Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-08
SHERIFF TAKES
Stern MEASURES
Believes That Time Has Come to
Seriously Interfere at
Garfield Plant.
SEARCH FOR AUSTRIAN GUNS
1t Is Carried On All Morning with
Discovery of One Shot Gun--Nine
teen Arrests To-day.

Believing that the promiscuous use Of
Firearms at Garfield by the foreign
employees of the smelling plants 10.
Gated there, has become general enough
TO warrant extreme measures. sheriff
e. Frank Emery with a large force OF
deputies this morning gave the for
eigh quarter a complete overhauling,
AT o'clock this morning four Aus
Tians were sent to the Salt Lake couu-
~ Jail In an automobile. On the train
leaving Garfield at ! y. M. another
patch of 10 AUstrlans is coming in,
ana force of deputy shcriffs VIII re-
main on the grounds tonight patroling
the foreign quarter 10 see that no
fresh outbreak occurs.
A thorough search Of every house
and OF the grounds surrounding 1t this
morning failed to produce more than
o single shot gun. Most of the Aus
TRANS are known TO carry revolvers
although the hiding places of these
weapons could not be located today
They win, however he conhscated
wherever found.
CAUSE UNCERTAIN.
s7lat the cause of the facttonal
trouble In Garfield is religious differ
enoes. is by no means certain Sheriff
Emery does not accept this EXPLAIN
ton and declares that from his ow
study of the case the trouble Is simply
that there are among the Austrians ~
Few murderous ut-throats who will
have to be sought out individually and
expelled from the camp. 1t is no re.
llgtous war he declares, and his plan
OF handling II Is by searching the bad
men out and expelIing them from
camp.
FIFTEEN ARRESTS.
In the bunch of Is arrested this
morning about half are Roman Cathol-
les and about half Greek Catholics
More arrests are expected to be made,
and the prosecution of those against
whom evidence Is found, will be car
ried on In the hope of securing long
sentences so that the game of shoot
ing fellow workmen in the night will
be abandoned.
GULLY WOUNDED,
Gully constable at Garfield, received
load of shot in the back last night,
and this morning 20 shots were remov-
ed from his body.
Sam Mekos, an Austrian was shot
through the leg. He was In his own
home, according to the investigation
made this morning, and was dressing
preparatory TO going on shift. In this
revolver ball which tore through the
aide of his house and cut an ugly
cash through his leg. Whether the
ball was meant for him or not 1s not
determined, as there was general
melee outside with shooting enough to
riddle several houses, which were
found this morning penetrated by bull
lets.
Constable Gully, who entered the VII
1age soon after the shooting COM
1nenced, attempted to arrest an Aus
TRAN who was pointed out to him by
the mother OF a babe, which she de-
clared he had shot. The Austrian fled
and Gully shot after him to stop him,
when he was himself shot by a friend
of the fleeing man, who was behind
Gully. Gully was carried to the smelt-
or by Austrians. where % shot were
extracted by DR.. Bransford None of
them had penetrated deeply.
DEPUTIES ASSEMBLE.
The first assembly of deputy sheriffs
began at IL o'clock last night when
Sheriff Emery received notice of the
riot. and sent out Walter F. Reid and
Joe Barlow who live within two miles
of Garfield. Deputy Charles Price OF
the Garfield smelter Joined them. and
later in the morning an automobile ar
rived bringing Sheriff Emery, Chief
Deputy Joseph c. sharp Deputies
Speory, Corless, Butler and steele. They
placed a patrol around the camp, and
disarmed two men found with shot
guns. At 3 a. IN. Mike Bobovioh, John
Osich, Mike Purpitch and Joe Uzlich
We're placed under arrest and sent to
salt Lake under charge of Deputy
Sheriff Reid. The wounded Austrian
was brought into the ST. Marks hos
pital where he is resting today while
the remaining members of the Sherlff's
force remained at Garfield to watch
the progress of affairs. This morning
at daylight they commenced the sys-
tematlc search of the village for fire.
arms which was kept up until the de-
parturc of the 1 o'clock train this after
noon, when the sheriff brought in the
10 mor suspects rounded up In the
search,
MIR. WH1TLEY's VIEW
Tho question OF how to permanently
do away with the bloodshed at Gar
field Is becoming important since Toe
list OF feud victims has been piling
up until it lacks only one Of being halt
n dozen In single month. one plan
suggested is TO seriously follow the
cases into the courts, and deal out stiff
sentences TO those convicted. Another
Is TO can upon the next legislature
for a state law prohibiting the carry
ing OF weapons except with a state
permit and third Is TO go through
the camps Of the foreign laborers for
desperate men and eliminate them by
discharge from the works
Mr. Charles A. whitley. manager
or me American Smelling CO., said this
morning when asked for his opinion OF
the most practicable thing to do. that
there were good and bad Australians
the same ns amy other class of people.
ana that any wholesale move auainYt
the workers as class would bo most
unfair ana unjust Il win discharge
anyone VINO ! know 10 be a bad man"
~ said, and ! think that hy rarefpIly
wedding out few individuals. nud Inv
the courts becoming severe. lie slse
WIZ adjust itself An anti-woupon law
would be effective"
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