Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-11-08
STRIKERS TRY
TO DESTROY
FANS
WOULD CUT OFF VENTILATION IN
MINES AT FORBES, COLORADO,
BUT GURRDS drive Them away.
==ALL CAMPS TO Be OCCUPIED
BY MILITIA.
MORE MINERS ARE
RETURNING TO WORK

Trinidad, Colo, Nov. S.-Reports OF
an attack by strikers upon the mill
tary guard at Forbes early today were
received this morning by Adjutant
General John Chase this morning.
Firing from the hills began at 1870
last night, the shots being directed at
the fan house. The fire was returned
and the attackers retired At 1880
o'clock this morning the attack was
resumed and the guards succeeded in
driving away the party a second time.
Several shots struck the fan house,
but no one was injured. 1t is believed
that the object of the assault was to
destroy the fan house and cut off the
mine ventilation, thereby tying up
mine operations. A searching inyesti-
CATION of the affair is being made to-
day.
Preliminary steps for the military
operation of the coal mining district
west and south of Trinidad were
taken this morning by General Chase
Immediately upon his return from
Denver, where he was called yester-
day to attend meeting of the mill
tary board. The camps Of Starkville,
Sopris, Morley Valdez, Segundo,
Primrose, Cokedale, Tercio and sever.
al smaller properties will be afforded
military protection. There will be no
withdrawal of troops from Walsen-
burg and other districts and ample
forces will be left at the Trinidad
camps to reinforce any detail at out
lying points, if assistance is needed
Cavalry will continue to patrol the
streets of Trinidad at night.
Summarizing the situation this
morning, General Chase announced
his determination to at once compose
the entire district once"
The national guard is being recruit
ed and more horses are being purchas-
ed for the use IF the cavalry. Unless
warrants to meet immediate expenses
are at once signed by the auditor OF
the state, General Chase announced,
manmamus proceedings to force the
action would be instituted at once.
Several camps this morning an
nounce the return of large numbers of
striking miners to work.
r. E. Cory, marshal at Segundo. was
attacked, relieved of his rife and fired
upon by strikers this morning, accord
Pedro Armijo, a miner who has
been working in the Aguilar district,
was killed shortly before noon today
by a shot fired from ambush on the
outskirts of Aguilar while being es-
corted out of town by Marshal ]. 7.
Davis. Davis had just rescued Armijo
from a. crowd of strikers and was aid
ing him in getting out of danger. An
Italian who was accompanying Davis,
received slight scalp wound.
Armiio had come into town earlier
in the day to purchase groceries. He
was surrounded by crowd of strikers
and was being roughly handled when
Marshal Davis interfered. The strik
ers refused to give up the miner until
the officer agreed to conduct him to
the edge of town and see to it that he
did not come back.
The strikers then fell back with
the exception of two Italians who
followed close at the marshals heels.
The quartette had just reached the out
skirts of town when a rifle shot rang
out from the hills. and Armiio fell
dead. A second shot struck one of
the Italians and inflicted slight
wound.
The body is in the hands of the coro-
ner. General Chase has received a
report of the occurrence.
Will sell Mines.
Denver, Colo, Nov. 8.-Frank N.
Cove, attorney for the Victor-Ameri-
can Fuel company, stated today that
the southern Colorado mine operators
are prepared to make a formal offer
to the city of Denver or the state of
Colorado to sell any one of their mines
to the public, at valuation to be
fixed by appraisers appointed by the
governor. Since the beginning of the
coal strike it frequently has been sug-
gested that some form of public oper-
alton of coal mines be resorted to in
order to relieve the coal shortage.