Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-05-16
Aid FOR COLORADO
United States Soldiers Will At
tempt to Restore Order :
In Strike War.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Persons Engaged in Domestic Violence
Ordered to Disperse-Miiitia to
be Withdrawn.

Washington-Presi Wilton has
extended the protecting arm of the
federal government to the state of
Colorado, torn asunder by riots and
pitched battles between militia, mine
guards and strikers. Governor Am
mons found the state militia unable
to cope with the situation and asked
for help. The Colorado delegation in
congress, the mine owners and the
miners themselves, joined in the re-
quest.
President Issues Proclamation.
The president issued a proclamation
ordering all persons engaged in do
nestle violence to dispense and re
tire peaceably to their abodes,' before
April 80. Secretary Garrison after a
conference with the president ordered
three troops of the Fifth cavalry from
Fort Leavenworth and two troops Of
the Twelfth cavalry from Fort D. A.
Russell. Wyo., to Trinidad and Canon
City, respectively.
Colorado members of congress who
have been following the situation
closely say the mere presence of fed
eral troops will restore normal condi-
tions and prevent rioting.
Efforts of the federal government to
settle the strike thus far have failed.
On this point the president made it
clear that federal troops are being
sent merely to preserve order and not
to interfere in the strike controversy
itself
The president asked that the mill
tia be temporarily withdrawn until
the legislature which is to meet next
Monday considers the situation and
arranges for it to resume it's police
duties in the state.
One Dead; Two Hurt.
Boulder. COLOGNE dead and two
slightly wounded were the known cas-
ualties in the fighting at the Hecla
mine at Louisville, ten miles east of
here. which began at night and con-
tinued through the day with brief
truce in the afternoon, according to
advices received here.
Colorado Death List II.
Denver-The known dead in the
Southern Colorado coal fields now
number seventy-two. At Ludlow,
twenty-five were killed, of whom four
teen were little children and two wo-
men. At Chandler, Empire, McNally
and other places, twenty-five have
been killed. These are known deaths,
Strikers Fire on Towns.
Louisville, Colin the face OF
rain of bullets from a machine
gun and rifles, a force of strikers be-
gan attack on the Hecla mine of the
Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, TWEEN
ty-two miles north of Denver.
So thick were the bullets from the
battle in the darkness that all tele-
phone and telegraph communication
was halted for hours after the wires
had been severed.
Assistant District Attorney Harold
Martin, who lives near Lafayette, or
ganized a posse of 200 men and start
ed for the scene of the battle in auto
mobiles.
Sheriff Buster is among the forty
defenders besieged on the mine prop
erty. The strength of the attacking
force is not known.
At midnight the battle was still rag
ing, the strikers directing their fire
at the stockade that surrounds the
mine. The last word received from j.
s. Williams, one of the mine officials,
was that the defenders would not be
able to hold out much longer unless
assistance arrived.
AttdCk at WalSenDurQ.
Walsenburg, Colt was reported
by Sheriff jeff Farr of Huerfano
county that four men had been killed
in battle between seventy-five mine
guards and an unknown number OF
strikers at the Walsen mine, two
miles south of here.
Mass Meeting Held in Rain.
Denver.-State officials, including
Governor Ammons, declared the truce
which had continued for two days
between the strikers in the southern
coal fields and the state militia had
been broken by the strikers aud that
the militia now is under no obiiga-
ton whatever to refrain from aggres-
sive acts to restore peace.
A crowd of men and women-frorn
five thousand to six thousand IN num-
ber-stood in a pouring rain on the
lawn in frot of the capitol building in
the afternoon and heard the state ad-
ministration denounced for permitting
the murders in the southern coal