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White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-12-06

Former Ely Resident Honored
w. s. Dodd has been elected master
of work of Amity Lodge No. 8,
Knights OF Pythias in Reno, and s. R.
Tippet was the choice for senior war
den of Reno Lodge No. Is, F. & A.
M. Both formerly made their homes
In Ely.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-12-06

yorce action instituted by Laura Eta
Waller against Snowden A. Waller.
The deposition will be taken in be-
half of plaintiff.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-12-06
Doesn't Come Often.

John M. %Signorelli returned to his
home at Hamilton Thursday morning,
after spending several lays with
cronies of days gone by. His visits to
the county's geographical center are
infrequent. and as a result he was
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-12-06
Back to Former Haunts.

Mrs. James Ryan and family were
departures on the outgoing train
| wednesday morning for Salt Lake.
where they expect to take up a per-
manent residence.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-12-06

Got Job In Chosen Lane.
). e. Sessions, accompanied by his
wife and child. left Wednesday norm
ing for st. Louis. where he has been
promised a position as an electrical
worker.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-12-06
Order to Take Testimony.

An order has been entered by
Judge Coleman for a commission to
take the deposition Of Mrs. Albert
jackson Of Salmon. Idaho. in q d.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1914-12-06

changes that had been wrought since
his last trip to Ely ten years ago.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-01-06
TVEITMOE AND FIVE GRANTED NEW TRIAL
RYANS APPEAL REFUSED

Ky ANS APE
The United States Circuit Court of
Appeals today granted the appeals of
six of the men convicted in the In
dianapois dynamite trial for new
trial and denied new trials to "a
other appellants.
The convicted men granted new
trials were: Olaf A. Tveitmoe, San
FranciscoS James E. Ray, Peoria, H.;
Richard H Houlihan, Chicago; VIM.
]. Mccain, Kansas City; Fred Sher-
man, Indianapolis; William Bern
hardt, Cincinnati.
The court denied the appeals of
the following iron workers: Frank
M. Ryan, Chicago, sentenced to serve
Z years in prison; John H. Barry, st.
Louis, 4 years; Eugene A. Clancy,
San Francisco, years; Frank G.
Webb, Hoboken, N. j., years; Paul
]. Morrin, st. Louis, 3 years; George
Anderson, Cleveland, years; ERNST
G. w. Basey, Indianapolis, 8 years;
w. Bert Brown, Kansas City, Mo-,
years; Charles H. Beam, Minneapo-
lis, years; Henry w. Legleitnerm,
Pittsburgh, years; Edward Smythe,
Peoria, III, 3 years; Philip A. Cooley, |
New Orleans, 6 years; John T. Butler, |
Buffalo, years; ]. E. Munsey, Salt
Lake City, 6 years; Peter ]. Smith,
Cleveland, years; Frank ], Higgins,
Boston, 2 years 2 days; Frank E.
Painter, Omaha, years 2 days; VIM.
E. Reddfn, Milwaukee, years; Mich
ael ]. Cunnane, Philadelphia, 8 years;
Michael ]. Harmon, Scranton, Pa,
years; Murray L. Pencil, Spring
field, Ill, 8 years; VIM. Shupe, Chi
cago, 1 year day; Fred Mooney,
Duluth, 1 year l day; Michael ].
Young, Boston, 6 years
Judges Seamon, Baker and Kohl
saat heard the appeal of. the convict
ed union heads. Judge Seamon to-
day read the opinion.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-01-06

