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The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-08

Murphy Peter Chrisman. Fred Studeoauch;
Peter Calderwood, Arthur Parker anu
James Mckelvei.
The sentiment Of the mine owners. as
voiced by e. G. Hamlin. secretary OF the as
socitaion. is that all union miners must De
driven out OF the camp. His declaration
that the time has come 10 purge the us
trict started the riOting at the mass meet
ing in Victor. called % discuss the dynamite
outrage at Independence.
Its up TO you 20 drive these seoundrels
out" Hamlin had declared, whereupon All
Miller a union man who had been sworn IN
as deputy sheriff, raised his rife and IN
quired:
Miilers rife was seized and the shootns 3
began The first shot was fired by some
one IN the crowd. This was followed imrne-
dlately by two rife shots from miners
union headquarters. y man standlnS III lhS Z
door OF the union store. 1t Is said, also nred
into the crowd with a repeating shotgun
Sheriff Bell called on the local company
OF the State Guard commanded BY Capt
Harry O.. Moore. 10 assist IN preserving or
der and 70 arrest the men IN the union nan. an
Soldiers were stationed on the roof or the
building opposite the hall and from TINS
point OF vantage fired into the door and
windows OF the hall. a scattering nre was
kept I'D By both sides for twenty minutes,
at the end Of which the miners surrendered
Only three wounded men, CalderWOod, PaI-
ker and McKelvel were found IN the hall,
and there were no casualties IN the attack
ing party The uninfured men IN. the hall,
forty in number. We're placed under arrest
and all books and documents OF the union
were seized
Daring the night further arrests were
made in Victor, Goldfield and Independence
The union stores in Victor and GOldheld
were wrecked and the stocks scattered N
the streets by a mob. This was not cOun-
tenanced By Sheriff Bell or others IN au-
thoritv Among those taken prisoners was
Editor George kyner. OF the victor hecoIu
but he was subsequently, released.
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-08
GEN. BELL HIS MARTIAL
LAW PROCLAMATION

DENVER, Col, June 7.-Adjutant Cen
eral Sherman NJ. Bell, accompanied by
detail of staff officers, is on his way TO
Cripple Greek, bearing acting Governor
Haggott's proclamation of martial law for
that district. He has instructions to use
his Judgment as TO the need for issuing the
proclamation, and if he decides that con-
ditions warrant it to place the gold camp
under the reign of the military for the Sc
ond time since the strike of metalliferious
miners began last August.
General Bell Travelled on regular Colo
rado & Southern train from Denver TO
Colorado Springs. At the latter place the
adjutant general and his escort entered a
special train and went on to Cripple Creek.
The framing OF the proclamation was
the result of an appeal from Sheriff Bell,
of Teller county, for troops. declaring that
a state of insurrection existed In the Grip
pie Greek district. The appeal reads:
You hereby advised that there is in
existence in Teller county riot and that
mObs of men are acting together with In
tent to commit felOnies and that violence
is being offered and attempted and threat
ened as we'll upon the persons or said coun-
ty as upon property and that organized
mObS are by force and violence breaking
the laws OF the State OF Colorado and are
threatening to continue to break the laws
of the State of Colorado, and the civil au-
thOrities Of said county are unable to sup
press the said tumult and riots and are
unable 10 disperse said mobs, and are un-
able to prevent the threatened violence TO
persons and To property. That numerous
citizens OF said county have requested me
to demand such military protection as may
be necessary TO prevent violation OF the
law.
Therefore, l. as sheriff Of Teller county,
in view of the foregoing, hereby request
that portion of the National Guard of Colo
RADIO may be deemed necessary TO
enforce the law, preserve peace and sup
press the insurrection now existing and
threatened. be sent with all convenient
speed for the said purpose TO Teller county.
II hereby request that, inasmuch as a
state OF insurrection and rebellion against
the local authorities of the State of Colo
rado is i'm existence, that you. as chief ex-
ecutlve of the State of Colorado and COM
mander-in-chief of it's military forces. pro-
claim the said county of Teller TO be in a
state of insurrection and rebellion"
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-08
COSSACKS HARASSING
THE JAPANESE REAR

