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Show IMPOSSIBLE IN A FREE COUNTRY ' Militia of Colorado Used to Intimidate In-timidate Peaceable Men. w-',' GOVERNOR IS RESPONSIBLE DEPLORABLE STATE OF AFFAIRS EXISTS. f ' Denver, March 24. Military law is in operation today in two Colorado coun-ties coun-ties Son Miguel and Las Animas. Reports Re-ports from both districts are to the effect ef-fect that conditions at present are peaceful. At Telluride, San Miguel county, press censorship is exercised, and no news is sent out except such as lis approved by the military authorities. No press censorship has yet been established es-tablished at Trinidad or other towns in the coal fields. At the capitol no secret is made of the fact that the purpose in declaring martial law in San Miguel county is1 to prevent the return to Telluride of the union men who were expelled from the , camp by an armed organization of business bus-iness men, and who announced their intention to go back under protection of an injunction granted by District Judge Theron Stevens. Leader of the Mab. Captain Bulkley Wells, whom Governor Gov-ernor Pea body has appointed military commander of the district, was one of the leaders of the party that drove the union -men and their sympathizers out of the camp. He has said that if the exiles should attempt to return they would be regarded as characters likely to create disorder in the district and would be dealt with accordingly. All companies of the national guard that have not already been ordered out are under orders to be prepared to take the field at ehort notice. As yet troop A of Telluride onlv is on dutv at that place, but it is unofficially announced that the Meeker troop has been ordered j to proceed to Telluride, and that several sev-eral troops of infantry will also be s?ent there. Governor Peabody today issued orders or-ders to Adjutant General Bell to send 300 more soldiers to Telluride. "The miners may return if they behave be-have themselves," said the governor. Bell in Command. A special train bearing troops left Denver for Telluride thf afternoon. The entire force will be under the command com-mand of Adjutant General Sherman M. Bell. Governor Peabody today said that he declared San Miguel county in a state of insurrection and rebellion because ure n:i'cc7in.(iuiMia lllciue LU mill uy public officials . and - citizens of the town, who declared that a body of meiv were arming outside-the county to join with men within the county for the purpose of destroying property and inflicting personal injuries on persons in Telluride. The message sent to Governor Gov-ernor Peabody. is signed by Mayor XT. X. Rogers, several of the aldermen, the' city attorney, a deputy sheriff, the county attorney, two -of the militia of fleers living in that city and by many other citizens. The governor -added' that deported miners' will be permitted to return to Telluride under; the injunction issued by Judge Stevens if they will conduct themselves like good citizens, " but he intimated that the leaders of the Western West-ern Federation of Miners-. will not be allowed to go back, or 'if they do go back will be denorted bv the milltarv. More: JMiners i Deported. A dispatch received 'today from Telluride, Tel-luride, which had been censored by Captain Bulkley .Wells, contained the news that twenty Philanders left that place today. It is inferred from this fact that the deportation of strikers and their families has been resumed by the military. President Charles H. Moyer of the Western Federation of Miners is now at Ouray, where he is conferring with the Telluride exiles. It is the plan of the federation to send back to Telluride Tellu-ride now and then a few of the exiles and ascertain whether they will be allowed al-lowed to return, to their homes under martial law. If the men are driven out again they will abide their time until martial law is lifted. Then they will return under the protection of the injunction in-junction issued by Judge Theron Stevens. Stev-ens. Appeal to Roosevelt. It Mas reported today that the Western West-ern Federation of Miners had made a second appeal to President RooseveJt to send federal troops to Colorado. The union men take the ground that Governor Gov-ernor Peabody only put martial law in force at Telluride to . prevent the in-I junction against, the citizenry from becoming be-coming operative. It is further stated that, the governor has-, prevented the deported men from enjoying their full rights aa loyal-American citizen.0, and the call on the, president for aid contends con-tends that Governor Peabody is violating vio-lating the provisions of the federal constitution. con-stitution. Two' previous requests for federal troops have been - made one from the governor -and one from the miners and both were' refused. |