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Show Butte Now Placed I Under Martial Law I AnB Major Dpnohuej Commanding Officer, Is. I suet Proclamation Prcscribihf I Rules of Conduct ' I Butte, Moat.,. Beet. 3. -Huttj Is nnder martial law hy,preetamatlem Issued Is-sued by- Governor Samuel V. Stewart. Stew-art. A proclamation issued last night by Major Dan J. ponohue, commandlnfi 'officer' ot the mllltla, presorlbcd the rules for the conduct of Butti. All saloons were ordered closed until further notice and public gatherings of any character were forbidden Without With-out permission of the "commanding officer. Women will not bo permitted permit-ted on the streets after 8 o'clock In the evening nor before 6 o'clock In the morning. Even the courts are closed and it Is commanded that ail cases of law violations, will be tried by the military authorities; the court to be presided over by MaJor'Jesse B. Roote as adjutant general. The proclamations were spread broadcast and it was announced that thenational guard .would take up,poe-itlons up,poe-itlons throughout the city this, morning. morn-ing. They were in control last night, however, according to the commanding command-ing officer, but the Jaws of the state require a ,24 hour notice of proclamation proclama-tion ot martial 'lkw before the soldiers actually march Into the streets of the city. No disturbances thus far have occ-ured occ-ured since the troops arrived and with the exception ot a radical speech last night by "Muckle" MacDonald, president pres-ident of the mine worker's union, who defied tho officers or the mllltla to come and servo a warrant for hlsarr est, there were no utterances of an Incendiary In-cendiary or violent diameter. MaJ. Donohue formerally nottfled the newspaper offices of the city last night that they wero under censorship from mldnigh't on: ' The presence ot the militia was brought about by dynamiting outrages and by the forcible deportation ot Western Fe'deratldn miners .by the mine workers' union, an insurgent body. Martial Law lsMI!d. With a mild form ot martial law pre vailing here all was quiet today In the city and at tho mines. -Notice has been given by the mllltla that should tho slightest trouble occur, rigid military mili-tary rule would be established forthwith forth-with and this, had a quieting effect. The Anaconda mine which employs '730 men and which shut down a. week ago because of fractional troubles among the miners, resumod opera tions today with a full fjorce. 'The Mlneworkers union commltfco failed 4fJjjVr to.appear at the JCnaeenda mlno and H all men who appeared for work were seat into the mine regardless ot un- I ion aniiatlens. Plaearde posted at I mine shafts by the mine workers' I committee warning miners not to go I to-workjintess they wore the new H anion's button,, were torn down. H Full crews, workd alt night at the I Gagnon and Orlglnkl mines, which I were,closed yesterday. H Major D. 3. Donohue, command; H ing the state troops encamped here, H declared today that the police and B sheriff's officers would-continue their H duties but that the state troops would H take charge the Instant any neces- H slty arose. ' H |
