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had gotten beyond the control Of that
organization, will compare in heroism
and fortitude with the defenders OF
Alamo against the Mexican army.
In position to NOW down their enc
mics as they deployed over the level
land from the tent colony to the rail-
road ut,this handful of guardsmen
obeyed the order Of Major Hammock
not to fire until fred on and permit
ted the armed enemy to gain cover
from which they could fire on the uni
forms and against the sovereignty OF
Colorado:
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die"
Six of these were boys of eighteen,
students of Colorado. Governor Am
mons had called home the main force
at Ludlow, and these were left to
gather up the camp equipment and
stray cavalry horses. But another
week and General Chase would have
had them out and ON their way home.
Governor Ammons had recalled the
troops, under q pledge OF peace ar.
ranged by John r. Lawson. Execu-
tive Committeeman of the United
Mine Workers specially in charge Of
the strike by orders from Indianapolis.
and by other officers of the United
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1ority of Colorado citizens understand
it, He is an anarchist who thinks he
ia a socialist. He is q writer Tor
undertaking magazines. and writes Tor
nav lust what the morbid tastes OF
the subscribers for these magazines
demand. He is against property, un.
less he owns the property; he would
level society to his own moral base
that he and his might exploit 1t. He
ia a fit companion Of those money.
mad, power-crazed souls, who control
the Denver daily papers. He is the
natural spokesman for Motner
Jones, Hayes. Lawson, McLennon'
Hickey and Big Bill Haywood. So
cialism has for its sponsors and iead,
ers. and in text books, men who hold
there Is no God, who DO NOT oeness
in the family relation, and who would
level society to the point that the In
dustries, inventions and thrift OF the
ambitious and talented should inure
IA the profit If the drone and the
thriftless. ain,
The fact is: No Women and Child
ren were Burned or Shot by the Ma.
tIonaI Guard or by Mine GUARDS az
Ludlow, unless the death or tne
how who who rushed in between tne
lines of the brave defenders OF the
state and the serried ranks OF armed
anarchy was due to bullet from tne
guards. AS to this boy Judge Ben
B. Lindsey stated in Chicago tnat ne
was beheaded by the militia anu thae
the head was hurled at the Doy
father when he asked for the ooay.
This hysterical party sent feeble
word Of denial Of the interview Only
after Governor Ammons had pranoeu
1t as false. .,. .ho+
Instead Of the battle Of Ludlow tnat
affair should be known as deep
laid plot of leaders Of trained Greek
soldiers, fresh from the Balkan war,
to massacre a detachment OF for,y,
four National Guardsmen let IN sns
field for day or two aiter Tue The
story Of the gallant defense Of their
position against ten times their mum;
Der, hired by the Mine Workers o.
America to murder the guard. or VINO
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ing from attacks of illness, Governor
Ammons listened to the promise OF
the strike leaders and the advice OF
powerful public men and private
citizens, and agreed to remove the
troops and did so,-only this little
detachment remaining in the field.
The organs of anarchy like the Den
yer dailies put forth the preposterous
claim that these forty.four men set
fire to the tent colony. drove out its
brave defenders to the number Of
seven hundred armed men, and sacri-
feed the lives of women and child
rem. That the attack came from
hired murderers taught by The
United Mine Workers leaders to
believe that the state. as represented
by its governor and its armed forces'
is their enemy and that the mine
and coal lands are theirs and not the
property of the men whose capital.
energy and brains had made them,
will be shown by the testimony Of
the participants In this affair and
eye-witnesses. We shall prove that
rife-pits were dug in the colony after
the truce was proclaimed, and the
order of withdrawal Of troops pro-
mulgated; that these were made with
fine military cunning and knowledge
of modern warfare; that Lawson's
tent contained fifteen thousand
rounds of ammunition; that the col
ony was a veritable arsenal Of war.
and that the ignorant followers OF
Lawson concealed their women and
children in q pit under the tent, COW
cred It over with trap-door and with
q carpet, and weighted It down with
furniture-death Of these women and
children having been due either to
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National Guard would not destroy the
