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The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-09-29

prisoners were crying in their fear
of the flames and the mob, finally
caused the sheriff to surrender the
wanted prisoner at about IL O'Clock.
after the rioting had been in progress
for several hours.
The negro, Brown, was rushed
from the courthouse roof to a nearby
telephone pole on the street where
he was hanged and his body riddled
with bullets. The body was then
cut down and amidst the cheers and
yells OF the men, women and chill
dren in the mob, was burned.
Mayor Edward P. Smith almost
suffered the same fate when he de-
fled The mob III an attempt to save
the prisoner.
" Mayor Addresses Mob.
Mayor Smith had gone to the
courthouse for a consultation with
Sheriff Clark and as he emerged
met the mob The mayor began to
make an address in favor of law and
order when some persons in the
crowd yelled Lynch him." A rope
was thrown around his neck and
with half dozen husky men at the
end, he was dragged a. half black
and stood under a TELEPHONE pole.
The end of the rope was thrown over
the cross-arm of the pole and the
mayor was suspended above the
ground. AS the rope was drawn
up two policemen cut it, The mayor
was suspended from the pole sec
ond inc, when Wcll-dressed man
cut him down again. They then
to rush the unconscious
form of Mayor Smith into "a police
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-09-29
MEDIATOR
ON The
Confers With State Execu-
tive Committee of Metal
Trades Regarding Local
Situation.

There has been no change in the
local metal trades strike. Reports
show that the ranks of the striking
craftsmen on strike to be 100 per
cent intact.
Funds for relief continue to come
from the outside in satisfactory
volume.
Mr.. Higwel Davies, govern
ment mediator, has arrived in the
city and is in conference this after
noon with the state executive COM
mittee.
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A. &. M. Governor and His
Lackey Get Cold Reception

a bunch of political slush. hoping TO
get solid with the people, but sue
ceeded only in spilling the beans.
Governor Sam opened his mouth
and Immediately put his foot in it
by saying that organized labor had
Joined the farmers in trying to over
throw the government.
He intimated that these laboring
men and farmers We're crazy, which
statement in crowd of farmers and
-laborers did not meet with great ap-
plause SO he did not dwell on the
subject.
Continued on Page Six.)
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Special to The Bulletin

tSpeClaI to The Bulletin.
Delnhia, Mont, Sept. 29.-Round-
ups big celebration for the welcome
of the war veterans has come and
gone, leaving in its wake train of
dissa pointments for nearly all con-
Cerned.
Proba bly, the greatest dissapoint-
ment OF the day was that of Cover
nor Stewart in the rather cool recep-
ton ne got at the hands of the
crowd
Honorable Sam and ditto Kennedy
came into town in a blaze of copper,
together with the A. G.. NJ band, to
welcome the veterans and hand out
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-09-29
omaha MOB BURNS NECR0-- MOST LYNCH MAYOR
BRITISH WORKERS. SOLIDARITY
MASTERS LLOYD GEORGE REGIME

London Sept 29Wh the exception Of Ireland, the rail
system Of the entire country is practically at sandst
The London terminals deserted and the gates closed
Due to the absence of disorder only few policemen
duty at the terminals The strike leaders who constant
y mpressing upon the the importance Of keeping order
say that the teup complete they have found
saly to organize picket line
Old bicycles have been dragged from store are
carrying to work The eXpensiveness OF
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FEAR GERMAN INTERESTS.

