Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-12
Entire Business of Town
Suspends While Citizens
Engage in Roundup.
LOADED ON CARS
UNDER CLOSE GUARD
Members Of L. w. w. to Be Sent to
Unknown Destination Men Deprived
Of Guns Before, Deportation-citizsn
Of Douglas and Others Towns Assist
in Work Of Kidding Mining Region
Of Asitators.

lOWH tOI biSOee HdS SuSpClldeu Uu>1S
ness and the citizens protective league.
numbering 1000 fully armed men, has
rounded up 1000 members of the In
dustrial Workers Of the World,
searched them and are now loading
them in freight aud cattle cars for de-
portation.
The work of deporting these men,
who are regarded as the disturbing
element. in fBisbee, is being done thor
oughly in systematic manner. The
citizens protective league Is an or
ganization Of business men, mine op-
orators and 1pine workers not affiliated
with the I. w. w. Practically all the
members of the organization have been
deputized by the sheriffs
Destination Unknown. s{
Greatly outnumbsred, those members
OF. the I. w. w. who had not left town
were rounded up in the city baseball
park. AS fast as the men were brought
in they were searched for weapons and
the little red cards showing their 1
w. w. membership.
Near by on siding cattle and box
cars were standing and the men were
taken from the ball park to the cars.
where other guards saw to Is that they
remained. Il;
This train. composed ot more than
: doxen cars, was to be sent out of
town at II o'clock. Leaders OF the
protective league refused to give its
deStfnat tion.
The work was begun last night a
humber Of citizens from Douglas and
other points coming to assist. Every
thing had been planned thoroughly as
the citizens were determined there
should be no mistakes made. Business
men and miners who want to work had
determined that the entire Industry Of
the camp should no longer be tied up.
Therefore all business was suspended
for the day for the. clean up"
.--v Call For Federal Aid.
Attorney General L. B. Whitney has
telegraphed the following to Sheriff H.
C. Wheeler at Blsbee:
kindly wire this office Immediate
ly details leading up to deportAtions
now taking place In Bisbee. State by
what authority Of law you are acting
State fully what violations. il any,
took place prior to decision to deport
strikers" ~
{ Governor Campbell also has tele-
graphed the sheriff and-county attor-
ncy along this line. Up to q late hour
the governor had received no official
information from Bisbee. i5, +
The governor has wired to General
Parker at Fort Sam Houston, inform-
ing him Of the situation and request
ing that General Green be notified and
instructed to have troops in readiness
to proceed to Bisbee,
"The situation is SUCH" Governor
Campbell said today, that It 10 almost
Impossible for the state to handle It.
The state has no troops at Its COM
mand, the national guard being in the
service of the United States. 1t would
be impracticable Tor me at this time
to declare martial law as have no
troops to enforce It.
'sThe situation is one for. the federal
government to handle and have noti-
fed the federal authorities. ! am
awaiting reply to my notification and
In the meanwhile am unable to do
anything further from this end.'
Further details OF the roundup"
are to the effect that the 1.500 mem-
bers of the protective league were
sworn in as deputies by the sherif and
made house to-h house canvass Of the
entire district.
Two kiIlinSs Rsportsd. NJ
Attorney General whitney stated
that he had been advised that two men
had been killed at Bisbee. One Of
these VS. Deputy Sheriff MacRae and
the other was one Of the strikers. DE-
tails of the killing were lacking, but Il
is understood that they killed each
other. both opening FIRE sfmultaneous-
ly.
May Be Forced Into Mexico. ~
It was reported here the deported
Industrial Workers OF the World meua-
bers would be forced to flee into Mex
leo, as California, Texas and New
Mexico have put up the bars against
them. The train, It Is understood will
be routed from Bisbee direct TO Tues
SON and viii arrive there late this ~
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tuards and council Of defenss 3onictals
q once took steps TO keep the Indug-
trial workers OF the World members
moving and tits reported they Will be
shipped over the Southern Pacific rail-
road to NogaleS ON the border, whseo
there is . detachment Of United States
troops. sss.7 ssg5 ~ s
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