The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-15
BIRMINGHAM IS PEACEFUL Courts Busy Trying
 Strike Cases. s1RIKE-BREAKERs JOIN UNION Military Headquarters Reported as
 Very Quiet. statement From. Operator Says rropesi- tlon Is to Run opea shop Psy- ing Fair wages To All
 Corners.

Birmingham, Aug. 14--(speciail-- This was smother quiet day in the min ing district. very few incidents of ex- cItement taking place during the day
 A report came in from St. Clair County that union man named Loss Johnson had been killed by guards for the company. It was reported that Johnson was under arrest. and q trial before Judge Forman had been con tinued at he request of the State. The body was lying in the woods near Sanite, was the statement that was
 Jake Burros. one of the foreigners who was arrested in connection with the dynamitlng of a house at Vivian two weeks ago, was given preliminary trial this morning before Judge l. H. Benners of the Inferior Criminal Court, and was bound over to the grand jury in the sum of $500. Two other foreign CTS, arrested at the same time, were released. Burros did not go on the stand in his own behalf. Three depu- ties who followed some men imEnediate- Iy after the explosion. testified that they took out the dogs and put them on a trail.
 The men, who were being pursued. turned and threw q piece of dynamite at the hounds. but did not kill any of them. Two new dogs were gotten out quickly. and they took up the tra1l leading to a boarding house in Ensley. where Burros and two companions were arrested. In the room at the time of the arrest were sonle shoes which had mud on them and fresh dew.
 Burros, testified one of the deputies, showed signs of having been in a run. his hair being damp and his under clothing wet from precipitation. The bond required was made ct once. Bur ros two companions were not held by the justice.
 The testimony of a little girl at the boarding house was to the effect that she saw Burros come into the place carly in the morning. while women in the houaa testified that they had not heard Eurfna or the other men leave the Boarding plae8, at all during the night
 while the union mon were getting provisions this nofhlng at Wylan, in ih western part of the county sixty aye foreignefs with 1itfia packs or grips in their hands. walked up and announced that they had quit the ser- vices of the company as they had been brought to the district with the mnder- standing that there was no trouble here, and that there was a great need for labor. The union men took up the foreigners. gave them a bountifnl SUD- ply of provisions. and told them they would be cared for until they got oth- er work.
 A meeting of the operators was held today and the statement was given out that there was an increased production in coal in fact the time was fast com Ing now when normal output would be announced.
 Hearing rumors that q number of deputies. recently granted commissions. were members of the miners union or some other union in hearty sympathy with the strik CTS Sheriff Higdon has begun an investigation in order that all men holding commissions should be in full sympathy with the cause for which they were appointed.
 At the military headquarters the statement was given out that every thing was quiet A company of sol- diers went out into the district with a was no trouble. Lieutenant Colonel Hubbard has been to every military camp now in the mining district. There Is considerable talk that part of the regiment will be sent home, all indi- cations being that the trouble Is about to die out.
 At the headquarters of Lieutenant Colonel Hubbard a statement was giv- en out that Colonel duMont would hard ly return to the mining district as ev- erything was moving along nicely. and that there was no need for further troops. However, all rumors have been denied, and any suggestion of differ ences among the military are denied
 At the headquarters of the union miners the statement was made by Na- tional vice-President White, that or ganizers were being sent out into the field delivering speeches to the men, advising them to remain firm to the organization and telling them there was chance of winning the strike.
 Nothing new was given out from the committee of twenty-five prominent appointed recently. It is known that the committee has con- sidered the interests of the entire dis trict The promoters of the petitions addressed to both the operators and the miners asking that they submit an of the differences to a com mittee. now intimate that President Roosevelt will be asked to take hand in the trouble. and name a commission to investigate the strike here. Col T. c. Bush and J. O. Thompson have been as a commission to make 8 report to President Roosevelt. Another report comes from Ensley that a gov
 
 the situation there in regards to the strike, and will soon be able to give advice to the officials at Washington and New York. The part foreigners Is taking in the strike is being Hooked into
 An Operators Statement.
 Guy Johnson. vice-president of the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron today gave out a statement which was quite significant. It read as follows:
 At the solicitation of some of our friends we publish the following state naent: We do so with some reluctance. because we feel that the public is per- fect1y eognizant of the real merits of this disturbance, and because we do not desire and do not intend to be drawn into a newspaper controversy with Fairiey.
 We dismiss his misleading and dis ingenious statement. made yesterday. without discussion. because We would not insult the intelligence of the pub lie, nor dignify aFairley. by engaging In an argument as to who Is respon- sible for the outrages which have Fnza