Salt Lake Telegram | 1904-12-13 | Page 4 | Zeigler and Mantanzas

Ztlzitr tr.d Mutmzis. : -The "war" at Zeigler, 111., has reached its climax. -For-weeks Joe Leiter has been making a terrifte fUSj about the reign of terror existing in the vicinity , of his mining camp. He has told lurid stories of midnight battles with armed and desperate strikers, and Las even . been so painstaking as to count the number of shots fired in a night. His stories so stirred up the officials of the great State of Illinois that. they sent militia down to quell the ferocious rioters. - '' v - ' . Mr. Leiter continued to tell his tales-of battle and continued to furnish statistics as to the firing, v but newspaper men of the Missouri type who went vIqwh to see the fun failed to find the marks of any . bullets on stockade or buildings. They were incredulous incred-ulous enough to assert that there had been no firing except that by the guards shooting at the wind and the tree tops. . . But there was. The shooting was done by a . United States deputy marshal who was sent down to reinforce, aid and abet the militia. After careful deliberation he came to the conclusion, that he wouldn't be doing his duty unless he shot, at something, some-thing, so he shut his eyes and pulled the trigger. He killed a mule belonging to Leiter's company. " Thus doth history repeat itself. One of the most stirring incidents of our great and gory War with Spain was the bombardment of Matanzas. The bombardment was conducted by tho fleet under the direction of Admiral Sampson. It continued for many hours, and after it was over it was discovered that the carnage wrought was confined con-fined to one mule. ; All honor to the mules of Zeigler and Matanzaa. They are the onlyones we ever heard of that died.