The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-07-13
CITIZENS GUST
|. ". WIS FROM
ARIZONA town
More Than 1900 Members Put In
Cattle Cars and Shipped
Out of State.
TWO MEN SHOT TO DEATH
Sheriff Leads Posse in Rounding Up
Men Accused of Treason-Gov-
ernor Asks for Federal Troops
to Stop Disorder at Bis
bee and Douglas.

bee and Douglas.
Deming, n. NJ, July 13.-Sheriff w.
c. Simpson of Luna county, In which
both Columbus and Hermanas are To-
Gated, received instructions from Gov.
w. E. Lindsey Of New Mexico to leave
to the military authorities the settle
ment of the situation caused by pro-
posed detraining in that county Of men
deported from Bisbee.
Bisbee, AriZ., July 13.-More than
LOO alleged Industrial Workers of
the World, deported from Bisbee, are
aboard "a cattle cars, speeding toward
New Mexico. Their announced des-
tinatiOn is Columbus. The special
train carrying them left Warren, four
miles from Bisbee at noon.
The train bearing men deported
from Bisbee passed through Hachita,
n. NJ, bound east, at 6 80 o'clock.
The men were driven from the city
by deputy sheriffs and about 1900
armed men, members Of an organiza-
ton known as the "Citizens Protective
league"
Two men were killed during the
work Of deportation.
TWO Are Killed.
The victims were Orson P. McRae,
member of the Citizens Protective
league and shift boss at one of the
Copper Queen mines, and James Brew,
former employee of the Dem mine.
strike was called here by the
metal-workers' branch of the l. w. w.
about two weeks ago. Since then
scores Of strange men have been In
Bisbee. These men are alleged to
have prevented miners from returning
to work.
Plans for the "round up of alleged
undesirables were made at midnight
by Harry c. Wheeler, sheriff of Co
chise county. Within two hours the
sheriff had deputized 1900 men.
A thousand citizens from Douglas,
armed with rifles and three machine
guns, came quietly to within q mile
Of Bisbee and encamped. They, too,
were sworn in as deputies.
All were ordered to report at va
rious points at four o'clock in the
morning.
When the bands of citizens assem-
bled those who were not already
armed were given rifles and revolvers
with instructions to use them only in
self-defense.
Until the last I. w. W. Is run out"
was the watchword passed to the wait
ing citizens
Town Springs to Arms.
simultaneously five bands Of armed
citizens appeared as if by magic.
Some hurried from alleys, others came
streaming from storerooms and some
sprang from low roofs of business
buildings. All marched in a business
like manner to the center Of the town.
Four squads of citizens, coming from
different parts Of the city, reached the
center Of town at the same time. Each
band was marching with several hun
dred prisoners.
After an hours wait, captors and
captured marched to the depot, where
another squad on duty had taken
charge of several hundred more men.
At s 80 O'Clock the prisoners were
lined up two abreast. Flanked by 1000
heavily armed citizens the captives
were ordered to march down the rail-
road tracks toward Warren. At Low
ell, a suburb, about 800 more alleged
l. w. w. were merged into the process
sion.
The baseball park at Warren was
chosen for the place of assembling the
men to be deported. Word Of the
cleanup" had preceded the sheriff
and his men and when the prisoners
reached the park the hundreds of spec
tators on the scene set up jeers.
When the prisoners were inside the
inclosure half the armed bands formed
a guard around the park, while the
other half started a systematic search
of the entire district for the men who
were identified with the /. w. w. or
VINO could not account for their pres
ence in satisfactory manner.
Shortly before noon a special train
of cattle cars rolled up to the park.
The prisoners were marched In single
file from the inclosure up the runways
and onto the cars.
The train left at noon. AS it DEPART
ed cheers and jeers were mingled.
Some of the deported ones waved their
hands and their caps and shouted !:
"Good-by, Bisbee."
Appeals for Troops.
Phoenix, Ariz., July 13-Governor
Campbell wired to General Parker at
Fort Sam Houston Informing him Of