lives of their women and children.
We shall show that, at the risk OF
their lives, and while the husbands
and fathers who assaulted the troops
at Ludlow, during a period Of truce.
were firing in ambush at members OF
the guard, the brave Colorado soldier
boys rushed in and saved the innocent
ones from the flames of the tent col
ony at the peril Of their lives.
We shall show that, under a flag OF
truce, Major Lester was murdered at
Walsenburg while kneeling in pro-
fessional service for Lieutenant Lee
Scott, who had been wounded. Les
ter wore the badge Of the Red Cross
on his arm-a badge visible for the
entire range Of a modern rifle, yet
the Red Cross could not save him.
We shall show that men, women
and children were bottled up in coal
mines-some for fifty-two hours with
out food or drink except mine water,
and that one of these men was shot
through the lung while going to the
rescue of his son who had been
wounded by mine workers after hav-
ing been tortured.
We shall show the awful f1endish-
ness of the murder Of four splendid
men at La Veta. shot down by mem
bers of the United Mine Workers OF
America, who asked the mine opera
tors to recognize heir organization
as a fit one with which to engage in
contractual relations, and who de-
mand that the coal mines Of the state
be turned over to them for operation.
We shall show that the United
Mine Workers. while claiming through
Lawson to have surrendered their
guns had between four and Ave hun.
dred rifles at Ludlow. and fired soft
nosed and Ely express elephant bull
lets-all condemned BY rules Of war
fare.
We shall show that LAwson's SOL
diers who are not coal miners horri-
bly, mutilatsd the body Of Private
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~HE FIRST DUTY OF
~ Colorado 10 to pay the
~ troops, recruit the Ma.
tlonal. Guard, ask Tor
recall Of Federal Troops, and
send the National Guard
back where anarchy ehal'
isnoes Il TO come.
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them the law against picketing was
tyranny, would not hold water In the
courts, and had by the weight Of their
opinion led them to contemplate law
leBsness.
While Drinking Beer They Thought
Of Blood.
The governor Of the state had been
denounced, and Mother" Jones had
denounced in numbers of meetings
"The Tin Soldiers" Of the state. In
full blast near Aguilar was The
10Th Of July Saloon" which is signi.
ficant as illustrating the temper OF
much Of the foreign element. the
saloon was SO named because on July
2sth, King Humbert Of Italy was as
assassinated by q fellow,siti1en O. me
owner OF the saloon. To kill those
who are the heads of the state is the
hope Of anarchy. Men could sit IN
that saloon, drink beer and think o.
blood, Three times Lieutenant Ray
Benedict, with a detail OF troops
pulled down the red flags OF anarchy
on that saloon. The picture We pre-
sent in this article shows the flags IN
position, Just before the last time
they were pulled down. That saloon
is now closed by federal orders. Is
1t too much to hope that 1t Will for
ever remain closed?
From the steps Of the State Capito!
after the military occupation Moth
er" Jones, Ed. Doyle, and other lead
ers Of anarchy had addressed the peo-
pie declaring loudly against the
rights of property and defying the
power of the state to suppress their
right Of assembly under any and all
circumstances. That they had been
allowed to assemble to denounce the
governor and the courts on the very
capitol steps did not strike them as
being a concession and an act OF I'M
usual tolerance. The villainous press
of Denver played the meeting up
strong.
When the troops arrived in the dis
turbed district, October 18th, 1913,
the strikers encouraged by their
leaders had the hypocritical grace to
welcome them. They we're afraid OF
n handful Of mine guards. these
thousands upon thousands of armed
men, at least they pretended to be
afraid, and every train was adding
to their numbers men who had left
Colorado a year or two ago to fight
in the Balkan war or other gun men
hired to become miners" or "strik-
ers" though many of them, like Louis
Tikas, the Denver Greek bootblack
shop proprietor, had never done
days work in mine. Already
Robert Lee, marshal Of Segundo, had
been killed by strikers and numerous
parties beaten up. The sheriffs and
other officers OF the counties had ap-
pealed for troops, saying they were
unable to preserve life and property
against the attack by the United
Mine Workers Of American foreign
organization.
Adjutant General John Chase es-
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INSuRRECT0N IN COLORADO DURING THE YEARS 1913-194
ByLc CAMERA and BOULDER TRIBUNE

