Show t A WARNING TO UTAH the state of colorado is writhing in the throes of a civil war wa that rivals in bitterness anything that hae has characterized the bloody history of mexico dining tho the past everal several year hundreds of striking miner have armed themselves them selver and taken to the hills in what they claim is an endeavor to defend themselves from the armed thugs of the mining corn com pa daniea riles some time after the miners went on strike they were evicted from company houses bouses and took up their homes in hi tents one night during the early part of last week state militiamen amea aro are alleged to hare have fired into the tents killing a number of persona persons including two women and nine children in the miners have been shooting iny at militiamen whenever they saw one armed men nien have been flocking into inlo tho the strike district from all over the state and hundreds eds have havo offered to como come from neigh hoi ing states to take a hand in the war money bloney for arms and ammunition has been voted by come of the most con conservative lve unions of colorado and other western states and at present it looks as though colorados war ar had just begun pence peace leagues and organizations other than labor union sare clamoring for the resignation of gobernor Goer nor ammons claiming that he lie is incompetent and on friday that official diac admitted the truth of the charges by asking president wilson for federal troops commenting on conditions in our sister state sunday deseret news sas it is a straight fight bet between Neen the union miners and their empl employers and the strong arm of the state has been paralyzed in the struggle all the other unions espousing the cause of the united mine workers and office acel seekers cers endeavoring to make po capital out of tho tile trouble the mutiny of eighty members of the national guard who refused to go to the strike zone w hen lien called out also shows a great deal of the sympathy lies 66 roughing the miners in times past notably under the peabody administration when habeas corpus was suspended and strikers were deported by adjutant general sherman bell without a trial and without Nar warrant rant af law no doubt has had much to do with the intensity of feeling that has existed in labor circles in colorado ever since the strikers knew that the courts were closed to them at it that time in direct violation of the constitution of the united states and have concluded to take up arms to right their alleged wrongs sowed to the wind and the state of colorado is reaping the whirlwind the people of colorado are still groaning ander the tile war debt of the peabody administration and if the people of u carbon county are wise they will see cee to it at the coming election that not one member of the braffet gang ia is elected to office in carbon or emery counties neither of these counties want trouble such as is has thrown colorado into a costly and blood bloody war some of the most influential papers of utah regardless of political leaning have been designating sen ator smoot and representatives howell and johnson as is the three deuces because their narrowness would not permit alje them i to back up president wilson in his beshe to punish the murderers and insulters of if the american flag three deuces is right unless iome rome thing more insignificant can be thought of george I 1 reeves united states entomologist for utah haa has invented a cb cheaply caily cons constructed sprayer designed to be used in spra ing alfalfa fields to destroy alfalfa weevil acdan and an that he wi will 1 not patent the contrivance but that any man is at liberty to make and use the machine which consists mostly of a piece of ga gas pipe twenty feet in length punctured with holes to permit the spray to escape the samo same to be to a wagon and driven through the field outside of the pump and engine needed the reeves contrivance can be manufactured for less than five dollars the sprayer has been tried near taylorsville Taylors Tayl oraville ville andis said to be very effective this man has done more for the farmers of utah than any man ever sent to congress and he asks nothing for his idea except the good will of his fellow man colorado newspapers and good roads enthusiasts enthus lasts are quite bitter in their condemnation of the tile utah state officials for failing to do their part toward keeping the midland trail open for travel and improving that highway reports coming from the east say motorists desiro desire to travel this route to the coast and that colorado and utah would derive great benefits from this travel grand junction people have raised a fund of for this purpose and little green river has pledged since it has become generally generall y known that the tinhorns tin borns and those they can control have boycotted boy jotted the news many decent people I 1 who havo never before darkened the he doors of the news office are bringing in their printing the boycott is a double edged tool and works both ways the state supreme court has ruled that chief of police grant of salt sa lt lake is not in contempt of court for proceeding to close disorderly dilord eily housea hous in the face of a district court injunction the news is pleased to gee see that as t w peter rs is going ahead with the tile construction of his hie new business block regardless of the rumors that he would litif wui until after the wet and dry election it appears that some of the members of the city council would rather be 94 regular and vote with the majority than be right you bet price is ii going to have a fire department but not until after it has had bad a big fire some people have more hindsight than foresight in view of the fact that the modern woodmen will hold a state convention in this city on tuesday and wednesday of next week the news would suggest that business places be decorated in honor of the event the colors of the order are red white and green and the ax beetle and x edge tedge are the emblems if you feel like making the visitors feel at homo home have something in front of your place of bu business iness to show your welcome last monday the members of the utah society sons of the tho american revolution held a special meeting at salt lake and endorsed presidents wilsons course in the Alex mexican ican controversy tro versy wonder if senator smoot and congressmen howell and johnson are members of the aforesaid so citty when president wilson asked john D rockefeller jr to try to lo bring about peace in the colorado colorado coal mihe controlled by the rocke fellens fel leis young john replied that arbitration or mediation oll were out of the question yet the united states is not too biff big to arbitrate its troubles with a foreign nation |