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Show COAL MEN TRY TO BRIBEJHER1FF Former Boulder County Officer Offi-cer Tells of $20,000 Offer From Coal Operators. REFUSED TO ACCEPT Counsel Quickly Moves to Have Testimony Stricken From Record Committee Commit-tee Denies Plea. Denver, March 7. An offer of $20,-000 $20,-000 cash and one dollar a day for each of 400 guards, to be employed in breaking the strike of 1910. was made to M. P. Capp. then sheriff of Bomd-cr Bomd-cr county, by a man representing him-self him-self to be acting for the northern coal operators, according to the testimony of Mr. Capp before the federal Investigating Inves-tigating committee today. The former form-er sheriff declared he refused the alleged al-leged offer. Mr. Capp. who Is now warden of the state reformatory at Bucna Vista, was called as a witness for the strikers. He said the alleged offer of the coal operators was made soon nftcr tho trike began. The attorney for the northern operators oper-ators moved that all testimony relative relat-ive to the alleged offer to Capp be stricken out, declaring that he was prepared to prove that the man mentioned men-tioned as having made the effort w..s dead, and thus there was no opportunity opportun-ity for the operators to refute the charge. The committee ruled that the testimony should stay in the records temporarily, until proof of the man's death wra produced. |