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Show pE OFFICES il STRIKERS IRRAIipilCE loodshcd in Colorado Ceases When Both Sides ? jr Agree to Stop Hos-3rFn Hos-3rFn I tilities. AMONS'S REQUEST '! ?FOR TROOPS DENIED c!'4 ft w I khJ bbing Women and Chil- ren and Grim-visaged Men SHI i 5 Attend Open-air Services bijjH for 14 Victims. on A?- k ajRTEnilDAI), Colo,, April 24. !!7wultory firing betwoon the strik-We4 strik-We4 and the military outposts at JSjudlow was reported horo during ,ffc night from military headquar- ""KThe firing, according to General :zti ase late tonight, was going on in L of tho 0XPresscd declarations ithe striko Icadors to bring about i immediate cessation of hostili-tea hostili-tea b. jjW jjThe sentries, he declared, were ? eo firing occasional shots. The Idlers and strikers are between ?b and tlixeo miles apart. It is ought the shootiug was moro of J Jj, P expression of defiance than the . Hilnning of a serious clash. TAliporty strikers, heavily armod, - Ised into tho main streets here at U s6 a. m. from the Black Hills u'fSjr Ludlow. alnjvIsNVER, April 21. Governor E. M. nfe nous, upou his arrival in Denver to- jj tyfrom Washington, found a tolo- ue s )J awaiting him in which ho was lad 8 ia;& ;uipI hat his request for federal Jrr , lo Jrl quieting the warfare Jvhjias existed acutely in southern ' ' rado for five days, had been rc- " " "overnmcni according ' pentative Taylor. pronto to Denver tliis afternoon rnor Amnions wired Congressman ird Taylor iu Washington to con-id con-id President Wilson and to every , j J proper channel his request for 0 idiate aid. Tlie rcnlv from Con-iraan Con-iraan Taylor was to the effect that , )'feHident, because of lack of prece-v prece-v i and of oll'onse agaiust federal i aud order, could not seo his lcar to pond federal troops to fjt ado, aud that in any case the war nra ?tniont could not rcspoud favor-"yQi favor-"yQi fto tho roquest because of tho nt strained situation between tho a j A States and Mexico. SkM ight It Proper. rernor Amnions stated tonight (7 ho hud sent his request for i'ed-yy i'ed-yy troops to the president and the W 3eparlinent through the Colorado R euaionul delegation because ho bc-JJ bc-JJ it the proper course to pursue. mt ccrniug t lie strike situation, C!ov-& C!ov-& fAminoiis saiil: Tw jhayc begun a thorough imcsli-;'-yV jjof tho riots whioh have occurred f i; strike zone within tho last wcok, ; dien 1 find who is to blame for f . ;the guilty ones will be punished. lint i I that investigation haa boon ; ' oted 1 ask the public lo withhold J Tent. v ' ic state has not exhausted its re-'' re-'' t s in maintaining peace in tho ' Szonc, provided finances for tho : Mean be raised. The special ses-if ses-if the legislature will bo called jboforo Mav 1 for that purpose. I L to sec thflt icaco is restored n fat once, and it is to General i ' and the state militia that I look lA t condition. hV ic affairs in the southern coal av nrc' h01"1"10'1'- They must slop. Wi cc with Lieutenant Governor W 1 jrald's statement made tonight c 11111011 officials have proved Wk Can t50nt-1'0' icir llien Kv their ySM pjpnt to the truce, and they must "van) uc to do so." ly prts to the governor up to mid-;.were mid-;.were that all was quiet in tho . ' fzono. ) larrald's Statement. iu he turned over the affairs to to Governor Amnions tonight, nant Governor Pitzgarrald mado & "lowing statement to the public: m . have hud tho satisfaction of es-V es-V ' .'K this informal truce between i ?t, ,un1 tho '""litia, and by it "gKj? riUcrs' officials have convicted aE lives of being able to destroy life vflHP perty at will and of boing ablo JaMllkro tbeir ",eu aL WH. By this Bfllrl,vr"tNfW,lk,h ca"3 for tho ro' WmBM?L Il'-,?':Lc,,,iaili the officers of gpKitcd Linn Workers of America, vum. ytr attorney, Koracc N. &MEB' hav,,J ''Kod to 'call off WlWWCIT nil(t - 800 t,lat a" shooting WsMwi 1 eir a-''"owlcdgiTient of mnilPer to do this thing now, thev mmS? acknowledge that it, could gaecn done long before, siuco the WmKWaX 0 f .,";livi1al fooling on the t. stn,ters is moro intense to-sjn to-sjn 't ever -as before." &Wm?CltiT?UA' Gloved- among offi-WJPml offi-WJPml t-liat. t lio success of the armis-WJE?.i!lIU111 armis-WJE?.i!lIU111 a blonder thread, how-'tikyMr how-'tikyMr v,'ou,d n(il c surprised, 3MVf tile,m toniqlit, if neu-s of a ffiMmonient HiC3 Wcrc reccivc(1 f 'flfcs Swarmed Mines. I fSENBLMtG, Colo.. April 24, v, W: of "Pccted troublo in tho BK . district shifted from the W mcrican and Colorado Fuol ZVL ML Voporttes on tho south to iinj0U nunos north and west to-iSuFW to-iSuFW rPr.t, reached hore today W Rd iW ,10er v,ls,t0fl brv" l,nio11 -r ma that the .fackson and Turner Kere surrounded. ' distrfet l0a(1Cfl With PCOplc xZm v tbc 'unn3'side mine was, according to its superintendent, for the purpose of scouring high power rilles supposed to bo there for "use against tho strikers. As there were none, the strikers said (hoy would protect tho cmploj'oes in oroiit of trouble. |