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Show iLlylWMf TONED BACK Formal Tender of Transportation Transporta-tion to San Francisco Made to Unemployed. PAPERS FOR ARRESTS! - Three Hundred Deputies "Sw6rn'inrfdvArmed"With .PickhandleS Rout Men From Yards. Sacramento, Cal.. March 0, Twenty Twen-ty vagrancy warrants for Gene'ral'Kel-ly Gene'ral'Kel-ly and 19 "John. Does" his lieutenants lieuten-ants were drawn up by District Attorney At-torney E. S. Wachhorst today, and sworn to by Sheriff David Ahern. The officials will formally tender trans portation to San Francisco to Kelly and his army and if they refuse they will be arrested as vagrants aim placed in jail. The warrants will be served by the sheriff and a posse. Three hundred deputies have been sworn in by the sheriff and armed A-Ith pick handles. Later they fought with double that number of Industrial Workers of the World, armed with clubs, in an attempt today to drive "General" Kelly's army of undmployed off the Southern Pacific right of way. A score of men received injuries before be-fore the campers were routed. On To Capital. When driven from the field, the Industrial Workers took up tno cry "On to the capitol" and started for the state house. City and county officials appealed to Governor John son to call out all available state troops to handle the riot. The clash at the Southern Pacific grounds followed the arrest of General Gen-eral Kelly and 18 ot his subordinate oificers, who were jailed on vagrancy charges. City and county official's then demanded that tho rank and file of the army "move on." The Kelly wing of the army obeyed but the opposition op-position faction, composed of the Industrial In-dustrial Workers, defied the sheriff's posse. Many- Heads Crushed. After tho first clash the rioters returned re-turned to their camp and much blood was shed in a second attempt to drive them out. Deputy sheriffs beat into submission all those who resisted. Many heads were fractured and groaning groan-ing men lay in the street. Others of the army picked up stones, brlckbatn or anything they could lay hands on and began smashing street cars anil store windows. They finally were driven off by the use of fire hose and it was announced they would drive them across the Sacramento river into Yolo county. rtrt |