Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-28
Statement Concerning Fuel Com
pany Conhscating Furniture
Was Untrue
STRIKERS AND FOUL NAMES.
Miners Who Want Work Can Get il
With a Guarantee Of Protection
Officers Rights.
spocial Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
Sunnysde, Carbon Co., Utah, Nov
27.-In the "News' Of the 25th, Mr.
Elder makes a statement In regard TO
the Utah Fuel company that IL hard
~ true, from the fact that the COM
pany Decent deal In furniture. The
facts are these The Wasatch Store
company has let people have furniture
TO be paid for on the installment plan,
One young man recently married, got
800 worth of household goods; went on
strike and had never paid anything to
the store for his goods, and the local
manager here took them back, feeling
that he had a perfect right to do so,
CALLING FOUL NAMES.
Strikers SLY they are not doing wrong
In calling people foul names, and In
the case of James Laccee, tried before
Justice Hi for disturbing the peace on
the 18th, Attorney Abe Crawford had
the impudence to advance the idea that
to be called a scab and other names
was not an offense against the peace Of
any one; yet he admitted In
AZ
name he wouldn't want any
one to call him. Defendant ad-
mitted having called men as charged
I'm the complaint from the coke ovens
up to the depot, but his attorneys,
Crawford g. Fowler claimed that the
deputy sheriff, A. Smith had acted H.
legally, because the county commission
ers had not yet confirmed the appoint
ment yet all these deputies have been
appointed and sworn in by Sheriff VIII
cox. Justice Hin decided against them,
claiming that the sheriff had per-
feet right to do what he has in the
present trouble
COAL MINERS WANTED
In an interview last night with Pres
ident Kramer and General Manager IL.
G.. Williams your correspondent was
authorized to say that the Utah Fuel
Co. intended to work their mines and
that Utah people would be given the
preference I'm filling the places now va
cant; that they had no desire to inn
port foreign labor If the Utah nom
union men We're willing to work for
| them; and If there are amy of the
above class Of men out of work they
| need not he Idle. The company guar
antees protection both I'm their homes
| mines. Commencing today the crowd
| of strikers who have assembled at the
| depot ech day to meet the train Will
not be allowed to do 30 hereafter. IL
| has become a nuisance to passengers
| arriving at Sunnyside, and the author
tiles have determined ii must stop.
OFFICERS RIGHTS.
| A brakeman OF the Rio Grande West
| ern, whose name Is withheld for the
| present, told Deputy Sheriff \. Smith
I that he had no right to arrest a man
| while on the train, and insisted on the
| deputy leaving the man alone. He VIII
| probably hear from the officers of the
| law on the charge OF interfering with
an officer while In the discharge of his
duty. If he is not prosecuted he VIII
| hear from Rio Grande Western officials.
| and will no doubt learn his duty more
fully. The guard il divided into three
camps, and they are great hl.o to the
| camp. and will be in the near future.
Those who have been sent here have
really the best camp, az 1t ls not too
cold. the weather Is fine. They can
get condensed steam water to drink and
wash with. The cooks are turning
out good food, and there Is no sickness
only that longing for home.
NO DANGER APPARENT.
AT present there is not much danger
10 be seen on the surface, Anyone go-
ing around late AT r,Iht Is called to
halt. and state his business, as there
has been too much night work going on
in the past as previously stated In the
News"
Men who want to work feel encour-
aged by the presence of the guard, and
the output Is increasing a little each
day.
II would assist the postmaster II
friends of the guard would address
their letters with their company INF
tial,