Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-07-19
Ms DEPORT
TRAINLOAD I. w. w.

The citizens of Bisbee, Arizona, on
July 18th deported more than 100
alleged Industrial Workers of the
World. They put them aboard "a
cattle cars and speeded them toward
New Mexico. Their announced des-
tination being Columbus. The men
were driven from the city by deputy
sheriffs and about 1000 armed men,
members of an organization known
as the citizen Protective League.
Two men were killed during the
work of deportation.
A strike was called here by the
metal workers branch of the Indus
trial Workers of the World about
two weeks ago. Since then, accord
ing to officials, scores of strange
men have been in Bisbee. These men
are alleged to have prevented miners
from returning to work. Plans fol
the roundup of alleged undesir-
ables were made at midnight by Har-
ry C. Wheeler, sheriff of Cochise
county. Within Two hours thu
sheriff had deputized 1900 mer ana
ordered them to report at various
points at o'clock in the morning.
When the bands of citizens .,ssem
bled thos.. Mo were n)t already
armed were gwen rifles ami r"oolv
ers with Instructions 10 .se then
only in eelf-d.tense.
"Until The las, |. w. w. is ruin ont
was the water. word pas,ed to Tho
waiting r1en.
Keep Women Off Streets.
At $50 o'clock special newspaper
editions containing proclamation
by Sheriff Wheeler ordering women
and children to keep off the streets
during the day and instructing de-
puties to arrest "on charges of vag.
rancy, treason and being disturbers
of the peace of Cochise county, all
those strange men who have congre-
gated here from other parts and Sec
tions for the purpose of harasslnl
and intimidating all men who desire
to pursue their daily toll" were cir
culated on the streets.
simultaneously five bands of arm
ed citizens appeared as if by magic.
Some hurried from alleys, others
came streaming from storerooms
and some sprang down from low
roofs of business buildings. All
marched in business-like manner
to the center of the town.
Every strange man on the streets
was challenged.
"Hold on, stranger, what's YOU
business?" "What are you doing IT.
Bisbee?" and "How long have you
been here?" were some of the ques.
tions asked by the little groups as
they surrounded each man. Ever!
misunderstanding individual was
placed under arrest.
Pickets Are Arrested.
Fifty pickets at the entrance to the
Copper Queen mines in front OF thu
postoffice were arrested when 81
armed citizens rushed from the lob,
by of the postoffice and surrounded
them. Four squads of citizens, com
ing from different parts of the city
reached the center of town at the
same time. Each band was march
ing with several hundred prisoners
AS each man was detained he was
ordered to put his hands in the air
and deputies quickly searched hin
for weapons. AS the prisoners mar
ched along the streets hundreds OF
rifles were leveled at their heads
from all sides.
After an hours wait captors and
captured marched to the depot,
where another squad on duty had
taken charge of several hundred
more men. At $3.50 o'clock the pris-
oners were lined up two abreast.
Flanked by 1000 heavily armed cit
izens the captives were ordered to
march down the railroad tracks to-
ward Warren. AT Lowell, suburb,
about 300 men alleged l. w. w. were
merged into the procession.
Ball Park "Bull PEN"
The baseball park at Warren was
chosen for the place Of assembling
the men to be deported. Word OF
the cleanup had proceeded the sh-
eriff and his men and when the pri-
soners reached the park the hund-
reds of spectators on the scene set
up jeers and shouts.
When the prisoners were all In
side the enclosure half the armed
bands formed a guard around the
park, while the other half started a
systematic search of the entire dis
trict for men who were connected
with the l. w. w. or could not acc
cunt for their presence in a salts
factory manner. Armed men went
through the rooming houses and res
taurants questioning every e.
Those who did not answer satisfac-
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