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Show AUSTRIAN TO BE INTO) ST FGRT SALT LAKE. April 2 Presidential warrants, ordering -internment of Spiro Radman and Vaso Mandrick in the war prison at Fort Douglas for the period of the war, were received yesterday yes-terday by the United States marshal. Both men are now prisoners in the county jail and will be removed to Fort Douglas within a short time. Radman is anj Austrian, who, at the time of his arrest, was emploed at the Highland Boy mine at Bingham. He is known to be an active I. W. W. worker and much evidence has been unearthed to show that be Is a spy fori the Austrian and German governments. govern-ments. For some time he has been creating discontent among the miners at Bingham, with the ultimate purpose of causing a strike, with consequent closing of the mines. When Radman was shown to a room in the Berry boarding house a few-weeks few-weeks ago. he commented insultingly upon a picture of an American soldier which adorned one of the walls With an oath, cursing the American sold-I sold-I lers and the United States government in general. Radman tore the picture from the wall, tore it into shreds and ; crumpled it beneath his heel. In its place he hung a picture of a fat German Ger-man soldier holding a rifle, the bayonet bayo-net of which pierced the body of an infant. The German soldier was trampling innocent women and children chil-dren beneath his feet. As he substituted the picture of the i German soldier for the American, he I remarked: "That's more to my liking and nature. That is what will eomo to the women of America when the kais-I kais-I er rules the world." Among the effects of Radman were 1 found scores of copies of I. W. W. propaganda and other seditious literature, litera-ture, together with threatening letters j issued from I. W. W. headquarters Mandrick was also employed as a miner at Bingham He was an asso-j asso-j ciate of Rjrdman and sought to create a feeling of unrest among the Serbians who were preparing to enlist in the i United States army. He is also known 1 to be a radical. |