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Show COLORADO MUST MAINTAIN PEACE PRESIDENT NOTIFIES GOVERNOR THAT FEDERAL TROOPS WILL BE WITHDRAWN SOON. Governor Ammons Expresses Confidence Confi-dence That as Soon as Funds Are Available the State Will be Able to Control Situation. Denver. President Wilson has served notice on Governor Ammons that the state of Colorado must be prepared to maintain peace in the coal miners' strike districts without federal aid. The president said that federals troops would remain in the troubled districts "only until the state of Colorado has time and opportunity to . resume complete sovereignty and control." "I cannot conceive that the state is to forego her sovereignty or to thrrW herself entirely upon the government gov-ernment of the United States," said President Wilson. In response Governor Ammons telegraphed tele-graphed the president on Saturday, pointing out that an extra session of the legislature, just adjourned, had provided a $1,000,000 bond issue to cover past and future expenses of the state militia. The governor expressed ex-pressed confidence as soon as these funds are available the state Would be able to control the situation. The Colorado coal mine districts, where approximately 6,000 miners have been on strike since September 23 last, have been under a virtual martial law for months and have been guarded by United States cavalry cav-alry for about three weeks. Previous to the arrival of federal troops the miners were guarded by . the state militia. It vas during the control by.:the militia that riots and battles between strikers and mine guards broke out. After the militia and strikers participated in the battle and fire at the mipers' tent colony at Ludlow Lud-low on April 20, when twenty-one people peo-ple were killed and after other serious seri-ous conflicts, the militia was replaced by federals troops. Of the $1,000,000 provided by the bond issue referred to by Governor Ammons in his message to the president, presi-dent, $691,000 already has been spent in past expenses of the militia. |