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The Elbert County tribune., 1914-05-08
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, 0 mos .. ACHIEVE
MENTs. suFFERINcs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
western Newspaper Union Kew. servios.
WESTERN.

Sentence OF life imprisonment for
the murder OF Mrs. Emma Kraft. a
Cincinnati widow, was imposed on
John b. Koetters at Chicago by Judge
Mcdonald.
At Vallejo, Calf. Mrs. Joseph
Fyffe. wife of Pay Inspector Fyffe OF
Mare Island. was thrown from horse
and killed while cantering through
the navy yard.
The Eleventh cavalry entrained at
Fort Ogelthorpe. Dodge. Ga, and
started on the trip to Colorado, where
the cavalrymen are to aid in pacify-
ing the mining districts.
Reclamation Day" is May 8 in Cali
fornia. and its purpose is to arouse
the interest of California in reclama-
tion as a result OF the conference
held in Denver recently
The sick sister whom Helene Young
sought to save died in Chicago, and
Helene made ready to return to Los
Angeles to answer a charge that she
had passed worthless checks.
Rain that began falling shortly be-
fore the start of the woman's suffrage
parade prevented Kansas C:ty's
planned demonstration in favor Of
votes for women The parade win
be held OH the 9th.
The suffragist demonstration in
Minneapolis comprised parade more
than a mile long, followed by mass
meeting, addressed by several promi-
nent local people. Several mems or
yanizations we're also in line.
Sonora Carranza, wife of General
Venustiano Carranza, at El Paso. Tex.
received letter from a relative in
San Antonio stating that he had posi-
tive information that Saltillo has
been evacuated by the Mexican Fed
erals. who retreated south and east.
A launch loaded with non-union
longshoremen en- route to the Ameri-
can-Hawaiian Steamship Companys
dock at Portland. Ore, was made the
target for a shower of heavy rocks
dropped upon it from the Broadway
bridge. One longshoreman was in
jured and the roof of the launch was
badly broken.
The North Pole discovery incident
was revived in the Senate by Senator
Poindexter, who introduced a joint
resolution expressing the thanks of
Congress to Frederick A. Cook for the
discovery of the North Pole on April
21, 1908. and authorizing the secre-
tary of the navy to present him with
n $s00 medal.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-05-08
SPORT.
Standing of wrrtern League cIul

Cliff Healy, well known to all Den
yer fans and formerly member of
the Bears, was released at Ogden.
Utah, to the Terre Haute club of the
Central League.
Eddie Campi. the Los Angeles ban
tamweight, outfought and outpointed
Young Fox of England in a ten-round
bout at New York, having the better
of every round after the fourth.
The 12-hour amateur walking match
at Stamford Bridge. London, was won
by F.. c. Horton. who covered 73 miles
and 145 yards In the specified time
The amateur record for 10 hours has
been ~ miles 33 yards.
At Chicago. Sunday. Chicago's Fed
erals. playing against the Pittsburg
tail-enders, again outdrew the Cubs,
who were pitted against the st. Louis
Cardinals. The Federal League con-
tests attracted 5000 spectators. while
a liberal estimate of the major leag-
ers was 6,00O.
Edward Beeson OF the San Fran
cisco Olympic Club broke the worlds
record in the high jump at the Pacific
Coast conference meeting at Berkeley,
Calf, clearing the bar at 6 feet 7ss
inches, y inch higher than the previ-
GUS mark made by George Horine.
Fred Kelly of the University OF
Southern California equaled his
worlds record of 10 seconds flat for
the 120-yard- hurdles. Guy Hobgood.
Oregon Agricultural College, broke the
Pacific coast two-mile run record by
doing the distance in 9:37la. oliver
Millard of the Olympia Club, in spe-
cial event, cut this to s:st. The old
record was 9:42 2-5.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-05-08
WILL NOT CONFER WITH UNION
Colorado Operators Wire Wilson Re.
fusaI to Meet Mine Workers
Officials.

Denver, May Goal operators rep.
resenting twenty of the larger compa-
MES in the state, exclusive of the Colo
RADIO Fuel & Iron Company. Joined in
telegram to President Wilson re.
fusing absolutely to meet representa-
tives of the United Mine Workers OF
America to arbitrate the strike
The operators declare they are act.
ing independently of John D. Rookie
feller, and the censure that has been
directed against him is unjust. as the
state operators have taken their stand
against the union officials without
reference to the course followed by
Rockefeller or officials of the Colorado
Fuel & Iron Company
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-05-08
FOREIGN.

