El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-23
DRAMA, A TALE
Of TWO CITIES
Bankers, Muckers, Speed
Cops and Lawyers Ac-
cused Kidnapers.

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Douglas. Ariz, aug. PA modern
Tale Of Two Cities" will be given
its first performance ere Monday.
/ The principal characters will be 200
o. the leading residents Of Cochise
county who are charged with kid
naping as the result Of their partic-
Z ipation N the deportations that fol-
lowed the / W W. trouble in the
Warren copper mining district two
years ago; the two cities" involved
are Douglas and Bisbee and the
Z drama VIII open in one Of the biggest
I theatres in Douglas for a season that
Is expected to run without inter
ruption for six or eight weeks.
!. From present indications the big
Joint preliminary hearing Of the 200
I Bisbee and douglas men will prove
one OF the most Interesting legal
events in history. Never before have
so many prominent men been ar
ralgned on a felony charge stimuli
raneOusly. And never before has any
session Of court necessitated such q
re-arrangem Of local business and
industrial conditions as is now under
way in Cochise county.
Net Company Gun Men,
With the exception Of twenty resi-
dents Of Douglas, the 200 names con-
tanned on the blanket kidnapping
I ll4aA are those OF men VINO I'VE
and work in the Warren mining dis
trict Soon after the 100 men de-
ported fro the Warren district on
July y, 1917, were released at Col
umbus. n. II, a cry went up from
certain circles in the country that
the deportations had been conducted
by company gunner and thugs" To
persons net familiar with the situ-
alton created BY the I. ". W during
its short but eventful reign in Bis
bee, this theory was often accepted
as being one that appeared the cas-
Test to absorb. But, Sc eral months
ago, when the county attorney began
to issue complaints against the al
legged deporters, this theory was ex-
ploded
It has turned out that the citizens
accused Of taking part in the depor-
tation-and there is no attempt on
their part to "camoufage" the act
ual eportation-comprise men OF al
most every trade, profession, occu-
patton and standing in the entire
Warren dis-ric
A Representative Bunch.
When the first session Of the big
hearing ope , Monday afternoon, the
section Of the theatre which viii be
occupied by the defendants. viii seat
one Of the most democratic and rep
resentative groups Of Arizonans ever
gathered together for any length OF
The 200 defendants VIII lead
double life" as long as the hearings
last Each morning they will follow
their regular trades or professions
But. as soon as the noon whistle
blows in the Warren district, bankers,
mine superintendents and foremen.
merchants, lawyers, doctors, miners,
muekers and retired citizens VIII
spring from their offices. stores, city
and county buildings and mine cages
and rush TO the depot TO catch De
portation Special No. 2" a special
train which Will be run each day
from Bisbee TO Douglas-
Lunch will be served on the train,
which viii arrive in Douglas early
in the afternoon. in time for the de-
PENDANTS TO get 10 the theatre-court-
room before the daily afternoon ses-
sion starts
Defendants Of All Stations.
Then. for four hours, all VIII be-
come known by the general and p0-
sition leveling term of defendants"
The banker win rub shoulders with
the smallest depositori corporation
heads will sit elbow to elbow with
their office clerks; muckers and
miners viii -hobnob" with shift
bosses and foremen. For the deporta-
ton Incident has turned out 10 be a
community affair. and the community
is standing sOlidly behind it. The
leading men in both the Industrial
and private life OF the Warren dis
trict and the private citizen who pays
the least taxes are "all in the same
boat" and nobody is rocking it
An -sStick Together
Although branded as felons and
threatened with reservations in the
state penitentiary, II convicted, for
their part in the deportations that
followed the near eruption Of the J.
". W volcano two years ago, the
Cochise citizens are sticking to-
gether.' Nothing appears to be SUI
ficient to shake their faith in the
belief that what they did was the only
thing, and the right thing, to pre-
vent the disruption OF the community
which they had worked for years 10
build up.
The leading figure in the deporta-
ton cases, Harry c. Wheeler, will be
unable 10 attend the big preliminary
hearing. Wheeler issued the famuos
proclamation Of July u, 1871, from
the sheriffs office, calling upon cit
liens Of the Warren district, whom
he had deputized, to help him handle
a situation which he characterized
in the proclamation as mo labor
trouble-We are sure Of that, but
direct attempt to embarrass and in
jure the government OF the United
States"
Wheeler is at present representing |
Cochise county at the national mark /
manship contests in New Jersey, but
will return to his home in time for I
the third group Of hearings in the /
deportation cases, which have been 1
set for September IS when his own /
case will be called
Presiding Judge n Texan.
Justice ". c. Jack, Of Douglas, will /
preside at the big hearing, the Bis
bee justice Of the peace having been
disqualified TO sit on the cases. Jus
tice Jack has heard all the cases held 1
thus far. He is a Texan and proud !
Of Il
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