The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-18

villainouslv, but Neighbor's S huge bulk
was between the two men.
"Never mind retorted McTerza;
'next time | get you II ram billiard
c-c-c-cue down your throat y
1T was the first iptimation our fight
ing men had that the Reading fellow
could do business, and the affair caused
McTerza to be inspected with some in
terest from behind screens and cracker
boxes as he sauntered up and down the
street. When the boys asked him what
he was going to do about his treatment
in the short order house he seemed in
different; but the Indifference, as our
covered live Goals; for when he was
pressed he threw the gauntlet at the
whole lodge of us, by saying that be-
fore he got through he would close the
short order house up. That threat made
him a marked man. The Reading men
were hated, but McTerza was slated
for the worst of it. Everybody on both
sides understood that-except McTerza
himself. He never understood any
thing, for that matter, till it was on
him, and he dropped back into his in
difference and recklessness- almost at
once. He even tried the short order
house again. That time Mrs. Mullenix
| herself was in the saddle. There were
things in life which even McTerza
didn't banker after tackling more than
once, and one was second interview
with Mrs Mullenix. But the fellow
| must have made an impression on even
privately asked Neighbor, as one might
of an honorable adversary, for peace s
! sake to keep the man away from her
restaurant; so McTerZa was banned.
He took his revenge by sauntering IN
and ont of Gatlipg's until Gatling him
self was gray-headed with the fear that
another riot would be brought on his
|place.
Oddly enough, McTerza had one
strike question, like many other Me"
Cloud families, the house of Mullenix
was divided against itself. All held
for the engineers except the youngest
member-Sipkers. Sinkers was tele-
graph messenger. and was strictly a
company man in spite of everything
He naturally saw a great deal OF the
new men, but Siukers never took the
Iightest interest in McTerza till he
ltivated him. Sinkers would listen just
as long as McTerza would stutter, ano
they became fast friends long before
the yard riots
was imported the fight was on. Scat
tering collisions breaking here ani
there into open fights showed the feel
ing. but it wasn't till Little Russis
went out that things looked rocky foi
tie Russia had become pretty big Rus
Il sia at the time OF the strike. The Rus
slams, planted at Benkleton by Shock
lev, YOU might say, had spread up ant
down the line, and their first cousins
the Polacks. worked the company Goa
mines At McCloud they were as hare
crowd after dark as You would hnt
op the steppes. The PolacEs, 900 O.
them, struck while the engineers wer
out. and the fat went into the mr.
, with a fash.
The night Of the trouble took evel
: us by surprise, and the company wa
wholly uuprepared. The engineers II
the worst of the heat were accused o
the rioting, but we had no moro to d.
with it than Homesteaders; Our boy
are Americans. and we don't fight wit
7! torches aud kerosene. We don't nav
| tn. they're not our weapons. The com
( pany imported the Polacks, let then
settle their own accounts with them
! said our fellows, and I called it right
/ Admitting that some of our Reds go
/ out. TO mix in it, we couldn't in sens
u be held for that.
4 It was Neighbor. the craftiest oil
4, fox on the staff Of the division, VIII
A told the depot people in the after
y noon that something WAS coming, an
Y fIthinking back afterward Of the bunche
4 of the low -browed fellows dotting tn
i bench and the bottoms In front O
i their dugouts, lowering at the guard
4 who patrolled the railroad yards, IT wa
n strange that no one else saw NJ The
" had been out three weeks, and alter n
81 end of gabblng turned silent. Me
\, who talk are not SO dangerous; II
n when they quit talking.
y Neichhor was a man of thousand /
: act on his apprehension. All the aftel
noon he had the switch engines shun
g inc cars about the roundhonse; tn
. minute the arc lights went on the resu
! could he seen. The old mnn had lon
!, Lines Of furniture vans. box cars, gol
II dolas and dead Pullmans strung aroun
% Tho bip house like parapets. Wha
y syer ANYBODY else thought, Neighbt
y was ready. Even old John Boxer, h
10 head blacksmith, who operated a
amateur battery for salutcs and eelehI,i
5 tious. had his gun overhauied;, IN
" roupdhouse was looking for trouble.
ID II was barely o'clock that nigl
when a group OF us on Main street sa
,p tho depot lights go out, and pretty SOC
<, telephone messages began coming IN
sr Gatiing's from the company plant y
pr the river for the sherlui the nolaci
,e we're wrecking the dynamos. The al
- I; gbis covering the yard were on di
n ferent circuit, but il didn't take II