New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-10
ALL QUIET AT THE HINES.
,,o INTERFERENCE WITH MEN AS THEY GO
TO wOR-oPERATORs CONTINUE PREP
ARATIONs TO RESUME.
TRY TELEGRAPH T, THE 1EIBrSf.I

TELEGRAPH T. THE IElblNF-i
Uilkesbarre. Penn Sept. 9.--The fear that the
soldiers would come evidently vas the ch'el
factor in keeping the strikers at Maltby. where
the rioting occurred yesterday. within their
homes to-day and there no trouble when
the men went TO work this morning Deputies
remained al the mine all night and were on
hand this morning to conduct the workers 70
the mine but there were strikers in sight.
The day passed without move being made
toward the colliery.
About hundred persons left the town last
night evidently to avoid arrest, and because
they feared the soldiers. Three men are now in
jail on the charge of murder and riot. and war
rants are out for fifteen more. Tonight the
officials at the mine report the strikers subdued
and say that they expect further trouble
Sheriff Jacobs returned from Harrisburg to-day.
He said that he had seen General Stewart and
discussed the situation with him. 1t is
arranged that if the troops are needed they can
be rushed here within three hours.
The gain in the number Of men employed and
in workings slight. but preparations are
going on at several places, The Delaware
Lackawanna and Western company reports an
increased output and the officials say that the
men are returning to work steadily. The com
pany's Woodward mine at Edwardsville. partly
resumed to-day. coal being run through the
breaker but the number Of men engaged is not
sufficient to make the operations full
In the Hazleton region the Silver Brook Coal
Company Will make effort to resume at its
colliery. The mules taken there to-day
The Philadelphia and Reading company will
follow the culm operations at its North Mahanov
colliery with active mining. To-day a hundred
mules were taken there from the pasture and
will be sent down the mine The St. Nicholas
colliery, of the company, has been turn
ing out almost four hundred tons Of coal a day
since Saturday. The best progress in the lower
district is being made by the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation Company. The officers said TODAY
that they are producing about fourteen hun
dred tons daily at the No. and No u coll
ieries, and hosting fifty cars an hour at tbe
No. 4. These cars contain about two tons each
There is no further interference with the work
ers in the Panther Creek Valley. and the sol
diers have ceased escorting the men to work
The plan of the Delaware. Lackawanna and
Western in resuming work the mines was
explained to-day. The company gives the GER
tificated miners the choice of workings and then
allows them to take charge of six or eight
breasts. blowing down the coal and directing
the drilling. so that one miner can accomplish
as much work as six or eight did previously
with the additional aid given him BY laborers
The company says that the men will be al
lowed to retain these places when the strike
ends
The trial of the men accused of the padaAu
murde" at Shenandoah will start to-n7orrou,
at Pottsville. A number of witnesses ba vs. re-,
procured. {. l.. Shields, a well known crin1inai
lawyer Of Philadelphia has been RETAINED a.
assist the common wealth.
This morning about one hundred men and
boys attacked the house OF John Steckroth a
non-union worker at the Cranberry coIIiarv
He was not home, but they stoned the hnnsa
smashing the windows breaking the nilIars 80
the porch and trampng- the garden 81 tbat -
was destroyed. "