Bisbee daily review., 1907-06-26
ACIING MAYOR DENIES FALSE
 STATEMENT
Councilman Hughes Sends a Message to Paper Denying Statement Made by Member of Local Union.

Not until yesterday morning, when a copy of paper published at Hannibal. Mo, was received in the city was 1t learned to what extremes the local branch of the Western Ted eration of Miners had gone in order to discredit the Warren district among workingmen of the country, and to spread broadcast reports which if truly quoted, are not only not jus tified by facts, but show a malicious intention to cause worry among the relatives of men who have come to work iD the local mines from all DOT uOns of the western country. In letter one, signing himself, l.. Hughes, Com, unsatisfIed with term ing strike called by CT men out of a total working force of 3500, and to which the big majority of men in the nnes absolutely refused to respond, big ones, goes on to say that @the mines are cayipg in and the miners have refused to work in such danger ous mines. To anyone acquainted with conditions in the Warren dis trict ever since the advent of the Western Federation of Miners up to the present time. it is clear that this statement is absolutely false. Further in the letter 1t is stated that forty boys came through false | representation and on arriving here ! thirty-five refused to work" This statement is also known to be abso- lutely false. But as the continuation of malicious fa1sehood comes the statement in the same letter that seven men were killed last week, and three yesterday, so please try to keep men from here.'' That this statement is an absolute lie, and was user merely in a cowardly attempt to | worry the relatives of men cohtem- plating coming to work in the Warren district is evident from the rebuke i brought forth from Acting Mayor Hughes of this city who, on hearing | the report, sent telegram to the press at Hannibal.
 l In conclusion the letter from the | local protector Of the workingmen of Hannibal states that he will wire when settlement is made" l Were the people of the country able ! to hear the talk of the father of l.. Hughes at meeting of business men | held in Lowell last evening, they would not have the slightest doubt of the wild character of the state ents made by the son. They would have felt sorry for the father as he | made few remarks in winch he stat ed that he regretted exceedingly the action taken by his young son in writing as he did, but that he was unable to always know what would | occur
 The clipping from the Hannibal pa 1 per and the reply of AoIng Mayor | Hughes reads as follows:
 1 Somebody Has Been Lying" yesterdays Journal contained an article regarding the alleged trouble at the mines in Bisbee, Arizona. The article was a letter from thirty-one of the men who went from Hannibal to Bisbee the first of the month and it was signed by all of them. The let 1 ter was written to William Head of l this city, and it stated that all of the 1 Hannibal boys were at work, getting s4 per day and eight hours, and that there was no trouble there.
 Yesterday Marshal Richardson re ceived a letter from L. Hughes, chair
 man of the committee of the Bisbee
 Miners Union No. 10G, which puts
 very differeet construction on the conditional that place.
 The letter is as follows:
 "Bisbee Miners Unon No. 106r
 Western Federation of Miners, Or ganized February g. 1907.
 "Bisbee, Arizona, June 16.-Chief oi
 Police, Hannibal. Mo, Dear Sir: At the present time there Is big
 strike OF in Bisbee and the mines are
 caying in and the miners have re
 fused to work iT such dangerous
 mines, so the mining companies sent Ito Hannibal for men. Forty boys came through false representation and on arriving here here thirty-fiV' refused to work. Seven men wert killed last week and three yesterday
 so please try and keep men ron
 here. Bill Edwards, in Hannibal, I
 acting as agent for the companie Will wire you when a settlement p
 made. Yours truly, "L. HUGHES, Com" Bisbee, Arizona, June 25, 1907.
 Hannibal Journal,
 Hannibal, Mo.
 I have had my attention falled U
 A eIiupiug from your paper of re cent ddLG, uuuDCI OVt l tion. somebody Has Been Lying. deem 1t proper to say that the head
 ing is correct. Somebody has beel
 lying and it was not the men wn'
 came from your city to work in Bii
 bee as they were and still are re
 ceiving s4 for eight hours work.
 wish to say officiNIy that the con
 munication T. VT paper signed l
 ,1I-t II,,aI,as ie false in ever
 particular, - 70 me
 condition of tho s gl
 killed. I have before l.
 of J. ". Hogan. our coroner
 the way was born and raised in
 city. in which he states that o4il three men were killed in the mine
 of Risbee from April 16 10 June 16-l
 period of two months. I feel that th
 article required this immediate COY ltradictiou