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roar of shots. We were in this house
perhaps ten minutes before the ma
chine gun did any shooting. We were
all Of twenty minutes coming from
Union hall up to this house. 1t was
about 1920 when the shooting COM
menced and there was a continuous
roar from then on, up to about 3:15
or $3.50 in the morning.
When 1 dropped back into this
this house I found q telephone there
and called up the stockade, telling
the people inside I didn't want them
to shoot into the town and that l
didn't want any women and children
killed and to cut 1t out, as l would
stand for no shooting, and that
would get in there as soon as there
was a let-up, but all this time, up to
$3.50 in the morning, there was a con-
tinua1 firing from the town into Hecla
Heights.
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having killed four men and shot a
fourteen-year-old girl while still in
bed at Delagua, and shooting all the
livestock and various domestic anil
mails at the ranches in the neighbor-
hood. These same strikers later
burned up the canons around Aguilar.
Tuesday morning, tho 21st, . pit
was discovered under what had been
one Of the tents In the colony and con-
tanning the bodies Of two women and
eleven .ehiidren. Lieutenant .Bene.
dict and Dr.. Lamme Of the medical
corps Immediately went to investi-
gate, finding that none Of the bodies
showed any evidence whatever Of bull
lot wounds and that they had been
suffoeated and had been dead some
time prior to the time tho fire started
In the colony. A number Of eminent
physicians, after having seen the pit
where these two women and eleven
children were found, stated that
thirteen people could not live more
than two hours in that pit without
1t was 7x8x5 feet in size.
During the time Of the rescue Work
in the tent colony a large quantity
of ammunition was taken from var1-
GUS tents in the colony, some $4,000
rounds being taken from tent
marked "HEADQUARTERS JOHN r.
LAWSON." There were eleven cases
1000 rounds each from
which the seals had not even been
broken. There were 500 rounds OF
1870 dum-dums. There were 200
rounds of Ely Express. calibre
800, containing an explosive cap
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when some person stepped out from
behind one of .the saloons and
emptied his rifle at the Hecla. By
that time shooting was going on all
over town and the men made for their
homes. got their rifles and ran out
into town and pointing their guns
toward Hecla turned them loose. We
had only gotten half way when 1t was
a continuous roar all over town from
the shooting. The roads being muddy
when we got to Jake Williams corner
we cut across the prairie north and
east towards AL. McDonald's place
to get him. My hopes were to get up
there and head them of and to keep
Union Men Shot At
Sheriff Of Boulder County
the men on the. inside of the stockade
from shooting back. ! got AL. Melon
aid and we started on for the Hecla.
When we got within fifty feet of the
corner on which is located the arc
light OF the Hecla property, party
OF union men came in from behind,
about 200 yards south of us, and com
menced to shoot at us, and about that
time they turned loose from the In
side and we were between the two
fires. We turned back into n house
on the corner to get out OF range
of the bullets, for by that time the
union forces had gathered along the
west side of the railroad track, run
ming north, and south behind the
down in the north end of the
ball ground. There was continual
The Ordway new era. (Ordway, Colo.) 1902-1927, 1914-07-03

