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Show GOVERNOR DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY TENVER, March J. Gov. Peabody has said that although TeUurlde is still under martial law the military authorities au-thorities were not responsible for the pillorying of Harry Makl. a striking union miner, who was kept chained to a telegraph pole for an hour and a half because he refused to work In the chain gang after haying been convicted of vagrancy. va-grancy. , Willard Runnels, a deputy sheriff, is said tv have chained Makl to the pole. No report has yet been received from Attorney E. F. Richardson,- who has been sent to TeUurlde by the officers of the Western Federation of - Miners to Investigate this case. W. D. HaywoodV secretary of the federation, today sent the following telegram to the TeUurlde union : "Suffer no more abases. If you cannot can-not get relief through ths courts you still have left the power of self-defense." |