Especial United Press Wire.)
Washington, Sept. 29.-The house
sent to the senate bill framed to
build a protective wall around this
country, to prevent German dye in
terests from destroying the Ameri-
can industry which was built up dur
ing the war.
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flict with President Wilson. Foreign
Minister Tittoni said:
II should be traitor if | did not
recommend the avoidance of course
which would put Italy in open oppo-
sition to the peace conference. which
would mean Italy's abandonment of
the conference, with the loss OF all
the advantages coming from the
peace treaties, with our complete iso-
iation. with the remuneration of our
position as a great power-the COM
mitting of folly of which we would
soon repent"
Continued on Page Five.l
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WORKERS VS.. CAPITALISTS
COAL MINERS WILL
STRIKE NOV. 1

Especial United Press Wire.)
Buffalo, Sept. 30. - The de-
munds of the United Mine Work.
crs for siX-hour day, five-day
Week and 60 per cent increase
in wages, and other concessions.
were formally rejected by the
operators in the central district.
The miners set Nov. 1 as the
date for nationwide strike.
in event their demands are not
met by that time.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-09-29
CAPITALIST COURTS C0ND0NE
MURDER OF MEN and WOMEN
Especial to The Bulletin, J

Pittsburgh Pa, Sept 29"Tlc deputies did their duty
when they fired the charge Of Samuel c. Jai-
son to 'he r that sat on an inquest over the murder of Mrs
America and Joseph SMeecki striking miner the Jury
brought ~ verdict usifyng the killing and commencing
Sheriff William G. laddock of Allegheny county, for his
prompt and snccessfu action in protecting the property
I'VE deplore crcse the foreign agitaors who insh
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-09-29
Especial United Press Wirc.)


Omaha, Sept. 29.-Thc city was
placed under martial law at mid
night on orders from General Wood
at Chicago, and 1000 soldiers are
patroiling the streets, as the result
of rioting last night in connection
with the lynching and burning Of
Will Brown, a negro, and the at
tempted lynching OF Mayor Smith.
The mayor is still in critical con-
dition, but it is expected he will re-
cover.
Machine guns have been placed in
the negro districts and in the
vicinity Of the courthouse, which
was burned by the mob last night
during the attack on the building in
which Brown was incarcerated.
The rioting started when mob
comprising thousands Of men, wom-
en- and children attacked the court
house for the purpose of securing
viii Brown, negro, who had as
saultad Agnes Loebuck, a white
girl, on Thursday. Brown was taken
from the roof of the courthouse
after the building had been fired by
the mob and the smoke had all but
overcome Sheriff Clark and his
During the rioting Francis Clam
cey was shot and killed and Sc were
wounded.
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CITY NOW UNDER Martial law:
1 600 SOLDIERS PATROL STREETS

deputies fought a determined battle
to save the prisoner. The mounting
flames as they crept from floor to
floor TO the top floor Of the build
ing where Brown and 100 other
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SHIPPING. SUSPENDED.

Washington, Sept. 29.-Sailing of
all shipping board vessels to Great
Britain nave been suspended, due to
the British railway strike.
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STRIKE SNAP SHOTS
(From Our Special Correspondent
in PittSbmgh.)

The steel towns of Pennsylvania
are armed camps with cossacks and
special deputies on the lookout for
the strikers.
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..
New Castle is an arsenal. state
troopers and specials of the United
States Steel corporation patrolling
the streets with rifles. Every per-
son is searched and hundreds are
arrested without being admitted to
bail. The business men have been
enlisted as special deputies by
Sheriff w. e. Porter.
At Duquesne wires around the
steel plants have been electrified and
are mal ked with a deaths head.
State police hold up all who seek to
pass in the streets. Showing Of a
union card means instant arrest and
a fine Of $3.50.
McKeesport is a barracks, the
strikers being hunted like wild ami
mails. Newspaper men and reporters
are barred OIL the ground that the
companies object to publicity.
Photographers and moving picture
men are also regarded as "undesir-
ables.'
Most killings" are reported from
Butler and Farrell where the cos
sacks fire volleys into crowds. The
100 state troopers have terrorized
this section.
Race hatred is being stimulated
by the employment Of negroes
wherever possible as strike guards,
following the example set in Pitts
burgh where one striker has been
shot by a black man, and is not ex-
pected to live.
The companies classify the strike
breakers and scabs as Americans. III
their parlancc there are white
Americans and black Americans. ;"
All the rest are foreigners.
After the third killing in Farrell.
Burgess J. Fl. Moody, who is also a
company official, remarked:
"The red flag must go. There is
but one flag in Farrell and that is
the American flag"
No meetings are allowed in Far
rell by Burgess Moody.
When a county judge in Pitts
burgh asked Mother" Jones if she
had a permit to speak in the steel
towns, she said:
eyes, my forefathers won me that
right when they fought for this
country 125 years ago."
After the seventh killing. it was
reported that the feeling was run
ming high against the state con-
stabulary in the Monongahela valley.
Unusually quiet" is the report
from Tarentum, Breckenridge and
Natrona. Searchlights mounted in
fGnnfinro6 IN popa EiUa \
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Officials Protect Neg

