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Show ATTEMPT TO KILL PLANT MANAGER ! Steel Works Also Threatened; Threat-ened; State Troops Are Asked For. j PUEBLO, Co'.o., Deo. 27. An attempt j was made at n o'clock last night on the life of Frank E. Parks, manager of the , Mlnnequa plant of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company, according to announcement announce-ment by Jlr. Parlts today. As a result, It is understood that state troops have been aflteel to come here and take charge of the situation. The attack on Mr. Parks was made by two men as he was returning to his j home from his office. Mr. Parks did not believe the shots were Intended for him until he noticed his automobile this morn- lug and found four bullet holes through It. Striking steel workers have been responsible re-sponsible for riots this week following resumption of work at the plant. The attack on the life of Mr. Parks was the climax of a number of acts of violence this week in connection wlto the reopening of the steel mills. Last Monday Mon-day a crowd of women, mostly of fore.gn birth, met a number of steel workers at tho Northern a,venue gate of the Bteel plant, and threw stones at them. A r.ot call was sent to the police station, but by the t'me the police patrol reached the scene the crowd had dispersed. Tuesday afternoon the women again met t.ie steel workers and started throwing stones. Police, however, were on hand, and alter considerable difficulty placed eight of the rioters under arrest. It waa necessary lor the officers to send to the police station for riot guns, and when these were turned on the mob. which had grown to more than 1000, it dispersed. It was during thla riot that Mike Studzlnski, president of the city council, was knocked to tho ground and severely trampled upon. Of the eight arrested five were women. They were held under ?2O0 bonds each. The strike committee provided bail and tbe women were released to appear in police court the next morning. At the trial the police magistrate fined each of thf five women and the three men $100. The fines were paid by the strike committee. com-mittee. , , . . Thero was no trouble at the plant Wednesday Wed-nesday or Thursday. Friday a crowd gathered at the gate of the steel plant, but police officers, armed with sawed-off sawed-off shotguns, kept the crowd quiet. Yesterday five men in an automobile were arrested near the steel plant by police because they refused to obey the orders to "move along." W hen searched ;it the headquarters It was found that the men were heavily arnwd. . While Mr. Parks was telling newspaper men at his office this afternoon of the attempt on his life last night, he was called to the telephone. Some one on the other end of the line told Mr. Parks that several mm from other portions of tho United States were coming to Pueblo with thP intention of obtaining employment at the steel plant and then blowing up the works. The Informant would not divulge his name to Mr. Parks. PENTKR, Dec. 27. Fifty Denver guardsmen, under command of Colonel Dennis E. McConniss and Captain R. VI. Taggert, will leave for Pueblo at ll:o0 o'clock tonignt and will arrive there early tomorrow morning. |