The Glenwood post., 1904-08-20
WfLLnAN'S HOT SHOT
New York Correspondent Scores Western Fedora
tion of hiners---SdyS Deportation More
herCifuI Than Hanging
GENERAL RESUME OF STRIKE TROUBLE
Weman Experience Clearly Proves Truth of Governor pedbodys
Statement Regarding W. f. n

surrounded Union hall, and vol,eys
were exchanged between the union
men in the building and the soldiers.
Soon the beleaguered uniopists hung
out flag of truce. No one was
killed in this battle, but eye witness
es tell me at least a dozen occupants
of the hall could have been picked off
by the soldiers had not the latter pur-
posely fred wide of the windows of
the building.
Probably there would have been
lynchings on the spot but for a touch
of the ridiculous which eased the
tense feelings of the throng After
they had surrendered the union men
marched out of the hall. their faces
white, their hands held high above
their heads and some of them begging
not to be shot They presented such
comical spectacle that the anger of
the crowd turned for the moment to
laughter and cheers.
The Federation Arsenal
When the federation headquarters
was searched the following arms were
found in it: Thirty five rifles, seven
shot guns and thirty nine revolvers.
This is not all that was found
there; but here we come to another
story, which shall be told at the
proper place.
Epl1n,,al foe Cbari
Robertson the uniouist, was waited
upon by a committee of citizens and
invited TO resign, with hints that he
might take his choice between resig-
nation and rope. You will have
to show me the rope first - he replied.
That useful article was promptly
shown him, whereupon he threw up
his hands and signed the document,
which was ready for him. The
county commissioners, who had been
so snre troops were not needed in the
county, elected a new and far better
sheriff within an hour
Other officials, county and city, in
cluding unionist city marshal, were
| 1ASo 6iNSl al w lSS'eA'
A mob composed in part of leading
merchants of Victor, raided the union
store, eutted it, knocked in the heads
of barrels and the sides of boxes, and
threw thousands of dollars worth of
goods into the gutter. This outrage
was largely the work of local trades
men, who did not like the competi
tion of the union store.
That night there was a council of
war of the mine owners and other
citizens, to determine what should be
done next. Some favored vigilance
committee and wholesale hanging
Better council prevailed, and depor
tation of the more radical labor agi-
tators was decided on
No time was lost in getting about
the business The new sheriff, Ed
ward Bell, a man of sterling charac-
ter and steel-like nerve, swore in dep
uties and arrested more than a hun
dred of the men who We're declared
to he dangerous characters. The
majority If these were released on
promise of good behavior but forty
or fifty of them We're put ON train
and taken to Denver with dire warn
ing as to what would happen to them
should they ever return.
Then the citizens turned their at
tention to the Victor Record the
little daily newspaper which had
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. Seven uumasled men. armed. sudden.
ly appeared in the printing office one
aIghr Four of them held up
the printers and editors with their
guns. while the others smashed the
machinery with axes. After break
ing a telephone with typewriter
and firing shot through the office
clock as a parting salute the men
went away. For several days the
paper was unable to print its regular
edition, and the financial loss was
heavy.
\ good deal of sympathy has been
wasted on this little daily paper and
its owners. Column after column of
rhetoric has been written in eastern
papers and magazines on this in
vasion of the liberty of the press.
Probably l would be as eager as any
one to champion freedom of the press,
but it is difficult to defend the Victor
Record, or to get sentimental about
its wrongs 1t was not free paper.
It had sold itself for cash to the fed