Plymouth Tribune, Volume 3, Number 36, Plymouth, Marshall County, 9 June 1904 — Page 1

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Cripple Creek Joining Region in a Furor Vf Excite ment, RED WAR LOOMS HEAR AT IIAIID Dastard Doed Blows Twelve NonUnion Men to Shreds. 43tatton Platform Blown Up at Inde pendence Riot Follows at Victor In Which One Is Killed and Six Wounded. Denver, Jnne 7. It is stated that in the storming of the miners union building at Victor by the guardsmen seven union miners were shot dead. Another story, hoeveT, is that no one , was killed. Cripple Creek, Colo., June 7. Twelve men were killed by the explosion of an Infernal machine at the railroad station in Independence, and seven others were seriously injured. Eleven men were killed outright, and one died later from their wounds. Ail the killed and injured with the excep tion of two men from the Deadwood ADJTTANT CENXR1L EHZKillH YL CELL. mine were non-union miners employed on the night shift of the Findley mine. The men had quit work at. 2 a, m., and were waiting to board a suburban train on the Florence find Cripple Creek railroad and return to their homes in Cripple Creek and Victor. Ilcxlle lilonn to Fragment. Just after the engineer or the approaching train Llew his whistle as a signal to the miners, according to cus tom, a terrific explosion occurred un derneath the station platform, on and . near which twenty-six men were gath ered. The platform was blown into splinters, the station was wrecked and a hole twenty feet in circumference and about as many feet In depth was . torn in the ground. Fragments of bodies were hurled through space for several hundred feet. II otnan Debris on All Sides. Some of the bodies dropped into the pit made by the explosion, but heads, hands, ears, legs, arms and trunks were strewn about on all sides. Fieces of flesh were found on buildings 500 feet away and blood-stained everything within a radius of fifty feet. The approaching train was stopped and the Arain crew and hundreds of others be gan the work of relief of the wound ed. The mangled bodies of the dead. pieced together as well as possible, "were removed to the coroner's office. Kama of the Victims. - Following is the list of the dead . Gus. Augustine, aged 15, has a broth r living In Janesville, Wis.; Arthur iluhleise; Henry Haag, formerly of .Leadville; Alexander McLane, Lead -ville; Charles E. Barber, Herbert Mc- . oy, J. H. Hansell, William Shank lin, E. Kelso, W. W. Delaney, Edward Ross and E. II. Johnson. The injured Phil Chandler, J. A.. Brooker, Edward Holland, John Poliice. Tom Sinclair, Dan Galney and Clarence Al . - len. Amputation nas neen penormea upon a number of the wounded, but it Is almost certain that several of them will die. ' MACHINE THAT DID TOB WÖBS im as tbe One That Killed Two Ilea la the Tlndicator Mine. ' . The Infernal machine with which , the diabolical work was done consisted of a quantity of dynamite, esti mated at 100 to SCO pounds, a loaded Tevolvert and a long, slender, steel wire ran from under the station to the cribbing of the Delmonico property, about 400 feet away, where Its end was fas tened to a rung of a chair. The dym niite was placed close to the muzzle -of the revolt er, which was discharged by pulling tli3 vriro when the cnci---r blew hi whistle. The ball frora tie revolver exploded the dynamite. A man was seen running down t!;2 till from the Delmonico after tha er- ; i plosion. The Victor trocps, "who x:izz - crirred out by Mayor French, wer? co 1' rationed cs to keep pccpla fr:zi r"' irj ever tls rth taken by tLL?