NEW TRIAL
AL REFUSED o."
at Leavenworth penitentiary. The
claims of the defense overruled were
these: ..--
That the lower court erred in con-
solidating the indictments and in
overruling motion to vacate this
order
That the lower court erred in per-
hitting McManigal and Clark, two of
the defendants, to be used as govern
ment witnesses. ...-
That the lower court erred in over
ruling motions and demurrer made
to the evidence, in oVerruling a mo-
ton to compel the government to
elect whether it should prosecute the
defendants under the indictments al
leging conspiracy or under the
charge of aiding and abetting in a
conspiracy, and in instructing the
jury.
In reversing the convictions of the
six labor leaders, the court held that
there was an insuffciency Of testi-
mony and circumstances pointed out
by counsel for the government.
1--WE are of the opinion that the
government failed to prove a prima
facie case of co-partnership in the
offenses charged in the indictment
against any of them,'' held the court.
"An except Tyeitmoe were affiliated
with the International Association of
Bridge and Structural Ironworkers,
and their sympathy and general par
ticipation in the general objects and
policies may be rightly assumed from
the evidence, but we are not advised
of proof, to charge any of them with
actual participation in the commits
sion of the offenses charged in the
Indictment
Referring to the conviction of
Tveitmoe of San Francisco, Pacific
- - IL L Il
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

after the fire of the tent colony at Lud-
low had virtually subsidized, and while
the women and children lay in the
safety pits, the militiamen applied
torches to the inflammable canvas.
The witness told the coroner's jury that
he and Frank Bayes, a ranchman saw
this done.
The ranch house in which many of
the women and children refugees Of
the colony sought shelter DR.. Harvey
testified. was under the troops fire
for the greater part of the day. He eX-
hibited a bullet which smashed through
a window sash and landed, spent, on the
floor of one Of the rooms in the corner
which a number of women and chill
dren huddled.
DR.. Harvey also exhibited a white
flag which, he said, he carried with
him on a trip from the ranch to the
water tank upon the main line of the
Colorado & Southern Railroad, near
the colony, where man was reported
10 have been wounded
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
THE CALL TO ARMS FROM UNION
OFFICIALS.

The same day union officials issued
formal call to arms, asking local
unionists TO organize. arm themselves
and be ready for orders. This call
stated that the union had no quarrel
with the state. and expected 10 break
no law. but intended that union men
should exercise their lawful rights for
the protection of their homes and their
constitutional guarantees.
About 1000 miners prepared 10 meet
the militia In the meantime virtual
anarchy prevailed in parts Of the strike
region Some of the miners threw on
the restraints of the union officials and
of local authorities. and several min
ing properties We're destroyed. The
troops reached the strike zone Friday.
April n. on that day one Of the
chief leaders Of the strikers stated:
1T is war to the death now. Cen
eral Chase can't expect us TO meekly
surrender our arms when the bodies
Of two women and eleven children are
living in Trinidad the victims OF these
murderous gunner militia. We asked
Governor Ammons for protection in the
beginning. He allowed the militia 70
outrage our women. destroy our homes.
and finally, murder our women ana
children. We must defend ourselves
They were willing. the leaders said
to submit TO federal troops, but they
would defy TO the last the men VINO
were responsible for the arson and
massacre at Ludlow.
Before serious lighting occurred
truce was arranged. General chase
was 10 halt at Ludlow and to take no
further measures Of offence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

a Trinidad hospital. On January -
street parade Of women In Trinidad
was charged by a detachment of cav
airy, led by General Chase in person.
Other and more serious demonstrations
against the militia were met with Gen
eral Chase's order TO shoot to Kill.
on March 10 twenty-three cavalry
men Of the militia destroyed a United
Mine Workers tent colony near Forbes
and drove its inhabitants. including
women and children. into mountain
snowstorm. Two days later the Lud-
low tent colony-the largest of the dis
trict-was also destroyed and its in
habitants driven away.
These two events drove the strikers
into such rage that on March Is the
entire district was declared under mar
tial law.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
INDUSTRIALISM IN COLORADO.

more private war. The State Of Colo
RADIO will require the services Of an eX-
tremely adroit press agent for many
years before there will be tendency
to forget that its militia has been
disgrace TO it and the rest Of the coun-
try. There appears TO be no doubt
that at times the armed guards of the
companies, comprising in some cases
the toughest elements of cities like
Pueblo and Denver, have been com
pany guards one day and state militia
the next.
All night on April II armed strikers
marched through the streets of Trini-
day on their way to Ludlow. They
had heard of the disaster that had
overtaken the women and children Of
the Ludlow colony.
According TO Lieutenant Governor
Fitzgerald the trouble was started by
the strikers killing of non-union
man, whose only offence was i'm walk
ing TO his work without their per-
mission" Other assert that the militia
men shot a striker.
IN the absence Of Governor Ammons
the Lieutenant Governor ordered the
militia back to the field. A large pro-
portion Of the troops refused 10 go,
apparently because the state had been
unable to pay them for previous SER
vice About 400 men. in command of
Adjutant General Chase. left Denver
equipped with machine guns and field
r1innas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
THE FLAG OF TRUCE FIRED UPON
BY MILITIA.

