The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-24
NO CHANGE AT HAzELToN.
Customary Sunday Quietude Was
Prevalent Yesterday.

Hazelton, Pa, Sept. 23.-There is alb
Solutely no change in the coal strike
situation in the I4ehigh region today.
and the customary Sunday quietude
prevailed.
This afternoon the employees of the
Calyin-Pardee mine met It LattimaT.
and the United Mine Workers held
mass meetings at both Epley and Bea-
Yer Meadows. Tonight the presidents
OF the three anthracite districts. com
prlSlnS the entire hard coal field OF
Pennsylvania. had a conference with
PRESIDENT Mitchell for the purpose of
discussing the situation as it now pre-
walls IN the anthracite region.
No Coal Mined.
During normal times a couiery here
and there works on Sunday. but today
not a pound of coal was mined in the
HaZeltOn region. Every one of the
twenty-five or more towns in this re-
glon was quiet. Many miners, accom-
panied by their families. visited neigh
boring villages TO see relatives or
friends as is their custom on Sunday.
nile most others remained within
doors at their homes.
All the mining towns had their full
quota at the churches. and ii was a
subject of remark by strangers now
III the region that an unusually large
rl'N"ruon Of the population attended
Nv NOAllel anu CulAuI6u- HOW
y. rr' We're in vast majority The
'asholic faith is the dominating de
nomination in the coal region.
Three Of the deputies who We're sworn
IN 10y Sheriff Harvey of Luzerne c0un-
~ and who are sons Of prominent
Nukesbarre families. were arrested
late last night at Freeland on the
I4arse of highway robbery. They are
hamilton Earnham, Van Buren, 3.
howard and a r. Shoemaker. jr.
Robbed a Liquor Dealer.
The mCn are accused of robbing a
LgI>n liquor dealer of S167 in cash.
mere re two sides to the story. The
I'tnder says he was delivering beer
CT highland and that the deputies
orHr. him and he consented to let them
-.a- IN his wagon to F'reeland- a L the
outskirts Of that place. he claims. the
men assaulted him and took the nancy
IT. his pocket
The other story is to the effect that
.-- -"ander demanded a fee for bring
aug the deputies TO Freeland and not
setting IL he set UP a cry that he had
uee1 robbed. \ crowd soon gathered
o.t the deputies were taken into Gus
..'Nl and given a hearing before a jus
... or the peace, which lasted until
lock this morning.
ne squire committed the three men,
r- lnSte Of locking them CD at
leland lie accused were driven thirty
lures over the mountain to Wilkes
..,--E". where they arrived at daylight
.--9 morning. This was done in order
a. prevent the possibility of the men
l..l- taken from the local lookup by a
D-.A- which was still waiting to see
-.Ll disposition was to be made of the
-.I tIes. There is an exceedingly
-.-.-S feeling against deputies in this
-''h be they charged with crime or
~. The men were released on bail
D-lhF their arrival 1T
Organizers at Work.
me United Mine Workers organizers
stehl the day in various parts of this
~ .rlct looking after the interests of
SS-..5I organization. They consulted the
,rauers Of local unions and urged mine
1%oIkers who have not yet struck to
45dNe their work
belnJamin James of the national ex-
vCuuye board said today that he ex-
rle4 the number of strikers will be
~ 'aIIy increased tomorrow He pre-
L-.,S mat number Of mines which
nave oeen running pretty fun during