The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-09-03
REPUBLIC OFFER
 NOT DUPLICATED. Other Operators Offer No Ad- vance in Price for Mining COMPANY MEN ARRESTED Officials of Tutwler Company Charged .at,.t
COMPANY MEN ARRESTED
Officials of TutwiIer Company Charged With Carrying Concealed Weapons and Reckless Riding at Adams
 vIIIe-situation Unchanged.

At an informal meeting of the furnace operators yesterday the Republic com pany's offer of 471k cents per ton for mining coal was discussed but no definite action was taken. It was the sense of the meeting, however that the other companies would make no change In prices for the present at least. If the price of iron warrants an increase In the mining scale an advance may be grant ed at a later date. but this is not deti- nite.
 The operators are apparently satisfied with the situation and all of them re- port encouraging progress. President Maben of the Sloss company says the out put of that company's mines showed an increase yesterday over the day before. He said that he expected the output to increase every day.
 Flynn Talks.
 '"The 4715 cents offer of the Republic company is merely an incentive to get the union men back in the mines,' said President Flynn of the miners union yes terday, 'but I believe 1t will fail of ef- feet. None of the union men will go back to work unless the organization Is recognized. The position of this company is little inconsistent. If you will re- member when the strike vas first erder~ ed all of the operators said positively that they were not fighting the union, but -f.a asked by the United Mine Workers, which is a renewal of last years scale. Now the Republic company offers to pay the price atked by the miners but want to pay 1t without discrimination between union and non-union men. This strikes me as being a trife inconsistent.
 Everything is moving along smoothly" continued MT. Flynn, land the men are as determined as ever to remain firm in their demands. By the way wish you would correct the report that I went to Coal City to attend meeting of the men on strike. There is no strike at Coal City but everybody is at work and peaceful. I went there to see about some little differences that had no bear ing on the strike. I suppose the visit to Coal City was confused with our visit to Littleton where several speeches were made.'
 Tutwler Officials Arrested.
 Adamsville developed a new phase in the strike situation yesterday, when of- ficials of the Tutwiler Coal and Coke com pany were arrested and placed under bond. E. L. Adler, general manager for that company, and J. J. Hooper were arrested on a charge of carrying con- cealed weapons, and Edward Tutwiler son of the president of the company, was ar rested for reckless riding on thS streets of Adamsville. All of the men on whom the warrants were served made bond A- most immediately.
 Tt Is largely the result of feeling which has developed cut there" said MT. Adler when asked about the arrests last night. MT. Hooper was arrested on a warrant as he alighted from the train. As the con- stable would not accommodate him by walking about a mile to make bond, MT. Tutwiler got on a horse and rode hur- riedly through Adamsville to- get a bond
 
 for reckless riding through the streets. was arrested very much in the same man ner as was MT. Hooper. The charges are all the result of feeling. and at any other time such trivial matters would never have been noticed"
 A rumor was current on the streets of yesterday to the effect that four negroes had been hung at Adams vile. The report vas first started by railroad man who had seen the supposed dead bodies from his train. It developed that the miners had been having some. sport in hanging men in effigy, and it was these crude figures that were sighted by the railroad man. Notwithstanding the later reports it took considerable time to correct the rumor ss the news had spread rapidly
 ASSAULT AND BATTERY CASE. X. Baxby Fined for Assautng Mrs.
 Jordan of AvondaIe