VTIICFttIS I FVtVCV .NCSTU.
The rioting centered about the
magnificent courthouse building.
When the mob was informed that
they could not have the prisoner,
the building was fired and during
the progress of a pistol battle during
which Sheriff Mike Clark and his
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-09-29

anarchy and bOlSheViStic doctrines
into the minds Of un-American and
uneducated aliens of the district"
the jury declared in it's verdict. Jo-
seph Kotvasz and Joseph Seracki,
striking miners Of West Natrona,
where the murder occurred on Aug.
26. who appeared as witnesses
against the mine guards and depu-
ties, were arrested on leaving the
witness stand, on the order of Sher-
iff Haddock, being charged with in
citing to riot.
James Oates also an organizer of
the United Mine Workers of America,
who narrowly escaped the same fate
as Mrs. Sellins, has been arrested
three times in connection with trag-
edy and is out on $1,000 bail, also
being charged with inciting to riot.
He made this comment on the ver-
dict: I'VE got what we expected in
Allegheny county; a whiteWash for
the murderers and arrest of the
strikers, while the men who did the
killing are free to continue their
work. AS for the foreign agitators,
the charge makes my blood boil;
Fannie Sellins was noble and as pa
triotic an American, as ever lived;
she was a mother and d grand
mother. She was born in Memphis,
Tenn, sent her only son into the re-
cent war and her brother fought for
this country in the Philippine war. I
have five sons who were called to
the colors, one was 81 days on the
Argonne front, another was at Brest,
France, ready to go into the attack,
another at Atlanta ready to embark
when the armistice was signed and
they call me foreigner"
He said that as organizers, fight
ing for the freedom of the coal min
ers, as we'll as of the steel workers,
they were truer to the real principles
of Americanism than the murderOus
tools of the trust and their czarlike
masters.
Nothing SO far has come out of the
federal investigation, that was called
for by Phillip Murray. president of
district of the United Mine Work
ers of America.
Labor union officials claim that
they have affidavits that Mrs. Fannie
Sellins, organizer for the United Mine
Workers. was shot at the direction
of a mill official. who told the deputy
to "kill that woman"
eehuS dBdlilSI uc5iO Sudiuo liz
the Sharon and Monessen districts.
is reported to be running high, and
precautions against disturbances are
being strengthened.
STRIKERS CAUSE IS JUST.
New York, Sept. 29.--Victory for
the striking steel workers was pre-
dicted by Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of La
Dor, who on the eve of his departure
for Washington said that the strike
Sin all probability would be dis
cussed at President Wilson's indus
trial conference to begin in Washing
ton Oct. 6.
"The steel workers will win be-
cause their cause is just said Mr..
Gompers. He contended that public
opinion leans toward the strikers on
their right for collective bargaining
and said. that important develop
ments i'll the steel situation are
looked for in Washington this week.
The lowering of labor standards
would "precipitate calamity" he
added.
The labor chief anticipated the at
titude taken by Chairman Gary, of
Do
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CASUALTIES ON The
VARIOUS FRONTS
WORKERS..
CAPITALISTS.