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On City and Trinidad for the purpose of trailing the assassin. The infernal machine ;?sed was similar' to the one exploded in the Vindicator mine on Nov. 21, 1003, killing two men. By order of Mayor II. .A. Tay lor, of the National Guard, the bodies were removed from the coroner's es tablishment to another undertaker's. This action was taken on request of J. S.' Murphy, superintendent of the Findley mine, because it was alleged that' Coroner James Doran had re marked before the discovery of the in fernal machine that the death of the men was due to an accident. Later, Coroner Doran explained that although he had spoken of the disaster as an "awful accident," he was convinced that a terrible crime had been com mitted. FATAL RIOTING AT VICTOR Row During m Maas Bleetins; Ends with Shooting One Killed, SU Wounded. Victor, Colo., June 7. Rioting broke out in this city while a masy meeting was being held to discuss tne mui Jer of the twelve non-union miners by means of an infernal machine at Inde pendence. Forty shots were fired into a crowd in the street. One man was killed and six persons at least injured. The dead man is It. McGee, of Victor, shot through the heart. The Injured William Hopkins, may die; and Alfred Miller, of Goldfield, may die; J. D. Davis, skull fractured, seriously injured; reters Fleming, shot; Fred Strudevess, engineer at Inde pendence mine; nn unknown woman. Secretary Clarence C. Hamlin, of the Mine Owners' association, concluding a short address, said: "1 want to hear what the boys In the mines have got to say about this trouble." William Hoskins, a union miner from Goldfield, threw up his hand and shouted: "Let me talk." At this the crowd began to hiss Hoskins and . cry 'Tut him out." A free-for-all fight followed and shootlLg began. Hoskins fell with a bullet in his body, and the crowd scattered in every direction. Secretary Hamlin, who had oeen standing on a wagon, kept talking, unmindful of the storm of bul lets that whizzed about his head. It. McGee, of Victor", who was instantly killed, had been standing on an em bankment thirty feet above the men who Uad been fighting, and was an Innocent spectator. A pitched battle is looked for at any moment. There are 5,000 men on the streets, and union men are arming themselves and lined up on the cor ners of Fourth and Victor avenues. At 12:30 this, morning the streets of Victor were still thronged with people and the excitement was high. Sheriff liell seemed to Irnve secured control of the situation, but the tension was so high that any little thing might cause an outbreak. SHERIFF FORCED TO RESIGN City Slarshal Also Dismissed Union Men Armed to Resist Deportation. Frevious to the rioting Sheriff Hen ry M. Robertson had been summoned to a meeting of the Mine Owners as soeiation in Armory hall, by. a com mittee composed of C. C. Hamlin, sec retary of the association; J. S. Murphy, manager of the Findley mine, and L. E. Hill, of the Theresa. At this meeting his resignation was demand ed. He yielded to the demand. Then Edward . Iiell was appointed by the county commissioners to fill out Rob ertson's unexpired term. Robertson was a union miner before he was elect ed sheriff. Bell .Is a member of the Citizens' Alliance. Nearly all mines In the district had been closed by order of the Mine Own ers' association, and hundreds of min era flocked into town from the sur rounding hills. Fully 1200 support ers of the association gathered about the armory, where it was meeting. At the same time 1,000 men, armed with all sorts of weapons, were assembling on the vacant ground at the corner of Victor avenue and Fourth street in re sponse to a call for a mass meeting. Most of ' these were union menk who declared their intention to resist to the death any attempt to run them out of the district... . City Marshal Michael O'Connell hur riedly swore in. several hundred citi zens, most of them union men, as dep-. uty policemen, after being refused admission to the Mine Owners' headquarters. After a conference with Sheriff Bell and a number of mine owners Mayor Frank D. French removed City Marshal O'Connell, who then dismissed his deputies. Then followed the rioting In which McGee was killed. After the rioting began Sheriff Bell ordered ot all the soldiers in the district. He also appointed 100 deputies. Wholesale arrests of union men will be made, it is said. Soldiers have already arrested a trio of editors and printers of The Daily Record and City Marshal O'Connell, and put them In the bull pen. AH wealthy mine owners are carrying gnnss . COLD LEAD FOR GUARDSMEN F red fron the Miners Union Hall at Tle-tor-Call Is Stormed. Denver, Jnne.7. Adjutant General Bell has been Informed by telephone fron Victor that an attack was ma'ie late yerterday afternoon on miners' union hall by a squad of soldiers. Major Taylor sent guards to aid in Iquelllnj the riot at the mass meeting When the uniformed men swung Into Fourth street, where the riot occurred, they, were fired upon from houses on both sides of the street. They reV:ied the fire and raced on at a uiihl? quick until they were' near the aiiners" unn hall. At that point the mob scattered, and

