The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-10
ANGRY PROTESTS
FROM TIE WOMEN
Strike Leader Calls De Armitt "a
Grinning Liar"
A Public Joint Debate Between the
Superintendent and one of the
Miners Almost Leads to a Riot
Ratchford Says a Settlement of
the Strike Will Soon Be Reached.

Pittsburg. Sept. AT O'Clock this
morning deputies eyicted a family
from one of the company's houses at
Plum Creek Little resistance was of
fered at the time, but as soon as the
house had been emptied and the fur
niture put in the middle of the street,
women gathered in front of the house
After the deputies had gone the miners
forced an entrance to the house and
carried the furniture back. Desperate
resistance Will be offered in case q, sec
ond attempt is made to eyict the fam
lily.
Three hours later six deputies ar
rived at GAINESVILLE and evicted John
Puke and his family. They, are Polish
people, but have many friends at
Clarksville The furniture was carried
into the house again and Puke, his
family and several friends have in
stalled themselves there, prepared to
make trouble for the deputies if they
again attempt to evict them
The deputies have sent for Superin-
tendent De Arnitt and he is expected
here at any moment. News of his com
ing spread like wildfire and the women
of Clarksville. have gathered outside OF
Puke's home. They are all armed in
one way or another and are sufficiently
aroused to attack the deputies as soon
as they return.
AT l O'clock Superintendent Samuel
c. De Arnitt together with Deputy
Sheriff Samuel Young and q posse of
% special deputies, appeared and the
eviction was all done over again. A
party of 90 women from the neighbor-
hood had gathered and nearly all of
the striking miners from Camp IsoIa-
ton were present. They jeered the De
Armitts. The women are armed with
baseball bats, picks and other things
violent manner that the De Armitts
remained indoors. ~
DE ARMITT MAKES a SPEECH.
Mr.. De Armitt came out on the porch
and asked the men and women if they
would permit him to make q few re-
marks. They consented to hear what
he had to say and he entered into an
explanation of the contracts which the
miners had made with the company
the purpose being to show to the as
Sembled people that the company was
not doing more than it had a right TO
do Then he launched into a discussion
of the strike generally and said they
had only themselves to blame for they
had allowed themselves to be led and
their leaders had simply sold out again.
a PERIOD OF WARMTH.
Mr.. De Armitt concluded by inviting
Uriah Dillingham;, leader of the strik-
ing miners at Plum Greek, to reply to
his charges.
Mr.. Dillingham; accepted the invita-
tin and the result was a period of
warmth that threatened to become a
riot. Dillingham; made a denial of De
Armitts accusation, and asked for.
proof of the charges. He wound up his
remarks by denouncing Thomas De
ArInitt as "a grinning liar"
Cheers came from the assembled min
ers and women, and Deputy Sheriff
Young came from the house Young
essayed to place Dillingham; under ar
rest, but that man appealed to some
deputies who were in a wagon to prove
his assertion that De AIGnitt had in
vited him to make a speech The strfz-
ing miners moved forward to the sup
port of their leader and Young con-
cluded not to make the arrest
Dillingham; succeeded In getting the
strikers to return to their camp, but
the women remained and remarked
that they wished to get at the De Ar
mitts. The fatter stayed in the house
70 avoid trouble. The evicted families
moved their goods into stables in the
naighborhood ard began housekeeping
in these quarters
Late tonight it is reported from Brad
dock that a number of the deputies who
had been concerned in the eyictions at
Plum Greek get into a. row with the
strikers, the result being that three
deputies are under arrest.