had demanded statewide strike IN
sympathy with this unlawful foreign
organization, was arrested while TAX.
ing an automobile load of ammuni-
ton and arms, consisting Of ten
thousand rounds of ammunition and
twenty high-power rifles, to the coal
camps of Boulder county-this being
the very day one thousand armed
men attacked the Hecla mine and the
homes of people within the Hecla en-
closure. This same Hickey has been
indicted for murder and will be tried
this summer.
We shall show that while the sher-
III was in the Hecla shaft house, I'M
der a veritable hail Of lead and steel
from high-power rifles. Lawson and
Doyle either would not or could not
stop the murderous assault, which
resulted in the death Of one, the
wounding of two, and the lodging OF
nearly a thousand bullets in the
building in which they knew the
sheriff's men stood over a machine
gun of which they demanded he take
possession before they would disarm;
that he refused t. permit firing
towards Louisville, whence came the
leaden and steel storm Of bullets for
fear of killing women and children,
and that they shot directly at him re-
peatedly as he worked toward the
Hecla on his humane errand.
We shall show that 1t was the Gus.
tom of these Brave Men, whom
Lawson and his organization sum.
moned to shoot up state, to place
their women and children in places
Of danger, while they shot At the
troops of the state or property with
in its borders. feeling sure that the
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the ignorance Of laws Of hygiene or
to generalization on the part Of their
natural protectors.
We shall show that flags Of truce
are meant by the lawson party as
traps for the unwary or that once
having marshalled mob Of hired
murderers or ignorant and deluded
men, the leaders of The Mine Work.
ers (who won't work. cannot control
tfeir own forces.
We shall show that these same men
entered into a truce for disarmament
with Sheriff Buster of Boulder
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REEL declared that the
screams of dying women ana
~ children at Ludlow called at
tention of the nation that
Colorado was in the midst OF
Industrial war, and proceeded to re-
iterate that women and children were
shot down by the National Guard ana
mine guards, after they had set nre
to the colony, AMI that these women
and children and other women and
children had been burned to death
BY reason of the ruthless attack on
the colony by the troops. Creel gave
the matter no investigation and wrote
as his sympathies dictated. Creel Is
AGAINST organized society as the ma
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tablisLed Trinidad and Walsenburg
as his bases. On the night of the ar
rival Of the troops, q band Of men
went to the Southwestern mine, an
Independent mine owned by J. w.
Siple. H. d. King and John Vail,
citizens Of this state, poured oil ON
the tipple aud mine buildings, set
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ing without work." or that argument
of force and intimidation which is the
third degree and not peculiar to Colo
rsdo mine unionism.
Horace N. Hawkins, general coun-
sci for the union, and a score Of as
sistant counsel, as we'll As the only
papers the members read, had told
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guaranty to his
children grandchildren Of the blessings good that
this article undertaken.
The writer familiar with the labor. the o~y For nearly
Of state
within miles miners hamets these Ia.
Of State Land Board and OF
Moved by Of sra
found
the defense Of his state
nealcuiabe He anei.
Inspire
rectude Of
He aims to attack unlonlsm
printers
But eonseienouo governor
Sheriff Of
county Carlson under rs for duty
shall be
latter
tale
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\ artin, a Denver boy. after having
wounded him.
We shall show that Colorado's Ma
tional Guard was in the Held SIX
months before their recall and not
a member Of the union was killed.
II we shall have proved these con.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-30
MAY SEND
EXHIBIT TO CITY
Committee OF Nurse Association Has
Offer From Iowa
Expert.

