Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-22
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 leveled threats at the mayor. The sit uation was plainly passing out of hand rapidly.
 In a conference of city and county officers, two days before, the city au- thorities had expressed their entire willingness that Sheriff Wheeler should command the situation both in Bisbee and the Warren district. In consequence Sheriff Wheeler on We'd nesday night formulated a proclama- ton and decided upon taking the final steps which he believed would break the trouble, and which he had held in reserve for use only in the last exthemity These steps included the calling to his aid in deputyship ca pacities of every member of the Loy- atty league and the Business Mems association. All members had been advised days in advance by the sheriff that should he need their services they would be called by telephone and should immediately report to desig mated assemblage places, armed, pro- vided they had weapons. Men with telephones were desginated to call neighbors personally who might not have telephones but belonged to one or the other of the organizations.
 Phone calls were started at a. m. July F. Fifteen hundred men sur rounded the I. w. w. pickets at 5:30, taking them completely by surprise. The sheriff was in direct command and remained so throughout the day. His proclamation, published in the Bisbee Review the morning of the call and issued on the streets at o'clock, set forth the entire cause of action, embraced briefly in the fact that throughout the district from the be- ginning the alleged strike had been recognized as in reality and solely a part of the confessed anti-war, gov ernment-opposition propaganda of the l. w. W. The proclamation follows:
 'Bisbee, July 12, 1917.
 q lave formed Sheriffs' Posse of 1900 men in Bisbee and 1000 in Douglas, all loyal Americans, for the purpose of arresting, on charges of vagrancy, treason, and of being dis turbers of the peace of Cochise coun- ty. all those strange men who have congregated here from other parts and sections for the purpose of harassing and intimidating all men who desire to pursue their daily toil. l am contin- ually told of threats and insults I. Sc. district by so-called strikers, who are strange to these parts, yet who pre- sume to dictate she manner of life of the people of this district.
 Appeals to patriotism do not move them, nor do appeals to reason. At a time when our country needs her ev- cry resource, these strangers persist in keeping from her the precious metal productoin of this entire dis trict.
 To-day heard threats to the effect that homes would be destroyed be- cause the heads of families insisted upon their rights as Americans toI work for themselves, their families and their country.
 Other threats have and are being daily made. Men have been assaulted and brutally beaten, and only today heard the Mayor of Bisbee threatened and his requests ignored.
 We cannot longer stand or tolerate such conditionsi This is no labor trouble-we are sure of that-but a direct attempt to embarrass and in- jure the government of the United States.
 "I therefore call upon all loyal Americans to aid me in peaceably ar resting these disturbers of our nation al and local peace. Let no shot be fired throughout this day unless in necessary self-defense, and l hereby give warning that each and every leader of the so-called strikers will be held personally responsible for any in jury inflicted upon any of my deputies while in the performance of their du- ties as deputies of my posse, for whose acts I, in turn. assume full responsi- bility as Sheriff of. this County.
 "All arrested persons will be treat ed humanely and their cases exam ined with justice and care. hope no resistance will be made, for I desire no bloodshed However. | am deter mined if resistance is made, it shall be quickly and effectively overcome.
 HARRY C. WHEELER,
 Sheriff Cochise County, Ariz."
 The men answering the call of the sheriff had been imposed upon to the last degree. They felt with him that the hour had arrived in which they must remove the menace from the dis trict. or be removed, for in their loy- alty to country they could not accede to the strike demands of the l. W. w., which the speakers of the latter open ly admitted to be mere subterfuge, for the concealment of the real object of the movement, the crippling of the government, and the granting of which would not terminate the trouble but simply make way for the presentation