Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1917 — ARMED CITIZENS OUST I. W. W.'S FROM ARIZONA [ARTICLE]

ARMED CITIZENS OUST I. W. W.'S FROM ARIZONA

Bisbee Deports More Than 1,200 Agitators. CALL FOR U. S, TROOPS Industrial Workers of the World Are Leaded Cattle Cars by Posses and Train Is Started for Mexican Border—-2 Men Killed. Demiiig/N. M_ July 13- —Sheriff W. C. Simpson of Luna county, in which both. Columbus and Hermanns are h> cat< / n cel red Instructions from Gov. W/E. Lindsey! of New Mexict) to leave •to ithe inlL' .ry authorities the settlement of t3-<- si;nation caused by proposed in that county of men .deported fnmi' Bishec. Bisiiee, Ariz_ July 13. —More than alleged Industrial Workers of the W-.r/i. dvp rttd from Bisbee; arfe ard -i cattle .cars, speeding to ward New Their announced destination is Columbus.. ■ The special train carrying them left Warren, four miles from Bisbee. at noon. The train .. bearing , men deported from .Bisbee- passed through Haclhta, N. M-, bound east, at 0 -30 o'clock

The men were .driven from the/ city by deputy sL riffs and about 2.000 armed men, 'ixieiabers of an organization known as the “Citizens’ Protective league.” Two ''men were killed during the work of deportation. Two Are Killed. The victims were Orson P. Mcßae, a member of the Citizens’ Protective league and/shift; boss/at one; of the Copper Queen mines, and James Brew, a former empSoyee of the Denn mine. A strike . was called here by the metal-workers’ branch of the I. W. W. about two weeks vago. Since then scores of strange men have been in Bisbee. These nteit are alleged to have preveni.d miners from .returning to work.

Plan- f«<r the “round up” of alleged undesirables Were made at midnight by Harry C. Wheeler, sheriff of Cochise county. Within two hours the sheriff had-deputized 13)0 men. / ,'. ;/.

A thousand citizens, from Douglas, armed with rifles and three machine guns, came quietly to within a mile of Bisbee and encamped. They, too, were sworn in as deputies.

Ail were Ordered to rep/ rt at various points at four o'clock in the morning. When the bands of citizens assembled those who were not already armed were given rifles and revolvers with instructions to use them only in self-defense. “Until the last I, W. W. is run out” was the watchword passed to the waiting citizens. Town Springs to Arms.

Simultaneously five bands of armed citizens appeared as if by magic. Some hurried from alleys, others came streaming from storerooms and some sprang from low roofs of business buildings. All marched In a businesslike manner to the.center of the town. Four squads of citizens, coming from different parts of the city, reached the center of town at the same time. Each hand was marching with several hundred prisoners. After an hour's wait, captors and captured marched to the depot, where another squad on duty had taken charge of several hundred more men. At S :30 o’clock the prisoners were lined up two abreast. Flanked by 2,000 heavily armed citizens the Captives were ordered to nntrch down the railroad tracks toward Warren. At Lowell, a suburb, atnout more alleged L W. W. weremerged into the procession.

The baseball park at Warren was chosen for the place of assembling the men to le deported- Word■ ■of -.the “cleanup'’ had preceded the sheriff and liis naeii and when the prisoners reached the park the hundreds of spectators on the scene set up jeers. When the prisoner* were inside the inclosure half the armed bands formed a guard around the park, while the other halt started a systematic search of the entire district for the men who were identified, with the I. W. W. or who could not account for their presence in a satisfactory Diamter. Shortly In-fore noon a special train of cattle cars rolled up to the park. The pri*soiers were marched In single fiie from the inciosure up the runways and onto the cars. The train left at noon. As it departed cheers and jeers were mingled. Some of the deported ones waved their hands and their caps and shouted: *Good*by, ffidwe." Appeals for Troops. Phoenix, Ariz_ July 13.—Governor Campbell wired to General Parker at Fort Sam Houston informing him of the situation at Bisbee and requesting that United States troops be sent there at once.