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The Colorado statesman., 1914-05-09
SLATTERY IS SPEAKER
ELECTED BY HOUSE AFTER BE-
ING SELECTED BY CAUCUS.
Governor Ammons Addresses Mem
bers of Senate and House in Joint
Session, AmpIifying Matters
Contained in His Call.
western Newspaper Union New. 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, 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
ernor's call convening the special ses-
sion.
Representative ]. H. Slattery of Sill
verton was chosen speaker of the
House, following 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, Mr.. 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 Il few sug-
gestions and to appeal for cooperation
in all that may appeal to you to be
right.
when the strife in the coal fields
became so great that the local authori-
ties We're unable to cope with it and
appealed for help, ] found there were
no funds provided either to pay the
troops or their expenses; 1 did not call
The Colorado statesman., 1914-05-09
Secretary of War Garison's Proc
Iamation to Major Holbrook.

Following is the proclamation
calling for the disarming of all 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, I 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 tLeir 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 Colorado statesman., 1914-05-09
WILL NOT CONFER WITH UNION.
Colorado Operators Wire Wilson Re.
fusal to Meet Mine Workers
Officials,

Denver, May 5.-Coal operators rep.
resenting twenty of the larger compa-
nies in the state, exclusive of the Colo
RADIO Fuel & Iron Company, Joined in
a 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 Colorado statesman., 1914-05-09
Mexican Bishop crucified.

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 Zapatas 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 lefs him to die a lingering death.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-05-09
MAY CLOSE COLORADO MINES
Run Without Guns Quit Operation Is Pres
ident Wilson's UItimatum
STATE TROOPS BLAMED
R BURNING OF STRIKERS
TENTS AT LUDLOW.
Major Bouehton 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
mended by Maj. Edward ]. Boughton,
judge-advocare; Capt w. C. Danks
and Capt. Philip S, Van Cise of the
Colorado National Guard, comprising
the military committee which conduct
ID an investigation. In a report of
its 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 tent col
ony burning, through wholly tactless
treatment OF mine guards and strik-
ers"
1t found that Louis Tikas, leader Of
the colony, had sought to prevent a
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.
! Tillas, 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 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-
and go with strikes" are ineligible to
sHllSliueuI dS ndllolldl BudTuSHeH anu
mine employees.
The coal operators are blamed by
the committee for large part of the
riotous and lawless acts in the strike
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 Boughton, 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 Colorado statesman., 1914-05-09
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.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-05-09

Washington, May 6.-In providing
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 plan of re-
fusing the operators to resume work
until there is industrial as well as
civic peace. 1t can be asserted with
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 a 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 the operators could not man
age to peaceably mine sufficient for
their needs.
The disarming proclamation of the
secretary of war, it 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
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 Heating 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 Settlement.
Waahington-Her is Represents
tive Fosters plan for the settlement
of Colorado's mining troubles:
"a conciliation board, where both
sides will have equal representation,
TO decide all grievances that fail of
individual or local adjustment"
He would make this board perma-
nent institution. Foster says if the
mine owners would meet the miners
in a proper spirit this basis of agree
ment could be arrived at, as the men
would waive recognition of the union.
The mine owners, he says. refuse
to agree to n conciliation board, be-
cause they insist 1t would be an in
direct recognition of the union.
Arms To Be confscated.
headquarters Federal Forces, Trini-
dad. Colorado. May 3. 1914.
ITO All Railroad and Express Compa-
nies. State of Colorado:
by authority of the Secretary Of
War the embargo established by the
state authorities on the receiving.
shipping or delivering of arms and
ammunition in this state will be con-
tinued You will therefore refrain
from any of the the acts above speci-
fed. BY order of
MAJOR HOLBROOK,
Commanding Federal Forces."
The Colorado statesman., 1914-05-09
National Guard Nearly All 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 Verdeckberg 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. OF the
600 guardsmen on duty last week.
less than fifty now remain.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-05-09
strona.Arm Squad Gets $4,000.