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as the soldiers halted several shotä were fired at them from tne windows of the hall. The doors or the building had been left open, and a dozen guardsmen fired into the hall as test as they could work their rifles. After a few volleys the order to take the place by assault was given, and they jumped In. It was reported to General Bell that several men were killed, but none of the guardsmen was Injured. The detail of guardsmen was in command of Captain Hairy C. Moore, of Cripple Creek. As near as can be estimated twenty two are dead and a score or more in jured as a result of the events of yes terday. At the headquarters of Adjutant General Eell in this city everything is in readiness to promptly meet a call for additional troops 'in the gold camp. DENOUNCED DY TU2 UNION W. F. to In Test If ate - Victor Local Committee Views. Denver, June 7. The .Western Federation of Miners will investigate the dynamite outrage at Cripple Creek. At the session of the Federation's coaventlon a committee was appointed to go to the Cripple Creek district and make a thorough investigation of the affair, and to spare no one in its report. Victor. Cola. June 7. The local com mittee, of the Western Federation of Miner a has authorized the Associated Press to say that they deplore th3 dia bolical murder. The following is a statement given out by them: "No men who deserve to live would or could approve of the awful deed. The fiends who planned and carried out the devilish crime should be detected and punished to the full extern; of the law. The crime must be unearthed and the perpetrators punished. The committee and all local members of the Western Federation of Miners are ready and willing to assist in uncovering the guilty ones, and will use every endeavor to assist the authorities in their ef forts' N NO RELIEF FOR MOVES Colorado gnpreme Court Says the Govern or Is Within the Law. Denver, Colo., June 7. The state supreme court has refused the applica tion for a writ of habeas corpus for Charles II. Moycr, president of the Western Federation of Miners, who is held as a military prisoner at Telluride by order of Governor James II. Pea body. The governor's action in declar ing martial law in San Miguel coun ty, and his other acts in the premises are absolutely and emphatically- sus tained. In brief, the governor Is declared su preme as to when martial law is need ed and how it shall. be enforced, and the civil courts have no right to in terfere. The contention of the appel lant that the military prisoners should be turned over to the civil authorities is characterized by the court as ab surd. The chief justice and Justice Campbell concurred in the decision, Justice Steele dissented. Frotectiou Demanded of the President. t Telluride, Colo., June 7. O. A. Floaten, one of the proprietors of the People's Supply store; M. J. Sullivan. secretary of the local miners' union, and Tony Holla, a bartender, who have been advised "by the military author! ties to leave San Miguel county, have sent a telegram to President Roosevelt spying: "Have been ordered to leave our homes by June 27, but do not in tend to go. We, as citizens of the United States, demand your protection under the constitutional right." Striking to Save a Steamfltter, Glenns Falls, N. June 7. Three hundred men employed at tha local mill of the International Paper com pany have struck work because of the refusal of the company to ilnstate a boss steamfltter who was discharged In March. The union had been trying to bring about his reinstatement for several weeks. ' Shake-Up in Chile. Lima, Tern, June 7. Tacna and Arlca In Chile were shaken by a sharp earthquake yesterday. The inhabit ants ran into the streets in their night clothes. The walls of many buildings were cracked and the sea agitated, but so far as reported no person -was killed. . . Idaho Democratic Convention. Weiser, Ida., June 7. The Idaho Democratic convention' has adjourned after incorporating the so-called antlMormoi) resolutions in the platform, Instructing the delegates to vote for W. li. Hearst for. the presidential nom-. inatlon, and Indorsing Senator Dubois. CC0EE5 Oil THE BALL FIELD 3 Chicago, June 7. Following are the base ball scores: League: At Brooklyn Chicago 2', Brooklyn 5; at New York Pittsburg 2, New. York 15; at Boston Cincinnati 9,' Boston 7 ten innings; at Philadelphia St Louis 6, Philadelphia 14. American: At St. Louis Washington 3, St Louis 5; at Cleveland New York 1, Cleveland 5; at Chicago Philadelphia 6, Chicago 8; at DetroitBoston 3, Detroit 0. Association: At Columbus Minneapolis 2, Columbds 3; at Indianapolis Kansas City 4, Indianapolis 3; (second game) Kansas City 3, Indianapolis C; at Louisville St Paul 3, Louisville 2; at Toledo -Milwaukee 9, Toledo 8. Western: At St. Joseph Sioux City 3, St. Joseph 8; at Colorado Cprings Des Moines 3, Colorado Cprin3 3; at Denver Omaha 2, Denver 2.

