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Show pi LOCKED UP 3 01 TOO 11 " iittee Inquiring Into the jjj Miners' Strike Is ISadly Puzzled. h - NATION IS MADE y for the Operators dements an Order of lie Congressmen. . PAD, oI-- Fcb- 21 Throo & leaves two. This vas tho It'ical proposition that throw Spefsionsl investigation of tho pcoal strike into confusion to-L;r to-L;r tjie house subcommittee in-Poergeiliit'nt-Arms Martin Jakle &ffour witnesses and bold thoin hniado, under the painB and f'thercfor provided, and after te bulky form of Mr. Jakle so-flanted so-flanted before tho door of the frpom for govern hours, sud-Ijcoverod sud-Ijcoverod that it held locked up KT-aii extra man. rKfiprcsentativo Evans of Mon-fcfirst Mon-fcfirst made tho discovery. He If- himself of interviewing Epfein of the guards. Hire the prisoners, Jake?" he .i Runted For. feeht,5' replied the upholder of ity of the congress of the States in the Colorado coal ftrd who have already testified y in another room, one on the fjtanil now, and the other two I" Mother what?" almost shouted penman. , , 'other two, of course, " calmly Evans descended upon tho hear- fei!le covoto upon the goat ranch, fjmt the sergoant-at-arms to cx-oir cx-oir many witnesses were given custody," he announced, interne inter-ne peaceful session, rgcant was produced. He ex-Ubflt ex-Ubflt there wero five when he m. anil that none of 'em had --not on the honor of a former fopriff.. t Mot Explain, pb'crc wero only four when we ktthoin into custody-," said P'fbey wero tho four Italians papua whom wo had sent for to Ed .charges of peonage. Who's RrTfello'w and where did he fail" Ifte witnesses wero thon lined inspection of Giovanni Min-sa Min-sa story on tho stand yestcr-Ithc yestcr-Ithc order for tho four men's Ho pointed out tho four bad told tho commission wore e Delagua mino against their 't know dat feller," he nfing to the fifth. B. Gove, attorney for tho ericau Fuel company, thon to thu breach. 'l assume rc-y rc-y for the presence- of this man," he declared. "He is the one who signed contracts for tho Italian workmen who could not write. We thought ho would be a valuable witness." wit-ness." "I have the fullest confidence in the integrity of Mr. Gove," interposed E. P. Costigau of counsel for the miners, " but T submit that it is an astounding situation when tho committee-'s own witnesses ordered held incommunicado are locked up in the same room with a witness for the operators." Tho committee was puzzled. Fiually Chairman Poster ordered Anof Yanu-colli, Yanu-colli, tho mystorious fifth man, placed on tho stand for immediato interrogation. |