The Duke of Argyll, son-in-law OF
the late Queen Victoria and formsr
governor general Of Canada. died II
East Cowes. Isle OF Wight. aged sixty
nine.
Joseph CaiIlaux, who was reelected
to the French Chamber Of Deputies in
the general election, has challenged
Fernsn6 d'Aillieres, the Liberal can
didate against him, to fight duel.
DIR. Edward Bryan OF the American
Red Cross. who was captured at zac-
atecas by the command OF General
Joaquin Mas and sentenced to death
as spy, was saved by an order
signed by Minister of War Banquet.
Pope Plus divided the state OF
Washington into two dioceses. Great
ing the eastern half OF the state into
the new diocese OF Spokane. The west
ern half remains the diocese OF Seat
tie. The new diocese of El Paso was
created.
Homer Vivian, an Oklahoma youth
located on a ranch 1.5O0 miles up the
Amazon river in South America. was
killed by boa constructor, according
to cable message received at Mus
kogee by his mother, Mrs. c. p.
Vivian
The Constitutionalist leaders at FL
Paso. Tex, are convinced that Victo-
r'iano Huerta is ready to step down
and out under pressure from his CT
entifico supporters, who, with an ac-
curacy of knowledge, denied the
masses in Mexico, regard complete
rebel success as inevitable.
A new treatment for tuberculosis
which. in the opinion OF some of the
principal experts In the disease, gives
greater hope for a cure than anything
yet discovered, was described to the
Academy of Medicine at Paris. The
new method is the discovery of a
Young Swiss biologist, Henry Spah-
linger.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-05-08


for future governmen action in the
Colorado labor situation, President
Wilson has under advisement the
problem of what to do as regards re-
opening the coal mines. His deliber-
ations thus far include a plan of re-
fusing the operators to resume work
until there is industrial as well as
civic peace. 1t can be asserted with
a fair degree of precision that there
will be no operation of the mines un-
til they can be run without guns.
Whether that means compromise
somewhere along the lines of the
present contending factions or wheth-
er one faction is to acknowledge
| itself defeated is question with
which the President is not concerned.
He proposes that the government will
aid neither unions nor operators, but
will maintain peace.
Whether this means closed coal
mines all over the state developments
will tell. 1t is reliably reported that
| Secretary Garrison has orders to keep
the mines closed if they are to breed
| trouble.
1t is recalled that Roosevelt during
the strike of 1904 threatened to put
United States military forces to min
ing coal in Pennsylvania to supply
people if tho operators could not man
age to peaceably mine sufficient for
their needs.
| The disarming proclamation of the
secretary of war, 1t was explained at
the War Department, means exactly
what it says, namely, that only mill
tary forces of the United States can
carry or maintain guns. This, as a
matter of course. would include the
state militia were it not for the fact
that the government has requested
that body to be withdrawn as fast as
4 the federals take the field
Secretary Garrison received volumi.
nous telegraphic reports from cavalry
commanders in various military dis
tricts in Colorado. The secretary
reads these dispatches and gives re-
turn orders in person. There is NO
second in command.
Congressman Keating spent some
time with Secretary Garrison Satur.
day interpreting maps and giving him
general information as to the geogra
ply and topography of the districts
where trouble has occurred
Fosters Plan for Strike Settle mel mt
washington.-Here is Representa-
tive Fosters plan for the settlement
of Colorado's mining troubles:
sides will have equal representation
to decide all grievances that fail oi
individual or local adjustment
He would make this board a perma
nent institution. Foster says IL the
mine owners would meet the miners
in proper spirit this basis of agree
ment could be arrived at, as the mer
would waive recognition of the union
The mine owners, he says, refuse
to agree to a Cancellation board, be
cause they insist it would be an In
direct recognition of the union.
Arms To Be confiscated.
Headquarters Federal Forces. Trini
dad. Colorado, May 3, 1914.
ITO All Railroad and Express Compa
} nies. State of Colorado:
by authority of the Secretary o.
War the embargo established by the
state authorities on the receiving
shipping or delivering of arms ant
ammunition in this state will be con
tinued You will therefore refrain
} from any of the the acts above speci
J fled. BY order of
MAJOR HOLBROOK,
Commanding Federal Forces.>
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-05-08

