Show ENRAGED STRIKERS SLAY six otric ER S HOP PICKERS FIRE FI RE UPON boffl OF fl CERS WHO HAD BEEN CALLED TO SETTLE disturbance led by industrial workers of the world five hundred workmen battle with officials jn in hop fields near wheatland cal chico cal ln in a fiercely waged battle between hop pickers led by main bers of the I 1 industrial work era of tho the world and a sheriffs posse in tha the hop fields in wheatland twelve miles south ot of mary byllie sunday night at tho the supper hour six of the posse including district attorney A I 1 K M manwell of 0 Marys marksville marysville ville were killed outright and a score of others are suffering from gunshot wounds some of them perhaps fatally five ve hundred operatives in the hop fields have for days been complaining about the wages they were receiving the trouble has haa been brought to an acuto acute stage by the efforts ot of the members of the 1 I NV W who are said to have been grieved because there have been some japanese employed in the field and whom the employers employ ers refused to discharge the officers were sent for and the clash occurred A it li Is the strikers fired upon the posse as the men were seated in an automobile the sheriff and his men were warned to turn back and when the sheriff arose in the machine to address the men he was shot down after which a miniature battle was fought three hundred armed men in charge of chief of police charles me mc coy 0 of marksville marysville Marys ville are at the scene of the trouble and a company of reg ular soldiers from the presidio to at san F francisco ran cisco have been asked to be rushed to the scene to quel the trouble that it la Is feared will follow i |