The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-08-14
DE- ARMITT WORKS
TO RETAIN HIS men
He Makes Claims as to the Number
at Work Which are Denied
by the Miners.
HE WORKS HIS AGREEMENT
Gaunt hunger Is Now Standing nj
the Door of the Miners Home
---An Argument The
Leaders Fear.

Pitts5urg, Aug. 11.-Thomas b. De
Armitt, superintendent of the New
York and Cleveland Gas Coal company,
worked hard yesterday to get the min
ers at Oak Hill to return to work. By
Il house to house canvass he succeeded
in getting a few more diggers than
had been at work. Thirty-seven min
ers went in. The men were told by
Mr.. DE Armitt that they would lose
all they had earned if they would not
work and would be given five days to
vacate the company houses. The
strikers say only IS men out of 2S5
We're at work in the Plum Creek mine.
The company claims ALMOST Il full
force was working. The strikers are
hopeful that the remaining digaers
will quit work after getting their pay.
The Plum Creek men were not paid
yesterday, and it is expected the COM
pany will require the men to sign a
new agreement before they n given
their envelopes. The Sandy Creek
miners are awaiting developments.
They are hopeful the courts will set
aside the contracts of the company
which II men were obliged to sign.
Hunger is doing more injury to the
cause of the miners than any other
one thing. and the efforts of the com
missary department is doing every
thing possible to provide against this
contingency. President DoIan will go
to the C%anonsburg region and defy the
in%junctions by speaking at a meeting
scheduled for the 1lth inst. 1t is said
only thirteen gondolas We're loaded at
Plum Creek.
j.. c. Dysart, "A member of the unifor-
y,it,. ,1p,p,ipSi,, ,atri,-nn1 tn tho oltN
| aftcr IA weeks absence. He says the
work OF securing signatures will be
pushed earnestly and he believes the
required number will be secured. The
miners, he says, cannot possibly win
| the strike as the mines still in opera
ton can supply the demand. Some of
the coal operators are getting restless
| and threaten to attempt to start their
mines this week.
w. III. Simmons. a large coal dealer,
| says there is no scarcity of coal. Last
night $50 cars came into Pittsburg
| from West Virginia, and large quanti-
ties are being shipped to Pittsburg
from the mines along the Pcnnsylva-
mia railroad.
The strikers at Turtle Creek have
divided into three divisions and
marched this morning on the several
mines now in operation. The march
began about 3 o'clock in the morning.
One party went to Spring Hill mine,
operated by Alex DempSter. near Will
merding. This mine has been supply
ing the DE Armitt company with coal.
Another party will march to Oak Hill,
as usual. and the third will go to San
DIV creek.
The Boone mine at ~Canonsburg
started unexpectedly with t~hirty-tive
men, and n marching force of about
500 men will march on and encamp
about this mine until it is shut down.
Gains In West Virginia.
Wheeling. w. Va, Aug. lO.-Matters
took II new turn in The Wheeling dis
,rict and the miners are feeling en-
Outraged. Yesterday a small army of
miners from Mountsville aud Benwood
gathered AT the Glendale works and
soon induced the working miners at
that plant to come out. Flushed with
their success. the strikers. reinforced
by the Glendale men and by Il body Of
strikers that had come across the hills
from Elm Grove. vent to the Boggs
Run mines and camped on the hillside.
Yesterday as the miners came out t. ON
their work the strikers took them in
hand and secured their promise to re-
main out of the mines during the
strike if all the men employed by the
Boggs Run would make the same
promise. The army then disbanded
with instructions to assemble at the
mouth of the Roggs Run mines at 2
O'Clock today, when the other miners
will be seen and their promise to stay
out secured. IL is anticipated that
this effort to secure a general suspen-
sion in the Wheeling district will meet
with success.
A demonstration against the Heath
erington and Mcgee River m nes across
the river was 10 have taken place to-
day. but as the former men came out.
aud joined the strike the plan may be
changed. The men of The Mcgee mines.
however, when interviewed by Il com.
mittee of the strikers yesterday. de-
cIined to Join the strike. The demons
stra1ion against the Wegee mines may
take place some time today, but it is
more likely to occur later in the week.
With the Mcgee and Boggs Run mines
shut down. all of the mines in this sec
ton on both banks of the Ohio will
have suspended.