The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-07
FOREIGNERS GET
THEIR PAY CHECKS
Receive Their Money From the
A. s. 4 Z. SmeIter at
Murray.
IT Is UNDERSTOOD THEY
WILL NOT GO BACK
Two of the Men That Partici-
pated in a Fight Are
Fined in Court.

About 400 foreigners from lands
across the sea, but who are making
their homes in Murray for short time,
strodc up TO the time Office window OF
the A. $. & Il, company at Murray
Thursday and received little piece of
paper, which told them that that was
the amount Of their earnings for the
month of May. They all formed in a
line which reached out for about a block
and one by one received their checks,
Nothing in the way of demonstration
took place. the men being very orderly.
With the giving Of each check tho hold.
CT was given 10 understand that from
now on he was discharged from tho en-
ploy Of the American smcltcr for Pc
rIiod which might reach 10 years. The
men appeared somewhat sullcn and went
about town in little groups. discussing
the situation as il now appears.
The Smcllcr is now lifclcss, and from
indications ii will be some weeks he
fore work eau he got under WHY agaln.
All the orc in the furnaces has sohd1-
fed and what men were working about
the plant havo gone home as there IS
nothing for them to work at, and special
watc bmcu viii patrol the plant from
damage the property of the smclter
people.
Arraigncd in Court.
The Greeks and Auslrians that par
ticipatcd in the frcc-fornll fight IN
Bcrgcrton were all arraigncJ before
Judge c. II, Banks yesterday afternoon
TO answer To the charge of fighting
There were five in the first batch, aud
when Judge Banks bad heard all the
evidence he informed the foreigners
through their interpreter that they had
been disturbing ,bc quictudc of Muir
ray hy shooting up the town and con
Quoting themselves in an uugcnllcmanly
manner, To even tho score he fined
V. Rschi and +. Bacal $50 each and
then fined Steve Cilcph and Flick Bacal
$40 each.
In all there were about six eases on
the docket many of thcm being for
shooting during the past week and for
fighting All of them viii h" heard
Friday afternoon s. j., Richards of
Salt Lake City was in Murray yestcr.
day and appeared in the Murray court
in behalf Of the foreigners who were
in the fight.
The arrest of the foreigners Thurs
day evening was the outcome of lit
tic disagreement which arose between
Rsich and Bacal. All Of them at the
time were well loaded with iutoXicants
and were in a merry mood when Bacal
and Rschi commenced to fight, As soon
as the fight was well under way all the
other members Of the house, which num-
bcred about twenty-five pitched into
the melee with will and very soon
ovcrv one was exchanging blows. II
was no religious war al all. nothing but
! little family quarrel. The arrests
were made by Deputy Marshal Sam
! Whittlc. who arrived on the scene I'M.
mcdiatcly after he had received "a tele-
phone call from that quarter, He en-
tered the house alone and commanded
! the men TO throw up their bands and
| place their weapons on the table a
| few knives were found, but that was
all Deputy Whittle marched eight of
| them to tho city jail and there placed
] them for the night.