Show MINERS OF boll WAR W H OVER uve n R 01 lo 10 MONTANA MINING th CAMP IS fi pur py bo UNDER ARMED RULE ASA AS A sit RESULT ot OF RIOTING ae 4 Se ceders from miner miners union 0 member members during parade and carry 1 fight to union hall where 1 they demolish Demol leh furniture 1 1 butte mont this city was on or sit arday virtually under armed ault nil with its saloons that have not beta been closed in years except on election days locked tight and with every hard are store cleared of all its 11 arm arms ind and ammunition by the police as th result of tho the series aeries ol 01 riots during the day miners union day the thir ty fourth anniversary of the establishment lish ment of tho the unload la in this thill camp tho miners union with upward ot of members is divided against lt it bolf self more than two thousand men have refused to recognize the union furth er and under the leadership of ors of the tile industrial workers of the world the se ceders from the bit bl organization saturday morning attack pd ed the min miners erial union parade com composed of more thai half the labor bodies of the city president bert riley of the union the parade Al marshal michael chael conrat con ay were ere knocked from their horses by volley of stones from the rioter rioters other officers of the union were chai ed from the line of march and took refuge in the sheriffs office at the courthouse the parade was broken up and the speaking exercises in the theater abandoned because of the stormy street scenes the rioters moved on the union hall in the center of the city every piece of furniture in the building was as demolished and thrown into the streets A piano was thrown down a stairway the books record records and two safes of the union were ere thrown out the ballot boxes contain ing the votes cast at the recent election of union officers which had lill not yet been counted were destroyed destroY edL and their contents emptied into the street alderman frank curran acting mayor of the city a socialist went ent union hall to appeal to thu rioters to disperse and was aas thrown from a second story window to the pavement he lie was taken to the hospital severely injured the mob did not cease its work of destruction until even even the carpets in the big assembly hall of the tile union had been torn from jhb and thrown into the street J A crowd of u persons witnessed the demonstration police and the sherif sheriffs rs deputies were powerless sheriff driscoll went wept to the tile miners union hall but soon returned to hia his office in the court house when kli en word N ord cams to him that union officers had taken refuge there and were about to be attacked by another section ot 01 the crowd d chief ol 01 police IN murphy furphy during the midst of the turmoil sent ou a pa arol of officers to close the saloon half a dozen saloonkeepers who refused to obey were taken to jail A warning arn was as sent to the hardware stores to all guns and ammunition it was also decided to call oft a box boy lug ing bout scheduled for saturday evening at 2 sunday morning the residence of patty six toes ease an official of the union and a leader of the conser conservatives Natives was casey and his ills wife and three children vere were in the house but none N were ere injured the windows were blown out and a perch blown off it is also said that an attempt was aas made at about the same hour to dynamite the home of bert riley president of the miners unload ho ches I 1 far out in the tile suburbs order had practically been restored on sunday early in the afternoon a i crowd took two to prisoners out of the tile city jail and later took possession of pf aa an aerial hie nae truck which attempted to jewe mote through the crowd croud on a fols alarm the rioters climbed into the 4 I 1 j agane maclone ne but being unable to run 1 I 0 ngae it back baek to the tt ti remen after t cautioning them not to attempt again agall to run through the crowd in the tile street A delegat delegation iou halted the three j paper offices and demanded that no further mention be made derogatory to the I 1 W W and that the words mob and rioters not appear in im any nes newspaper paper story |