Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-09-16
TROUBLE AT EVlCTlONs
strikers Would Not Stay Ont of H.
Company's Houses.

strikers Would Not STAY Ont or a.,
Company's Houses.
Pittsburg, Sept. l3.-At 3 o,c,ocL
inns morning deputies evicted family
from one OF the company's houses At
Plum Creek. Little resistance wos
o"ered at the time. but as soon 40 tho
mousse mad been emptied and the furni.
ture put in the middle of the street
women gathered in front of the house
anu, after the deputies had gone. miners
forced an entrance to the house and
carried the furniture back. Desperate
resistance will be offered in case a SEQ.
ond attempt is made to evict the family
Three hours later, is deputies ar
rived at Clarksville, and evicted '.Jobn
fuke and his family They are Polish
people, but have many friends at
GAINESVILLE. Their furniture was car.
ried INTO the house again, and Puke.
ms family and several friends installed
themselves there, prepared to make
trouble for the deputies if they again
attempted to evict them.
At O'Clock Superintendent Samuel
=. and Thomas DeArmitt, with Deputy
Sheriff Young and a posse of 25 special
deputies appeared, and the eviction was
all done over agin. A party of 20
women from the neighborhood had
gathered, and nearly all of the striking
miners from Camp Isolation were pres.
emit. They jeered the DeArmitts. Tho
women were armed with baseball bata
picks and other things. They con.
Quoted themselves in such belligerent
manner that the DeArmitts were glad
to remain within doors while the eyic.
ton was going on. Mr.. DeArmitt
came out on the porch, and asked the
men and women if they would permit
him to make few remarks They con.
sented to hear what he had to say, and
he entered into an explanation of tho
contracts which the miners had mazda
with the company, the purpose being
to show to the assembled people that
the company was not doing more than
1t had right to do Then he launched
into discussion of the strike, and said
the men had only themselves to blame
for their troubles, for they had allowed
themselves to be led, and their leaders
had simply sold out again. Mr.. De.
Armitt concluded by inviting Dlling-
ham, leader of the striking miners at
Plum Creek. to reply to his charges.
Mr.. Dillingham; accepted the invita-
ton. and the result was period of
warmth that threatened to become
riot. Dillingham; made denial of De.
Armitt's accusation, and asked for
proof of the charges. He wound up
his remarks by denouncing Thomas B.
DeArmitt as "grinning liar"
Cheers came from the assembled
miners and women, and Deputy Sheriff
Young came from the house. Young
essayed to place Dillingham; under ar
rest, but that man appealed to some of
the deputies who were in wagon to
prove his assertion that DeArmitt had
invited him to make speech. The
striking miners moved forward to the
support 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-
Armitts. The latter stayed in the
mouse to avoid trouble.
The evicted families moved Their
goods into stables in the neghborhood,
and began housekeeping in these quar-.
ters.
Late tonight it is reported from
Braddock that number of deputies,
who had been concerned in the evic.
tions at Plum Creek, got into row
with crowd of strikers, the result be.
ing that three deputies are under arrest.