About four o'clock there being no
shooting I called up the guard at the
mine and told him I was coming In.
Mr.. Christ and myself started for
Hecla. We had hardly gotten to the
guard house at Hecla when the shoot
ing started again, more severe than
before. 1t was about 400 In the
morning when the second shooting
was started. told the Hecla people
that there was no use shooting at
those people; that they had ammuni.
ton to burn up and would not be sat
isfied until they had burned it. The
: only thing to do was to take care or
their families and get down in the
basement If they had any. All the
machine gun was used for was to
scare the men back in the ditch. as l
didn't want anyone killed, but said.
"If they start to make q rush, shoot
to kill. AS long as the strikers
stayed in the ditch, though they were
trying to- kill us, they were accom-
plishing nothing and only showing us
where they were located.
While I was in the Hecla guard
house, about 500 o'clock while phon-
ing, bullet came crashing through
from q northwesterly direction and
lodged, in little cupboard on the
south side, just below my knee, just
missing my leg.
From 4:30 n. m. until 1890 p. m.
was back and forth between the Rex
No. 1 dump and the Hecla guard
house.
On arriving at Hecla I found that
the men only had about nineteen
rifles and shot guns and they were
not all in use, as some OF the men had
discarded them and gone to the
cellars. They had about fifteen
rounds of ammunition to the man.
The shooting stopped between 1910
and 1890.
About 1000 o'clock in the morning
I was informed by one Of the men at
the Hecla mine that one of the work
men was shot in the Jaw and one shot
in the hand and wanted doctor.
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Fuel Company and that a deputy was
to be placed in charge of each mine,
which seemed to please him. told
him l had sent deputy over that
evening to take charge of the Mitch
ell mine and as soon as l could ar
range 1t would get deputy and send
him to the Simpson mine and one to
the Standard and that l was going to
the Hecla mine and Ivan Creese to
the Industrial mine at Superior, and
Gene Shreeve and Fred DUNCAN to the
Gorham mine at Marshall.
left Boulder on the $3.50 car for
Louisville. Arriving at the Union
hall about 900 found in the neigh
hear what I had to say in regard to
the agreement which had been
reached between the United Mine
Workers attorney and attorney for
the coal operators. l explained to
them what the agreement was. Part
of them seemed to agree to 1t and
think it was good thing, but some
of them had some complaint to offer;
while the secretary of the local, Joe
Potestio, made a strong anarchistic
talk against me taking charge Of these
guns, saying that with me being alone,
and the deputies at the other mines
also, they might tie US ana gag us
and shoot up the town and kill the
union people. He made very ex-
citing talk and seemed to arouse the
people very much. One assertion he
made was that II Sheriff Buster would
say the word they would go down to
the Hecla and take the machine gun
and they all jumped up and said,
Eyes, yes" called him down sew
eral times and said it was up to the
conservative people to keep down the
radicals as it needed but little to start
trouble. The conditions were dis
cussed pro and con up to about 10:O0
o'clock. During the meeting they
waved the Rockefeller flag a great
many times. After the meeting ad-
journed I talked with Potestio and
told him I didn't like his talk and that
It was dangerous on account OF con.
ditions being such as they were at
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Many of the soldiers again returned
into the tent colony to go on with the
work of getting the women and child
rem out.
At this time a buggy drove out OF
the southeast corner of the colony,
driving west on the Hastings road.
The occupants of this buggy carried
a white flag and upon crossing
through the line one Of the occupants
turned around and opened fire on the
troops. The fire was returned with
the result that one of the occupants
and the horse were shot. A c. & 8.
freight train coming in from the
north. slowing up to take water at
the tank allowed the strikers in the
pits north Of the colony and those
near the pump house to get away TO
the arroyas
Lieutenant Benedict, who had held
a position in the ranch houses west
Of the steel bridge during the AFTER
noon, sent the men under him PACK
to Hastings after the tent colony
caught fire, as they did not nave uni
forms on and he did not want them
to mix with the men in uniform.
They took two men who had been
wounded during the afternoon. one
of these men, Phillips by name, dlea
a week later in the Pueblo hospital
from his wound received that after
noon. Captain Linderfelt, who re-
turned to the water tank from the
steel bridge, was sent back to hold
the steel bridge by order OF MAJOR
Hammock. Captain Linderfe.t leit
Lieutenant Conner. who arrived VIII
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This was the first intimation the
troops had had during the day that
there were any women and children
left in the colony, as great number
of women and children were seen
leaving the colony before the firing
opened about nine o'clock in the
morning. The order was immediate.
'iy given to cease firing and all ran
into the tent colony to rescue women
and children left there by the strikers.
During the time that the rescue
work was going on the troops engaged
in this work were constantly under
the fire from the strikers situated to
the north Of the tent colony and to
the northwest toward the steel
bridge, and made excellent targets in
the glare of the fire. Various obsta-
cles were encountered by the men
and officers engaged in the rescue
work in order to get the women and
children out of the pits where they
had been put. Out of one pit where
Lieutenant BigeIow rescued a woman
and children, two trunks and carpet
had to be removed and a trap door
opened In order to get Into tho pit
where the women and children were.
Like boards over the pits were found
by others engaged in the same work.
The troops about this time started
running for the cover offered by the
C, & 8. tracks, taking the women and
children, because they were told OF
a large quantity of dynamite being in
one of the tents which was at the time
on fire. They had no sooner reached
cover when this tent went skyward,
sparks all over the colony.
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SHOOTING Up HECLA HEIGHTS
With SHERIFF A TARGET

