The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-19
INVESTIGATION
OF STRIKES
Will Take Another Month to
Get all the Evidence From
Both Sides in the Cop
per Country.
lBy N. C. Parke, staff correspondent
of the limited Press.

OF the United PreSS.l
HANCOCK, Mich, Feb. 19.-Presi- /
dent Charles Meyer and members OF |
the executive board of the Western I
Federation of Miners, who are under
indictment here on conspiracy charges,
will not return to the copper country
to testify before the congressional
investigating committee, attorneys for
the miners intimated today, unless
the inquiry takes an unexpected turn
that demands their presence.
VIM. Davidson, execaeve board
member, who surrendered after his
Indictment and gave bond, has been
in Hancock for several weeks, ana
with Charles H. Tanner, auditor OF the
federation, is representing the min
ers' organization at the hearings.
Tanner, who was with Meyer when
the latter was deported frc-.4 Hancock,
Twill be a witness when the probers
investigate the deportation affair.
More witnesses were ready to take
the stand today to tell OF alleged out
RACES committed by deputy sheriffs
! and imported gunmen during the
copper strike.
| The Christmas eve disaster at Red
Jacket, in which more than seventy
persons lost their lives, will not be
investigated. Attorney Hilton, for
the miners, who asked for probe OF
lthe false alarm of FIRE, today told the
committee no good purpose would be
served by such an inquiry and With
drew his request on condition that
! the counsel for the operators would
4 agree to having a general stipulation
/ of the disaster read into the record.
/ This change Of program, Hilton de-
clared, would permit him to conclude
i the strikers side by Saturday night
or next Monday.
Militia Represented.
'lss~fsHNsING, Miict. Feb 9. In reply
Z to another request from Chairman
q Taylor Of the congressional investi-
eating committee now at work in the
COPPER country that the Michigan
, national guard be represented at the
investigation into the actions OF the
, guardsmen during the strike troubles
( Governor Ferris sent the following
J message: Major Samuel D. Pepper
assistant attorney general and judge
) advocate Of the national guard, VII
: reach Hancock Friday to conduct the
Y defense Of the guardsmen during the
: investigation
(Signed)
r WOODBRIDGE N. FERRIS,
Governor
), Colorado Probe.
TRINIDAD, Colo, Feb 19.-The re
/ lease from jail of Felix Sippi, mill
tary prisoner at Starkville, was de
manded by Attorney E. P. Costiga1
TODAY in order that the man might ap
/ near as a witness before the congress
y sional committee investigating tn
VI Colorado coal strike. Sippi had beel
y instructed to appear today but lat
yesterday military men arrested hin
in a general search of houses at stars
Vile. Twenty houses were invaded
g and twenty rifles and revolyers seized
% II is not known whether the comml'
X tee will decide today whether NC
% ther,' Mary Jones shall be subpoenae
al to testify. Attorney Costigan Will no
TT renew his formal request for her al
y pearance until the committee sign
8 fies its permission.
II Following the all day trip OF 1nspet
ss ton through the coal camps yestel
to day, the probers held night session
OF Joseph Kinsey testified he had pee
,e employed as mine guard on Noven
Der Z. He said he was taken to tn
en Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. mine at %
r. pris and ordered to enlist in the mi
II tia. Camp Marshal Massengill con
ga manded the soldiers there he salt
N. He named number of other guard
". who he said had been enlisted. hinse
.s. branded as a fake" an explosion
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