The age-herald., 1900-09-23
LEHIGH REGION
Calmness Prevails Throughout the Dis.
 trict

1 Hazleton, Pa., Sept 22.-Calmness pre- disturbances of any moment were reported in any part of the district. There is still. however, tense feeling in the public mind.
 The sending of troops to Shenandoah, tweney-five miles from here is generally regarded as bringing matters to a crisis, and the situation here is, therefore, some- what relieved. Armed deputies are dis tributed near most of the collieries and along several of the public roads leading to mining property.
 There was the usual number of strikers out early this morning trying to persuade workers not to go into the mines, but they did not meet with as much success as on the previous days of this week. Strikers were careful not to carry their persua sion to the point of intimidation, thus avoiding conflict with the deputies. The latter so Tar have not made themselves conspicuous, they having received orders from the sheriff to in every way minimize the possibility of getting into trouble with the strikers. So long as the idle men in this district. who number more than H,000 refrain from gathering in large crowds and marching from town to town there is no likelihood of general disturbance. The MarkIe mines at Jeddo and Oakdale are worleinR with an increased force. There is a con- siderable number of watchmen on tlie company's property and the sherinf's depu. ties are within easy reach. MT. Markle says he is determined to give all the men in his employ who desire to work a chance to do so, and adds that he will protect them If 1t takes the entire military forca of Pennsylvania to accomplish 1t.
 There was danger of trouble at Sandy Run early this morning. One hundred of the men from Freedland went there at o'clock to stop the men at the Kemmerer coliery from going to work. There was barley near the colliery, and the strikers agreed to let the men work on the promise, that they will not return to the mines Mon. day.
 The men and women of McAdoo were again on the march early this morning. At a. m. 250 strikers from Audenreid, Jeansvillee and McAdoo and sixty women. of the latter place started for Coleraine, where an early morning mass meeting was held.
 President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers of America tonight issued state- ment giving his views on the calling out of troops at Shenandoah and the killing of a member of a mob by deputies at Shenar- doah yesterday. The statement Is as fol- lows: |
 Prom. information I have received from those wEo have investigated the situation, it appears that the shooting on the part of the sheriff and his deputies was entirely uncalled for inAsmuch as the strikers had not injured single member of the sherif's posse; and the circumstances forcibly illus trate the ruthless disregard the sheriff and his deputies have for the lives of persons whom it was their plain duty to place un- der arrest If they had violated any of the laws of the State of Pennsylvania. The Governor in calling out the State troops has, in my judgment acted inconsiderateiy and without a thorough investigation. am confident that the miners who are on strike are fully impressed with the neees- sity of observing the law and conductihg themselves in a peaceful manner at an times" .l