out the militia until / had exhausted
every. means that had been suggested
to bring about Il settlement of the dis
pute or to assist In other ways the
local authorities in controlling the
situation; when the local authorities
by law in which / could assist and
that was through the military arm of
the government.
"The troops were called into the
field and took charge Of the situation
of men that could be secured
Opposed From stnrt.
From the beginning there was op-
the law provided for $50 interest on
certificates of Indebtedness. but recent
ly that had been NJ, changed, and but q ~ .
not only OF this state but of the coun-
try was not such as to make the rails
"I was anxious that the credit of the
state should be maintained: that the
small pay allowed % the militia should
that the state should be able to pur-
chase on cash basis: and so l COM
municated with the clearing house as
Springs and of Pueblo. and asked them
IL they would not carry the certificates
was scarce. that the rate Of interest
allowed was but 4eo and the period of
payment indefinite: the clearing house
slider the matter. was notified that the
auditor would not agree to pay these
certificates.
Conditions Called Serious.
There was other opposition: but in
the meantime conditions had become so
serious in the strike zone that there
were battles almost daily: camps were
surrounded. and besieged; life was lost
almost daily. and great battle was
imminent. with danger of tremendous
loss of life to say nothing of property
and. feeling that.I had no other course
to pursue. / sent the militia to the
field.
when it came to the payment of the
first certificates they were not issued
and l was compelled to go into the
Supreme Court and AJAX that body to
order the auditing of the bills and the
issuance of the certificates.
Notwithstanding this was done,
from that dav until the present there
has been. from one source or another,
not always apparent. such an opposi-
tion to the payment of these bills that
II has been exceedingly difficult to
make purchases and to raise further
money.
In fact. approximately not more
than one-half OF the Indebtedness con-
tracted is being carried by banks and
those who agreed to carry it; the
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-05-08
Secretary of War Garison's Proc
lamation to Major Hoibrook.

Following is the proclamation
calling for the disarming of fll per
sons other than members of the
military service in Colorado. which
was sent to Major Holbrook at
Trinidad Saturday by Secretary of
War Garrison.
"Whereas, Under existing circum-
stances, the possession of arms and
ammunition by persons not in the
military service of the United States
tends to provoke disorder and to in
cite domestic violence, and hinders
the restoration of normal conditions
of peace and good order. / do. by the
authority of the President of the
United states. call upon and direct
all persons not In the military
service of the United States who
have arms or ammunition in their
possession or under their control to
deliver them forthwith to the Off
Ger at the place herein designated.
Receipts will be issued for all arms
and ammunition so delivered. The
above applies to individuals. firms.
associations and corporations"
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-05-08
WASHINGTON.

Names OF eight Catholic priests
who have volunteered to serve in the
American army or navy in case of
war with Mexico were sent to the
President.
A revised list of American dead and
wounded In the taking Of Vera Cruz
was announced by Secretary of the
Navy Daniels. 1t showed: Dead-11
sailcrs, marines. unidentified; to
tai. 16. Wounded-2 officers, 81 sail.
ors. IA marines, unidentified men; 4;
total, 20.
Lumber manufacturers associations
through combining and agreement
have increased the price of lumber and
endeavored through lobbying TO influ-
ence Legislation, according to a par
tial report on the lumber industry,
made public by the commissioner OF
corporations.
Licentiate Esteva Ruiz has been ap-
pointed minister of foreign affairs in
the Huerta Cabinet, to succeed Port
lilo Rojas, retired. The Spanish
ambassador at Washington was off.
cially informed of the appointment by
cable and communicated the new ap-
pointment to the mediators.
A silver tea service supplemented
by pair OF silver candelabra. is the
House OF Representatives. wedding
president Tor Miss Eleanor Wilson
the Presidents youngest daughter
Her marriage to Secretary McAdoo
will take place in the blue room OF
the White House on May I.
Post Wheeler. formerly secretary
of the American embassy at Rome
whose official conduct has been un-
der investigation for many months
finally has been completely vindi-
Gated. He will be reassigned to the
foreign services in his grade as soon
as necessary arrangements can be
made by the department.
May / marked the sixteenth ami
versary of the battle OF Manila Bay.
In celebration of the event Admiral
George Dewey, hero of Manila Bay
and president of the Society of Ma.
Mia Bay. gave a dinner to the mem.
bers ct the society at his home in
Washington. The society is com.
posed OF those who participated in the
battle.
The regional reserve district in
which Colorado is situated has thus
far failed to make up its bank sub
scription minimum OF $4,000, 900,
which is precedent to organization.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-05-08
GENERAL.

