The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-07
SAN DIEGO EDITOR
CHASED OUT OF TOWN
A. r. Sauer Defends Indus
trial Workers in His Paper
With Disastrous Results.
NO TROUBLE UP NORTH
Italians to Resume Work on
the Canadian Northern;
Strike of Mill Hands.
NO TROUBLE UP NORTH
Rr International News serviee.

BY International News service
Los ANGELES, April GA. Il
Sauer, proprietor and editor of the San
Diego Herald, arrived in Los Angeles
today after thrilling experience which
contained the following counts;
He was seized by six men while on
his way from his office to his home In
San Diego Friday night.
He was hustled into an automooile
and his captors conveyed him to point
two miles from Escondido.
They bound and blindfolded him, put
moose around his neck and threw the
rope over a tree limb.
They pulled the rope taut and then
gave Editor Sauer his choice Of these
alternatives: Either to be lynched or
promise not to divulga the names of his
ahductors and agree TO stay away from
San Diego.
Sauer. who is man of sixty, with
a wife, two daughters and a married
son, chose not 10 be hanged and prom
ised TO keep the identity of the six
meh secret and to remain away from
his home town.
Sauer's seizure, the menace of an
early morning hanging TO an oak tree
and the threats which wrung the pledge
from him had their motive, he says.
in articles published by him in the
Herald criticising to vigilaDtes' meth
ods of handing the recent San Diego
issue of the Herald, a weekly, was on
the streets of San Diego Friday, and
the principal story. which bore upon
the street speaking situation, had these
headlines: ''Rule OF the Vigilantes-
Anarchy Reigns Supreme.
Sauer made his way from Escondido
to this city by train. He stated he
positively recognized four of the men
who kidnapped him. What action he
intends to take in the matter he would
not say.
Will Resume Work.
VANCOUVER, b. C.. April 6.-Elev-
on hundred station men will resume
work along the line of the Canadian
Northern railway early next week, ac
cording TO reports from Yale, B. c.,
central headquarters of the strike zone.
station men are small substitute CON
tractors who have undertaken the work
of clearing and grading small sections
OF the road or accomplishing rock work
at different points.
Only few of the striking Industrial
Workers came down OH last night g
train, Everything was quiet at the
camps, II was said. No negotiations
with the contractors have been begun
Strikers reaching the city declare
that the men encamped at the different
points along the right of way arc pre-
pared 10 hold out three or four months.
1t is stated no attempt to stop the
station men from resuming work will
he made The station men, while in q
way affiliated with the Industrial
Workers Of the World. are working in
depcndcntly of that organization.
More Pay Promised.
SEATTLE, Wash, April 6.-Reports
from British Columbia and southwest.
eru Washington indicate that the In.
dustrial Workers OF the World were
making better progress In their CON
test in the Gray's HarbOr district
where 1000 mill hands are on strike
than in the construction camps of the
Canadian Northern railroad
Sawmill owners of southern Washing
ton, unable 10 fill the places of the
strikers. have agreed to an increase in
wages and tho only point now in dis.
pute is the refusal OF the operators to
deal with the Industrial Workers of the
World as BODY. In British Columbia
reports indicate that many of the
strikers are dissatisfied with condi.
tions and meeting of strikers at Lyt
ton last night is said to have voted in
favor of returning TO work whenever
the contractors showed that they are
able 10 obtain men to fill the places
of the strikers. No reports Of violence
were received from either district yes
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