DIVINE HEALING CASE

0no in' Which the Healing Didn't Heal and a Little Child Died.' BABE'S FATHEE.IS ACQUITTED Supreme Court Affirms the Acquittal Negro Thug Attacks a Kun Later Captured Notes. J Indianapolis, June 8. The supreme court rfllrmed the decision on tlie "Christian healing case," in which the Clinton circuit court discharged Joseph Chenoweth from a prosecution for involuntary manslaughter, in letting his baby die of acute pneumonia without culling a physician. The baby was 9 months old, and had whooping cough. The disease finally became acute, and Chenoweth called In an f elder, who "anointed the child with oil and prayed for the healing thereof." He also, the record states, "communi cated with Dowle, at Chicago, and caused him to pray; for the child." . Appealed to the Scriptures. His neighbors urged that a physician be called, but be refused to have a physician or to give the baby medicine. because he believed in "divine heal ing." and offered and cited the "word of God" as his justification for the refusal. Chenoweth was able to hire a physician had he desired one. The doctors who were called as witnesses against Chenoweth testified that so young a baby would probably, have died 4f a physician had been called after broncho-pnenmonia developed, but that its life could probably have been prolonged. The trial judge held that there was no testimony that the father's neglect caused or even mate rially hastened the child's death. Judge Thinks Legislation Needed. The supreme court really decides nothing, except that the appeal was not so presented that it could "decide the important public question which the state sought to have reviewed, and thereby determine and settle in this state the law applicable to cases like the one at bar." Rut Judge Jordan, speaking for the court quotes with approval from cases In New York, Can ada and England, In which , parents have been convicted of manslaughter for neglecting sick, babies. Judge Jor dan concludes: "The question involved is one of public importance, and if there is an absence of law in this state in respect to a case like this, the leg islature should promptly deal with the matter by proper legislation." LACK THUG IS CAPTURED Enters a Nunnery and Attacks the Mother Superior Captured by a l'osse and Jailed. Shelby ville, Ind., June 8. At St Vincent parish, near midnight on Monday, a negro thug broke into the sisters' home, bent on -robbery. Sis ter Theodore, mother superior, was awakened by the screams of a little girl in a -ic-arby room, and across only to be brutally attacked by the Intru der. Her screams awakened Father Bauer In his home, but when he ap peared the robber held him at bay with a revolver- until he could "get out of the window by which : he -entered. Nearby residents were notified and a posse soon formed. The posse at Waldron overtook i man without a hat. He had lost It 'get ting out of the window. The man refused to give his name, but was identified by Mother Superior Theodore. The sheriff had been notified and he put the man in jail. The May term of the Shelby circuit court is now in session, and it is probable the negro will be brought to trial in a few days. Well Are These Twelre "Law-Abiding 7 Bedford, Ind., June 8. It Is reported hero that friends have asked police protection for James McDonald. Offl cer James Myers said that McDonald reported to him that twelve men came to his house in the outskirts of the ctty-at night, and looked through the windows. "The people of Bedford are law-abidinff" said Officer Mvcrs. "hnt my advice to McDonald would be to get out of town. Candidate fcr lieutenant Governor. EvansVille, Ind., June 8. State Sen ator John D. Roche, of Mount Ver non, is being mentioned by his friends as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor of Indiana. Senator Roche is editor of The Daily Democra'; at Mount Ver non and one of the most active young Democratic editors In the state. Little Child Badly Scalded. Wanatah, Ind., June 8. The little child of Frank Bushnell, near this place, was scalded to death, the plug of a washing machine popping out and the scalding water drenching the child. Woman Fasses Forged Cheeks. Evansville, Ind., June 8. A wom an who gave her name as Mrs. Da vid II, Brown has been, arrested, j S 9 m . cnargea wnn passing iorged checks on a number or local merchants. EransTille Cotton Mills Closed. Evansville, Intl., June 8. The Ev ansville cctton mills, employing 400 men, hs closed Indefinitely because of over-prod action. : .

