Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-08-04
George L. Hickey Recently Re.
turned From South America,
Talks OF Riot.
PROBABLE CAUSE OF TROUBLE
Nlfred ". McCune. Jr. Likely Driven
To Desperate Resort 10 Protect
Life and Property.

George l.. Hickey. formerly car ser.
vice agent and ,rsinmaster on the ore.
gon short Line and who recently re-
turned to New York from Cerro de
Pasco. Peru. throws some light on tho
report that A. ". McCuue. Jf.. had
Killed two natives who were part Of
mob that attempted to rush the McCune
holdings.
Mr.. Hickey said his morning
some time before / was Obliged 10
resign as assistant superintendent ~
the Cerro de Pasco railroad, and return
20 the United states. on account Of ms
health. the McCune interests bought
the control Of another group Of mines
az MorocoCha. about IN miles from
Cerro De Pasco. At the time that Mt.
McCune bought In there was a South
American operating the mine and. Of
course, Ike every native. he was maxi
ing big steal out ~ H. II did not take
long for Mr. McCune to lind this out
and the fellow was ouSted. Since then
he has tried on several occasions 10 I'm
cite riot by filing zap the native min
ers and laborers with bad whisky and
working them IN 20 pitch Of excite
ment 20 rush the mine aud chase the
'Gringos' out Of the country.
\ MAN OF NERVE.
Il guess he must have got the men
drunk aud attained his object as far as
"a riot was concerned Alfred McCune
Re a neryy man aud will not stand for
any monkey business. and when things
got warm he just blazed away Then.
if 7 know the natives. they ran away
and went bowling around the camp I'M
an the troops arrived.
Those natives have no pluck. they can
make a big fuss ike a pack OF coyotes
but that f. an. All McCune. who had
charge uf the mines. probably killed
two and the trouble ended. In this
country n such a thing happened under
the same circumstances there would he
Uu further fuss but over IN Peru every.
thing against the Grlngos ~ msgnine1.
We are q most unpopular people down
there The natives are useless. lying
drunken lot and spoil any mans ZEN.
per who has anything 10 do with
them"
WORD To JOSEPH =. WELLS
The statement ~ Mr.. Hickey is borr.
on, by Joseph = Wells the local reI@e-
sentative OF Hon s. W. McCune. who
received a oablegrtm from Lama yes
itrday. The message rau. Native la
hor difficulties cause trouble 70 Moroc-
cha. Newspaper reports very likely eN-
agserotcd and distorted Al wel.' In
View OF The last sentence. NJ Wells
does not think there Is trouble Of an,
consequence. which is also the opinion
held by Mr Hickey
SALT LAKE COLONY.
In speaking OF the work accomplished
down there hy the salt Lake cola-y.
Mr Hickey says that the FIRST blast
furnace Goo be- operated Ia Peru has
undoubtedly started up by this time.
This Is located about nine miles out "
terro de Pasco. There - no question
Ae says. regarding the richness of the
orc held by the Hsggin-McCune inter.
,sts. The whole scheme Is essentially
hig one and when perfected VIII net
"a huge fortune for The promoters.
The Utah colony Sc well represented
on the 'erro a. PascO and a nxmbsr
uf former employees oi the oregon short
Line are getting along fsmously.
RAILROAD EXTENSIONS.
Harold +. Kerr The general super
iaiendent. bad gone ou q trip into the
Interior 90 look up me possibilities u
o. railroad extension when Mr.. Hickey
lei, fOr New York on Mr.. Kerr'-
leaving ar Hickey was appointed su-
perintcnd,ut during his absence. IN.
fortunately be was taken ~ and had
CD resign This has altered Mr Kerrs
plans considerably f0r De expected on
h.s return from ne interior 90 return.
i' Mauu on q leave OF absence and
take DIS family back 20 Peru with
lm. Now be wiz remain and Mrs
Kerr and children wiz Join him .u
south America shortly
Old SHORT LINE EMPLOYEES.
Among ,hc foriatr employees Of the
oregon short Tine who are an doing
nei ON the Ctuo de- Pasco railroad
ore j. = Hogan. assistant guperluten-
dent e.. g. Woodward. conductor.
Frank Rowland. A p. Quinby. On.
Fineer 4 singer general car fore.
man and Roy White. CHIEF clerk In
the general superintendent once
Nj Hickey Ten jhis afternoon TO-
Reno and Tonopah whro he expec,s
q take The position 81 chief clerk Of
ths Nevada Power Milling & Minins
company al good salary
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