The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-04-29
Colorado and Nevada.

Colorado and Nevada.
 \ former secretary of the l. w, w, according to stcnographic report of answers said to have been made by him to Sheriff Montgomcry'S QueS- uou,. is credited with the following admissions:
 That inccndariSm in the Salt rive: valley near Phoenix last summer wa% carried out by members of the I. w. W.
 That members of the organization ..'' are carrying on the campaign of ,hc torch.
 That a member of the |. w. W. from California told him privately some of the Sacramento bunch" of forty convicted there several months ogo. were guilty of the sabota%c .ha-wcd against them
 That tho secretary together with othnr members of the I. w. w. had held conferences on labor matters n common" in the Phoenix labor temple.
 Tho records of the Phoneix head. quarters of the organization in thc shrrii''s possession how a total 1f >I7ooO received in dues during hat a year, mostly miners dues those foY aJh. branches having been sent dt- ro,t.y to Chicago. A grand total If 'y SlO9O0O. k shown aS the Phoenix offices receipts from aT sources for less than a year Of this moro than 2SO,COO is represented as coming from ,hc sale of literature, due .tamps, siX hour stamps and dcfenSc, 1or the prisoners fund in this state, N'w Mexico. Nevada, California, Col oraI, and Texas
 United States government docu- mentS, declared Sheriff Montgomery. wore not safe from I. w. w. hand3 and in proof or his assertion he pro du..d two orders to the United States marshaI fov Arizona for raids on cer- tain premises in the city of Bisbec ~ seize s'@tiouS literature, prescribing ha.uct-, crc. According to the inscrip- 'ioUs ou tho back of these, the Seil- urcs were made. one being endorsed by =. J. MrFarlane, who signed him self Special employc department of justice United States" One was dated March l> and the other March l9. 19- }>. Sheriff Montgomery declared these documents belong properly under lock nd key in the United States commiS- ~iou.rS office at BiSbce.
 An efficient system Of bookkeeping with printed forms for every purpose,
 am0:0g thc I. w. w. organization u- one ou strictly busincsslike lines "0i rot the intangible body it some ..uos Is supposed to be, is shown in t.s records now held by the Maricopa county sheriff. Liberal use of tho mails for ordinary transmission, SpeJ- .u' delivery packages and registered letters is abundance of testimony, gil Sheriff Montgomery, that moncy was rushed to I. w. w. delegates D. wire when the occasion demanded.
 O. There are still radicals in tn, -.ata, men who believe in force and torch
 A ' could not point them out. The, don't stand very we'll in the or- ganization, l knew at the time of fires l,ro in tn' valley that some of the boys wcro dcng it, but I didn't know ,ho. 2
 C, - Yop were confident some of .hc members were doing it, but we didn't know who. asa Mos' of us are opposed to h,,t but I will tell you the ruth, the c'd 400 are in the biggest rart of that. He is reported to have aid previous that 400" was the Gc. >ignation of the agricultural division of the I. w w, the mining division being "SOO".)
 O. You have men in the organiza- ton doing the same thing yet?
 A Yes, but it is awfully hard to find out a man like that until he has gone an awful long ways. Some of the men are in Sacramento. There was fellow down here from there, who told mo privately that some of the Sacramento bunch were guilty.
 Sheriff Montgomery stated he had been pursuing his investigation into l. w. W. affairs since the first of tha year. He declared that if it were pos Sible, he would prevent the outbursts of incendiarjsm in the Salt river val