The committee of the VISITING
Nurse association which was appoint
ed recently to investigate tubercular
conditions in Keokuk, is in receipt of
q letter from DR.. Kepford of the de-
pRrtment Of tuberculosis of the state
board of control, in which lie says
that he will send to this city an ex-
hibit on tuberculosis which was used
at the International congress of
hygiene and demography held id
Washington.
The exhibit has been given in sew
eral Of the larger cities in Iowa The
general plan is to have the exhibit
in some room, preferably on Main
street where people can go in at any
hour of the day to see it. Dr.. Keep
ford will be here for several days and
be with the exhibit to explain its
features. While here he will speak
before the high school and in the
parochial schools. He will also look
irto local conditions in the hope OF
bettering conditions The time and
place Of holding the exhibit and other
details will be decided at the meeting
OF the Visiting Nurse association
directors on Tuesday morning.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-30
The Warsaw Gate City
Warsaw, ILL.,, Jan. 80, 1914.

of the Des Moines river, known as
the Marsh bridge. Knockers have
thought this bridgs project was dead
and really hoped SO, but they will be
as the bill authorizing
the bridge is before congress with a
very good prospect of becoming a
law in a short time as it is in good
hands. 1t will be the best bridge
that Keokuk could have and would
develop and extend keokuk clear to
the Des Moines before many years
Capt. Fred S. Ratterman OF the
Blair line has offered his beautiful
home on South Sixth street for sale,
possession to be given by April LIST.
He has bought a home in Davenport
La. Warsaw regrets very much u
lost him and his estimable wife for
they have been working for Warsaw
whether here or abroad. Fred boasts
Warsaw wherever he goes on the boat
or train no matter where, War Jaw has
always come first and not little OF
Warsaw's progress is due to him
Many say he was not appreciated as
he should have been or We worl.c
have an opera house today He vii
not be forgotten for the pleasure he
has given us fer years. May lifs's
best treasures be the portion of him
self and wife
The lot on the southwest corner o
Fourth and Webster sire its has beer
bought by stranger who will bull,
thereon at once, but the nature o
the building has not been announced
There may be factory distJtct be
tween here and Hamilton yet, VIII
! knows? Stranger things have ha.
pened; five years may prove it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-30
MAY IMPROVE FIRST
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Edvisability Of Making improvements
Amounting to $1,000 to be Con-
sidered at Meeting.

A congregational meeting of the
members OF the First Christian church
will be held at the church Sunday
morning following the regular Sunday
morning service. The meeting has
been called at the instruction OF the
board for the purpose of considering
The advisability Of making number of
improvements to the church building,
the main one in view being that of ex-
tending the building to the alley 1t
is thought that the cost OF the pro
posed improvements will amount to
approximately $4,000 or $4,000. Every
member. is urged to be present at
this meeting. No subscriptions will
be taken at the meeting.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-30
Stops OFF Here With Criminal Ar,
rested at Marceline, Mo. and
Suspected Of Robbins
Station.
TRIED TO SELL RAzoRs
Police Arrested Him on Suspicion
Think He Has Long Criminal
Record Behind
Him.

After being up all night on the
train from Marceline, Missouri, Lewis
Hughes, railroad detective from
Brookfeld, Missouri, stopped off here
lot 8 o'clock this morning with S. S.
Robinson Of Chicago, colored, whom
Hughes is taking to yiele, Iowa, for
Robinson is thought to
be the man who robbed the railway
|station and store at vieIe few weeks
lago.
Hughes had his man locked up in
the county Jail upon his arrival, and
left him there until his departure on
the train to FIT. Madison this after
moon. Viele is small town not far
from FIT. Madison. The robbery COM
mitted there several weeks ago is che
that has baffled detectives, there be-
ing practically no clue whatever to
follow. The thieves made away with
| E. large amount of money and many
articles of value.
During his stay here in town today
Hughes was busy making inquiries as
to the identity OF his man and IN try
ing to find any additional information
that would place the guilt on the man
IN his custody. Practically the only
evidence against the man rests on his
Identification by man at Viele who
saw the robber near the station right
after the crime was committed.
Robinson was first arrested by the
lrolice Of Marceline, Mo-, where he
was trying to dispose OF large mum
Der of razors the police thought he
lad stolen. From the descriptions
Isent out from yiele the man arrest
lea by the police at Marceline was be
lieved to be the robber of the station
at Viele. The fact that large mum
Der Of razors was among the othe
PARTICLES stolen also lead the police t,
believe Robinson the man.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-30
Daily Stock Letter.
copyright, 1914, by the New YORK
Evening Post


Evening Post.
NEW YORK, Jan. 30.-The New
York stock market today showed the
cumulative effect OF what has be IN
happening in the foreign situation
and the late buying was broad
throughout with a sharp advance In
all of the active shares, which in tbs
closing hour again brought about a,
market of great activity, This
strength was especially noticeable In
such stocks as Union Pacific, United
States Steel and Amalgarnated Cop
per. The market was strong through
out the day and except for a little
hesitation around, noon, the tone was
continuously firm. The strength hers
was similar to that shown by the
principal foreign markets, the feeling
at Parts, particularly being reflected
in a rise of half point in French
rentes. At London British conso1s adj
vanced Il to 1875, reacting later.
! Th sre was also noteworthy strength
at Berlin. The feature of recovery
I throughout Europe was the broad
4 buying OF investment shares. Trad
/ ing here continued active until the
4 close
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-30
Knox College Gift.

