The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-07

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Hurt. Mac2' asked Reed, running
toward the Reading man. The blow had
certainly dazed him; his eyes rolled
seasick for minute. then he stared
straight ahead.
Look out" he mUttered. pointing
over Reeds Shoulder at Kate Mullensx.
shes going TO faint" The trainmas-
Ter turned, but Kate was over before
her brother Sinkers could reach her as
ne ran in. Rucker moved toward the
door. AS he passed AicTerza he sput-
Dulk was between the two men.
Never mind retorted NcTerza.
next time 1 get you I'll ram a billiard
c-c-c-cue down Your throat
1t was the first intimation our fight
ing men had that the Reading fellow
could do business. and the affair caused
McTerza to be inspected with some in
terest from behind screens and cracker
boxes as he saunteKed UP and down the
street
The Reading men were hated; Nc
Terra was slated for the very worst Of
it. Everybody en- both sides under
stood that-eXeept McTerza himself. he
never understood anything. for that
matter. till Il was on him, and ne
dropped back into his Indifference and
reckleSsness almost at once He even
time Mrs. Mullenix herself was in the
saddle There were things in life which
even McTeTza didn't banker after tack
ling more than once. and one was
second interview with Mrs. Mullenix-
But the fellow must have made an i'm
preston on even the redoubtable Mrs.
Mary, for she privately asked NeighbOr,
as one might of an honorable adver-
sary, for peace's sake TO keep that man
away from her restaurant; so MeTerza
was banned.
Oddly enough. McTerza had one
friend in the Mullenix family. On the
strike question the house OF MulleniX
was divided against itself. All held for
the engineers except the youngest
member. Sinkers- Sinkers was teIe-
graph messenger, and was strictly a
company man. : He naturally saw
great deal of the new men, but Sinkers
never took the slightest interest in Nc
Terra till he handled Rucker. After
that Sinkers cultivated him. Sinkers
would listen just as long as McTerza
would stutter, and they became fast
friends long before the yard riots.
The day the carload Of detectives was
imported the fight was on Scattering
collisions breaking here and there into
open fights showed the feeling but it
wasn't till Little Russia went out that
things looked rocky for the company
property at McCloud. Little Russia
had become a pretty big Russia at the
time Of the strike. The Russians had
spread up and down the line like tum-
bleweeds, and their first cousins, the
Polacks, worked the company coal
mines At McCIoud they were as hard
a crowd after dark as you would find
on the steppes. The Polacks, 400 of
them struck while the engineers were
out. and the fat went into the fire with
a fash.
The night of the trouble took even us
by surprise, and the company was
wholly unprepaced. The engineers in
the worst Of the heat were accused Of
the rioting, but we had no more to do
with it than the homesteaders- Our
boys are Americans, and we don't fight
with torches and kerosene. The COM
pany imported the Polacl-s; let them
settle their own accounts with them,
said our fellows. and I called it right
Admitting that some of our Reds got
out to mix in it, we couldn't in sense
be held for that.
1t was Neighbor, the craftiest old fox
on the staff Of the division who told