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Show III SUDS ALLEGED GETS THIRTY DMS Was Arrested Here on Charge of Disturbing Peace and Is Believed to Be Dangerous AgitatorCarried Powder License and Five Defense Bonds Federal Authorities Will Investigate Case While He Is Serving Sentence. Chief of Police PauUch last Friday night placed under arrest what is believed be-lieved to be a very dangerous I. W. W. when he picked up John Shields, foreman fore-man of the Cardiff Mining & Milling PnmDanv' on a charge of intoxication and creating a disturbance. 'W hen arrested he was found to possess a powder license Issued at Salt Lake which would permit him to purchase unlimited amounts of powder. H also had on his person five defense bonds, and a card in the I. W. W. lodge No. 00 of Butte, Mont., duea being paid until next November. He was placed In the city Jail andV (Monday was given a hearing before-Judge before-Judge John C Greene on a charge of creating a disturbance and was sentenced sen-tenced to serve 30 days in Jail and: pay a fine of 50. The officers here have every reason to believe that his work here was for the purpose of collecting money to Be-used Be-used in defense of I. W. W. leaders . now on trial in Chicago. Data is now-being now-being collected and during the time he . is seivlng his sentence for the two ' offense his case will be thoroughly la- The I. W. 1W. activities which have- -been unearthed during the past few -weeks caused some little stir in this community as tne great majority oi iu people did not know that anything was going on in the camp. But it appears -that the officers here have kept a keen lookout and they have discovered' many things in regard to this matter. It is said that some CO or more persons are to- be arrested- in the camp at a t early date for complicity In the affair. Who these people are Is some question,, and the further fact of the statement that a number of business men of the camp are included in tne list Is more or less surprising to some people. It is certain that the I. W. W. worker here have been operating on a carefully care-fully arranged plan In order that the- ' public might not know what they are-doing, are-doing, lit Is also said that large sums of money for I. W. W. defense have been collected here and that a number of business men were contributors. The campaign against tho I. W, W. organization was started some two arrested here br the chief of police for unpatriotic utterances. The first charge against him was technically for disturbing the peace, but before the local authorities were through with him he was turned over to the federal government to face tho charges contained con-tained In a presidential warrant In line with the movement under way to dispense w:th the 1. W. W.s lover 12S men, who are said to be members mem-bers of this organization, have been discharged during the past week. It Is said that these men have ben using every effort to precipitate a strike in the camp. In the meantime the public Is anxiously anx-iously awaiting developments and the officers are on the alert to secure the necessary evidence against parties who are now under suspicion. |