Arizona republican., 1917-07-13

arrested and placed in line.
 The procession then started down the railroad tracks, the citizens marching 'open ranks" on each side of the long, thin line of the men, who were to be deported. Hundreds of other pickets and strike sym pathiZers were picked up on the way to Lowell, as little squads of citizens disappeared up narrow can yons and rocky gulches and emerged with groups of MeXicans, Austrians and Slavonians As the marchers swung out on the boulevard leading to Warren, another squad, guarded by two automobile loads of deputy she1- ifs, joined them from South Bisbee andathird group, composed entirely of Mexicans, marched across the mesa from Tintown, the Mexican section.
 Arrangements had already been made to care for the prisoners at the baseball park at Warren, about four miles from Bisbee. As the procession neared the park score of mounted deputy sheriffs and hun dreds of guards on foot, drew up at the sides of the big gates as the cort remained outside the park, drove the crowds fifty yards back from the fence and then deployed the grounds.
 News that round up was under way had spread rapidly throughout the district and hundreds of automobiles loaded with women and children who feared to remain in Bisbee. were on 1 hand to greet the citizens and their prisoners. As the l. w. w marched into the park. derisive cheer went up from the stands. Some of the leaders attempted to take advantage of the rest afforded by the delay in the ar rival of the special train to preach | their doctrines to the crowd of spec | tators.
 About half of the guards rushed back to Bisbee and Lowell and started a systematic search of every rooming house and restaurant in the two cities. l Others returned to the plaza. where the l pickets who had escaped the first raid 1 were making q timid effort to keep up | the picket line and still other squads 1 invaded the residence districts and ar rested every man who could not satis- factorily account for his presence. The official emblem of the citizens : forces was a white handkerchief, tied around the right arm, and those who i did not wear this insignia, found it l difficult to keep out of the clutches of the citizens
 ; Every few minutes a squad of men would dash through the streets in the l direction of the home or place of bus | mess of some known sympathizer with
 the I. w. w. and few were fortunate
 enough to evade the searchers For ] four hours after the first big raid, the
 streets were filled with armed men and {, Naco road, leading to Warren, was | 6Ctt with cl1aa crfnt,nc If aitizapc
 marching proudly toward the baseball park with from 10 to 100 captives.
 Special trains from Douglas had l brought scores of additional citizens | and rifles and the men from the smell ter city stationed themselves south and | southwest of Bisbee and Lowell, cut 1 ting off the only avenue of escape for
 the men who fled in front of the cit | izens'- squads. Street car traffic was l blocked by the crowds, stores were
 closed. the mines shut down all day l and practically the entire populati of | the Warren district assembled at the
 baseball park to watch the departure
 of the captives. At noon a special | train of 24 cars arrived at the park from Douglas. As the train pulled in, l the prisoners were marched single file | through the gates and up runwayS to
 the car doors. Here the sheriff and a | delegation of citizens questioned each l man. Are you working?" Do you
 want to work?" And have you any l one to vouch for you?' were the prin-
 cipal questions. The majority of those | who answered any or all of the ques-
 tions in the affirmative were released The greater number of the men, how ever, declared they were not working
 would not work and could give no ref | erences. Their answers were frequent | ly interspersed with curses and they | were given no second chance.
 Fifty men were placed in each car
 with food and drink to last them until
 they reached Columbus. Only once did
 the crowd cease cheering as the men
 entered the cars. This was when Will | liam E. Cleary, a prominent attorney
 of Bisbee. marched defiantly up the
 runway and took his place in a cattle
 car. Cleary, known throughout the
 southwest as a labor agitator, was
 warned early this morning that he
 might be included in those rounded up
 He was taken into custody while driv-
 ing from the, city in an automobile and
 placed in the baseball park with the
 crowd
 Several ether prominent residents o1
 the district whose sympathies were known to be with the l. w. w., avoided !, being deportd only upon the pleas o1
 friends, who promised to stand good
 for their coiduct in the future. The
 train left at 12:27, heavily guarded by
 deputy sheriffs.
 Although hundreds of citizens art still searching the city tonight fol more I. w. W. agitators. there is no in dication of any impending raids on z large scale.
 Mine operators declared tonight tha they were confident the action of tho citizens had completely broken tn,