Bisbee daily review., 1917-10-02
FIRST RAIDS
 ON l. W. WIS. BUT START OF
 BIG CLEANUP
Government Officials Say 166 Indictments Are But Cream of the Seditious Activities in Country.
tBy Review Leased W,rel.

est of indictments returned al Chicago. it was authoritatively stated tonight. is but a fraction of what the goverA tion-wide raid on Industrial Workers of the World offices Sept 25.
 Only those regard by the govern ment as the chief figures in the alleg- ed conspiracy to thwart the govern ment in it's far plans have been indict- ed. Tons of documents seized in the raid have have ye. to be studied, the disclosures catalogued and arranged for use in further proceedings. This work is now going on in approximately J fifty towns and cities ofrom coast 70 i coast
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 Skinned The Top. In obtaining indictments against 166 alleged ringleadergs of the conspiracy the department of justice has simply skinned the cream of the fnvesuga- tion. Documents in its possession are l understood to show extensive and far reaching minor plans. confined to par ticular localities and designed to af- | feet local situations, through which | those named in the indictments and | many others are believed by the au- thorities to have sought to hamper the | government by methods, some or | which have not yet been disclosed to | the public.
 The Link Missinu.
 Contrary to the general belief no di- | rect connection has been shown thus far between the leaders of the oonspi- racy and the huge German corruption l fund believed to have been operating Tn this country since Americas entry | into the war. Many indications point l strongly to the connection which offii- | cials hope to establish but none, it is reported, is absolutely confirmatory.
 This development has led the offici- | als to believe that the full scope of the conspiracy's operations has not vet i been revealed. So far as yet determ- ined, there was no master spy, no slg- nal controlloing head, which directed the activities of the anti-war work CTS.
 Many In Charge.
 A group of fairly generous propor- tions, the evidence indicates. has been in charge of the entire program of propangada and outrages from the spreading of alleged seditious litera- ture to the burning of crops and the arming of farmers and others to resist the draft law.
 Thet likelihood of another general investigation by single federal grand jury into the scope of the entire con- spiracy is remote, in the opinion of of icials but indications are that num- Der of grand juries, sitting at New York, Chicago, St Louis, Detroit, Clev- eland and other cities in the east and middel west will consider local phases of the program.
 Prepare Ror Trial.
 Preparations for the trial of the 166 persons indicted at Chicago-the larg- est number indicted at one time on one charge by single grand jury within the recollection of officials here-are yet to be made. The immense amount of work involved in the preparation of evidence will require time and 1t is re- garded as unlikely that the trial will be held at an aerly date.
 Various phases of the investigation were discussed today at a conference among Attorney General Gregory, As sistant Attorney General Fits, who directed the work of federal officers making the raid, and the preparation of evidence for the grand jury and A. Bruce Bielaski, chief of the depart ment's bureau of investigation
 Will Rush Trials
 CHICAGO. Oct. 1.-Charles F. Cline. United States district attorney. began today to get evidence which resulted in the indictment of 166 officials into shape to go before Judge Kenesaw NJ. Landis and ask for speedy trials.
 More than half of the indicted men, charged with matching an;i-war con spiracies, are under arrest.
 Members of the organization began a campaign to raise s5OO.OOO for a de- fense fund, and efforts were made to get some of the leaders out on bail It would require a bond of nearly S2,00O.0OO to furnish bonds for all.
 "Red" Thompson Arrested
 SEATTLE, Wash, Oct. 1. - James
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