Sanford D. Buster was a successful
farmer when elected sheriff of Boulder
County. He enjoys the confidence Of
all people not engaged in law-break-
ing. The strike in the northern field,
including Boulder and Weld counties.
began April /, 1910. In Weld County
the operators have paid for guards
who were made deputy sheriffs.
Boulder County has maintained dep
uties at cost of over 100000
through the terms of Sheriffs Capp
and Buster. Sheriff Busters account
of the attack on the Hecla mine,
Louisville, April 27-2s, follows:
after the trouble at Ludlow and
THE ATTITUDE THE ROCKY
MOUNTAIN NEWS took in the mat
The Ordway new era. (Ordway, Colo.) 1902-1927, 1914-07-03

in the end Of the soft nose bullet
which upon coming in contact with
a human body Immediately would ex-
plode and spread the lead.
All of the ammunition taken from
the tent colony was soft nose am
munition. This kind of ammunition
is not used by the forces OF any civil
lied country at the present time.
The troops at Ludlow were surround
ed by about 1900 strikers when Cen
eral Chase arrived Friday afternoon,
April oath.
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parties were injured. After looking
over the situation at the boarding
house, and talking with the parties in
jured we then went over to the Bull
garian quarters and found a Bulgar-
ian lying on the floor on a mattress
with some old quilts for a pillow,
practically dead. with a bullet hole
in his head. One woman in one OF
the little houses had lock Of hair
shot off.
The condition at Hecla was one Of
The Ordway new era. (Ordway, Colo.) 1902-1927, 1914-07-03

C lied up Dr.. G. F. Wolfer Of Louisville
and told him wanted him to come
over. He said he couldn't get over
there, that It would be taking his life
In his hands.
When the shooting stopped, about
1910, Mr.. Saulters, one of the guards.
and myself started up into the board
ing house to see how badly these
The Ordway new era. (Ordway, Colo.) 1902-1927, 1914-07-03

the saddest sights I have ever seen.
The boarding house was practically
all shot to pieces and had blood all
over; the women and children were
In the basement hysterical and cry
ing; and down at the Bulgarian head
quarters the poor Bulgarian lay shot
and dying"
The Ordway new era. (Ordway, Colo.) 1902-1927, 1914-07-03
NEWSPAPERS were TO BLAME
MISERABLE Denver PAPERS

FROM AN ADJOINING NINE
SEVERAL OF THE WOULD-BE
MURDERERs COULD BE PLAINLY
SEEN AS THEY SHOT AT THE
HECLA THAT MORNING FOR
HOURS. THEIR NAMES WERE
The Ordway new era. (Ordway, Colo.) 1902-1927, 1914-07-03

~ My 80 per cent Of Colo
RADIO labor 10 organized
" and Of that only five
per cent believes In force,
such az tho United Mine
Workers, the Structural Steel
an Bridge, the !. w. W. and
Western Federation advo.
cate. Collective bargaining
does not contemplate force
or exclusion Of non-union la
Dor. The right to labor must
not be abridged.
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VERY sTRik Err
charged with murder
- 10 defended by tho
United Mine Workers and
properly so, since Lawson,
Doyle and the rest ordered
them to get guns and ammu.
milton and supplied them be.
sides with soft-nosed bullets
and high powered rifles.
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-08-28
SUMMARY OF WAR NEWS