LIAO-YANG, June THE Japanese have
drawn in their advance guards from Vafan-
cow. They blew up part of the railway and
the telegraph station on the night of June
8. The damage was soon repaired. Sam
sonoff's Cossacks are harassing the Jap
anese towards Port Arthur. Cossacks
searching the hills occasionally catch de-
tached parties unawares.
In the clothing of a Japanese officer of
the Fourteenth Regiment, who was killed,
important documents were found showing
that the Japanese had lost heavily in the
fighting on May 80. Many of the Japanese
killed wear tattered Chinese clothes such
as spies use.
Samsonoff's fight with the Japanese on
June in the valley of Putsiantun took
place in an immense amphitheater in the
hills. Samsonoff threw forward skirmish-
ers TO feel out the Japanese positions. The
Cossacks and dragons crept forward, eX-
amining the steep hillstdes, deep raVlnes
and dry-Water courses likely TO protect
Japanese ambuscades. Finally the Jap
anese fire on the crest of the hills located
them, and the assailants swarmed up al
most inaccessible cliffs. The japanese first
kept in the shelter of the rocks, but the
Russian fire searched them out, and they
fitted, shadOwlike, across the rocks as the
Cossacks continued to advance, while the
the amphithedter The Japanese cavalry
retreated, unwilling to risk a collision at
close quarters. The Russian line encircled
one great hill which the principal
Japanese position, and like a living ribbon
crept toward the summit. Colonel Sereda
led the advance until he fell, wounded,
half way up the cliffs. The command de-
Volved upon Lieutenant Colonel Chicsville,
who continued the forward movement,
clearing the Japanese from the heights.
In the meantime a Russian battery placed
an accurate shrapnel fire among the hill
tops, Fastening the Japanese retreat. Two
japanese sharpshoOters on the summit of a
hill seriously annoyed the Russians at a
critical period on the advance. An officer
of Terileskis company scaled the rocks in
the face of almost certain death and killed
both the japanese, returning unharmed.
Soon after the Russians had occupied the
hilltop and an intrenched village they re-
ceived order to retire. Just then the
Japanese artillery reserve was brought into
action and showerered the retiring Russians
with shrapnel, but failed to get the exact
range.
Besides Colonel Sereda, seventeen Rus
slams were wounded in the days encounter
The japanese losses. owing to the accuracy
of the Russian artillery fire, seemed heavy
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-08
.FIFTY-TWO YOUNG WOMEN
GRADUATED FROM NORMAL
Indiana kindergarten and Primary
Normal School Holds Com
mencement.
ADDRESS BY F. A. COTTON

At the annual commencement exercises
of the Indiana kindergarten and Primary
Normal School yesterday afternoon at the
William jackson. Memorial Institute fifty
two young women received diplomas. The
exercises were well attended.
The address to the class was given by F..
a. Cotton. state superintendent of public
instruction. He greatly appreciated the
mission OF the kindergarten teacher. and
counted Il as one of the greatest callings of
young womanhood, believing that the train
ing of a child in its youth was one of the
greatest factors in its development as cit
izen. Invocation was pronounced by the
Rev. NJ. l. Haines, and a vocal solo was
rendered by Miss Mabel Walker
Last night a banquet was held at the
institute in honor of the graduating mem
bers. The toast programme consisted of
the following:
Toast mistress. Laura B. Royse; Distant
Lands Eliza A. Blaker; "Once Upon a
Time" Elizabeth d. Reeves; Castles in
the Sand" Alice n. Corbin; Fly. Little
Birds" Edith d. Wachtstetter; Dear
Teacher" Ruth Schooley: Come Take a
Little Partner" Jessie Nj. Goodwin; This
Is the Dolly That l Love Best" Lydia L.
Herrick; I'm Take My Doll Rags and Go
Home" Mary Grace Armstrong.
Those who were graduated last night in
the Normal Training Department were:
February class, Rose HestOn, Amelia
Engelke, Leila Ward. June class Mrs
1uella Dillon, Cora Barron, Ednah +
Brown, A. Belle Lockbridge, Jean L. Nor
rison c. Lillian Crumpacker, Floyette Rob
1nson, Anna Elliott, Beulah Damron, Eller
Hastings, Helen Wallick, Mary Eckman
Mary Grace Armstrong, Mrs Alice
Buchanan, Estella Truesden. Alice n. Cor
bin.
Kindergarten and Primary Depart
ment.-
February class, Ethel Vernon, Anna
Fern, Anna Rowland, Ethel Whitney
Clara Riggs, Martha Criley, Ethel Rhode
hamel, Lenna Caroway, Bessie Allen.
June class, Alice Butler Ruth b. Schooley
Mabel Walker, Gertrude Marlatt Char
lotte Voris, Inez Koener, Leonore Green
wood, Ida Eieholtz, Edna Johnson Char
lotte Klankee, Naive l.. Coleman, Esther
Boston, May McIntire, Mabel NJ. O'Neal
Bertha Mills, Florence Marsh, Frances
| Z. Woerner. Elizabeth Wallace Cooper
Elizabeth Bancroft Pitkin, Martha a
Gill, Nellie Huges, Ruth Patterson, JesSi,
Strong
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-08
CITIZENS ALLIANCE
ACCUSED BY WILLIAMS

