The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-25
MEN OF ALL C[|MES
At LOCAL HOTELS
W. A. Johnson Of GoIdeld Says
the Days of the |. W. w.
Are Numbered.
TWO TRAVELLING statesmen
HAVE ACQUIRED BRIDES
Dennis Ryan, Well Known in
This City, Is Here on a
Brief Visit.

tered man BY the name Of ". A
johnson. Mr.. Johnson is one Of the
big mon of Goldfeld, and he is going
back to the camp to be in at the finish
Of what he declares is the death strug-
gle Of the industrial Workers Of the
World In Nevada mining camps.
''There is no strike IN Goldheld, -
he declared emphaticaily last night.
PLEASE say that. The idea has got
OUT that there is big strike on. There
is nothing of the kind. 1t is just this !;
1t is the old fight between the orderly,
prosperous and the lawless powerful
ones Labor is high and scarce in Gold
field: everybody knows that, and so
the |. ". w. with fendish cunning has
seized its chance and-well. the papers
tell the rest. Only. they don { tell the
whole truth. Mr.. Johnson settled
back in his chair. "The whole trouble
at the present time started this way:
The Carpenters union in the camp was
the only organization that the I. ", ".
hadn Z absorbed. Just two weeks ago
last Thursday the camp tyrant sent an
ultima tum TO the carpenters that either
they would Join the organization that
night by o'clock or quit Well, the
carpenters quit. There was nothing
else to do. for had they affiliated with
the [. ". w, they would have forfeit
ed their charter in their own rational
orga anizatioD. Next day they were
made 10 give up work, and that is the
whole trouble in Goldfeld today. But
that is only the issue The real trouble
Is not matter Of few weeks; ii is
question of supremacy, whether law
less desperadoes shall rule, or civic in
terest and business prosperity shall pre-
vail
The trouble has been brewing for
months. Al present there Is no trouble
between The operators and miners. The
decent element among the miners is
leagued fair and square with the other
she-the side that represents fair play
and the best interests of the camp Do
You know what the people of Go1dfeld
nave done, the merchants, the restau-
rant keepers, even the housewlves7
They have lost money. they have sacri-
heed comfort and every pleasure to
the one idea, 10 rid the camp once and
forever of the rule Of this ignorant,
arbitrary tyrant-the l. ". W
Ihs night that restaurant keeper
was vi KILLED there were many others slat
field was one of them; Diamondfeid
J lack Davis another. But the nerve of
all the despersdoes except Preston
failed, and so the restaurant keeper
died alone, They have tried 10 burn
the town. One hundred citizens are
sworn IN as deputies, and they are
watching the town like a cat does a
next week will see the crisis in the
trouble, am looking for trouble, but
1t will stop, and then Goldfeld will be
healthy again. No store, no restaurant
is doing business now, because they
Will not hire member of the I. W. ".
But there won't be a member there
within week, because the mining and |
business interests have shaken off the
yoke and, facing the l. W. W, have
told 1t to get out.
-, there is an ominous quiet about |
the place, tension that gets on one IS !
nerves. [ want to get back Mr.. |
J Johnson finished with quiet smile and
drew his breath, ''because. YOU know. |
it's great to be in at the finish -
Julien Oestreicher of New York is |
at the Knutsford hotel. This gentleman |
has been coming to Zion for twelve |
years, and last night he gave vent to |
some opinions. 'fChicago puts up an
awful big bluff" be declared, "of be.
ing the champion mushroom city of the |
world. but 1 tell you Salt Lake is not |
go 80 bad when 1t comes to growing pains.
When l came here twelve years ago.
this town was village That's all it
was, and New Yorker like mvseif |
thought it was the jumpinc~off place |
But this last visit is revelation In
me. Why, 1t g a city. real. live CITY,
and we men who come here every year
appreciate 1T great deal more than
the people who stay here and make it
what it is. There is no doubt that
Salt Lake has future before her. She
IS the queen city of the West, and we
salute her. OF course, in measure
am Judging by business standards.
but after all that is the truest stand, |
ard OF city's progress
"A New Yorker coming 10 Zion in
he midst OF deserts. is astonished. ]
shall ENJOY getting back next year, for
when the sky-scrapers they talk about
ire up and all the rest of the wonderful
improvements are realities, well, maybe
title old New York won 7 look quite so
good to me as it does now"
While June is still some moons of,
he local hotels during the past few
weeks have had a veritabIe harvest of
brides and grooms. March, the windy
month, is not unusually accounted of
much Importance by Dan Cupid, and vet
here are brides and grooms to spare.
rke knntsford is sheltering at least
,wo couples who come under that head
ng- Some little time ago, n. Kauff
nan, known to all the boys of the road
,s thorough good fellow. met de.
nure little girl in San Francisco. He
.ravels for o clothing firm and halls
rom New York Cupid doesn't care
me single annual pass about railroad
distances and so Mr.. and Mrs. Kaufr.
nan are now at the Knutsford and Mr.,
Kaufman is doing vast deal of treat
ng these days,
Another salesman who has decided
hat travelling alone is pretty lonesome
business is +. W. Kirske, of New York.
md when he dropped into the Knuts,
ord this timn Ii wig with ratl,e. |