CAPITALISTS.
Killed. W'nde4l.
None. None.
NOte:-The wounded column
contains only those seriously in.
jured, some Of whom will die.
There are many hundreds suffer-
ing from minor wounds.
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After the seventh killing, it was
reported that the feeling was run
ming high against the state con-
stabulary in the Monongahela valley.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-09-29

When a county judge in Pitts.
burgh asked Mother" Jones if she
had a permit to speak in the stee
towns, she said:
eyes, my forefathers won me that
right when they fought for this
country 125 years ago.
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-09-29

Unusually quiet" is the report
from Tarentum, Breckenridge and
Natrona. Searchlights mounted in
The Butte daily bulletin. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1918-1921, 1919-09-29

AT Duquesne wires around the
steel plants have been electrified and
are MAI ked with a deaths head.
State police hold up all who seek to
pass in the streets Showing OF a
union card means instant arrest and
a fine Of $3.50.
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Most killings" are reported from
Butler and Farrell, where the CO.'S
sacks fire volleys into crowds. The
100 state troopers have terrorized
this section.
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No meetings are allowed in Fal
rell by Burgess Moody.
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Race hatred is being stimulated
by the employment Of negroes
wherever possible as strike guards
following the example set in Pitts.
burgh where one striker has been
shot by a black man, and is not ex.
pectcd to live.
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CONTINUED on Page Six.)
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The companies classify the strike
breakers and scabs as Americans. III
their parlancc there are white
Americans and black Americans -
All the rest are foreigners.
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(Continued ON Page Six.)
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After the third killing in Farrell
Burgess ]. Fl. Moody, who is also a
company official, remarked:
"The red flag must go. There is
but one flag in Farrell and that is
the American flag"
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Continued on Page Five.l
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Continued on Page Six.)
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
KAISER D0DGES
NEUTRAL TRIAL
Ex-EmperOr Declines to Play
Martyr for Sake Of
Germany.
REBUFFS HIS FRIENDS
Plan of MOnarchists to Fore
stall the Allies Rejected
by Imperial. Exile.
REBUFFs HIS FRIENDS
Sfd6 Correspondent Of THE Srx.

BERLIN. June s tdelayed) Former
Emperor Wilhelm declines voluntarily
to offer himself as a sacrifice for the
sins OF Germany. The ex-Kaiser did
not encourage the plan conceived in a
circle of his personal friends here TO
relieve Holland of the question OF his
delivery and at the same time do
something for his own reputation by
boldly Offering to stand trial before a
neutral high court.
The person who went to Amerongen
on that alleged mission and whose
identity cannot be disclosed has re-
turned with report that his mission
was unsuccessful. He is said to have
found the exKaiser SO optimistic that
nothing could happen to him, and
aside from that In such a nervous
condition. that he was unable to put
the idea over
The idea has not been abandoned en-
tirely. but 1t is said the originators OF
the scheme are very sceptical
The plan was for the ex-Kalser to
call upon the heads of two neutral
Governments to create a high court
made up Of European neutrals. before
which he was voluntarily to place
himself on trial to answer the charges
made against him by the Allies.
1t was believed this plan would be
welcomed by the Allies as a way out
OF difficult problem not only for them
but for Holland as well. 1t was fur
ther believed that the idea would ap-
peal to Wilhelm's sense OF the dra-
matte to offer himself as a sacrifice
for what Is being visited upon his peo-
pie. The small monarchical circle that
initiated the plan is keenly disap-
pointed, as 1t had hoped it would re-
vive the, ,monarchical spirit In Germany.
which admittedly is all but killed out
by the manner in which the ex-Kaiser
left.
It is declared that in order to keep
Wilhelm out OF spells OF depression 1t
has been decided by his physician to
withhold much of the truth from him.
1t Is not clear how far the peace terms
have been made known to him.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
GER MANY KEPT
OUT OF LEAGUE
Clemenceau Refuses to Sane
tiOn Admission Upon Sign
ing Treaty.
HARD BLOW TO WILSON
President Has Grave Fears for
Covenant If TeutOns Are
Barred.
HARD BLOW TO WILSOl
BY a Stag Correspondent Of THS sUS.

