The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-21
MISSOURI MINERS ALARMED
PARTY FOR CoEUR D'ALENEs
LOST THEIR LEADER.
They're Not Scabs, They Assert, But
Come On Invitation of Governor
of Idaho to Supply Want.
Bv Telephone 10 The Herald.l

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Ogden, June pa lost leader was
being industriously looked for all day
today by 112 miners en- route from
Missouri to Wardner. Ida. where they
are to take places made vacant by
striking miners. The leaders, name is
Freeman Rowe of Webb City. Mo-. and
he recruited the liz men in Joplin and
Webb City, Mo. They were en- route
to Wardner and got along all right as
far as Ogden The Rio Grande turned
them over to the Short Line and just
as they were about to be taken north
it was discovered that Rowe. who had
the transportation for the entire COM
pany was missing. He could not be
found and the cars We're cut out and
the o. :. L. went nOrthward without
them. During the day the widest kind
of rumors were afioat regarding the
fate of the lost leader. One or two men
purported to have seen Rowe leave the
train at Salt Lake. but others thought
he had not been on the train since
some time during the previous night.
Fears were expressed that he had
fallen from the train that he had been
forcibly detained by parties in sympa-
thy with the miners at Wardner and
Wallace, while others were afraid that
he had returned to Missouri These
theories were increased by the fact
IHdl ITO DleSSdkc tdlIt lIOill INOMt
ing the day. A number of men stated
that they did not propose to take the
place of any striking miners 1t had
been represented to them that there
was a real scarcity of men and that
they would not be taking the positions
of any strikers. They said that a man
named Smith. a mine-owner from Wal
lace, Ida, went to Missouri and en-
listed the services of Rowe in getting
together a. party of men. The fare to-
Wallace is about $50. The mining
company advanced this and was to
take $40 out of the first months wages
of the men and there was to be full
payment for their fare. On their ar
rival they were to be given work at
wages not less than $3.50 a day and
were to be advanced in proportion as
they might demonstrate their ability
to do the work of experienced men. The
men were an orderly lot and for the
most part remained in or near their
cars all day. They were typical-lOok-
ing miners and by their hands showed
that they were used to hard work
The excitement over the lost Eader
was allayed at 7:30 in the evening
when the gentleman himself arrived
from the south. 1t developed that he
had simply got left at Thistle owing
to misinformation being furnished him
as to the time the train would stop
porter in talking over the arrangement
for taking the men up to Wallace, that
they We're not going to take the place
of any strikers. They We're going to
work on the Standard mines at Wal
lace. Ida. This mine was short-handedf
because of the number of men who for.
merly worked there had left during the
labor troubles, some of them because.
they were afraid of the federal au-
thoritieS. These men in Wallace, as
Mr.. Rowe understands it. can go back
to work at any time they choose; but
the fact remains that the Standard
mine was short-handed and hence these
laborers were engaged in Missouri.
They said that a letter had been
shown TO them from the governor of
Idaho explaining the situation there inf
Wallace and showing them that there
was actual need of more miners to do
the work There are just 112 in tha
party including Mr.. Rowe. They will
continue northward in the morning.