1 United Press Leased Wire Service.1
GAI4ESBURG, III. Jan. 30.--Presi-
dent Thomas McClelland, of Knox Col
lege, announces the receipt of a gift
of enc hundred thousand dollars for
the college from the general education
board as a starter toward the raising
OF half million for the institution.
,Seventy-fve thousand dollars of the
sum viii be used for the construction
OF mems building where the activ-
tiles of the men of the college can
be conducted and the rest will go
into the permanent fund. DIR. Nc
/ Clelland this morning expressed con-
fidence the entire sum would be rails
ed and said lie had a number of other
large pledges in sight This is the
first campaign for funds that the col
ilege has undertaken since five years
ago when quarter of a million was
PASSED The campaign has been care
lfrlly planned and is to start soon.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-30

Elmer Eymann, son of Peter Ey-
mann of Warsaw, yesterday purchas-
ed of tn Ramps heirs, the home place
of the family consisting of sixty-two
acres on East Main street. This is
a fine piece of prep erty, on high ele
walton overlooking town and country,
is we'll improved, having good house,
barn and other cut buildings and
plenty of all kinds of fruit.
DR.. P. D. Gaunt, homeopathic physi-
cial and surgeon of Keokuk, has
bought out DIR. w. L. Winnard. The
latter has not announced his plans
for the future, but will remain here
for the present. DR.. Gaunt was call
ing on some of our citizens Thursday
and getting acquainted He is Great
ing a very favorable impression and
we bespeak for him succe ss.
There are fair prospects that War
saw will have fine new ferry with
steel hull, next spring. 1t will be
larger than any she has had for sem )
years, and will be needed for the in
creased business that is bound to
come We should not judge the pres
ent and future by the past for our
4 Burlington and st. Louis railway will
/ cause revolution in all kinds OF
business here. Another item that
should be considered is, that a ferry
can run all winter hereafter, without
any freeze up because the big tieldS
of ice above here will be held by the
dam and will gradually rot away
without doing any damage and tbs
ice that runs out of the Des Moines
river can be avoided. We will ther
be able to get back some Of the Mis-
souri, trade that drifts away from u:
during the holidays.
Another carload of Studebake,
autos Is expected this week. A car
load of Overlands is already Ii are. I
is expected that WARSAW auto busi
less this year will be double what
was last year. The liberallty of HEnr'
Ford will prove a great stimulus t
the auto trade all ovsm the uniteI
States.
| Four new roll top, antique oal
desks have been added to the offic
equipment of r. o. Marsh. rresiden
of the Tri-Stats Traction Co.
Prospects are Frightening for a RAJ
road bridge connecting Warsaw wit
keokuk at a point above the mout
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-30
&c. W. Best Course
4 Colonial Company
saturday, 8:l5 p. m.
Harpist, Boy Soprano
Reader
Phone for seat reservations
Dutch Company Mar. 3
japanese Company Mar. 80
Course SIPS and 75c
Y. w. c. A.
Terrible Train Of Troubles,

Lake Charles. La.-Mrs. e. Fourn-
Ter, SIG Kirby street says: "The
month before took Cardui. could
hardly walk. had baclsache, head
ache, pain in my legs. chills. .ainting
spells. sick stomach. dragging feel.
ings, and no patience or courage.
Since taking Cardui. have no more
pains, can walk as far az wan. to.
and feel good all the time. Take
Cardui and be benefited by the pecu-
mar herb ingredients which have been
found so effective for womanly Ills.
Cardui will relieve that bacliache.
headache, and Ill the misery from
which you suffer, Just as 1t has dono
lot others. Try Cardui.-Adv.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-30
Warsaw Party Here.

Five jolly couple from Thu city
composed of DR.. and Mrs. w. j.. Win
nard, DIR. and Mrs. T. A. Hartley, MIR
and Mrs. VIM. L. Hill, MIR. AMI Mrs
H. G. Ferris and Mr.. and Mrs. j. K
Eymann, supplem snted by DR.. and
Mrs. B. L. Gilfllan of Keokuk, enjoy
ed turkey dinner at the Hotel Keo
kuk Thursday evening of last week
1t was party of congenial spirits
and there was life in that dining room
for an hour or NOR s.-Warsaw Bulle
tin