The flag showed the marks Of five
bullets, the first of continuous fusil-
lade from the militias line, which drove
him to cover under an embankment
and held him there for nearly an hour.
When he reached the water tank the
injured man was dying
The coroner's jury has found that
the burning OF the tents, which caused
the death of the women and children,
was started by militiamen or mine
guards. or both; but it does not charge
them or their officers with any knowl-
edge of the presence of the women
and children in the camp,
on the other hand, in the report or
the State Military Board-which has
recommended a general court martial
Of all officers and enlisted men par
ticipating in the affair-there are the
statements that when the tents were
set on fire lit could not be supposed
that any women, children, or other
non-combatants remained IN the col
onv". that the women and children
had been seen departing early in the
morning" and that the pit in which
these two women and eleven children
were afterward found to have been
concealed was a veritabe death trap,
being mot large enough TO support the
lives of such a number for many
hours
What the strikers viewed as the UNI
speakable murder of their wives and
children led to reprisals. BY the act
Of enlisting mine guards, by the act
of using other mine guards as allies
hv the use OF machine guns provided
bv agents Of the coal companies by the
training of these guns upon camps oc-
cupied by women and children by
preparing days in advance for the
desolation and destruction Of the week
of April ~. the state authorities, ac-
cording TO the union leaders. nullified
their own usefulness in the crisis.
IL was recognized Immediately in
many quarters that more state troops
and more mine guards-"Gunmer' they
were called by their opponents-meant
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

But among all those dialects the word
truce would seem to have no fellow.
Thirty-fve persons, including FIVE
women and three children, were
trapped beneath the blazing shaft
house Of the Southwestern Fuel Com
pany's mine at Empire at o'clock on
the morning of April %, and all are
believed to have died.
one thousand armed strikers gath
cred that day at Aguilar, near Empire,
to cut off reief to two mines and to
halt the troop train with reinforce
ments Of soldiers from Denver The
strikers declared that no soldiers would
pass their lines alive.
The burning of big mine properties
followed "A day unparalleled in the his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

Continued on fourth page
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

tory Of industrial warfare in the United
States.
At l o'clock on the morning OF April
% six great coal properties were in
flames.
Five strikers part Of band Of thirty,
who attempted a sortie from their posi-
ton on the Black Hills toward that II
the militia at the Ludlow station were
caught in the fire Of machine gun
shortly after midnight and killed. The
presence OF the party was revealed 10
the troops by vivid fash Of lightning
which accompanied the storm. und r
cover ~ which the attack was 10 have
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

Various Steps Which
Led to the She'd
ding of Blood.