DENVER, Col. June THE News to-day
prints the following interview with Vice
President Williams, Of the Western Fedora
ton OF Miners who is acting in the ca
pacity Of president during Mr.. Meyers i'm
prisonrnent IN the military bull pen at Tel
luTide:
''The troubles at Cripple Creek-the rout
and disturbances there-are simply an at
tempt to disrupt the union and bring the
strike TO n close. 1t is my candid opinion
that the Citizens Alliance. an organization
that IS and always has been bitterly hostile
to the uniaas. is at the bottom OF this at
tempt to break the strike by a display Of
violence.
THE opinion among the miners is that
the Citizens Alliance is afraid the commit
tee that has just returned from Cripple
Creek may have produced good results by
its visit. 1t is to break the strike and dis
credit the unions that the disturbances of
yesterday were started.
News dispatches contain references to
the mass meeting that was In progress
when the trouble originated My own opin-
ion is that this meeting was called by Mr..
Hamlin. of the Mine Owners Association.
ostensibly to give an opportunity for free
the strike but. as a matter of fact. the
scabs employed In the mines were TO play
the part of miners. Then when a union
man attempted to speak he was TO be shot
down. AS for the Citizens Alliance, its
members are absolutely unfair and pay no
attention TO law and order. This was
brought out in the Telluride strike when
miners were driven out and many forms OF
violence put into effect to defeat the strike.
This whole matter came up in manner
that appears very peculiar. Just after the
visit of our committee. when the strike was
progressing satisfactorily, and during the
Governors absence, the trouble springs up.
There are few soldiers in the district. The
Citizens Alliance. absolutely unfair, will
resort TO anything. Such outrages do not
occur during the presence OF the military
who are responsible to some one besides
themselves.
"Our organization is founded on the prin-
ciples of truth and justice and its members
are as much interested other persons IN
suppressing lawlessnesS. Whoever com
mitted the dastardly crime at independence
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-08
DEBS URGES THE
MINERS TO STAND PIT

DENVER, Col, June 1.-THE convention
of the Western Federation of Miners to-day
delegated TO the executive committee the
full charge of the Colorado situation. both
politically and otherwise. with instructions
TO use their best Judgment in the fall
campaign.
telegram was received from Eugene v.
Debs saying: Enemy is desperate. You
are on top. Stand pat.
A resolution condemning the "nefarious
dynamiting plot which sent fifteen miners
TO their death and seriously injured a num-
ber OF others at Independence, Col, was
adopted unanimously by the convention.
reward of 5000 is offered by the Fedora
ton for the capture of the perpetrators of
the outrage.
Vice President j. c. Williams and Secre-
tary-treasurer William ID. Haywood were
to-day reelected to their former positions.
Owing TO the absence of President Charles
H. Meyer. no nominations were made for
the office of president. the constitution
providing that the president of the Fedora
ton shall be in attendance when a vote on
the nominee for the Office is taken. The
old officers of the Federation will be elected
tomorrow and final adjournment will prob
ably be reached.
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-08
GIRL LOSES HER VOICE
SHOUTING COLLEGE YELL
VIII Never Be Able to Speak
Again Above a
Whisper.

