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MILITIA SENT TO
|SUbDUE STRIKERS
Michigan National Guard Goes
to Copper Region.
SHERIFF ASKED FOR Them
Violence, Due to Waik-Out of $1,000
Miners, Grew Beyond His Control.
Loyal Employees Stoned.

Loyal Employees stoned.
Lansing, Mich, July 25.-Two troops
of cavalry, two companies of artillery
and all the infantry companies OF the
Michigan National Guard have been
ordered north at once to aid in quellins
the disturbances in the copper coun,
try. where $4,000 miners are now on
strike.
Adjutant General R. C. Vandercook.
who received orders from Governor
Ferris to rush the militia to the strike
hone, expects to have 24O0 men in
IHoughton and Keweenaw counties be-
}fore tonight
h The provisions (which the quarter
masters department had ordered for
1.-THE annual encampment of the state
\ Troops, to be held at Ludington next
|lmonth, will be shipped north at once.
h Thousands of rounds of ammunition
land the two field guns of the Lansing,
Mich, artillery companies, supplied
|twith shrapnel shells, will be included
Hin the equipment Of the militia.
= 1t is planned to keep the men in
kcamp until the trouble is entirely at
an end.
Strike violence, occasioned by the
walkout of copper miners in the dis
jtrict, grew beyond the control OF
tSheriff Crune and he wired to Cover
Enor Ferris, asking that state troops
|Ebe dispatched to the scene to main
lstain order.
4 Stamp mills as we'll as mines are
Enow shut down in the Lake Superior
cooper district because of the miners
Isstrfke.
Fl The tie-up is complete, with the ex-
deception of the smelters, some of which
L.have enough mineral on hand to oper.
ate for a week or more.
The Calumet and Hecla Conglomer
ate shafts at the Calumet ranch also
closed down when the strikers pre-
vented men from going to work in the
mines.
! A large body of strikers went from
one shaft to another at the Calumet
and Hecla and Tamarack and several
loyal employees were attacked with
stones anu painfully Hutt
s At the No cage house of the Cal
| umet and Hecla a body of strikers was
prevented from taking possession by
| the mining captain, who drew a re-
| yolver and threatened to shoot.
| Strikers gathered about the shafts
| to keep the men with dinner pals
away, A large number of deputies have
been sworn in. 1t is understood the
companies will make no effort now to
| reopen the mines.
Attorney General Fellows wired the
prosecuting attorneys of Houghton and
Keweenaw counties to close all the
saloons and prohibit the sale of liquor
| IN the strike district
The merchants of the Hancock and
Spnth Range district have put their
III e. on cash basis. The mine man
ment are acting in concert and
fait until the situation is under
Ef6I before attempting to resume
81 nations, although the closing of the
Cnnglom shafts of the Calumet
46d Hecla for an indefinite time may
mean costly. damage to them.
Vice President Mahoney, of the
| Western Federation of Miners, arrived
| IN Calumet and took charge of the
strike situation. He announced that he
would do his best to keep the men
from rioting, but would countenance
no withdrawal from the strikers posi-
ton.
He also gave permission to keep
| the pumps in the mine at work, though
tits the Federation's intention to stop
an work in the mines, mills, shops
and on the railroads of the copper
companies.