HEARST MEN BEATEN

Colorado Democracy Refuses to Instruct for the Multi-Newspaper Man of Gotham. GIVES INDORSEMENT TO BRYAN Also to the Kansas City Platform and Calls for Its Reaffirmation at St. Louis. ' Tueblo, Colo June 8. The Democracy of Colorado named delegates to the national convention at St Louis, and Judge John I. Mulllns, of Denver, was unanimously elected national committeeman. The delegation goes uninstrücted. The Hearst people captured the caucus held by the Second district delegates, but when they attempted to pass a resolution instructing for Hearst through the convention it was turned down by a vote of 379 to 10S. In the addresses during the afternoon before the convention Governor Peabody's policy wjjs severely criticised by exGovernor Thomis, Senator Patterson, and others. The speakers touched upon the tragedy at Independence, Senator Patterson pronouncing this a result of miiitaiism in the state. . Salltn Point or tl.o Platform. The platform indorses the Kansas City platform of 1900 and instructs the delegates to use all honorable means to secure a platform in hannony therewith; demands a complete revision of the tariff am the placing or all trustmade goods on the free list that the people' of the Philippines be insured tbeif independence at the earliest possible -moment and swift and sure punishment to the perpetrators of the Cripple Creek outrage; declares for law and order, but condemns Governor Peabody for deporting men from their homes. Strong resolutions commending I ryan were adopted. Disposition of the (Jaij Toga, Harrisburg, Pa., June S Ä conference to determine whether the sena torial vacancy created by Senator Quay's death shall be filled by ap pointment or by an extra session of the legislature has been held at the executive mansion between Governor Tennypacker, United States Senator Tenrcse and Insurance Commissioner Dur ham, who control the s.tuation. The governor spent several Lours examln ing the law on the sulject and it is thought he reached a decision and will announce It in the near future. The opinion still prevails here that an extra session of the new legislature will be held next December Tor the election of a senator, and that the gov ernor is in perfect accord with the Re publican state leaders. Belle ves the Law Is Mandatory. Those who profess to know the gov ernor's plans say that he prefers to make an appointment for the remain der of Senator Quay's term, wnich ex pires next March, but that he believes under the state, constitution It Is man datory on him to call an extra session befrre the meeting of the next legisla ture. which will convene in biennial session In January. DELAWARE DEMOCRATS FOR CRAY Delegate Instructed for the Judge in , Spite of Ills Wishes. Dover, Del., June 8. Contrary to the expressed' wish of Judge. George Gray the Delaware Democratic state convention, by a. unanimous vote, instructed Its delegates, to the St Louis convention .to present the name of Judge Gray to the convention as the choice of fhe Delaware Democracy for president and to work for his nomination. This action was taken after one of the most stormy conventions ever held in the state. The fight, between the Gray and the anti-Gray factions became so bitter thatthe former paid no attention to Judge dray's letter, in which he asked that, the delegates be not instructed. Judge Gray, knew nothing of the action of, the convention until Informed by . reporters. In reply to a question as" to whether the action of the convention would change his attitude he said: . ... "I have not changed my attitude- at all. I am not a candidate for president The instructions were agr.inst my expressed wishes." Oregon Goes Republican.' Portland, Ore., June 8. That the Republican party in this ctate scored an overwhelming victory Monday is being made more apparent as the count comes In. Representatives Herman has been re-elected in the, First district with" a majority of about 7,000, while J. N. Williamson, the Republican nominee In the Second district rolled up a majority of lO.WO, and lattr retnmes may swell this. The next legislature Will be Republican by a large majority and Republicans were elected to most of the county offices. Local option will probably carry with a good majority. . ' - Strike Declared OA Chicago, June 8. The strike Inaugurated a month ago by members of the Bookbinders' and Paper Rulers' union in an attempt to force recognition of ä women's bindery union has been declared off, and the men have been ordered to Teturn to work unconditionally WW-mam M w W Iowa Day at the Fair. Des Moines, la., June 8. Governor Cummins has- issued a proclamation setting aside June 17 as Iowa day at the St Louis fair. The programme for the day includes a rarade of the college and university military- departments of Iowa.

