The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-13

stopped his work for more than a second.
and when the reading was finished, ac-
you" He says the injunction will not
change the miners campaign in the least
Ex-Vice President Cameron Miller came
into headquarters shortly after the read
ing of the document to Doan He said the
miners will continue as heretofore using all
lawful means possible to keep miners from
working during the struggle for better
wages.
It is the intention of the officials Of the
court to try to forestall the customary
march in the morning by going to the
camps tonight and read the Injunction to
the campers. If this is done the crisis will
be certainly reached at about O'Clock in
the morning, as the strikers appear determ-
mined to test their rights to carry out
their usual programme 1t is said that when
the deputies do start to enforce the in
junction they will be compelled to arrest
every man for contempt, and that as fast
as the men are placed in jail others will
be brought into camp to take their places
and thus the deputies will be kept bu
making arrests until the Jails are over
crowded.
1t is claimed by the strikers that this
movement of the company is only another
plan for getting the militia on the ground
When they find that the miners will not
obey the injunctiOns and that the jails are
becoming crowded in this manner it is
expected that the sheriff will adjudge that
his deputies not sufficient to cope with
the situation and he will be constrained
to call out the militia. This is the view of
the situation taken by the leaders of the
strikers now in the camps This evening
the strikers at Plum Creek held a meeting
and voted unanimously to hold the fort
but not to resist arrest. The resolutions say
that If one man arrested they will have to
arrest all.
The long-talked-of demonstration against
the WeStmOreland county mines has been
abandoned by the strikers after one days
trial because of a lack of food, The attempt
it is said, will be repeated soon when
ample provisions win be carried along and
a siege proclaimed and carried to d success
full issue.
Firms from all sections of the Union are
coming to the rescue of the strikers A
patch Offering to donate two tons of corn
meal agreeing to ship it whenever directed.
The offer was thankfully accepted and the
cornmeal will be distributed among the
homes of the miners in need. The Fisher
mems Protective Association of Astoria,
Ore offerd to send East one hundred cases
of canned salmon to the miners, which was
also accepted The salmon was started East
by fast freight.
There is no change in the price of coal
from the figures of the last few days. The
supply is said to have increased and the
West Virginians are selling down to prices
which approach those in effect before the
it profitable to load the slack which has in
previous years been stacked outside @ the
pits because it could not be sold. This is
now salable at a price which yields as
much as screened coal before the strike.
At lis p. m. Sheriff Lowry and his dep
qties, numbering 100 left Turtle Creek for
to travel is about twelve miles and they eX-
pect to be on hand before the strikers march
on Plum Creek The sheriff IS determined
to carry out the order of the court and
says he will surely arrest the leaders as
soon as the march begins. If new leaders
are substituted, they will also be gathered in.
While the big majority of the strikers are
willing to go to jail unresistingly, there are
q few of the hot heads who have announced
that they will not be taken alive. The mi
nority may be the means of causing strife
in the morning,