The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-13
THIRD SHOOTING
IN CHURCH WAR
Of AUSTRIANS
Pete GaIaCZ Laid Low at Door
of His Cabin in Bing-
ham.
FOLLOWS CLOSELY ON
KILLING OF POPOVICH
SHERIFF'S FORCE VISITS AUS
TRIA TOWN in EFFORT TO
GET AT FACTS.

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y In four days two men have been
= killed by assassins in ambuscade and y
= one seriously wounded. in the reli- =
y gious wars in the Austrian settle y
y ments in the vicinity of Salt Lake. y
y The list is as follows:
y Thursday. July 9-MiI1e Bovich. y
y workman at the Garfield smelter. y
y shot down while going home from y
y work by Mike Pervich. who escaped. y
\ Bovich died of his wounds at St y
y Marks hospital Saturday night. y
Saturd2> July 1l-Mike Popovich. y
\ a miner at the Highland Boy mine. \
y near Bingham, shot down while on y
\ his way home from work by Steve r
\ Miers. He died soon afterward y
y Sunday. July 12-Peter GalacZ. y
y miner at the Highland Boy mine, y
\ shot and seriously wounded at the y
= door of his cabin by unknown as y
y sailant. y
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Another attempted assassination in the
Austrian settlement near Bingham. fol-
lowing closely upon the killing of Mike
Papovich there. caused an urgent call
to be sent to Salt Lake for Sheriff En-
cry and his deputies early yesterday
morning as il was feared that a reign
of terror was imminent. Intense excite
ment prevails at Bingham, but the APP
OF the peace Objects unueT
Sheriff Emery put an end. at least Tor
the present, 10 the warning in what is
known as Austria town. about two
miles from Bingham.
While the Bingham authorities were
guarding Steve Miers. the man who is
alleged to have killed Mike Popovich at
Bingham Saturday evening. Pete
Galacz, a member Of the Miers faction
in the religious war among the Austri-
ans. was shot down in front of his, cabin
In a O'clock NRSIer-
day morning by an unknown enemy.
GalacZ's wife. who ran out on hearing
the shots. a first declared that she saw
Dan Stetich fire at her husband from
the Highland Boy aerial tramway. but
after the mans arrest she said that she
was mistaken ard insisted that Stetich
be released from custody
Galacz is expected to recover from ms
wounds. but it is feared that ii will be
necessary to amputate his left leg.
Conflicting Stories Told.
Strange and conflicting stories are told
of the two shooting affairs.
POpoVich, who was killed, ana Galacz,
belonged to different factions among the
Austrians. 1t is asserted by some that
the quarrels of these factions are over
religious matters. but by others II IS said
that the trouble Is due TO race differ
ences But. whatever the merits of the
quarrel one side is known as the Greek
Catholic and the other as the Roman
Catholic faction. Popovich belonged 10
the Greek Catholic side and Galacz TO
the Roman Catholic side For that rea-
son il is alleged that the man who at
tempted to assassinate Galacz belonged
to the Popovich faction
Galacz was employed on the night SHIFT
at the Highland Boy mine. He started
early yesterday morning toward his home
near the old Highland Boy school house
and had almost reached the door when
three shots were fired from a tower on
the Highland Boy aerial tram:
The first shot struck him in the lett
leg near the knee. shattering the bone
Another shot hit him in the groin. graz
ing the hip. The third shot was buried
in nearby building.
Mrs. Galacz rushed screaming from the
house at the sound of the fusilade and
dragged her husband inside
She informed Deputy Sheriff Forbes
that the man who had done the snoo.-
ing was Dan Stetich and the man was
arrested He is a member or the creek
Catholic faction.
Yesterday morning Mrs. GalacZ told
different story and Stetich was re-
leased.
Officers Make Investigation.
Sheriff Emery. accompanied by Deputy
Sheriffs J. F. Forbes Ira Beckstead and
Lase Chichester. went TO Austria town
yesterday morning and spent some uIne
in an effort TO get at the bottom OF the
shooting scrapes. They were unable TO
get any satisfactory information and the
residents of the Austrian quarter seemed
unwilling or afraid to admit that tney
had any knowledge of the trouble Wnicn
had brought on the shooting affairs.
Steve Miers and the two witnesses VINO
were taken into custody after the muir
der of Popovich'ou Saturday evening were
last night brought to the county jail
here :,
A leader among the Austrians of Salt
Lake went yesterday to Bingham TO IN
vestigate the PopOvich murder. He called
at The Herald office last night and told
what he declared was the true story or
the shooting He asked that his name
be not used. as there was danger. he
said that he would be murdered for tell
ing the truth
He declared that PopOvich. the murdered
man. was A desperate character VINO
had been in many brawls around Bing-
ham and bore the marks OF bullet WOUNDS
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