Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-06-30
NO ATTEMPT
MADE TO WORK
Operators Deny That They
Are Ready to Resume.
Yesterdays Heavy Rains Did
Much Damage TO Collier
les in This Vicinity and
Several Are Flooded.

Several Are Flooded.
The rumors that have been. current
for a few days past that the operators
would make an attempt to resume opera
tions this week are denied by the
general uperintendents and others in
charge of the workings. In this vicinity
Coke Bros. e Co., it was said, would
make an effort to mine coal tomorrow.
The report had it that their coliery
whistles will blow for work this evening.
In conversation with a Drifton official
this morning the Tribune was assured
that the company has no intention to
resume for the present.
Whether these denials are true or
false, time and the operators alone can
tell. 1t Is certain, however, that sew
eral of the mines are now In no condi-
tion for miners to enter. Yesterdays
incessant rains, which fell steadily from
early morning until night, did much
damage to the surrounding workings,
resume this week it was soon dispelied
as the inexperienced men who are at
the pumps were unable to keep out the
water which flowed in.
The strikers, apparently, were deter
mined to not be caught mapping, and
this morning found large bodies of them
on all roads leading to collieres where
non-unionists are at work.
Upper Lehigh boiler-houses were visit
ed at an early hour, and when the
crowd departed the men who were en-
ployed at the boilers and pumps were
missing and did not return for several
hours 1t is said that an alteration
between strikers and man employed
on the new trolley road in the valley
took place on Butler hill.
ROADS TO DRIFToN GUARDED.
All roads leading to Drifton collieries
were strongly guarded from to Z
o'clock, and only those whom the
strikers had agreed to permit work
passed the picket lines.
Several of those who, when stopped
and asked to go home, agreed to do So
but tried to reach their destination via
circuitous routes. After finding that
the strikers line extended from Butler
hill to Sandy Run the effort to get to
Drifton before a. IN. was abandoned.
On South Ridge street. below the bor-
ough line, fourteen coal and iron police
were stationed to escort men to Drifton,
bnt their task was an easy one, as none
but clerks, train-runners and the ID. S.
& S. passenger-train crew crossed the
line.
The police wore the regulation blue
uniform and military caps. Each man
carried large revolver in his left hip
pocket, but did not make any ostenta-
tious display of the weapon. They were
accompanied by Superintendent John
Rehlands, Deputy Sheriff Jacob Zeist-
loft and three Drifton clerks.
Laubach's bakery wagon, en- route to
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consignment of bread and cakes for
Oneida and Sheppton, was met on South
Ridge street. and, under the impression
that the food was destined for the coal
and iron police and workers at Drifton,
the strikers induced the driver to return
SHERIFF JACOBS IN TOWN,
Sheriff A. III. Jacobs, of Hazleton ar
rived on the scene on the irst trolley
car from Hazeton. Finding many of
the plckets lined along the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad and the coal and iron
police. within a few feet of them on
South Ridge street, the sheriff quickly
decided that the two forces should be
placed further apart. There were no
signs of disorder or trouble. but know
ing that the best of feeling does not ex-
ist between the police and the pickets
the decision of the sheriff was for the
best interests OF all concerned.
He promptly notified the police to
retreat TO Coke addition, as their pres
ence at the railroad tracks was unneces-
sary. Then he notified the pickets to
return TO the borough streets, at the
same time cautioning them against
breaking the peace in any manner.
Both parties Immediately obeyed the
officer and the mornings work ended in
a victory for the strikers.
JUSTICES RECEIVE NOTICES.
The justices of the peace of Freeland
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