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Show CITIZEN-SOLDIERS ARE BEING RUSHED TO THE FRONT. Entire National Guard ef Colorado En Route to the Scene of Rfline Troubles. Serious Troublo Between the Strlkors and Non-Union Men Is Feared. DENVER, March 24. Military law Is in operation today In two Colorado counties San Miguel and Las Animas. Reports from both districts are to the effect that conditions con-ditions at present are peaceful. At Tcllurlde, San Miguel county, press censorship Is exercised, and no news Is sent out except tmch as is approved ap-proved by the military authorities. No press censorship has yet been established estab-lished at Trinidad or other towns in the coal fields. At the Capitol no secret Is made of the fuct that the purpose In declaring martial law for San Miguel county Is to prevent the return to Tellurldo of the union men who were expelled from the camp by an armed organization of business bus-iness men, and who have announced their Intention to go back under protection pro-tection of an injunction granted by District Judge Theron Stevens. Capt. Bulkley Wells, who Gov. Peabody has appointed military commander of the district, was one of the leaders of tho party that drove the union men and their sympathizers out of the camp. He has said that if the exiles should attempt at-tempt to return they would be regarded as characters likely to create disorder in the district and would be dealt with accordingly. OFF FOR THE FRONT. Late this afternoon all companies of the National Guard were ordered out and later left on a special train for Tellurlde. The entire force will be under un-der the command of Adjt.-Gen. Sherman Sher-man M. Bell. GOVERNOR EXPLAINS. Gov. Peabody today said that he declared de-clared San Miguel county in a state of insurrection and rebellion because of the representations made to him by public officials and citizens of the town, who declared that a body of men were arming outeide the county to Join with men within the county for the purpose of destroying property and Inflicting personal Injuries on persons in Tellu-ride. Tellu-ride. The message sent to Gov. Peabody Is signed by Mayor R. N. Rogers, several of tho aldermen, the City Attorney, a deputy sheriff, the County Attorney, two of the militia officers living In that city and by many other citizens. The Governor added that deported miners will be permitted to return to Tellurlde under the Injunction Issued by Judge Stevens If they will conduct themselves like good citizens, but he intimated that the leaders of the Western West-ern Federation of Miners will not be allowed to go back, or if they do go back will be deported by the military. CLAIM OF THE MINERS. A dispatch received today from Tellurlde, Tellu-rlde, which has been censored by Capt. Bulkley Wells, contained the news that twenty FInlanders left that place today. It Is inferred from this fact that the deportation of strikers and their families has been resumed by the military. President Charles H. Moyer of the Western Federation of Miners Is now at Ouray, where he is conferring with the Tellurlde exiles. It Is the plan of the Federation to send back to Tellurlde Tellu-rlde now and then a few of the exiles, and ascertain whether they will be allowed al-lowed to return to their homes under martial law. If the men are driven out again they will abide their time until i J rtlal law is lifted. Then they will return under the protection of the Injunction In-junction Issued by Judge Theron Stevens. It is reported today that the Western Federation of Miners had made a second sec-ond appeal to President Roosevelt to send Federal troops to Colorado. The union men take the ground that Gov. Peabody only put martial law in force at Tellurlde to prevent the Injunction against the citizenry from becoming operative. It is further stated that the Governor has prevented the deported men from enjoying their full rights as loyal American citizens, and the call on the President for aid contends that Gov. Peabody is violating the provisions pro-visions of tho Federal Constitution. Two previous requests for Federal troops have been made one from the Governor and one from the mlnero and both were refused. SETTLEMENT PROPOSED. TRINIDAD, Colo., March 24. Delegates Dele-gates of the coal miners' unions of southern Colorado held a convention here today to consider a proposition to return to work on the -terms In effect when the .strike was Inaugurated lost fall. William Howells, president of district No. 16, United Mine-Workers of America, made a strong statement in defense of his conduct of the strike. "The action of Gov. Peabody In calling call-ing out the militia, and declaring marital law," he said, "Is absolutely unwarranted un-warranted by the conditions. There has been no violence nor any attempt of it. Reports that strikers were gathering arms Is absolutely untrue. They are peaceable and obey lmpllcltely our directions." |