NopW'U"l. LSAS' uH f'ONts TcSTteu.
PARIS. June 9.-The most interesting
OF recent developments growing out
OF the discussion over the German pro-
pc sails is the fiat rejection yesterday
by Premier Clemenceau OF the Cecil
House report fixing period within
which to admit Germany to the League
OF Nations. Lord Robert and Col.
House. II. they could have their way.
would, It is believed, admit Germany
upon the signing OF the treaty. but
Trey compromised with Leon Bour-
sc oise. the French delegate, to have a
unanimous report. the exact terms nor
Icing disclosed.
When this was reported to the Big
Four Premier Clemenceau came out
with one OF his peremptory Noes"
1t Is understood that he later made
some counter proposal which has
again left the matter in the air. The
Clemenceau rejection is believed to
have been a hard blow to Wilson, who
has grave fears for the league II Ger
many is left out long
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
LEAGUE WILL HALT
TEUTON RIVAL PLAN
Move to Admit Germany
Would Foil Alliance.

PARIa, June 9.-The movement to ad-
NIT Germany to the League OF Nations
Is due mainly to the desire to avoid the
possibility of the formation OF another
group composed OF rival powers which
would embrace Germany. Russia and the
old Teutonic group.
Evidences have reached the conference
leaders OF late that influences are at
work In Germany and Russia 10 estab-
lish relations as ba sis for a com
bination OF power not in the league.
While not regarded as imminent. II was
felt that the danger Of such combinat ton
would be always present while German
was outside the league. and the admis-
sion Of Germany therefore was recon-
mended as a means OF subJecting her TO
the same obligations as the Allies under
the League OF Nations.
This sentiment WAS chiefly instru-
mental in the unanimous decision OF
the British, French American and
Italian members OF the League commit
tee concerning the conditions on which
Germany may be admitted. II is under
stood that these conditions are:
Flrst-The establishment OF q
stable government.
Seeond-The signing Of the treaty
OF peace.
Third-The loyal execution OF tho
peace treaty.
Al a meeting OF the organization COM
mittee of the League OF Nations to-day
Sir Eric Drummond. the secretary gen
eral. presented memorandum regard
ing the organization OF the league
There was a general discussion, after
which this resolution was passed:
II will be essential to the league
to be fully informed at the earliest
moment OF all the political. economic,
financial. social and other relevant
considerations in all parts OF the
world, Every State which In a MEM
Der Of the league should therefore
undertake to supply the international
secretariat with all appropriate In
formation.
One OF the chief authorities said to-
day: I'VE can deal with Germany bet
ter when inside tpAn oulsids the league.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-10
Royal Air Crosses Given
Towers, Read and Mates
BY the Associated Press.

T .ONDON, June 9.-The Royal
Air Force Cross has been con-
ferred on Commander John H.
Towers, in command of the
American seaplane squadron on
the transatlantic fight, and
Lieutenant-C Commander Albert
C. Read and the other commits
stoned officers of the crew of the
NC-4, Lieut.. Walter Hinton,
Lieut.. E. F. Stone, Lieut.. J. L.
Breese and Ensign H. C. Rodd.
The Royal Air Force Medal
has been conferred on Chief Ma
chinist's Mate E. s. Rhoades.
Major-Gen. J. E. B. Seely of
the Air Ministry, made the
presentations this afternoon in
behalf Of the King.
The Air Force Cross was re-
Gently conferred on Harry G..
Hawker and Lieutenant-C Com
mander Mackenzie Grieve, the
British aviators who essayed the
transatlantic fight.
The Royal Air Force Cross is
awarded to officers and warrant
officers. and the Air Force Medal
to non-commissioned officers and
men for acts of courage or de-
votion to duty when flying, al
though not in active operations
against the enemy.