MART AL LAW

TO BE PROCLAIMED Proclamation Is Written and Only Awaits Advices from ColoTado's Storm Center. DEPORTATION HAS COMMENCED Train Load of Union Miners Passes Through Colorado Springs. W. F. M. Offers a Reward ibr the Cap. ture of the Dynam iters Significant Collection of Photographs. Denver, Colo., June 8. Acting Governor Warren A. Haggott is considering the question of declaring martial law In Teller county. He says that he.has written a proclamation for that purpose, but is holding it back pending further advices on the situation there. He intimated that the proclamation would probably be published within a few hours. .Adjutant General Sherman M. Bell and six officers of the National Guard have left Denver for Cripple Creek. General Bell said he was going up merely to "size up the situation." Bell to Use Bis Judgment. . Later. Adjutant General Bell is bearing to Cripple Creek Acting Governor Haggotts proclamation of martial law for that district He has instructions to use his judgment as to the need for issuing the proclamation, and if he decides that conditions warrant It to place the gold camp under the feign of the military for the second time since the strike of metalliferous miners began last August The framing of the proclamation was the result of on appeal from Sheriff Bell, of Teller county, for troops, declaring that a state of insurrection existed in the CTippIe Creel: district. Train Load of Deported Miners Colorado Springs, Colo,! June 8. A special train consisting of an engine and two coaches, bearing fifty union miners deported from Cripple Creek by the citizens, passed through this city, going at the rate of thirty miles an hour, and did not stop here. The first car was empty and the second car had all the blinds drawn and armed guards were on the platform. The police and sheriff's office here were determined not to let the deported men stop here, and arrangements were made with the Rio Grande road to carry them past this city. It is presumed they are headed for Denver. W. F. of M. Offers a Reward. Denver, Colo., June 8. The convention of the "Western Federation of Min ers has unanimously adopted, a resolu tion condemning the "nefarious dynamiting plot which sent fifteen miners to their death and seriously injured a number of others .at Independence, Colo." A reward of $5.000 is offered by the Federation for the capture cf the perpetrators of the outrage. OFFICIALS COMPELLED TO RESIGN Tiro Hundred Men In the Ball Pen at Cripple Creek. Cripple Creek, Colo., June 8. Throughout the day deputy sheriffs and soldiers searched the hills in this vicinity for union miners, and the sum total of the day's arrests was nineteen. This swelled the number of men confined in the bull pen to considerably over 200, and last night twenty-four of them were placed aboard a special train and. deported from the district They were all active unionists and served as leaders in the strike now pending. ' Three additional city officers were forced to resign their offices namely, Chief of Police William Graham, Night Marshal Fred Hardey and Justice of the 'Peace Charles Harrington. Their reputed sympathy for unionism led to this action. In each case a committee of the Citizens' Alliance waited upon-them and compelled them to act immediately, under pain of violence. Sixteen deputies armed with sawedoff shotguns visited the union store and made a thorough search for weapons. They were rewarded with finding a rifle and shotgun concealed behind a large ice-box. Subsequently they went to union headquarters and overturned everything in an effort to find the union records. Their efforts were unavailing. : All of the Injured In the diabolism at Independence' and the rioting In Victor are reported doing well. No definite clue, it is understood, has been obtained through the bloodhounds which were started on the trail of the persons who placed the Infernal machine under the station at Independence. . " GREW SOMJ3 TABLE DECORATIONS Ropes -with Hang-man's Knots Indlca- ' tlons Found of a Plot. Victor Colo., June 8. Two hemp ropes knotted with a noose for hanging were lying on a tablein the room where the Cripple Creek district Mine Owners' association beld a heated discussion behind closed doors. The members were greatly incensed by the discovery of what they regarded as evidence of the existence of a plot in the"Victor miners' union for wholesale assassinations of mine owners and min0 ers. This evidencö was a bundle of forty marked photographs . found by Lieutenant Keegan la the union haii.

