Bisbee daily review., 1917-04-15

with manner Of nervous pompOslty
 Miss Charming
 'Yes. Mir. Bertram?"
 Permit me to make one last effort
 10 influence you. There's bound to bt
 serious trouble as soon as the strike breakers get here. We can hold then of till nightfall, with the men we have-perhaps. After dark almost anything may happen. That attempt
 to blow us up this morning. in broad | daylight. ought to convince you that we have only the worst to fear"
 And so you want my permission to ] telegraph the governor to call out the 1 militia?"
 Such is my earnest advice, Miss Charming"
 The girl shook her head with deter imitation.
 'I won't permit that. It's wrong. It means-in one word-war. It means civil war. It means bloodshed. pos sibly manslaughter, the killing of men wholly uninterested in this private quarrel between Channings and its em- ployees. We must find some other way to cope with the situation without going to such extremes" Bertram, his countenance dark with foreboding. gave up the attempt to persuade the girl as hopeless, and without more words moved away.
 ''How can the men he so unreason- able?" Patria complained. "Why won't they come to us and state their griev- ances? We've always treated them fairly. If they'd only give us a chance"
 They're, not unreasonable" Donald answered. '.They're misled. Unscru- pulOus leaders suborned by Baron Hu- roki and his lot have blinded them to their best interests. If we could only get at the men themselves"
 Patria nodded intently. "Fm sure I could influence them won- der--
 Without warning. the hum of the mob in Powder Town rose to high dis cordance. a clamOr of angry yells. Not one of those about the gates but was startled. though all had been momen- tarily anticipating something of the sort. They consulted one another with anxious eyes.
 Here they come at last, Parr an- nOunced. "Now for the music!'
 Over the crest of a little hill that stood between Powder Town and the Channings' mills appeared a motorcar running at high speed-a car loaded to the limit of it's capacity with strike breakers and carrying armed guards On the running boards as well as in the seat beside the driver.
 Simultaneously the uproar of the iisaffected drew perceptibly nearer.
 Dashing directly for the gates. if swept through them almost without slackening speed, then pulled up smart Iy in the yards. and discharged its Oc- cupants.
 Following it in close succession came mother car similarly laden. and anoth- 1T and another-a long procession of motorcars to the number of something more than twenty.
 The fifth had barely swung up over the hilltop when the vanguard of the strikers appeared in pursuit-a disor- 1erly cloud of infuriated workingmen running clumsily over the roadside fields. pausing only to pick up and hurl clods of earth and stones at the speed ing automobiles. Few of these missiles reached their mark. none did damage. Ill were ignored by both guards and strike breakers. But by the time the last car was safely within the gates. a ;ullen and vengeful multitude had as- 'embled in the open spaces before the 'actory. a mob that wanted only q leader to incite it to storm the build nss. it's temper patiently demonstrated Jy scattering of revolver shots from ts midst punctuating an almost con rinuous flight of stones that rattled 'gaiDst the fence or fell inside the yard.
 Long before this Donald and Der ram had hurried Patria into shelter. md. leaving her as they thought safely lisposed of for the time being. had turned their attention to stationing the guards on the low platform that ran round the inside of the fence-a plat form inst high enough to permit a man to see and. if need be. aim and fire over the barrier.
 Re-enforced by the strike breakers. the guards made quite a respectable company of defenders. but still insig- 1ificant in numbers as compared with inc crowd outside, an inferiority that was quickly rendered still more em. phatic by the addition to inc strikers If q considerable number of men armed with modern magazine rifles.
 Donald greeted the sight of these iast with q groan.
 "Huroki's hand :" he commented be- tween his teeth. 'I knew he'd show | before long. The union never sup oiled those weapons ,'
 A small hand tugged at his sleeve Patria's. His indignation at seeing her bus recklessly exposing herself to pos sible injury almost Outweighed his .oye for the girl.
 "YOu promised" hc began.