Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-06-18
DETECTIVES MAY Be NEAR
SUGGESTION is MADE THAT MEN
ARE WATCHING EVERY MOVE
MENT OF INVESTIGATORS.
MARITIME in BAD LIGHT
STATEMENTS BY THE NEW JER-
sEY SENATOR ARE OBJECT
ED TO BY OPERATORS.

Charleston, w. va, June 49, The
senate committee Investigating the
West Virginia coal strike today rush
ed afong the examination of writ
nesses in order to hear as many as
possible before leaving for Washing
ton tonight The coal operators had
on hand a score or more Of witnesses
whose testimony was brief,
The attitude Of Senator Martine
OF New Jersey, who yesterday clasn-
ed with Quinn Morton, one Of the
orators lawyer declared that Senator
attorneys for the operators, became
matter of concern today. The op-
orators layer declared that Senator
MARITIME had been unfair in his ex-
animation Of witnesses and had been
prejudiced in his attitude toward the
operators. They said that when the
committee reached Washington they
will put into the record evidence of
oral and written statements by Sen
ator MARITIME to show that he has
preiudiced the case" The other
members Of the committee will take
up this question among themselves
and will probably place it before the
full senate committee on education
and labor.
A statments purporting to come
from Senator Marine and reproduced
in fac smile of his handwriting by a
newspaper circulating throughout the
state, today aroused considerable dis
cussion. The statement set forth that
Senator MARITIME would rather sweep
the streets than earn his money as
the West Virginia coal operators do"
i Attorneys for the operators said they
would place this statement, with
4 others made by the senator, in the
+ record.
Today Senator MARITIME took little
part in the proceedings Although
he sat at the committee table
throughout the hearings, ne asked no
I questions, under an agreement reach
ed after yesterdays outbreak, that
Senator Kenyon was to take sole
charge Of the examination Of wit
nesses-
4 John 4. Greene, superintendent OF
! the Mucklow mines OF the Paint
Greek Goniery company when the
strike broke out, was the first wit
ness. He said that guards we're not
placed on rant Creek until the men
mao been interfered with BY the
4 strikers. When these guards arrived
they we're not armed, but after 20 OF
is strikers, carrying guns, had made
4 demonstration, ne said, the guards
we're increased and armed He de-
olared that the conduct Of the guards
was not the cause Of the various out
breaks OF violence.
Walter Belk, VINO served on PANT
Greek as a guard and VINO was for
. time III charge Of the guards de-
tended their conduct. He described
tie first battle Of Mucklow, May 20
1912, when the town was attacked
from the hills. rhe firing, he saIpi
continued for agout half an horr and
after it ceased he searched the hills
and found places carefully prepared
for the shooting. He said men had
evidently been in these places foI
hours before they began firing
Belk described another battle II
the hills when the guards killed 2
miner and wounded another He de
MED the story told to the committee
by Mrs. Zevilla that she had beer
brutaily attacked By the mine guards
Senator Kenyon examined him q
length as to the general plan Of th'
Baldwin-Feltz guard system and th'
general conduct Of guards in tn
strike zone. Attorney Belcher caus
ed a stir in the committee room
when he asked Belk Isn't it trul
that is or 20 ormed men, connecte'