Laen made. At the death OF the hve
the remainder Of the party retreated.
A courier who reached the LUDLOW
encampment from Empire in the earlv
hours of the same morning reported ire
virtual determination Of the Walden
family there. William Waddell, SUI
perintendent OF the Empire property
and his son Mat" were reported dead
while another son was said to have
been seriously wounded.
Scores were homeless and missing
that night and scores were hurt. While
in the hills striking coal miners waited
the coming Of dawn TO attack again
about half their number in mine guards
and state troops. stretching out in the
hills over eighteen miles of territory.
! All the strike district, from Rouse.
twelve miles south Of Walsenourg' To
Delagua. four miles northwest OF the
Ludlow station. was in the strikers
possession. Three battles were fought
AT Delagua. the Black Hills and the
Empire mine.
In the early stages Of the hght Al
Empire. which continued through the
night of the odd two strikers met
death and two were wounded. Dyna-
mite was resorted 10 by strikers TO
drive thirty imprisoned persons from
their shelter in the mine store, ac-
cording to II. y. King. one of the mine
owners. who telephoned that he was
virtual prisoner in his own home.
short distance from the mine opening.
At an early hour on the morning OF
April 23. according 20 King the men
within the mine, facing death by SUI
location through the destruction OF the
fans still maintained a spirited fire
upon the strikers from portions of the
shaft house which remained uncharred.
Everything in the camp was mass
of flames and the sky was lighted with
the glow for miles IL was by this
light that the strikers fought and the
men within the mine responded.
STRIKERS LEVEL GUNS ON MILL
TIA TRAIN.
Eight armed strikers in Trinidad, just
before the departure Of the a. m.
Sante Fe train, took up position on
the lawn of the Sante Re station, and
levelled their guns at coaches which
were to carry twenty militiamen out
Of the city. The delay in the depart
IRE of the-train gave union officials
chance to intercede, and the men with
drew.
The strikers remained practically IN
control of the region south of Ludlow,
and union officials undertook the task
of policing the city of Trinidad.
Two hundred strikers attacked and
captured the McNally mine, near Wal
senburg. on the afternoon Of the 18th.
4 striker and a mine guard were
killed during the battle, a woman was
shot through the arm, and man
through the leg. A boarding house and
clubhouse were burned. and the tipple
and shafthouse dynamited.
Ten minutes after the first shot was
fired every place I'm Walsenburg from
which the battle could be seen was
crowded with people The marching
and counter-marching Of the guards
and militia were better than moving
PICTURES. An automobile carrying the
SUPERINTENDENT and his family charged
from the mine grounds with the bullets
from the enemy hitting the wheels.
The strikers had shot through the door
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

to fortify the mines. The strikers.
who as miners had been living in the
gray cement company camps, were
dispossessed. out on the mountain
sides near by they were sheltered IN
tents furnished by the United Mine
Workers and were paid the United
Mine Workers strike beneht-S3
week TO every man, with 81 a week
additional to support his wife, and fifty
cents for each child. Powerful search
lights. manned by strikebreakers on
neighboring mountains. were played
upon these colonies by night.
The bitterness of the strike boded
trouble from the first. but not till Oc-
tober 2S, 1913. did Governor Elias NJ.
Ammons send the Colorado militia into
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
MANY DIALECTS AMONG THE
COLORADO MINERS.

Most Of the striking miners are Ital-
ians and Austrians, the latter term
in Colorado standing for all Slavs, and
particularly those from Austria Hun
gary. There are large numbers OF
Mexicans. ranging all the way from the
most mongrel Indian to the purest
Spanish. Also. there are japanese,
Greeks, negroes. Poles. Firms and Rus
slams. Fifty-eight different dialects
are said 10 he spoken in the Southern
Colorado coal fields.
Clair Price. whose sympathies lean
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

the district. under Adjutant General
John Chase. The militia at first was
welcomed by both sides; all ranchers'
miners and other citizens about the
camps disarmed at once, and the I'M
portation of strike breakers was
stopped. But charges soon grew
among the strikers that the companies
guards had not been disarmed, and
acts of violence began among Inc tent
colonists.
on January u Mother" Jones was
arrested at Trinidad hotel and held
incommunicado for forty-nine days in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

IuDLO W SCENE OF THE MOD.
ERIN MASSACRE.

Ludlow is a little mining town in the
Southern Colorado coal fields. 1t will
bo famous henceforth as. the scene Of
q great tragedy in the history of Amer
lean labor
After the battle each side prepared to
r.reu. the fight BY Tuesday morning
Tho 1udl9v strikers tent colony, built
10 house 200 people. was in ashes. and
thirty three PERSONS. among whom were
too women and eleven children. were
5osd The women and children were
burned ,o death in the cellar of tent
because they feared the flames less
than the machine guns Of state troops
ard mine guards. A large number were
wounded and there were many missing.
Union officials claim that a much
larger number were killed and that
troops or company guards were seen tc
cremate a number Of corpses.
The death list since the trouble begau
mas been placed at eighty-seren. The
Colorado state government sat power
less for weeks. watching the opposing
forces gather. Now that the conflict
is on twelve thousand men and their
families suffer a great industry is al
most paralyzed, many related indus
tries are seriously crippled and the
public is caused much inconvenience
and considerable expense in securing
one of the necessities of life.
The militia of the state is disgraced,
the Governor threatened with impeach-
ment. The war has forfeited lives 50
RAPIDLY that the presence Of federal
froops is demanded
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

