South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-08-01
USE RED PEPPER AND
HOT WATER IN FIGHT
Officers Meet With Strong 0p-
position When They Try to
Arrest Several Charged With
Being RingIeaderS.

CALUMET. Mich, Aug. l.-Dyna-
mite became a factor in the copper
mine strike Thursday night. arrests OF
eight alleged plOtters being followed
by rumors that the Portage Lake
bridge connecting Hancock and
! Houghton was 10 be an object Of at
tack. Guards OF militia were posted
at both ends of the structure and
street car passengers. automobile
drivers and pedestrians were not al
lowed TO pass until they had satisfied
the troop commanders that their in
tentiOns were pacific.
The sherin's office investigated re-
ports that a considerable shipment OF
high explosives had been shipped into
the district, but the identity OF the
persons suspected OF this action were
carefully suppressed.
The eight arrests were made at the
Red Jacket shaft nea Calumet.
search of one of the shafts showing
a charge Of dynamite. The non
commissioned officer who arrested the
first man said the prisoner had tried
TO strike a match as the party ap-
preached the guard house.
on this report there was based a
belief that the man had intended 10
hurl the dynamite into the quarters
Of his captors.
Sheriff Hepting made his first direct
! request for militia aid to Col. Heckel.
in command Of the Mohawk district.
The sheriff said a power house was
in danger OF attack and he asked that
il be guarded until the explosives
could be removed.
Fight the Sherins.
Incidental 10 the copper miners
strike. hot water. red pepper and vari-
ious household utensils we're used as a
supplement to revolvers and bayonets
in a fight between deputy sherins and
men and women inmates of a Hun
garian boarding house st Wolverine
mine late Thursday. The battle end
co with the arrest Of three alleged
rioters after troop had rescued the
civil officers from a threatening mob.
The arrests were part OF a series
which the sherif's Office a insti-
tuted within the last "a hours In an
effort TO imprisOn ringleaders OF the
disorders which marked the first two
days of the copper miners strike.
Warrants were served in half a dozen
mine locations and the jail population
was increased To one OF it's highest
records in HOughtOn county.
Seven arrests we're made at the
Red Jacket location on the northern
border OF Calumet Thursday night
when troops stationed at the shaft
drove away a crowd Of strikers gath
cred about the home OF william Car
michael, a mine foreman. The pris-
Oners were charged with threatening
10 destroy the house by dynamite.
One Of the men was -dispOssessed OF a
quick explosive filed with a detonat-
ing cap and a time fuse. The pockets
Of another yielded "A large revolver.
News of the arrests brought immedi-
ate protests from the union headquar-
tiers. The Red Jacket prisoners be-
ing the first taken exclusively by the
militia.
Friends Of the arrested men gath
cred IN such numbers about the shat
that Capt. Biackman OF the Jackson
company notified brigadier headquar-
tiers. A squad Of mounted signal
men armed with riot rifles was sent
TO the place on the trOt. instructed
To keep the crowds moving.
Infantry achievements we're held
in readiness at bridagier headquar-
tiers