MACON, Ga, June 7.-College boys and
girls all over the country will read with
peculiar interest of the effect the college
yells has had upon the vocal chords Of
Miss Pearl Turner. of this city. She is one
of the students of Wesleyan Female Col
lege. The girls there have had rivalry
recently, TO show 10 the public which Of
the five classes could make the greatest
amount of noise with the college yells.
1t has not been an uncommon occurrence
for some of them to go home at night so
hoarse that they could hardly speak above
a whisper. But usually the hoarseness
and sore throat passes after a few hours,
and the yell is taken up with renewed
zest
But Miss Turner has had a more serious
trouble with her voice. She became very
hoarse and did not rally. She went to a
specialist, and he told her that one of the
vocal chords was paralyZed and the other
one appeared to be. He informed her that
if il developed that both were paralyZed
she would never again be able to speak
above a whisper
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-08
WEE AND LEPER SPOUSE
FLEE FROM THEIR PRISON
Aged and Stricken Los Angeles
Contractor Fears County
Pen.

LOS ANGELES, June THE leprosy-
stricken old contractor, NJ. d. Ferris, and
his aged wife, have run away together,
escaping from the house where Ferris lay
isolated. They were about to be separated
forever, and the old couple could not en-
dure the thought.
Ferris was 10 have said a last farewell
to his little family before going TO the
county hospital to be locked up in a leper
pen, from which only a lingering death
could release him.
The doctors gave his wife the choice of
going with him to the leper pen and let
ting the world close over her, too, or of
remaining with her children and never see
ing her husband again. The old contractor
was brave in the decision that she should
not so with him. but at the last the part
ing was too bitter. They could not say
goodbye.
The health officers who went TO the fam
lily residence on East Second street yester-
day found only some workmen fumigating
the place. They were informed that Ferris
and his wife had gone. Nothing could be
found out about the poor old man; he is
still in the State somewhere lodging the
othcers-that is. nominally. There is a
shrewd suspicion that the officers won I
try very hard to capture him. Indeed the
city health authorities have charged that
county officials deliberately let lepers run
away to get rid of them.
Much bitterness is expressed at the city
hall because Ferris has run at large and
become a public peril. Until the very last
he saw where his duty lay. He voluntarily
isolated himself from the rest of his fam
ily and seemed TO be reconciled to his ter
rible fate.
He is technically in the custody of the
county now, and, if caught, will be con-
fined for life at place now problematical
to location.
On Monday the supervisors will hear the
protests against placing the proposed leper
pen at the county farm.
AT the next Legislature the supervisors
will try to have one of the uninhabited
islands of the Santa Barbara channel set
aside for a leper colony. 1t is hoped in
the not far distant future to have all the
lepers in the United States taken TO Mo-
lakai.
This is considered to be only a charity
! to the lepers themselves, as the condition
of the few isolated cases in this State is
awful loneliness. One woman has been fol
six or eight months entirely alone at the
county hospital. She is young and healthy
except for her rotung face. She will prob
! ably live fifteen or twenty years TO watch
! death coming over her.
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-08
ROPES ARE READY FOR
HANGING PLOTTERS

VICTOR. Col, June Two hemp ropes
knotted with a moose for hanging were
lying on a table in the room where the
Cripple Creek District Mine Owners As
sociation held a heated discussion to-day
behind closed doors. The members were
greatly incensed by the discovery Of what
they regarded as evidence Of the existence
of a plot in the Victor Miners Union for
wholesale assassinations of mine owners
and miners. This evidence was bundle
Of forty marked photographs found by
Lieutenant Keegan in the union hall on
the back of some of the photographs was
the name of James Cochran. secretary Of
the union The photographs were groups
Of men employed in various mines.
The most important one was group OF
the night shift of the Vindicator. The
photograph contains about twenty por-
traits, five of which were numbered from
one to five. on the back were written
the names of the persons numbers. or
the five names those of Charles Mccormick
and Mel Beck had been crossed out These
two men were killed in the Vindicator ex-
plosion last November. on other photos,
similarly arranged, it is asserted, there are
crossed out the names of some of the men
who have disappeared and whose where
abouts or departure are unknown.
James Cochran was arrested and taken
into the mine owners headquarters Tor
hearing. II do not know anything about
these pictures" he said. except that they
were taken to show the scabs. The marks
by the names of the men who have been
killed are mysterious TO me- l was not
present when the pictures were taken ana
cannot tell you any more about it.
News leaked out to-day that had Thomas
Christianson been captured last night three
would have been lynched- Ihe plot
was arranged and a special train was
standing on the Florence * Cripple Greek
track to carry a body of men VINO Were
ready i'm Cripple Creek awaiting signal. Al
fred Miller, former Marshal Mike OConnell
and Tom Christianson were regarded as
ringleaders I'm the rioting OF yesterday ana
they were marked for lynching on that ac-
count. The failure to capture Christisnson
was the only reason the plan was not car
ried out. The other two are still in custody
and awaiting the decision of the Citizens
Alliance as TO their fate.
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-08
ARREST OF SALESMAN
IN MUNICIPAL SCANDAL
Councilman at Richmond Gives
Name of Man He Says Sought
to Bribe Him.

