The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-05-04

.lis Il n rsli'i tut followed .nu. b street
Hurried s,gnil.s wele Pissed h.,waa,.
So4ey az wh-. W :, ,lear they
would not be lnns led Willingly away.
Half block ~, B stree. E owne halte.,
MS column and dlsmounleu. He turned
over his horse to AIN attendant. Then ha
went to Coxey's carriage and spoke to
the general. Coxey turned to get ont
but his wife tried to restrain him. He
paused and kissed yer, then sprang from
MS carriage and made his way back to.
ward the entrance to the CAPITOL.
Browne followed, bearing his banner,
The rank and Gle Of the army stood in
The street. The squad of police soon
discovered that Coxey had turned back.
Quickly the officers spurred through
the crowd after Coxey and Browne.
The two had found B street impossible.
Coxey sprang to the heavy stone paling
which surrounded the foliage Of the
east front Of the capitol grounds and
with a bound was inside the fence and
lost amidst the tangled shrubbery.
Browne followed. The mob shouted at
their disappearance. The police were
not to be daunted by this escape in the
shrubbery. Tue first officer, mounted
on fine bay, reined his horse to che
stone fence, and then horse and rider
Cleared the Fence
and dashed into the shrubbery. The
other mounted officers followed. Small
trees and bushes and flower beds went
down .efore the sweep of horsemen and
the yelling crowd which followed.
Coxey and B.owne lodged through the
Lushes to the open area at the east front.
Here a Lluecoated mass awaited the on
comers. There was crash as the tu-
gitives, officers and moD from the street
met The Wall OF officers and people in
the open. The onslaught was SO sudden
that the officers broke Tor a moment.
People surged and shouted. Coxey and
Browne We're lost for the moment. The
police stemmed the rush after minute,
during which one officer used his
baton freely. In the intense ex-
citement of the rush Coxey
had slipped unohserved through the
struggling mass and before anyone
knew it was .ounlit. up the east front
entrance to the capitol. He was up TO
the tenth step before he was recognized.
Then the officers closed in above him,
and his further passage was barred.
The great crowd now recognized him
and IL shout went up from every corner
OF the Vast assemplage. Coxey turned
to The crowd and raised his hat. He
was deathly pale. Captain Garden of
the capitol police stepped to one side Of
him, and Lieutenant Kelly OF the city
police Was at his other arm. The Of
ficers formed solidly about him. The
crowd below Was kept back by menace
ing clubs.
"What do you want to do here3'
asked Captain Garden.
81 wish TO make an address" re-
sponded General Coxey, his voice show.
ing intense emotion.
"But you cannot do that" said Cap
tain Garden. quietly but firmly.
'.Then can I read protest?" asked
Coxey.
There was moments hesitation. He
drew from his pocket typewriter
manuscript and began to unfold it.
There was movement among the
officers.
Captain Garden quietly took Coxey
by the left arm anu Lieutenant Kelly
took him by the right. They moved
down the steps, the solid rank of officers
following. Coxey was thus impelled
downward before the squad. He was
not pulled or put under arrest, but
firmly pushed away. At the foot Of
the steps The great crowd greeted Coxey
and the officers with storm of shouts
Again the mounted police charged, the
crowd surged, and for time it looked
as though there would be trouble. But
the little knot of officers pressed for
ward with Coxey in the center. They
were fanked Oy mounted officers. Thus
Coxey made his exit from the capito
entrance and the east front.
As he moved away he tossed the type
written protest to the group of news
paper men and sad:
"That is for the press"
The Ulcers then moved Coxey dow1
the steps and back to his carriage
There WAS no formal arrests. Brown,
was more aggressive, however, and wa
placed under arrest, as was also
Christopher Columbus Jones. He and
Browne will later be arraigned i,
police court. At police headquarters j
was stated that the charge will probabl!
he violation of the special act of con
gress against asse1nblages in the Capito
grounds. The penalty under this act
a fine not to exceed 800 or imprison
ment not to exceed 80 days, or both.
Two Fires 1t River Falls,
RIVER FALLS, Wis, May 2.-Durine
the heavy thunder storm Mrs. Eldred'
house was struck by lightning, settinl
it on fire. BY prompt action the hous
/ - ,,.d with onlv ali0ht dama0e