-stood by all of that extraction. After a talk by Mr. Knerr for about thirty minutes, and Its interpretation to the Greeks, Mr Knerr asked for a rising vote from the men present on the question whether he could tell the governor that the men would not again interfere with train movements and would be law -s biding. Everyman Every-man present pledged himself by rising to his feet In response. SELECTING DEPUTIES Samuel A. King, attorney for the miners, reported that In a long-distance telephone conversation with Willi. im Houston. ..rganlzer for the United Mine Workers he was Informed Inform-ed that no trouble of any character had occurred In Carbon county Bun. day, and that as a result of the union meetlniret Scofleld Sunday morning, . 1 V. n V .. ,, ,, ... ,.! rhal be termed perfect understanding. understand-ing. Sheriff Emery of Salt Iake county said that he was going slow In select-lngmen select-lngmen to act as deputies In Carbon county He did not believe In sending men to the Carbon countv sheriff, he told, whom he did not know personally, personal-ly, and whom he was not certain could handle the work and not lose theli beads Notwithstanding the apparent quiet, the units of the national irunrd. which have been held in readiness to depart for the Carbon county camps for the laflt three days, were kept at the armory arm-ory In Ball Take and nt I'rovo They .ire prepared to entrain on 2o minutes' notice. Colonel WIlMnms said. n r i |