Kansas City, Mo.-"Strong-armed"
by three men. w. A. Warren, wealthy
cattleman from Casper, Wyo., was
robbed of jewelry valued at $1,05O,
cash amounting to $50, ana notes,
checks and drafts amounting to
SCI, 900
The Colorado statesman., 1914-05-09
Cardinal Urges Peace PRAYERS

Baltimore, Md.-Cardinal Gibbons
telegraphed Archbishop Mora del
Rio of Mexico suggesting that the peo-
pie under their charge be urged to
pray for a peaceful outcome of the
crisis in the relations between the two
countries.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-05-09

Fifty Die in Flames; 100 Injured.
Valparaiso. Chile.-More than fifty
lives were lost and one hundred per-
sons injured in fire in this city. Set.
eral buildings were destroyed.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-12-18
NAVY READY TO STOP FOE.
Secretary Daniels Asserts U. S. Does
\ Not Need to Revise Plans.

Washington. Secretary Daniels
told the House naval committee that
while the American navy should be
steadily strengthened in an orderly
way" each year, the sentiment OF the
American people was against making
the United States into a military ma
tion in competition with the heavily
armed powers of Europe. The secre-
tary's declarations closed upon the re-
markably testimony of Rear Admiral
Fletcher. commander of the Atlantic
fleet, who told the committee there
was only one navy in the world
England's-to which the United States
was not equal, came as climax to
two days discussion of the prepared.
ness of the nation for defense.
Secretary Daniels declared he de.
cried demands for great increases in
the array of battleships and subma-
ripes and declared the United States
already was a strong nation.
Universal disarmament Daniels
thought practicable, but only by inter
national agreement.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-12-18
WOMAN KILLS NE|GHBOR
MRS. ROSE JOHNSON SHOT BY
MRS. SUSIE PEARcY.
Together After Tragedy Over Kit
chen Stove in Adjoining Homes.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Pueblo. Colo.-Side by side on the
Kiowa county prairies near Towner,
forty miles from Eads, the county
seat, and close to the Kansas line, the
husbands and families of Mrs. Susie
Pearcy and Mrs. Rose Johnson settled
on government tracts years ago. They
built their houses on adjoining cor
ners and their friendship grew in the
loneliness of their surroundings.
Recently the two women quarreled
over a stove Mrs. johnson had sold to
Mrs. Pearcy and Mrs. Pearcy
pulled a revolver from the folds
of her dress and killed her
neighbor. Mrs. Pearcy is in the
Pueblo county jail, charged with muir
der She was brought here by Sheriff
]. w. Blair of Kiowa county and Depu-
ty District Attorney Charles B.
Hughes filed first-degree murder in
formation against her, Kiowa county
being in this judicial district.
The shooting was witnessed by Mrs.
Johnson's father and four children.
Word was got to Eads and coroner's
jury held Mrs. Pearcy for the Staying.
Sheriff Blair reached the Pearcy home
and arrested the woman. Mrs. Pearcy
claims that she acted in self-defense.
She says Mrs. Johnson attacked her
with knife before she pulled the
pistol.
The quarrel began when Mrs.
Pearcy declared the stove Mrs. John
son sold her was not up to standard.
She threw the stove over into the
johnson yard. Mrs. johnson threw it
back. After 1t had passed between
them several times the shooting oc-
CURED.
The husbands of the two women,
meanwhile, were working side by side
in the same gang. They are employed
as bridge carpenters on the Santa Fe
When word came of the shooting they
drove to their homes in the same
buggy.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-12-18
cresson Strike Shows Wide Ore Vol

Cripple Creek.-One of the most
prominent mining experts in the Grip
pie Creek district was shown the
strike in the Cresson mine. When he
returned to the surface he declared
that the strike was the biggest he had
ever seen. Besides the enormously
rich sylvanite vein, which is said to
contain two inches of solid sylvanite
in some places, a body OF good aver
age ore has been discovered in the
twelfth level, which is 100 feet wide
and 500 feet long. according to reliable
statements This is a tremendous
width for an ore body. Ore has also
been discovered in the thirteenth
level of the mine. 1t is estimated that
the high grade shipment. for which
sacking is being made in the interior
of the mine. will be worth more than
100000. Although all details of the
strike are carefully guarded the infor-
nation obtainable is causing one OF
the biggest sensations ever known
here.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-12-18
Bullets Hit Fifty.seeond Victim.

