The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-01-27


 flake City was draped in the red flag, the symbol of anarchy and the protest of anarchists against the United States government which they wish to destroy There is food for thought, too, in the announce ment by William D. Haywood, of Stnenenburg murder notoriety, that when Hillstrom's body reached Chi cago it was given "an international funeral" That simply means that when the corpse of this executed out Jaw was received in Chicago, there was grand outpouring of the ene- mics of organized society to meet it.. Those who attack government as ty- fanEy, the church as superstition, and the home as a letter, will rally about the coffin of Hillstrom and rail against the things that be.
 This man Hillstrom over whose execution this sinister protest is be- ing made, met his death because he carried into practice the ffundamen- tai principle of anarchy which hold } that there should be no such thing as private property rights and that those who attempt to uphold them should be removed. Hillstrom, who never worked in his life and pro- und if hU hnin0 a ninnnt m hpT of that reasonable organization styi ing itself the Industrial Workers of the World, went one night to the store of man who had slGved foc years, building up respectable bu- siness The man was alone with his sons, and Hillstrom in revenge for some fancied wrong against his organization shot and killed them both, being seriously wounded by the 14-year old son of the murdered man.
 He was captured, however, and after fair trial was done to death by the law he had spent his whole life in defying. At his trial it was shown that he had been connected with the California dynamtting outrages, numerous robberies and that his private life was one of l shocking immortality and bestial de- pravity. And it is over such leper' body that the Chicago followers of the rcd flag held revel this week. There is something so utterly abhorrent in this insult to our Am erican institutions by these old world outcasts that r0,ice iuoerfer ence would seem to De warranted However it may be best to give the malign Haywood and his fol lowers full play. The most salutary comment on their belief is their conduct in attempting to apotheo size a fellow whose career of crime led to his execution,-Ft Wayne News.
 The above editorial from the Fort Wayne News is reprinted from the Valdez Prospector. It is an inter .esting example of the power of the kept press to not only destroy the name of the living, but also to de- fame the dead just as jackals defile the tombs of human dead. Cowardly? We'll, yes.
 Now what are some facts as to Hillstrom and this murder of which he was found guilty?
 Hillstrom had savings amounted to i$35O which he he'd secured by mine working. Hillstrom had never -bcen connected with the M'Namara cases nor was it oven attempcd to be shown that he had in his tricl. The extcnt of his criminal record" is confined solely to the fact that he was arrested while doing picket duty in San Pedro, California dur ing a strike and because not iota evidence of the weakest rort was then brought forward to show him guilty of any cr.mo. he was dis charged.
 A man with savings of over three hundred dollars seldom or never en- gages in the hold up business. The only witness of the murder. Nor. rison's little sph failed absolutely to identify Hillstrom as ono of the men. The only other witness of the men who were supposed to be ip the hold-up woman, refused tc identify Hfllstrom as one of the mer