The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-06-14
Courts Were Open.

Senator Borah asceftalned from Mi,
Avis that throughout the strike trou-
bIes the criminal courts Of the county,
with grand juries sitting were doing
business without interference. On these
points County Prosecutor Townsend and
Assistant Prosecutor +. C. Burdette
corroborated the testimony Of Mr.. Avis,
as did Sheriff Smith.
At the conclusion of the examina-
tion of former Governor Glasscock,
the committee. to hurry along the in
auirv, divided itself, Senators Shields
and Kenyon, with a part OF the nu-
merous lawyers in the case, and score
or more witnesses went to a room in
the state capitol and began the ipves-
tigation of the conditions and causes
which led up to the strike From Luke
Gump. Mucklow miner, the new sub
committee heard descriptions Of num-
Der OF encounters between mine guards
and miners just before the strike be-
gan. Many other witnesses along this
line are to be examined.
In short order, Senators Swanson,
MARITIME and Borah wound up the ex-
animation Of the civil officers who
wished to appear. Senator Borah left
for Washington tonight, agreeing to
return to Charleston If matters demand
ing his presence arose.
The committee reunited and the ex-
animation Of the women Of the mining
company was begun. Three of the
women carried little children whose cry.
ing interrupted the examination several
times.
Mrs. Sarah Blizzard Of Eskdale said
that she started to visit a neighbor in
April of this year, and while walking
along the railroad track had been or
dered back to her home by a mine
guard
"He said ] looked like Mother
Jones and told me to hit the dirt
down the road - said Mrs. Blizzard
Mrs. George Parker told the commit.
tee that a guard named Jackson had
prevented her from visiting a grave
yard on Cabin creek to "clean up the
grave Of her baby She was accom-
panied by two other women who also
were turned back to their homes, che
said.
Her Husband Killed.
Mrs. Maud Estep, whose husband
was killed when the armored train
clashed with the miners at Holly Grove
on February z, carried In her arms a
baby born after the death Of her hus-
band. She described how the little
family was seated in the living room
when the train came up the creek and
the shooting commenced.
"My husband tried to get us all into
the cellar she said, "but when he
got around on the outside of the house
and was calling to us. bullet hit him.
When the shooting was over [ found
him dead.
Mrs. Nina West, who also carried
a little baby, told Of being stopped
twice by guards at Eskdale, while on
her way to visit the cemetery.
Mrs. Maud Fish, who lived at Holly
Grove camp in the tents, told OF being
evicted from her house by twenty-five
mine guards led by a mine superin-
| tendent.
"Thcy hauled our things out and
throwed them down into the bottom, -
she said.
Mrs. Fish said she was living in a
tent at Holly Grove when that town
was "shot up from the armored train.
Mrs, Sevila, an Italian woman, told
the committee through an interpreter
that guards came TO her home, and
| when she refused to give them the
| keys to a trunk in her bedroom, struck
| her and knocked her down. One Of
them kicked her. AS result Of the
| affair. she said, baby was born to
her, dead. two months later.
| Marso Roman, the interpreter for
| MrshSevila, evoked a sharp exchange