Naco, Ariz.-Mexican STRAY" fire
added the fifty-second name to the
casualty list on the American side
Sunday. Mrs. Jose Martinez was hit
in the back by bullet from the siege
of Naco. Sonora, which crossed the
border and pierced the wall of her
home. The siege continues across the
border with its accompanying shower
Of Mexican shot and shell. Two other
persons-Jose Martinez, husband of
the wounded woman, and F. II. Kuck-
were hit by pieces Of spent shrapnel
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-12-18
Told at the Card Club.

"a little girl sitting next me in
church was coughing" said Mrs. Jones
at the card club. $50 l whispered to
her mother for permission to slip her
a cough drop. The child held it In
her mouth a moment and then swal-
lowed it"
"'Would you kindly give her an
other?" the mother whispered.
"T'm sorry, but had only the one.'
! answered.
Coming out of church felt in my
pocket and was horrified to fish out
the cough drop. You see. l had had
cough drop and a button in my
pocket"
And what did you do?" choTused
the women at the table. Did you tell
her mother?"
mo, | didn't. was mad. 1t was
a very unusual button from my new
suit"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-12-18
Rumania May Enter.

A dispatch from Bucharest says Ru-
mania has definitely decided to enter
the war on the side of the Allies. This
decision is in accordance with the
wish of the entire country, including
King Ferdinand and all the Rumanian
statesmen with the exception of the
minister of finance, NJ. Marghiloman.
The question of when Rumania viii
make its entry into the conflict Is still
being discussed, however, one side de-
string to avoid winter campaign, but
the military authorities express the
fear that Servia may be defeated soon
II Rumania does not help at once.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-12-18
Evacuate a French Town.
British Win at Sea.

The British have retailiated for the
recent German naval victory in the
southern Pacific by sinking four of
the German warships which sank the
Monmouth and the Good Hope. The
German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneise-
nau and Leipzig were destroyed east
on the Falkland islands, in the south
Atlantic, in a battle December s.
Two other German cruisers. the
Nurnberg and Dresden. escaped. They
were pursued five hundred miles. The
Nurnberg was finally sunk. The Dres-
den, badly crippled, got into the
Straits of Magellan. The British
squadron was composed of nine bat
tleships, some of them the largest and
newest in the navy. This avenging
fleet was about twice the strength of
The German group.
Two colliers were captured. At the
same time squadron of British and
japanese warships sank three Ger
man merchantmen of the coast of
Terra del Fuego. Announcement of
these sea activities have just been
made by the British admiralty.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-12-18

+ southeast of Lodz. Several American
correspondents were with the Rus
sian army when the battle of Lodz
broke, but nothing has been heard
from them for several days. Evident
ly they are under the hand of strict
censorship.
British military experts say that
three-quarters of the best material oi
the German army has been held in the
western theater of war throughout the
campaign and that the troops opposed
to the Russians consist principally of
second line organizations.
But the great battle for the posses
sion of Poland continues. The front
extends along four hundred miles and
victory, over part of 1t at least, ap-
pears to have fallen to the Germans,
while the Russians are pressing upon
Cracow in the south
Importance Of Capture.
For weeks military critics have
called LODI the vital point of the
Polish campaign" To the Germans
1t meant everything, according to
Major Moraht, German war expert.
To prevent an invasion by the Rus
slams the kaiser's troops had to check
their enemy at the city and their cam
paign in doing so undoubtedly brought
out the greatest generalship the war
has seen.
Lodz long has been an objective
point of the German army. 1t has
grown in recent years from an insig
nificant place to be one of the most
populous cities in the Russian Empire
In 1910 it's population numbered 415,-
COS and with this important place as
base it is expected that the Germans
will make strong effort to reach the
Polish capital of Warsaw.
Claim Gains at Craeow.
According to advices received anc
published by the Berliner Tagblatt. the
battle in South Poland is developing
favorably for the Germans and Aus
trians. The Russian forces which
were originally lined bow-shaped
around Cracow. according to the Tage
blatt, have now been repulsed at the
wings.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-12-18
GOVERNOR HALTs HANGING BEE.
Executive Of Arizona Stops Wholesale
Executions.

