The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-13
But Message Came After Train
Load Sent to Border.
Many Towns Arm To Prohibit
Invasion of DepOrted.
LEFT To FATE ON DESERT
1,1S9 in Bad Way for Food
Start Travelling AfOot.
Say They'll Return to Bisbee-
Armed Men Waiting.

Ell Paso, Tex. July ia special
train with food supplies sufficient to
feed the Industrial Workers at Her
manas two or three days was sent
from Ell Paso this afternoon it was
announced at headquarters of the Ell
Paso & Southwestern railroad. This
followed receipt of a report to Briga-
der General George Bell, jr., from the
officer commanding at Hermanas that
the deported persons were in danger
of starvation.
Phoenix, AriZ., July Ex-Governor
Campbell this morning received the
following message from President
Wilson:
Secretary of war has instructed
General Parker to send officers to
Arizona at once to report to him
conditions there with a view to CO.
operating in the maintenance of
order.
Meantime, may 1 not respect
fully urge the great danger of citi-
zenS taking the law in their own
hands as your report indicates they
have done. look upon sucn ac-
tons with grave apprehension. A
very serious responsibility is as
sumed when such presidents are
set. (Signed)
"WOODROW WILSON"
Hoof 1t to Columbus.
Columbus. N NJ, July 13.-The
army of l. w. w. deported from Bis
bee yesterday and whose special train
of cattle cars and box cars was side
; tracked at Hermanas, N. NJ, last
night, left Hermanas during the after
noon today and is strung for mile
or more along the railroad track
Iii, in 6irnNtinU aPCOrdinO 70
reports received here.
On this information Columbus citi-
zetfs turned out armed to repel any
Invasion The situation of the de-
ported persons was described as des-
operate from lack of food.
without Food SO Hours.
Ell Paso, Texas, July 13.-Telephone
advices received today by Police Chief
Zanriskie from Columbus. N. M.
stated that 1,1S9 1. w. WIS deported
yesterday from Bisbee, Ariz., have
been detained at Hermanas, n. NJ.
and are marching overland to Ell Paso
Three women are reported in the
ranks of the agitators, who have been
without food for thirty-six hours.
$50 Guards Return.
Douglas. Ariz., July 13.-Two hun
bred and fifty armed guards who
escorted the Industrial Workers of the
, World and their sympathizers from
Bisbee yesterday returned to Douglas
this morning on the regular west
bound passenger train on the El oaso
& Southwestern railroad. They re-
ported they had left their charges al
Hermanas. N NJ.
700 Go to Meet Invaders.
Bisbee, Ariz., July 13.-Seven nun
bred armed deputies boarded a train
here today for Osborne, railway
junction east of here This action was
taken following reports here that this
l. w. VS. We're preparing for an at
guards will round up the Industrial
lists again and hold them prisoners
until the government takes a hand.
Deported Call for Help.
Ell Paso, Tex, July 13.-El Paso &
Southwestern general offices were adj
vised at noon from Hermanas that
most of the deported persons were
still there flooding the telegraph
wires with appeals for assistance.
A troop of cavalry is in control al
HermanaS.
Hermanas consists of a railroad sta
ton and three or four houses. It is
twenty miles west of Columbus, n. Nj
The train carrying the men returned
to Hermanas when officers at Column
y bus N. M, refused to permit the pris-
oners to BE- unloaded.
Railroad officials said the water
supply al Hermanas was adequate fol
the deported men, 1t was understood
they were provisioned at Bisbee with
enough food to last until they reached
Columbus.
Future movements of the men have
not been determined upon, according
to railroad authorities.
No attempt has been made to carry
! out the announced plan of the deport
ed leaders to seize the first trair
bound toward Arizona ana return tt
| Bisbee as far as is known.
Organize VigiIantes in Oregon.
| Salem, Ore, July 1910 cope will
/ the 1. w. w. menace a battalion O
men with military experience is beinf
! formed in Oregon, Adjutant Genera
! George A. White announced toda Y
/ One hundred men have already enlist
ed and by July rs the battalion will
number at least 500 trained ara ready
/ Governor Withycombe today mailed
instructions to every sheriff in Oregon
: to appoint a certain number of .depu
i ties who will be ready at any time t.
/ check 1. w. w. disturbances. The dep
! uty sheriffs will be organized as ;
military unit and will supplement tn,
I battalion of ex-soldiers.
Adjutant General White said toda,
/ troops would be stationed in easter
Oregon to guard the wheat fields
/ which the l. W. W. are said to hav
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