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Show Ji FEDERATION PRESIDENT M i FINDS PRISON LIFE I SEVERE. 1 i Is Full of Courage, However, H j and Hopes for Victoria Victor-ia ious Decision. 1 Ij MoyoKs Petition for Release : on Habeas Corpus Writ Is j Soon to Be Heard, I Prisoner Claims Governor Failed to I Keep Faith With Him Case . it in Supreme Court, I ;i irv i,VEn, April 16. Alloracy-Gcn- f i I eral MUlcr ia authority for tin ' A statement that Charles IL Moycr, 4 president of tho Western Fc-dera- ' tton of Miners, will.'be produced before H . the Supreme court next Thursday In ac- i ' Lcordauce with the writ of habeas cdrpus I - issued by tliat body. He will be- brought $ from Telluride In custody of the mill- T v tary authorities, by whom he was 1m- & h' prisoned, and their attorneys will resist 1 Wn nnr moton for n's release n hall pend- '"tt ns a decision on the questions Involved fjA- In his case. Both sides profess to bo dc- . y sirous of obtaining from the Supremo j ' court a decision as to the rights of the Governor to declare martial law, im- f$ ! prison and deport citizens without war- 5;; rant and disregard wits of the District E I courts as has been done during- the past n) six months in Teller, San Mibeul and S ; Las Animas counties, ffi"; "There will be no difficulty or delay fi .' interposed upon the part of the militia whlcii will hinder the production of Mr. I Moyer before the Supremo court," said B, j Governor Peabody today. ,; I The referendum vote of the members 9 1 lm I'outnm TTrwl r.vi t inn n f Af inrTH rf i'4 Bulled in favor of postponing the annual S! i convention of the organization. May Change Place of Convention. ! President Moycr is quoted in. a dis- patch to the Times today as saying that ( thu convention will probady be held at 3 j Butte May 27th. Mr. Moyer said there jj J probably would be a contest over the 3 ' question of moving the headquarters $5 from Denver to Butte. ' Mr. Moyer has been a prisoner in the 5 city jail at Tiiuride since March 25tlu ma He is taken out to the hotel for his Ha it meals. A severe cold that developed Mil i"to bronchitis is the only physical all- JKm ',' ment from which he suffers. Close Kb j confinement in the damp stone building i fij has aggravated the throat " trouble to sfl i euch an extent that Mr. Moyer spoke with difficulty in giving the first inter- . view since his arrest. 1 I "Well, you can see for yourself," said j Mr. Moyer, when questioned about his i I treatment. "I'm not going to run away, '( because I do not thinlc that I have vio- 1 Lv lated any law. They cannot hope to 8 RP crJpile tne federation by holding me 311 here And I do not see how it is a 'III' "warnlns' to Others, But I can stand It, lfc anyway." r !fl; A settlement of the entire question '- lliJ through the Supreme court 1b favored "ffllli tne I)reident of tnc federation. He says that should put an end to the B5J trouble If both sides abide by the de- i clslon. 1$ ' : Governor Violated. His Promise. Ij ; "One thing I do wish to say." con- tlnued Mr. Moyer. "That is tliat it looks 1 ; .very much to me as though Governor 9 1 Peabody deliberately violated his prom- I Is to me. When I was at Ouray I tele- ; graphed him and asked If the deported a '( men could return to Telluride. 1 ! "Tlie Governor replied that unarmed ll men would not bf molested in any part II ci of the State. That certainly implied II ' that the deiorted men could return to I ' the city. They did, and Ave all know II what happened. Not only were they mo-1 mo-1 , 5 lested by Telluride men, but the State I ' military forces olllciated in the depor- I tatiou. I i "Another thing that the Governor said, I I believe, was that armed bodies of men I I would not be permitted to congregate I; anywhere in the Suae. Well, I could I i, ' look out of this place and Bee nearly 200 1 1 men marching by tliat night, and each I f man had either a shotgun or a rifle. As I f inr ub 1 know the militarv did not make 1 1 eny effort lo disperse them " |