Mrs. Upton Sinclair said in New
York that the picketing of the Stand
ard OIL offices would be kept up con-
stantly, day and night. until the Colo
RADIO strike is settled
Cable advices received at New York
from Manaos, Brazil, where his expe-
dition emerged from the Interior
stated that Colonel Roosevelt would
sail for New York.
"Convicts. idiots. lunatics and wom-
en- cannot vote" was the legend on
one of the banners borne by st. Paul,
Mimi, suffragists. who. several hum
dred strong. held parade which was
followed by an open air meeting and
addresses by several leaders of the
cause.
Marie Cans. woman radical
speaker. led crowd OF women and
boys to the offices of the Standard
OIL Company. 26 Broadway. in New
York. and there announced: IF
Rockefeller don't arbitrate and stop
the murders in Colorado, I'm going to
shoot him like dog.
Mexican federal soldiers helped
themselves to $150,0O0 they found in
the offices of the Tehuantepec Nation
al railway after the fall Of Vera Cruz.
according to William b. Ryan. vice
president of the road. who with thirty
three other refugees arrived in New
York on the liner 0regonia.
William Vincent Astor. son of the
late Col John Jacob Astor, and heir
to the bulk of the sS7,000,000 Astor
estate. and Helen Dinsmore Hunting
ton. daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Palmer Huntington. were married by
the Rev. C. H Duncan in simple
ceremony at Hopeland House. Stats
burg. N. Y. the home of the brides
parents.
John A. McAdams of Exeter. N. H.,
was awarded $4,000 damages for an
electric shock he received while tele-
phoning over the New England tele-
graph and telephone lines.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-05-08
may CLOSE COLORADO MINES
Run Without Guns Quit Operation Is Pres
ident Wilson's UItmatum
STATE TROOPS BLAMED
FOR BURNING OF sTRIkERv
TENTS AT LUDLOW.
Major Boughton and Captains Danks
and Van cise, Comprising Military
Committee, Make investigation
and Submit Report.


Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-The court-martial OF every
officer and enlisted man of the state
militia who participated in the burn
ming of the Coal strikers tent colony
at Ludlow in which two women and
eleven children were killed, is recon-
mended by Mai. Edward J. Boughton.
judSe-advocare: Capt. w. C. Danks
and Capt. Philip S. Van Cise of the
Colorado National Guard, comprising
the military committee which conduct
cd an investigation. In a report OF
it's findings submitted Saturday night,
the committee lays responsibility for
the renewal of hostilities to the Greek
strikers of the colony, but finds that
after the first tent caught fire that
soldiers and mine guards deliberately
spread the conflagration by pouring
oil upon the flames and other tents.
The report attributes the burning Of
the first tent to concentrated firing
upon it. 1t recites that Major Ham
rock, when hostilities commenced.
trained a machine gun on the tent
colony ito test his range" and fired
volley directly into it.
The committee holds Lieut.. E. X.
Linderfelt largely responsible for the
antagonism which led to the rent col
ony burning. through wholly tactless
treatment OF mine guards and strik-
crs."
1t found that Louis Tikas, leader Of
the colony, had sought to prevent
clash between the colonists and the
militiamen; that Major Hammock had
brought reinforcements before the
battle, and that the Greeks had pre-
cipitated the fight by firing first.
| Tikas, who later was taken prisoner
after having Joined the Greek fighting
ranks in the battle, the committee
found, had been struck so violently
over the head by a rifle in the hands
of Lieutenant Linderfelt that the stock
of the weapon had been broken The
committee found that Tikas and two
other prisoners were shot.
The committee reports that what
was designated as Troop "a" was re-
cruited from mine guards, who come
and go with strikes" are ineligible to
enlistment as national guardsmen and
mine employees.
The coal operators are blamed by
the committee for a large part of the
riotous and lawless acts in the strile
zone to their employment of "igno-
rant, lawless and savage south Euro
pean peasants" who have no respect
for law and to whom liberty means
| license"
In conclusion, the committee recon
mends in addition to a general court
martial the establishment of state
constabulary and a further investiga
tion by state and federal governments
Major Bougliton, who wrote the re-
port also added a minority recommen
dation in which he urges against the
re-establishment of the tent colony at
Ludlow.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-05-08
sLATTERY IS SPEAKER
ELECTED BY HOUSE AFTER BE-
ING SELECTED BY CAUCUS.
6ovsrnor Ammons Addresses Mem
bers Of Senate and House in Joint
Session, AmpIifying Matters
Contained In His Call.
we.t.rn Ner.p.p.r Union N.r. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver. May 6.-The Nineteenth
General Assembly of Colorado met in
special session at noon Monday to
consider matters growing out OF the
strike, a proposed compulsory arbitra-
ton amendment to the state consti-
tuition, settlement of the states in
debedness for militia operations and
other matters mentioned in the gov
ernors call convening the special ses-
sion
Representative ]. II. Slattery OF Sill
yerton was chosen speaker of the
House. following a caucus of forty
Democratic members.
Governor Ammons' message, deliv-
cred verbally to the joint session of
the House and Senate. amplified mat
ters contained in his call. He said:
MFR. President, MIR. Speaker. Members
of the Nineteenth General Assembly.
Ladies' and Gentlemen:
You are called in extraordinary ses-
sion in response to the demands of a
critical situation In the life of our
state. Heavy duties have prevented
my writing a message. and / come
here today simply to make a few sug-
gestions and to appeal for co-operation
in all that may appeal to you to be
right
when the strife in the coal fields
became so great that the local authorf-
ties were unable to cope with II and
appealed for help, | found there were
no funds provided either to pay the
troops or their expenses; did not call
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-05-08
Mexican Bishop crucifled.

