Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-07-19
FOLLOWING A NIGHT OF RIOTlNG,
MAYOR COTTERILL ASSUMES
PERSONAL CONTROL OF POLICE,
CLOSES SALOONS and STOPS
STREET MEETINGS.
ORDERS SUSPENSION OF
DAILY SEATTLE TIMES

5 that the condition OF riot and tumult"
which prevailed last night was in i'm
minent danger of renewal Mayor
George +. Cotterill, of this city, pro-
claimed his assumption of control OF
the city police today, closed all sa-
looms, and ordered the suspension OF
publication of the Seattle Times until
proofs of all matter for publication be
submitted to him.
The newspaper office was surround
ed by police just before noon to en-
force the order
The publishers of the Times an
nounced they had sought injunctions
against the mayor and the police.
Clarence +. Blethen, managing
editor of the paper, issued state
ment charging that Mayor Cotterill
vas responsible for the riots of the
last two nights in that he had per-
Eitted "the display of the red flag
and spread of anarchistic principles"
upon the streets during the Potlatch
festival. This Blethen said, had led to
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diers two nights ago, and to the
r. taliatory attack upon Industrial
workers of the World and Socialist
headquarters last night by civilians
and sailors from the Pacific fleet.
A party of United States marines
and sailors from the Pacific reserve
fleet, most of them sailors wearing
the name bands of the cruisers Colo
RADIO and California, started last night
to "clean up the town. as they ex-
pressed it, by attacking socialists and
Industrial Workers of the World.
A second party OF men from the Pa
cific reserve feet attacked the big In
dustrial Workers HEADQUARTERS on
Washington street, in the southern
part of the city. The contents of the
building were dragged into the street
and bonfire made of them.
A provost guard of fifty men from
the fleet was hurried ashore in cut
ters to arrest all the men ashore.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels was
dining on the cruiser West Virginia,
the guest Of Admiral Reynolds, at the
time the rioting began.
About a dozen men of warsmen, all
young were in the first wrecking
party to get under way. They were
aided by several members of the
Washington naval militia and by
hundred young civilians, who made
most of the noise. Waving United
tnfn Hon CT ~
swooped down on the cart news stand
of Millard Price, socialist orator, at
the intersection of Fourth avenue
and Westlake boulevard, the busiest
night corner of the city. The cart
was broken to spinters in a moment
and the big stock of Socialist papers
and magazines torn and thrown into
the street and jumped upon.
The mob then rushed to a store
room occupied until recently by the
Industrial Workers of the World at
Fifth avenue, near Stewart. The
wreckers found the place deserted,
he tenants had moved.
Then they proceeded to the Social
st headquarters on Fifth avenue, near
Stewart, smashed in the plate glass
'ront and nailed American flags on
he front of the building
Two policemen smiled complacent-
y upon the wreckers. The sailors
ore the signs from the front of the
and broke them to pieces.
md then started to drag the furni-
ure and books into the street, but the
'olicemen stopped them.
There were demands that the In
ustrial Workers be hunted down, and
young civilian in a white suit tried
0 induce the party to go to head
uarters of the moderate Socialists in
n old church on Olive street. near
eventh Another self-appointed lead
r led the party toward the old Uni
arian church on Seventh avenue near
+nion street, which had just been va
ated by the moderates.
AS the naval men were crossing
ike street at Sixth, they were halted
Y an automobile full of policemen.
eaded by big captain, who told The
ailors that if they did not disperse he
ould arrest every one of them. The
olicemen, by maneuvering, separat-
d the men in uniform and scattered
lem. No handling of them was nee
ssary The men shouted to the po-
ce. 'your mayor won't do anything
, protect the flag, SO we are saving
our city"
A young civilian who had been en-
to incite the sailors, kept
louting to them to "go and get May
Cotterrill."
No arrests were made
The mob formed in the north part
the city after it had been dispersed
I'd went back to the Socialist head
larters on Fifth avenue and sacked
e place, destroying the furniture
I'd large quantity of Socialist lit
'ature
Some one shouted that there was
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