The French and British armies battle line $50 miles across s
french frontier The British troops are reported to be os @
strong position Lille
Roubax described
fully
French
have forced o re tire on
ca report published by the government in the form OF an official paper
minister
chancellor
Betlmann oweg demanding
that
the official report Herr which Britain
about to take policy and that the i'm
pera chancellor which had make friends with Great Britain
and them through Great Britain,
Similarly the imperial chancellor taken aack He declared that
3rans declared
policy this He held
Britain
defend Belgium's neutrality
The
Field Marshal Sir John French commander of the British forces pays
high tribute did
hesitate but
periorty"
the on he
The Wilhelm
British O
The situation Toxic
rupture of diplomatic relations war"
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-08-28
OBJECTION TO
THE CENSORSHIP
BRITISH NEWSPAPER DEMAND
THAT A NEWSPAPER MAN BE
ADDED TO OFFICIAL BUREAU.
Personal and Editorial Protests Are
Being Made Against Keeping Enc.
land So Long in the Dark.

London, Aug. 27.--il;55 p m.-Pro.
tests by British papers against the
censorship and against the country
being kept in darkness about milf
tary operations received attention at
Premier Asquith's hands tonight. Re
plying to suggestion by James
llogg, M. p. for Edinburgh in the
house OF commons, that a trained
journalist be put in charge OF the
censorship, the premier said:
The government and military au.
thorities recognize the strain placed
ON the -rlblic by the scarcity of infor-
nation from the front and they will
do all in their power to relieve it,"
The premier explained that the Of
fetal press bureau has access for
consultative purposes to Earl Kitch-
ener, secretary of war, and Winston
Spencer Churchill first lord of the
admiralty, and in case of doubt, TO
the premier.
consultation between the heads
o. the departments and press com
mittee has resulted in the decision
that it was not desirable to add Jour
nalists to the staff of the bureau. but
that they should be associated with
the staff of cable censors.
Steps are being taken" said the
premier, Ito carry this out and TO
coordinate and harmonic as far as
possible the principles on which the
censorship of cables and other press
information respectively is carried
out. The difficulty in defining gen
eral standards is not believed to be
insuperable, though it is evidently
great.
Every effort will be made to con
suit the legitimate expectations OF
the press and public and to harmonic
with these naval and military consid-
erations."
English papers have suffered re-
Gently from the lack of an organi2a-
ton for press supervision in impor-
tant matters, which all know have
been published by some papers while
others were forbidden to print them,
and editors are beginning to make
strong protests personally and by
editorials.
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-08-28
SITUATION AT
BUTTE SERIOUS
BUTTE MINERS UNION SUR
ROUND ANACONDA MINE AND
INSPECTED WORKING SHIFTS
Miners Army Holds courtmartal on
ties in Presence of Officers.

Butte, Mont, Aug. 27.-Assembling
in force again tonight members Of
the Butte Mine Workers union, the
organization formed by seceders from
the Western Federation of Miners,
surrounded the workings of st. Law
renee mine Of the Anaconda Company
and inspected the night shit of min
ers to determine if any men being
lowered were not members of the in
surgents' organization. Not a miner
was found who did not have a mem
bership card in the new union and
who was not wearing one Of the
unions buttons.
The situation surprised the seced-
ers and, reforming their ranks, they
marched to the city, where a demon
stration was held.
The army" also marched on the
Anaconda mine tonight. This mine
was closed today by the action of the
insurgents and was found still shut
down. A federation miner who tore
down a Mine Workers placard at the
Anaconda was pursued but escaped.
Leaders of the Mine Workers an
noWce they will deport him if he is
captured, as they did Martin Glackin,
Martin Parkins and John Twey, fed
Grafton miners who. the insurgents
say, carried guns or else participated
in the shooting from miners union
hall June %, when one man was
killed and half dozen wounded.
The Mine Workers held a courtmar-
tial in a vacant rot and convicted the
three men.
Sherifis, officers and police were
spectators, making no attempt to in
terfere with the deportation or with
the forcible capture of the thirty-four
federation miners at the Anaconda
mine who today were compelled to
Join the Mine Workers.
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-08-28
DISCUSS LOANS
ON COTTON CROP
SOUTHERN COTTON ASSOClA-
TON HOLDS IMPORTANT SEES
SION AT NEW ORLEANS.
Discuss What Would Be Proper
Loan on Cotton Which Doubtless
Will Be Placed in Warehouses.

