Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-11-01
Colorado Miners Disregard
Order to Give Up Arms
in Twenty-four Hours
DESULTORY FIRING
OCCURS AT NIGHT
Camp Fires of the Defiant
Workers Burn as They
Prepare to Fight

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A squad OF cavalry late this
morning was ordered to return to
AsuIiar, where, according to re-
ports received at headquarters In
the military camp, shots were !,
fired by armed guards Into the
tent colony Of strikers. Adjutant
General Chase today stated he
would order troops to remain at
Aguilar indefinitely, az he has
~ learned that conditions there
threaten a violent uprising mo-
rnentariIy. -.
Trinidad, Colo, Oct. 30.-Detach-
ments Of artillery from batteries A and
B of Denver In command OF Captain
Lefevre left here this afternoon under
orders from General Chase to move
in the direction of Ludlow, the center
Of the recent disturbances. Unless an
outbreak occurs the attachments will
probably spend the day in reconnoiter-
ing and return to Trinidad tonight.
Quiet prevails at the Aguilar and
Ludlow tent colonies, but large num-
bers Of strikers are said to be In the
hills west of Ludlow and south Of
Aguilar. Last night line Of camp
Ares was seen along the ridge between
Hastings and Tabasco, and intermit-
tent firing all during the night confirms
the belief that the strikers still are
armed. Shots were fired into Tabasco
carly today but no damage was done.
At Walsenburg, two troops Of cav
airy we're placed on patrol duty to-
day. The work of gathering up the
arms of the strikers was carried for
ward systematically. Many Of the
Huerfano county strikers are said to
have Joined those now in the hills in
the northern section Of this county.
The Huerfano guards have turned in
their rifles.
Orders have been issued for the
storming Of the strikers in the Aguilar
colony and this work was to be started
today.
Trinidad, Colo, Oct. so.-Conici-
dent with the arrival Of the state
In the strike zone OF southern
Colorado more disorders occurred yes
terday and early this morning through
out the district than had been reported
previously during any one day. The
most serious outbreak on the part of
the strikers was the rifiing and burn
Ing of the United States postoff1ce at
Aguilar by strikers yesterday after
they had defeated a small group OF
mine guards in a battle at the south
western mine of the Southwestern
Fuel Co. One hundred and twenty
i've troopers were hurriedly dispatched
from Walsenburg to take charge of the
situation at Aguilar and late last night
after the troops had disarmed three
strikers and three guards a monster
demonstration was held by the strik-
ers in the streets of Aguilar where
more than 200 strikers, led by brass
band Of Is pieces, paraded the streets
until early this morning singing union
and patriotic songs and stopping now
and then to listen to speech denounc-
Ing the troops. No further violence1
was reported from Aguilar.
Bomb 10 Exploded.
At Sophris, the mine camp was
into panic by the explosion OF
a bomb at the st. Thomas mine, a
mile to the east late last night. The
missile was thrown from the top OF a
hill to a point we'll behind group OF
miners frame houses. No harm was
done other than frightening the peo-
pie within St. Thomas and Sophris
camps. The explosion was so loud
that people in Sophris at first believed
It had occurred there, and hurried rom
their homes to seek shelter in base
ments of the company store.
Reports from Delagua Of fighting
between mine guards and strikers
made Adjutant General Chase, who re-
turned here last night from Walsen-
burg where he had gone early In the
day, very uneasy as to tho safety OF
the camp and for more than an hour
early this morning was in conference
with his staff about dispatching troops
10 the mine. Meanwhile the adjutant
general kept in communication with
the mine and learned that the battle
was q harmless one and that the fire
was diminishing. No troops were sent
there.
Burn Railroad Bridge.
Strikers are reported to have burned
q long span of q frame trestle on the
Colorado and Wyoming railroad be-
tween Segundo and Primero. Mail
and passenger traffic, as we'll as freight
will be tied up on that road for several
hours, according to officials.
Some shooting occurred at Stark
Vile late yesterday In which no one
was injured. Strikers fred on the
tipple house at the mine camp early
this morning. Adjutant General Chase
announced his policy in dealing with
the disarmament situation. He has Is
sued positive orders that his men are
not to 60 into the miners tents or
homes to search for weapons and am
but that every man known to
have q weapon in his possession would
be disarmed. The adjutant general
declared he would make no move
which could be construed by either
operators or striking miners as pre-
judicial to their causes. e
Adjutant General Chase has no hest