EXECUTIVE oT STt<oud ShoPo Ssaie
Executions.
Phoenix, Ariz.-Taking advantage of
his last opportunity to prevent the
execution OF death sentences in Ari-
zona, Gov. G. w. p. Hunt came to the
rescue of six condemned men, who
were to be hanged in Florence peniten-
tiary Dec. 10. The sentences of two
Americans were commuted TO life i'm
prison1nent.
The case of one Mexican was re-
ferred to the Supreme Court, and
three others were reprieved until
March 10, 1915, with recommenda-
tion to the attorney general OF the
state to do what he could do for them
Because they were maddened by drink
when they committed their crimes.
The governors action was taken pre-
liminary to the issue OF his proclama-
ton which will put into effect the
laws adopted at the November elec-
ton. Among these laws is a measure
which deprives the governor of power
to pardon or reprieve or commute SEN
tences, and invests 1t in a special
board.
In statement announcing his de-
cision to call off the proposed hang
ing bee'' Dec. 10, Governor Hunt de-
cIared that to permit the executions
would violate the spirit of Christmas.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-12-18
Serbs Win Big Victory.

An important Austrian defeat ID
Bosnia is now an established fact.
The Servians drove wedge into the
center of the Austrian forces, shatter-
ing four army corps, which are now
in flight The mass of prisoners and
captured material is SO great that 1t
cannot be tabulated.
The Servians are pushing the pur-
suit vigorously and successfully. The
roads in the rear of the Servian army
are blocked with incoming prisoners
who appear satisfied that their ordeal
is over. Entire battalions are seen
marching under guard of handful or
Servians. while many groups OF pris-
oners come in unattended, says a
Servian official report.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-12-18
MGSMERiZED
A Poisonous Drug Still Freely Used.

Many people are brought up to be-
lieve that coffee is a necessity of life.
and the strong hold that the drug.
caffeine, in coffee has on the sys-
tenn makes it hard to loosen its grip
even when one realizes its injurious
effects. "a,
lady writes: 'I had used coffes
for years; it seemed one of the me-
cessities of life. A few months ago
my health, which had been slowly fail
ing, became more impaired. and l
knew that unless relief came from
some source would soon be a physi-
cal wreck.
Il was weak and nervous. had siCSs
headaches. no ambition, and felt tired
of life. My husband was also losing
his health. He was troubled so much
with indigestion that at times he could
eat only a few mouthfuls.
Finally we saw Postum advertised
and bought package. / followed di-
rections for making carefully, and
added cream, which turned it to the
loveliest rich-looking and tasting
drink ever saw served at any table.
and We have used Postum ever since.
Il gained five pounds in weight in
as many weeks, and now feel well
and strong in every respect. NY
headaches have gone, and l am a new
woman. My husbands indigestion
has left him, and he can now eat
anything"
Name given by Postum Co.. Battle
Creek. Mich. Read THE Road to
Wellville," in pkgs.
Postum comes in two forms:
Regular Postum-must be well
boiled 15c and 25c packages.
Instant Postum-is a soluble pow.
der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly
in a cup of hot water and, with cream
and sugar, makes delicious bever-
age Instantly. 30c and SOC tins.
The cost per cup of both kinds Is
about the same.
There's Reason" for Postum.
sold by Grocers.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-12-18
No. of Returns.

NetuTHs WeTe HIHue Dy -Io,o"o nlHf-
ried persons, 55,212 single men and 3d.
551 single women. The normal tax Of
10 on all taxable incomes produced
$12,72S,03S. Incomes over $4,000 a
year. subject to surtax, produced $751;
525.497.
or this latter amount $2,934,754 came
from incomes of between $4,000 and
$50, 900: s1,645.639 from those be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000; $1.323.0 .025
from those between $4,000 and $780,
900: $3,S35.94s from those between
100000 and s250.OO0; $2,334,5S3 from
those between s250,OOO and 100000;
and s3,437.s5O from those over $780,
boo