RICHMOND, Va, June 7-COuncilman
John T. West. who was sent to Jail yester-
day by Judge Witt, of the Hastings Court,
for refusing to divuge the name of per-
son who is alleged to have offered him
1880 TO remain away from meeting of the
street committee, of which he is a member.
was released from custody this evening
upon giving to the court the desired infor-
nation. The person he named is Nathan
b. Bacon, OF Manchester a travelling sales
man for paper manufactOry, who at
once placed under arrest by order of the
court and brought to this city, where he is
held in custody. Bacon has hitherto stood
high socially and in business circles in this
city.
The matter before the street committee
at the meeting referred to above is under
stood to have been in regard to certain
paving contracts recently awarded.
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-08
Thirty-one New Lawyers.

Thirty-one young men will be graduated
from the indianapolis College of Law on
Friday night. This is the largest class in
the history of the school. The list of grad
uates follows:
William Abraham. Eaton. Ind: James
Addie, Armenia, N D.; Dayton Ault. Ell
wood, Ind; Charles Barnhart, Hoover
Ind; Isaac Barth, st. Johns. A. T.: Fred
erick Bonifield, indianapolis; Lawrence
Cartwright, Portland, Ind: Michael Pagan,
Pana, ILL.,; Hogan Gaines, Louisville. XIV:
Harry Hargrove, indianapolis: Sanford
Hickman, Colfax, Wash. Charles Jensen.
Laporte, Ind; Edwin G.. johnson. Pitts
burg, Pa; Robert Mendenhan, Indianapo-
lis; Cleon Mount, Upton. Ind; Weston Mil
Ter. Princeton, Ind; Nathan Morris, Leb-
anon, Ind; William Often. West Toledo, O. !:
Clarence Parker. Thomas Perkins Indian
apolis; c. v Peterson. Charlottesville Ind :
Jesse Potter, Indianapolis; Charles E
Richardson, Okeeme, o. T.; George
Rodgers, Lerna, H.; Julius Shepard IN
dianapolis; Asa o. Stanger, Falmouth
Mass; Lewis Suggs. Indianola, Miss. Reu-
ben Walters, Princeton, Ind: Albert Ward
Peru, Ind; James Wright Rockport Ind :
John d. Yates, Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-08
DEPORTED MINERS
GUARDED ON 4 TRAIN

COLORADO SPRINGS, Col. June IA
special train consisting of an engine and
two coaches, bearing fifty union miners de-
ported from Cripple Creek by the citizens,
passed through this city this evening. 1t
was going at the rate OF thirty miles
hour and did not stop here. The first car
was empty and the second car had all the
blinds drawn and armed guards were on the
platform. The police and sheriff's posse
here were determined not to let the deport-
ed men stop here and arrangements were
made to carry them past the city. 1t is
said they are headed for Denver. About
800 people were at the station TO see the
train pass through but there was no dem
onstration.
The Indianapolis journal., 1904-06-08
NEW COUNTERFEIT
$Ioo GOLD CERTIFICATE
Chief Wilkie, of the Secret Service,
Announces Discovery of a Dan
gerouS Bogus Bill.

WASHINGTON, June 7-Chief Wilkie, of
the United States Secret Service, announces
certificate. The counterfeit is of depart
ment series, act of July II. 1882, check letter
b. plate No. ), J. w. Lyons, register, Ellis
II. Roberts, treasurer, portrait of Benton.
This counterfeit is a Well-eXecuted litho-
graph, printed on bond paper of good
quality, bearing blue ink marks in imita-
ton of the silk fiber of the genuine paper
The most noticeable defect is the portrait
of Benton, where the absence of light and
shade effect gives it fiat, unnatural ap-
pearance. The back of the note is not so
we'll executed as the face The good general
appearance OF this counterfeit makes it dan
gerous, but it should be readily detected
on close inspection, particularly If the por-
trait is examined