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Show MI-DRAFT EMBLEM HIM IN TRIAL Firing of D. & R. G. Shops in Salt Lake Also Comes Up at I. W. W. Inquiry. CHICAGO. June 15. A red calico fluff, lettered to read "Down with the war," and a iiumbor of letters were introduced in-troduced in evidence today bv the government gov-ernment in the trial of ilO'l. W. W. members for violation of the espionage law. The "flag" was used when the I. W. V. attempted to hold an anti-draft parade in Butte, Mont.,' .tune 5, last vear, but were pre..uted by tho police. po-lice. "A strike in Tucker is in full blast," wrote Sam Scarlett of Akron, Ohio, to Vincent St. John of Garrizozo, N. M. "More than 100 on the picket lines. The work is for the D. & R. G. railroad, and is supposed to be finished fin-ished by September 1. The entire shops of the D. & R. G. burned to the ground last night. The biggest firo Salt Lake City ever had. 1 sure am having one strenuous time now, watching street meotings, keeping pickets going, shipping ship-ping 'sabotage' onto the job and drawing draw-ing good collections." Tbe destruction of the Denver & r Rio Grande shops in Salt Lake bv fire, , referred to in the dispatch from Chicago, Chi-cago, occurred June IS, 1913, the alarm being sounded shortly after 7:30 o'clock in the evening, according to the local fire department records. Every Ev-ery fire company in the city responded, and it took the department eleven and a half hours to extinguish the blaze. According to Fire Chief W. H. By water, who was out of the city on leave at the time of the conflagration, the building was valued at $52,000 and the contents at $135,000, or a total of $1S7,-000, $1S7,-000, while the losses on building and contents aggregated $115,000, of which only $94,500 was covered bv insurance. |