San Francisco. Cal.-Among the
tales of revolution atrocities told by
the refugees from the west coast of
Mexico who arrived on the steamer
City of Sydney. is that of crucifixion
of the Catholic bishop of Chalapa. Ac-
cording to the account a detachment
of the rebel General zapata's soldiers
called on the bishop to surrender the
funds of his church. He refused,
whereupon the soldiers are said to
have nailed him to an upright cross
and left him to die lingering death.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-05-08
National Guard Nearly Al Withdrawn

Denver. May with the exception
of twenty infantrymen under Captain
Dorm in the Oak Creek field in Routt
county. all of the state troops have
been withdrawn from the strike zone.
Colonel yerdeckberg and the troops
stationed at Ludlow were sent to their
homes and the troops in the northern
field are also relieved from duty. Cap
tain Dorm at Oak Creek is to be re-
inforced by twenty men from the
Glenwood Springs company. or the
600 guardsmen on duty last week,
less than fifty now remain.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-05-08
Cardinal Urge. Peace Prayers

Baltimore, Md.-Cardinal Gibbon,
teleeraphed Archbishop Mora del
Rio of Mexico suggesting that the peo
pie under their charge be urged to
pray for peaceful outcome of the
CRISIS in the relations between the two
countries.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-05-08
U.O. IUUIOAnM ALL
SECRETARY OF WAR GARRISON
SENDS PROCLAMATION TO
MAJOR HoLBRook AT
TRINIDAD.
MUST RESTORE PEACE
WHETHER THERE'S COMPROMISE
OR ONE FACTION ADMITS
DEFEAT DOES NOT CON-
Germ PRESIDENT.
DIsARM ALL BUT TROOPS.

xe..ern Newspapsrr unIon Sew. ssryIes.
The Elbert County tribune., 1914-05-08
COLORADO LEGISLATURE MEETS
Nineteenth General Assembly Con
venes to Consider Matters Named
by Governor

Denver.-The special session of the
Nineteenth General Assembly con
vened Monday for these special pur
poses as set forth by the governor in
his call:
First-Providing for paying the en-
penses of the National Guard in the
coal strike.
Second-To enact law submitting
to the people a constitutional amend
ment for compulsory arbitration of all
labor disputes.
Third-To enact law establishing
state constabulary.
Fourth-to enact law empowering
the governor to prohibit the sale Of
liquor in specified districts when he
deems it necessary.
Fifth-To enact law empowering
the governor to prohibit the sale OF
firearms and ammunition when neces
sary in his judgment to do So
Sixth-To appropriate money to pay
for the special session.
There are two senators and two
iepieooheoeA'oS WIZ are Ddrreu irotn
participating in this special session by
reason of section 8. article 5. of the
constitution, which prohibits any man
holding a federal position from being
member of the Legislature. These
are Senator Bellesfield, postmaster.
Pueblo; Senator Reynolds, postmaster,
Greeley; Representative George Wea-
yer. register of the land office, Du-
range, and Representative and also
Speaker. o. c. Skinner. register of the
land office. Moatrose.