The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-29
STRONG ON THE
FLAG QUESTION
But the U. S. Constitution Cuts
Little Figure in Colorado.
SITUATION AT TELLURIDE
PRESS CENSORSHIP PREVENTS
NEWS REACHING PUBLIC.

Denver, March Especial counsel
have been sent 10 Telluride from this
city who viii take charge of the case
of Charles II. Mover, president of the
western Federation of Miners, who is
held in jail on a charge of desecrat-
/ ing the flag. Governor Peabody has
| declared that both President Mover
and William d. Haywood, secretary Of
the Western Federation of Miners, will
be prosecuted TO the utmost limit on
the flag Dissertation charge which is
based on the use of a picture of the
flag as background for various an
nouneements on posters over their sig
natures. Haywood has not yet. been
arrested.
OF twelve depOrted Telluride miners
who attempted TO return to their
homes under protection of the injunc-
ton Issued by District Judge Theron
stevens, four, at least, have again
been dep0rted BY the military and
warned never to return. Another.
Stewart 3. Forbes, secretary Of the
Telluride Miners union, has been ar
rested on 4 charge of perjury. 1t is
alleged that he is an English subject
and voted at elections at Telluride
without filing a certificate of citizen
ship.
Dark Deeds Kept Secret.
No news has reached Denver of any
! further deportations of organizers of
| the United Mine Workers from the
| southern coal fields since last Saturday
night. but the strict press censorship
! exercised at points that are under mar
| tial law makes il difficult to obtain ac-
| curste information promptly.
L do not know why we were made to
| leave Las Animas county" said VIII
/ liam J. Wardjon, one of the depOrted
| union organizers.
I'VE have done nothing which would
/ bring US within the pale of the law,
| but the military authorities probably
| thought that by sending US out they
would be better able to break the
( strike. What our future movements
will be do not know. We will await
| instructions from President Mitchell.
Governor Is Contradicted.
| A censored telephone message from
| Telluride, received at noon today. said
that all deported miners who had at
| tempted to return had been turned
| back by the military except Stewart
| 3. Forbes, who was arrested. This in
| formation is fiat contradiction of the
statement made by the governor on
Saturday night.
Mother" Jones. who was deported
by the military from Trinidad, left
| Denver today for Crested Butte and
will work among the miners of Gun
| nisOn county. where martial law has
not been established. She said that the
| mHitiamen did not give her time to
| get her clothes before leaving Trini-
| dad She has telegraphed President
| John Mitchell of the United Mine
| Workers of America concerning the
! treatment she received and asked him
20 take the matter before President
| Roosevelt. It is said that Mitchell
! agreed to do so. and that he has al
| ready started for Washington for that
| purpose.
! William Wardjon, another of the de-
| ported national organizers, win spend
the immediate future in Fremont
! county, where he will address various
! mass meetings of strikers.
T. Trovatore. the Italian paper which
was suppressed a Trinidad by the mil
| itary. viii be issued at Florence, ir
Fremont county
Major Hill has stationed a detail OF
/ soldiers at Union headquarters in Trim
idad and the union commissary has
! been practically closed. The troop:
at uniou headquarters occupy station:
both within and without the offices
and no one excepting the principa
leaders are allowed about the build
ing. All conferences held by the Off
GERS of district No. Is are attended by
military representatives. of Major Hill
and what passes is promptly reported
[ tO the commanding officer.