toward the side OF the strikers, says
that years Of secret agitation have been
required to bring about the industrial
warfare which now prevails.
Between the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company and its employees there has
been a bitter strife since September %,
1913. II is the third great strike in the
district. the first two having been won
Dy tho operators. in 1892 and 1908.
As soon as the present strike was called
Baldwin, elts strikebreakers were
brought into the district by the opera
tors and machine guns were imported
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
MOTHER" JONES ARRESTED
COLONY REDESTROYED.

on March % Mother" Jones was
again arrested. Four weeks ago the
Ludlow tent colony was destroyed by
the militia: fire was used, and several
women and children were burned To
death. Then the present labor war be-
gan.
Meanwhile the State Of Colorado has
contracted 81 ,00O,00 debt TO pay its
militiamen. the coal companies are
losing millions in profits. the strikers
are losing millions in wages, and when
the war is ended. the courts of Colorado
will begin trial of S24 100000 worth OF
damage suits already filed by the COM
panies against the United Mine Work
crs. charging conspiracy.
The massacre of the innocents' is
the way the battle Of Ludlow will prob
ably go down in the history Of labor
wars. Newspaper men on the field
charge that the state militia and the
mine guards violated every rule Of
civilized warfare. 1t is alleged by these
investigators that explosive bullets
were used on children, flags of truce
fired upon and requests for the right to
bury the dead refused.
1t was not until Wednesday, April -,
that the Red Cross men succeeded IN
removing the bodies. 1t is pointed out,
however. that Louis Takas, chief
leader of the strikes. was killed early
in the fight. and the men in the colony.
including such a great variety OF races,
without proper leadership. wrought
upon by extreme fear and excitement,
and subjected to the fire Of machine
guns and high power rifles could
hardly have been expected to act with
discretion i'm relation either TO the
troops and guards or strikers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10

OF the superintendent house The
bullet hit a watch and glanced through
the arm Of the woman who was wear
ing il.
Hardly had the dust from the super
intendents automobile settled when the
watchers saw a party OF men break
from behind the boarding house at the
,line and make for an overflow ditch
that ran between the mine and
Walsenburg The men had almost
reached the ditch when one fell.
At dark that night all the camp
Continued on fourth mage
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
WOMEN AND CHILDREN DIE LIKE
RATS IN A TRAP.

The Ludlow camp is mass OF
charred debris, and buried beneath 1t
is a story of horror perhaps unpar-
alleled. all things, considered. In the
holes which had been dug for their
protection against the rifles fire the
women and children died like trapped
rats when the flames swept over them
One nit disclosed the bodies of eleven
children and two women.
DIR. Asst Harvey. Of Aguilar a physi-
clan for the union there, testified that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-10
The Story of the Strife
That WrenCheS
Colorado.
by EARL y. FINDLEy.

IN THE morning that the news
papers announced the capture
- OF Vera cruz with -Four Ameri-
cans killed and twenty wounded there
appeared dispatches from Colorado tell
ing OF "Forty-fiv dead, twenty hurt
II was war in Colorado. The reports
described a battle at Ludlow. Two
hundred state militia were ranged on
one side and on the other perhaps
twice that many striking miners. the
engagement was fought near or on the
property of the Colorado Fuel and iron
Company. The miners were of twenty
one nationalities.
They took as much shelter as they
could find behind rocks, and were plen-
TRULY supplied with ammunition. The
militia fired at the miners and the IRE
Was returned The battle occupied the
continuous attention of the combatants
through that day and most of the night.
The most tragic element in the whole
arair is that many of the killed and
Wounded we're women and children.
so ended Monday. April 20.
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