Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-01-21
CAVALRY CHARGES
COLORADO MINERS
Riot Follows Deporting of
Mother Jones.
AGED WOMAN CHEERS MOB
Strikers HurI Missiles When Troopers
Escort Aged Woman to Trinidad
Jail-U. S. Strike Probe Asked
by Ashurst.
AGED WOMAN CHEERS MOB

Trinidad, Colo, Jan IA. Two
troops of cavalry with drawn sabers
charged 1000 striking miners here on
Monday and several men were serious
ly injured in the battle that followed.
The mounted troopers were escorting
an automobile in which Mother" Mary
Jones, the strike agitator, was being
rushed to jail
As the mob barred the way of the
troopers, the aged woman, who has
been active in the field wherever trou-
BILE brewed in every strike for years,
stood up in the machine and shouted
encouragement to her boys"
Stones and clubs were hurled by the
strikers and several of the militia
troopers were bowled from the saddle.
None was seriously hurt The melee
lasted for fully quarter of an hour
before the mob was dispersed.
Mother Jones was deported from
the southern Colorado coal fields Janu-
airy by the militia. She returned to
Trinidad from Denver
Mother" Jones left the train at the
outskirts of Trinidad and later ap-
peared at local hotel. She was ar
rested by detail of state troops. bur
ried out of the hotel, placed in an
automobile and whirled through the
streets with the cavalry escort gal
Looping at full speed in front and be-
hind the machine.
A block from the Jail the strikers
gathered in full force and the fight
began.
Preparations were made for the trial
by court-martial OF Robert Ohley,
private in Company +, Second regi-
ment, Colorado National Guard. on
charge of killing John German,
miner employed by the Colorado Fuel
& Iron company
Ammons issued statement In which
he assumed full responsibility for the
arrest of Mother" Mary Jones by
military authorities in Trinidad, and
declared she would be held tncom-
municado in the hospital at Trinidad
until such time as she saw fit to give
her promise to leave the strike zone
of the state
indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 14.-John P.
White, president OF the United Mine
Workers of America, said he had tele-
graphed protests against the arrest
of Mother" Jones to President Viii
son, Secretary of Labor Wilson and
Governor Ammons of Colorado.
Washington, Jan. IA federal in
Quiry by the senate committee on
education and labor into the Calumet
strike is proposed in a resolution iu-
troduced by Senator Ashurst Of Ari-
IONA. The resolution stirred up
spirited debate, but no action was
taken and the resolution went over.
Senator Townsend OF Michigan op-
posed the resolution on the ground
that it would be an Impeachment OF
Governor Ferris of Michigan and the
state courts and also would Interfere
with the present investigation by the
Houghton county grand jury. Senator
Ashurst denied that he asked for the
investigation for political reasons, III
it is political expediency," he declared,
ito ascertain the truth | am guilty"
He added that he had received about
1000 kilograms urging the inquiry.
Houghton, Mich, Jan. 14.-Fourteen
fresh eviction suits, coupled with
blizzard and the first break in the
union ranks at Ahmeek, which the
state troops left. caused Western
Federation of Miners leaders to shake
their heads obviously.