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Show I STRIKERS BUILD NEW TENT COLONY TRINIDAD. Colo.. April 'J 7. A day of waiting ended tonight with the strike sanation In the southern Colorado fields substantially an follows: The militia, with the exception of 200 men sent with Adjutant General Chase to Fremont county, still were encamped at Ludlow, ffieen mites-- north. Tho. army of Ktrlkprn under command of "General" John Brown, was completing complet-ing tho construction of Its tent colony on tho site of the former miltla camp on tho outskirts of the Mty. Coroner n. B. Slpc announced that tho Inquest over the vletinih of the Ludlow hattlo of exactly one week ago would open at 10 o'clock on April '20. Attacks of isolated bodies of sinkers upon tho Soprls nnd McNally mines were reported during tho day. Tho end of tho first week after the Ludlow tragedy found Trinidad and tho surrounding coal fields waiting for further fur-ther developments In tho efforts to settle the strike. Tho day possed with less excitement than existed last week, when the coal miners' army first descended upon tho city. Hundreds of strikers, however, how-ever, wore .upon tho streets all day, many of them having como to attend tho funeral fu-neral of Louio Tllcas, who was killed at Ludlow. Almost perfect order has prevailed In Trinidad since the strikers came In from Uic hills. The saloons have remained closed and union leaders declare they are making evory effort to control their followers nnd remove them to the new camp. Coroner B. B. Slpe and District Attorney Attor-ney John J. Ilendrlck visited Ludlow today, to-day, interviewing eye witnesses of the battle of April 20. They Interviewed Edward Boughlon. judge advocato of the Colorado national guard, who lias been making a military Invostlcatlon of the Ludlow affair. Major Boughlon raid his report would bo kept secret until It had been submitted to General Chase upon his return from Fremont Fre-mont county About fifty touts had been erected tonight to-night at the new colony of the striken?, on tho site of Camp San Rafael about two weeks ago. "Mother" Jones's former for-mer bodyguard. "General" John Brown. In charge of construction, as he sat In his headquarters with a rifleman as son-try son-try at tho tent door, explained that he believed the number of tents sufficient lo quarter the men. Women and children chil-dren are to be brought to the camp. Most of the men had exchanged their rifles for picks, shovels nnd hammers, but the discarded weapons were close at hand and many of the women wore cartridge car-tridge belts. A new cool; .stove has been sot up and tho former chef at a Trinidad hotel has been hired. Last week he joined the striking coal miners In tho hills. Finding their commissary department disorganized, disorgan-ized, ho volunteered as cook. With tho rest of tho army he returned here and Is Intrusted with the task of providing three meals a day for several hundred hungry ex-coal miners. |