The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-21
HAVE APPEALED
FOR PROTECTION
Office of the Postal Telegraph
Company at Ash Fork, Ariz.,
Shot Up by a Mob.
A. P. WIRES AGAIN WORKING
Nevertheless NEWS COMES
OVER OTHER LINES.

Los Angeles, Cal, Aug. 2O.-An armed
mob attacked the office of the Postal Tel
egraph company at Ashfork, Ariz.. at an
early hour this morning and almost de-
moiished it with rain of bullets. The
lives of the four employees were greatly
endangered. but so far as known no one
was injured. 1t is anticipated that the
attack may be renewed tonight, and Gov
ernor Kibbey and the federal government
have been appealed to for protection The
latest dispatch from Ashfork today stated
that arrangements were being made by
the manager of the office at Ashfork to
run a special engine to Prescott, the coun-
ty seat of Yavapai county, and bring the
sheriff and number of deputies TO quell
the Postal building was riddled with bull
lets.
No Resistance offered.
The shooting began about l O'Clock this
morning The Postal employees made no
resistance, although one of them turned
a rifle on a number of the mob, but re
Trained from shooting. An official report
of the shooting has been made by Mr.
Swain, one of the electrical engineers OF
the company at Ashfork, and forwarded
here. Superintendent Lewsi wired as
follows:
armed mob attacked our office at Ash
fork shooting into the office with re-
volvers and endangering the lives OF our
employees. They threaten to renew the
attack l call upon you to protect the
lives of our employees and property of the
company at Ashfork. Please act prompt
Iy."
General Manager Nally wires from New
York that he has taken the matter up
with the federal authorities at Washing
ton. reply from Governor k1bbey says
that he will act Immediately
AsRepeating Station.
Ashfork is a small town in Arizona on
station of the Postal between Los An
geles and the east Five men are regu-
larly employed there, but three of them
walked out on the recent order OF Presl-
dent Small. One man mas since Deen sem sem
there from San Francisco to join the two
operators who remained with the COM
pany.
At the local office Of the Postal com
pany this evening il was stated that Sner-
if I.owery. accompanied by two deputies,
had arrived on a special train from Pres
colt and that soon after they arrived an
arrest was made. The man taken into
custody is known as "Speck Smooth ana
il is stated that he has been identified by
one of the operators as one of the men
who participated in the shooting up or
the office The sheriff. it is said, has
identified Smooth as an eN-COnNlct ne 10
not believed to have had any connection
with the strike. According to latest ad-
vices from AsafOrk the Postal office Is
guarded by four deputy sheriffs.
Chicago. Aug. 20.-The Associated Press
service has made gradua. Improvement
during the past week, in spite of the
strike OF its operators. In the eastern
and central divisions 10 of the old men
are at their keys and less than sixty
men are out Five of the best men have
returned to the Chicago office and prac-
ticaily every wire in the Chicago office
is manned day and night.
At Indianapolis two of the best men
have returned to work and they are
gradually dropping in throughout the cen
trial division. The net result yesterday
was the return of four regular men to
work one man rejected and two appli-
cations. Three regular positions outside
of Chicago have been filled by outside
men.
In California regular operators are at
work in San Francisco, Bakersfield, Los
Angeles, Fresno and San Diego and the
leased wire service is going to papers in
those cites. Other papers are receiving
a news service over the lines of the Pa
cific States Telephone company and the
Western Union and Postal Telegraph
companies.
One operator is at work in the Portland
office