The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-05-25
LEAVENN0RTH IS EXCITED.
MARCHING MISSOURI MiNERs
MUST STAY OUT.
THE CITIZENS ARE UP IN ARMS.
They Hold Monster Mass Meeting and
Decide to Resist tho Coming of the
Missouri strikers by Force of
Arms 10 Necessary - War
Speeches Made by Its
Leading citizens.

LEAvENwoRru, Kan. May 94.--The
Missouri miners at Kansas City. Kan.
destined for this city with view of
influencing the local miners to cease
city at all hazards. Law is to be
thrown aside and physical force used
to rcpel the invasion.
For years Lcavcnworth has sung
the song of "home rule" and the in
terfcrence of outside men with the
operation of one of the leading indus
tries of the city is to be repelled
kindly, If possible, but by the free
flow of blood, if necessary.
The people are aroused as they
never were before, and are bound to-
gether by one common tie-the well
fare Of the city-political affiliations
having been cast aside in the excite
ment of the hour.
The presence of the camp of COM
monwealers on the reservation has
caused the masses To ar dire results
from the appeara nee here just at this
time of another disturbing element.
and had much to do with arousing
public sentiment against the miners
now en- route here, for the avowcd
purpose of persuading the Leaven-
worth miners to join in their strike.
Alarmed at the situation. public
mass meeting was called in the city
council chamber at o'clock yester-
day afternoon to discuss the matter
and formulate some plan to defeat
the approach of the Missouri mine
strikers.
Mayor Samuel Dodsworth presided,
and the leading citizens ana business
men of the town participated in the
deliberations.
The speakers did not bubble with
words or legal technicalitics, and
physical force was more talked of
than anything else.
No less parsonage than Judge Rob
ert CroZier. who for over twenty
years filled the bench as district
judge, counseled physical resistance,
saying that the crisis dcman lei that
the matter should not be hampered
with the forms of law. He urged
an organization of citizens inlepend-
ent of the law. who should. by force
of arms, keep the strikers out of the
city limits.
Judge H. w. ldc made a speech in
the same line, counscling prompt
physical resistance. as did also T.. W.
Snyder, w. II. Bond, Judge NJ. l..
Hacker. United States Marshal seely.
Mr.. John w. GRANGER an Frank
ODonnell president of the board of
police commissioners.
Sheriff J. II. Rothenbcrger also
spoke and asked for volunteers"
saying that he would see to it that
the striking miners should not enter
l.eavenworth.
The citizens meeting was unani-
nous in judgment as to the absolute
necessity of keeping the striking
miners from entering Leavenworth,
and the following named were Sc
lected as committee to proceed Mt
once to Kansas City, kas., and notify
the miners en- route there that they
would not be allowed, under any cir =
eumstanccs, to enter this city: Mayor
Samuel Dodsworth, United States
Marshal Nicely, Sheriff j. II. Rothen-
berger. City Marshal Joseph Gran
ston, Frank O'Donnell, DIR. Edic. o. B.
Taylor, NJ. l.. Hacker and John w.
GRANGER.
This committee left on n special
TRAIN Tor Kansas tltN, WIN directions
to inform the striking miners of the
public sentiment and to warn them
that they could not enter the city un-
der any circumstances whatever.
The meeting then, by resolutions
and an unanimous vote. formed an
organization with Sheriff j. III. Roth
enberger as the commander, which is
pledged to prevent by physical
force" the coming of the strikers into
this city's limits.
1t was further ordered that Sheriff
Rothenberger swear in 500 deputy
sheriffs, or as many more as necessary
TO carry this sentence into practical
effect.
1t was finally agreed that the stimuli
taneous ringing OF the fire b.ll an d
the court house bell should be a sig
nal for all citizens to assemble in the
court house yard. The ringing of
these bells is to signalize the arrival
at this poin: % ne strikers, and upon
mblin~ I the court house Sher-
itf RotheN rSer will swear in hun
dreds o. ltrutics and the physical
force" p o.. ..lr5 is to be instituted.
While onl one or two of the speak
ers hintc.l AT firearms, there is tacit
understan that when the fire bell
and court TIA /, bell ring, the people
shall repair - In. cOIrt house pre-
pared for the emergency.