The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-12-11

sides that the immense gathering was
not for the purpose at all of forcing
the jail, but rather out of curiosity
There was never any real danger of ar
assault.
WISE PROBATION.
The Age and Herald o-day, with con-
siderable enterprise, gave to its readers
several extra editions, and with wise
foresight shaped its editorial and local
articles with view to allay excitement
and, if possible, prevent any further
trouble. There is no calm, however,
in the public mind, aud the interest
and excitement are far greater than
twenty-four hours ago, in the light of
last nights terrors. However, the
affair has almost disappeared, and the
indignation expressed is directed
against Sheriff Smith and the posse
that let go the fearful volley. To-day
and tonight the city is military en-.
campment; the civil authorities have
practically stepped down and out. and
Colonel Jones, of Montgomery, with
thirteen military companies, is abso-
lutely in charge of affairs. The Jail is
guarded by troops, with picket lines
extended several squares in every direc-
ton, and at each approach there are
| the frowning oountenances of Calling
guns. Mounted scouts are sent out of
the city, and regular intervals &C
| quaint Colonel Jones with the condition
of the public mind and the prospects
of an
ARMED UPRISING BY THE PEOPLE.
Fire bells sound military alarms and
soldiers armed with Winchester rifles
have driven back thousands VINO have
all day been looking toward the lail.
In the meanwhile the citizens have not
kept within doors; they have congre-
gated in hotels or at the street corners
and in front of the bulletin boards.
| The streets have been q living mad
| dened mass, and very little oratorical
pyrotechnics could readily organize q
mob whose duty would be declared to
he to avenge the murder of the popular
Throckmorton and those who fell by
him. All along the walls of the city
are posted petitions of various kinds,
signed by thousands of people. One Of
th:se recites at length the fact that
Sheriff Smith had
BUTCHERED IN COLD BLOOD
some OF the best citizens of Birming-
ham by an act as unprovoked as IN
necessary, and asks Governor Seay to
Immediately relieve him of his duties
as sheriff.
Another petition side by side reads
'tThis is to hang him !" and was signed
by thousands of passers by.
Great excitement was caused by the
funeral cortege through the principal
highway of one of the victims of last
nights affray. The lengthy process
sion was headed by brass band play
ing solemn dirges.
The postofice building is drapped in
mourning and makes a mute appeal to
every passer by.
The military were called upon to ar
rest Smith and the others implicated,
but this was refused, and finally about
5 o'clock citizen went before a Justice
of the peace and swore out warrant
for the
ARREST OF SMITH
and his deputies on the charge of MUIR
der. This was served by the coroner,
who found Smith in Jail, and the cor
oner himself took charge of the Jail,
and in his custody that institution is at
present.
During this afternoon rumor became
widespread that l 800 miners from Pratt
mines, about fifty miles from Birming-
ham, would, after dark, march to the
city armed with guns and pistols and
dynamite cartridges and with this in
crease in their ranks that it was ex-
pected to assault the soldiers and with
dynamite blow the Jail to atoms. The
military do not fear the attempt. There
are already thirteen companies here
under tho command of Colonel Jones
and five others will arrive on a special
train at midnight.
SALOONS AND DRUG STORES CLOSED.
This morning the city council IN spe-
cial session ordered that all saloons
and drug stores be closed until further
notice
A meeting of prominent residents was
held this evening. They issued an ad-
dress urging all their fellow citize ems to
abstain from further riotous demon
stration; to refrain from congregating
in the streets and let the law take its
course Colonel Jones has issued a
general order of the same tenor and
warned the people that under orders
from the Governor any further acts of
violence, no matter in what direction,
would be sternly suppressed.
THE sHERIFF's STORY.
In an interview this evening, Sheriff
Smith said: 1--WE begged and pleaded
with the crowd to keep back, and then
they fred the first shot. Several shots
were fred by the crowd before gave the !
order to fire. We begged them to halt |
and stand at tho mouth of the alley and |
still they kept coming on. We begged |
OF them TO go back, and time and again |
warned them that we would shoot, but
they would not listen to US. They came |
half way up the alley, close to the jail |
door, and shouted BLOW up the Jail |
with dynamite! Blow up the jail with |
dynamite!" After all this and after |
they opened fire, 1 gave the order to |
fire. They continued after we ceased. |
feel that we could not have done any