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Show BOH 5 IN GUARDS .: REMOVE THREE mps . P it. Collier Protests Ac-1 H ion Against Alleged Strikebreakers U a L?Er.. June 3 Kobert Collier. H Btcndent of Lh mines of the yjj w Fuel company at Ruins, pro-v, pro-v, IjM'erd hen Lieutenant A.. . fdfong sn.l .1. ! ii of i igden HJj iiaen look three men from a! IWi i vhlle rla'r. v. ' .'(legate Classed as Bkreikcrs the men were taken fciheirj'n (.no .n-'. n from go- ilk work fur that 1 tson jBtirnbr of pkkets for trte L'nlleo! fwtox Kcnllw orth b Lieutenant I xmcrha.-'. 1 Is ind rstood here the men wer. pi k' tlng In the jB& of their ' w Young l e president of Hjet No. 22 "f tho United Mine Hkrs. arrived at Helper to take of thf strike situation. Mr ' Ifc came here to fill the vacancy I m b ' " 1,-"ennr of V. H. Hou8-I Hou8-I utlonal organizer Mr Houston ll making n trip through Castle val-i ley. where he Is holding meetings Investigation in the cases of Paul Wilcox. headouarter.s detachment. 146th field artillery, and Lester Dear-lng Dear-lng and Alfred McGrath of A natteery. 145th field artillery, all of Salt Lake.; who aro under arrest In the guardhouse guard-house on charges of pillaging, la being made by Captain Byron H. Wayne, battalion bat-talion adlutant. The adjutant Is taking tak-ing evidence and testimony in investigating inves-tigating the charges. Lieutenant George N I-Tster of the medical corps has been appointed morals mor-als ond athletic officer for the units of the mtlltlo stationed here. Arrangements Arrange-ments are being made to have moving picture shows given regularly at the camp Stands have been built for the 1 purpose of holding boxing bouts and I athletic contests. Major Johnson announce, 1 ihat he will Issue on order commanding the men under his command for the fairness fair-ness they hac shown in their work and the courtesy they have qleplaped in the search for firearms. The orde. will 1 onlam praise, also, for the dc-i termination shown by the troops to ' clean their own house " This part of the order Is based on the fact that practically all misconduct that has occurred oc-curred during the hunt for weapons has first been called to the attention of the officers, not by the citizens of this district, but by the militiamen Ih'-niselves. POLICE SYSTEM The guard system, with the exception excep-tion of the outposts, hus given way to a sstem of military police Detail" De-tail" are assigned to patrol the town night and dav and this method of pre- serving order has taken the place of the guard sstein. MIRTUL LAW EXTENDED 1 SCOFIELD. June- :3 Official no- UClcatlon that the cie;ir Creeh district had been proclaimed to be under martial mar-tial law was received here vesterdny by Major Hamilton Gardner, commanding com-manding the national units stationed here Major Gardner said that there had been no trouble experienced In the district, dis-trict, although the mllltlo forces bad been In touch with th district since the establishment of their headquai -tcrs here Major Gardner has asigno(j sigh) men to regular military poller- dutj Some of these men are on duty at all times and are identified by rl ianH which they wear on the sleeves of th. !i Icoats Mi MS SUHIUADICRLl) 1 The total number of guns received here amounted to 300 today, in addition addi-tion to the number already turned In I by the mine guards The firearms ore surrendered without protest and th-guurdhmen th-guurdhmen are experiencing no difficulty diffi-culty in this phase of their work Permission was given by Major Gardner for a meeting of the loial un-llon un-llon of tho Lnltcd Mine Workers of America and the names of the men who were to attend were filed with Major Gardner. Thou while the meeting meet-ing was in session, the men's names wre checked Off the list to make certain cer-tain that all who had been given permission per-mission to gather at the meeting were laccbunted for. The mine workers passed a resolution resolu-tion of commendation of the forces here In the enforcement of martial law and said that tne had been, most fair in their dealings Major Kioeri D. Thomas addressed the meeting, explaining ex-plaining the sstem of martial lai It was stated here by Major Gardner Gard-ner that die townspeople had expressed themselves as being very well satisfied with the martial law ayolem. The townspeople were, preparing for something some-thing like a pltchod battle when the guardsmen established their quarters here. Man f the merlcm citizens had prepared for defense and considerable consid-erable violence was expected. It Is reported. re-ported. The guard sstem, according to Major Ma-jor Gardner. hs been so systwrnlzed that there h:s been no great disorder The guardsmen ha bet-en working ov rtlme and affairs have been so controlled con-trolled now that the militiaman will be able to rest from their strict vigil |