On the back of some of the photographs was the name of Cochran, secretary of the union. The photographs were of groups bf men employed in various mines. The most important one was a group of the night shift of the Vindicator. The photograph contains about twenty portraits, five of which were numbered from one to five. On the bac-Ks were written the names of the persons numbered. Of the live names those oft Charles McCormick and Mel Beck had been crossed out. These two men were killed in the Vindicator explosion last November. On other photographs similarly arranged, it is asserted, there are crossed out the names of some of the men who have disappeared and whose Whereabouts are unknown. James Cochran was arrested and taken into the mine owners' headquarters for hearing. 'I do not know anything about these pictures," .he said, "except that they were taken to show the scabs. The marks by the names of the men who have been killed are" mysterious to me. ' I was not present when the pictures Were taken. . and cannot tell you any more about it" News has leaked out that had Thos. Ciiristlanson been captured Monday night . three men would have been lynched. The plot was arranged and a special train was 'standing on the Florence and Cripple Creek tracks to carry a body of men whicn was "ready in Cripple Creek awaiting the signal. Alfred Miller, ex-Marshal Mike O'Connell and Tom Christiansen were regarded as riug-leaders In the rioting of Monday, and they were marked for lynching on that account. The failure to capture Chrlstianson was the only reason the plan was not carried out

' 1 Debs to the TV. F. M. Denver, June 8. The convention of the Western Federation of Miners received a. telegram from Eugene V. Debs, saying: "Enemy is desperate. You are on top. Stand pat." Peabody Starts for Ilome. ' - St Louis, .June S. Governor James II. Peabody, of Colorado, has left for Colorado". RUMOR ISALLTHE NEWS SEAT OF WAR IS BOTTLED OP Jap Battleship Reported Sunk Naral Fight 'in the Air," hut Not Yet on the Wires. Chefoo. June 8, 1 0a. m. A fleet of junks which has arrived from Dalny for. the purpose of buying stores for the Japanese reiorts having heard continuous ftfing between Dalny and Port Arthur for several, flays. London. June S. The news from the seat of war is entirely rumor. There are numerous important events reported onfall sorts of authority except official but St. Petersburg telegraph that the military authorities there say they have no news. Among the rumors the two most important are to the effect that a naval engagement has taken place in the gulf of Te-Chi-Li, in which the Iiussian Port -Srthur squadron was engaged, ahd that the Japanese -battleship Yoshina has struck a mine off Talienwan and been sunk. ..Neither of these-rumors has been confirmed and both are- of doubtful credibility, but there is a feeling that behind the impenetrable screen of secrecy covering all the Japanese movements there is something doiug of importance. .... 4, LIBERTY BELL'S TRAVELS Stops at Peoria and Springfield, 111., YVhero It- Is Greeted by Many Thousands Peoria, 111., June 8 When the Liberty bell arrived in Peoria 20,000 people greeted it, though the train Mas three hours late. Mayor Woodruff and Mrs. J. W. llowcliff, regent Teoria D. A. It., spoke and crowned the bell with a wreath of flowers. The bell's arrival was announced by the blowing of whistles and ringing of bells. Springfields, I1L, June 8. When the Liberty bell arrived in this city Illinois" and "America" were sung by a chorusof several hundred school children. Secretary of State Kose delivered a patriotic address. The bell was seen by the school children this morning, and left here at 8:30 for St Louis. Will In restate and What? Ardmore, I. T, June 8. Federal. officials have begun a rigid Investigation of the circumstances under which fifty negroes were forced to leave MadilL, a small town in the Chickasaw Nation. No arrests have been made. SCORES OH THE BALL FIELDS Chicago, June- 8. Following are the base ball scores: ' League: At Boston Cincinnati 0, Boston 2; at Brooklyn Chicago 2, Brooklyn 1; at New York Pittsburg 2, New York 0; at Philadelphia St Louis 8, Philadelphia 3. American: At Detroit Boston 4, Detroit 3; at. Louis Washington 3, St. Louis G; at Chicago Philadelphia 1, Chicago C; at Cleveland Rain. Association: At Toled Milwaukee 0, Toledo 7; at Louisville St Paul 1,- Louisville 4; at Columbus Minneapolis 0, Columbus 10; (second game) Minneapolis 2, Columbus O; at Indianapolis Kansas City 2 Indianapolis ö. , Western:. At St. Joseph Sioux City 0, St. Joseph 2; at Denver-i-Oni-aha O, Denver 3; at Colorado Springs Des Moines 3, Colorado Springs IL

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