Arizona republican., 1918-12-20
VICIOUS METHODS IF |. W. W. EXPOSED
 |NCONSP|RAC CASE

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 19- Letters referring to arson and other forms of sabotage and tothe attitude of California newspapers and politi- cal figures regarding the Wheatland. Calif., hop riot case, were read to the jury late today at the trial of 46 per sons in the United States district court heretoday for alleged plots to obstruct war activities.
 Most of the letters bore the sigma lures O falleged co-conspirators with the defendants here, including several men convicted at the Chicago l. w. w. conspiracy trial last summer. Several touched upon activity charged against the Industrial Workers of the World in the northwest.
 Alleged formulas for treating plants and trees with chemicals and direc- tions for mixing the finest flour of emery dust in lubricating oil for ma chinery" were read to the jury.
 Today's showing was for the purpose of proving thegeneral conspiracy charge, Robert Duncan, special attor- ney for the department of justice an nounced, and witnesses are to be placed on the stand beginning tomor- row in an effort to connect them with the plots charged.
 Reference to the sudden death of "our old friend, Sheriff Meadows of Imperial Valley" was made in a letter alleged to have been written by C. L. Lambert. former I. W. W. secretary here, read tothe jury today.
 They finally got our old friend, Sheriff Meadows of Imperial Valley. This rat has lodged everything suc- 1acefr11xr finally he fell and died after four hours of terrible agony from poisoning of | some kind. He lived five years too long"
 Vicious Letters Read
 A letter signed by c. L. Lambert, secretary of the Wheatland Defense | committee, addressed to Phil Mo Laughlin, defendant here, said:
 If we could have gotten as many l sab-cats at Wheatland as there are said to be in Stockton, there would have been something doing there"
 The Wheatland hop riots occurred | February 5, 1914. E. T. Maxwell, dis | trict attorney of Yuba county, was | killed. H. D. Suhr and Richard Ford were sentenced to life imprisonment | for the crime.
 Another letter Lambert is said to | have sent Charles Schultz character ! ized the statement of Johnson on the 1 Ford and Suhr case, as one of the fin | est white men that could be kicked l out of yellow dog" adding:
 But We will make him howl some more before he is done"
 A letter signed "E Krauss, secre- tary, Portland, August, 13, 1914" and addressed to Vincent St. John, I. wv writer, who was convicted at Chicago said:
 Burn Fifty Threshers
 The stlffs in this part of the ioun. try are certainly raising hell, as more than fifty threshers burned around here, and the farmers are offering $1,OO0 for the guilty parties who art supposed to have put matches in tht grain. Sunday we held a gigantic anti-war demonstration here and nor, than 5000 people attended"
 If we could get out about a million stickers and turn the sab-cat loose il Utah, and leave a sticker where any. thing happens, I think it wouldn' make it so easy for the masters to rail. road men who are fighting for labor. said letter signed e. M Anderson secretary, Minneapolis, 9-14-15," an, addressed to William D. Haywood. for mer general secretary of the I. W. w who was convicted at Chicago
 The miners strike will curtail pro auction of copper 100000 pounds day. said a quotation from an alleged Bisbee, Arizona, message, printed il Solidarity and read today.
 One alleged formula read to the jur, today was how to make a slow fuse.