New Orleans Aug. 27.-Thc south
ern cotton conference, held under the
auspices of the Southern Cotton Asso-
citation and attended by about POO
planters, merchants and bankers from
the growing states, today devoted the
greater part OF It's time to discussing
what would be the proper loan value
to be placed on cotton, which doubt
less will be placed in warehouses be.
cause Of the European war. No de-
cision was reached aud the question
will be further thrcshed out at the
final session tomorrow.
The discussion on valuation was
based upon the official decision of the
conference that in the opinion OF the
delegates present, it would cost ~
cents a pound to produce a pound of
cotton this year II was stated that
the question of cost of production
raised heated areamcat iH tae mart.
ing OF the resolutions committee and
when the resolution was presented TO
the conference it was freely dis
Cussed
1t was contended by some speakers
that the basis should be made one
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-08-28
FRANCE OBJECTS
To BUYING SHIPS
WILL LOOK WITH DISPLEASuRE
UPON THE PURCHASE OF
SHIPS OWNED BY GERMANY.
Allies Have Swept the Sea and Fears
United States Would Be Giving Aid
to the Germans.

Washington, Aug. 27.--France today
expressed TO the United States disap
prevail Of certain phases of the admin.
istration's pan to build up a mer
chant marine through the purchase
OF foreign ships.
jules lusserand, the French ambas
sador had a long talk with Presiden
Wilson and indicated, it is under
stood, that the French government
would view with displcasure the pur-
chase by the United States OF aay
German-owncd ships.
The discussion is not terminated,
il being the intention of the French
government further to press its OBJ
jections The viewpoint of France Is
that vast sums of money would be
made available for the use OF the Ger
mans through tine sale OF ships
which are now marooned in different
ports.
The French contend, moreover,
that is the allies have swept German
commerce off the seas, the American
government wound be giving re-
sources for food supplies TO Germany
which she otherwise would not get,
and which assistance the United
States as a neutral is not Obliged to
render.
President Wilson has argued that
the proposed government ships would
not carry contraband, of war, but
things distinctly permitted to neu-
trails as articles of commerce.
If the establishment OF govern
ment shipping line, however, enabled
Germany to feed not only her people
but her troops in the field, France
holds such an operation would be in
violation OF neutrality.
Aside from the question OF contra
band, however, the French govern
ment thinks the sale OF the maruoned
German vessels TO the United States
would be tantamount to raising
money through the agency of the
United States.
After his visit to the white house,
Ambassador Jusserand conferred with
officials of the state department and
called on Secretary Daniels OF the
navy department.
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-08-28
AMER lCANS SAFE.

London, Aug. 27.-10 p. m.-The
secretary of the American relief cont
nittee at Lucerne, Switzerland who
arrived in London tonight, says The
committee work has ended, as there
was no distress among Americans
remaining.
DIR. Il. +. Timmons OF Boston, who
also arrived said there was much
less evidence of conseriptoh in Paris
than he expected. 81 expected to see
nothing but old men, women and
children, but | found that industry
had been less hard hit by mobiliza-
tion in France than in Switzerland"
he said.
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-08-28

Peach ice cream from fresh
peaches. The Fountain at the Rexall
Store. r. G. Morris Drug Co. G-10-tf
The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-08-28

haf a cent higher, but no one spoka
in favor of a lower basis
II was generally accepted that the
government would provide funds for
financing the 1914 crop. as evidenced
in me recent cotton conference III
Washington That conference. how
ever, it was stated by delegates who
met with Secretary McAdoo, left ma.
decided the question as to what the
loan value of each bale should be.
This, speakers today said, was a vital
point
Curtailng of the 1915 crop anne In
for great deal of discussion but no
action was taken It seemed TO be
the genera opinion of the speakers
that a decided curtailmeut next year
would be necessary to upheld the
price OF the invisible supply Of the
1913 crop and what will be left over
from this years crop.
The conference also decided that
each state commissioner of agricul-
.ture should be asked to obtain data
showing the warehouse facilities OF
his state and the conditions OF food
and fcedstuffs relating to any crop
holding movement The conference
might decide upon