The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-02-21
NAMES MOyER, MAHONEY
AND OTHER "HIGHER-UPS"
Recites 0utrages Planned or At
tempted by Agents During
the Strikes in South Dakota
Metal Fields.

Lansing, Mich. Feb. 2I-A dra %
matte story of violence, alleged to
have been planned on attempted in
strikes conducted in the west by the
Western Federation II Miners was
laid before Governor Ferris by Rich
T. OGrady, deputy sheriff in Hough-
ton county, in his fight against extra
dition 10 Wisconsin for trial on a
charge of KIDNAPPING.
President Charles NJ. Meyer, Vice
President G. p. Mahoney, Guy Miller,
member of the executive committee,
and other representatives of the fed
eiation are mentioned by O'Grady in
Sn affidavit as persons with whom he
was connected during the time out
RACES were planned or attempted in
the Lead and Deadwood strikes i'm
South Dakota, which began in 1909.
O'Grady's purpose apparently was
to show that the Western Federation
of Miners had inspired Wisconsin ohl-
cials to seek his return to that state
for trial on charge of having kid
nared clement Huber, whom he is al
legged to have spirited recently from
Wisconsin to Houghton county, where
HtAcr was wanted as witness i'm n
grand jury investigation of an at
tempt To dynamite a train during the
copper strike.
Says Mills Counseied Violence.
O'Grady first became acquainted
with the western federation officials
i'm Denver, he states i'm his affidavit.
He was employed in the mines in
Deadwood when sent to Denver, where
he says he told Secretary Mills, of the
federation, that he was opposed to
calling strike against the Home
stake Mining company at Deadwood.
He declares Mills retOrted.
The only way tn win a sti ike is to
blow them all to he'll at the beginning
of the game
From Denver and thc Lead district
he wen, to Idaho Springs, Col. From
this point under written orders from
President Mover. of the Western Fed
ration Of Miners, he was taken back
to Deadwood. He protested To Moy-
or. he said. and was furnished $75 FOR
the family. He reached Deadwood
March I. 1910.
Here he met w. l.. Tracy, of Dead
wood. one of the agents of the West
ern Federation of Miners. Tracy got
-,.,I-.
war not long, he AYERS, before Tracy
suggested to him starting a fire in
the mine He talked with Tracy sew
erai times over the matter, and kept
telling Tracy that 1t would endangcr
too many lives.
ON one occasion, he says, Tracy said
60 him that he did not give damn
how many lives it endangered, II
must be done"
OCirady, he says. was made a
watchman. The other watchman was
a man named John Carctto. In con-
versation with Tracy, O'Grady says,
he told him that it would he hard
work to pull anything OFF, for the
simple reason that the other watch
man might catch him at it and get
wise to the whole business. Tracy
handed him revolver, so OGrady
says. and said get rid of the other
watchman.' This invitation to do
murder. O'Grady says, be declined.
Poison Water Bowls
O'Cirady saws Tracy came back WIN
another proposition. He wanted him
To put arsenic i'm the water bowls AZ
the various levels i'm the mine. THIS
also was refused according to
OGrady. Anothe" time, he says, ira
cy came to him and said he was going
10 Denver 20 get "some pettibonc dope
to- start fire simply by breaking bot
ties upon the timber YOU wish 10
fire" Tracy returned a few days Ia
or. and with John w. Butler. came 20
O'Grady's room with suitcase fun of
bottles. merely saying the stuff was
ready" The result. OGrady. says
was that his room caught FIRE.
ON April 20 some of the sarr' sort
of bottles were thrown from the
Northwestern train against a building
owned by the Homestake Mining com
Cont;p,,ed an a,h Pane. 1st Column.