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Show FEDERAL TROOPS TO RESTORE OK PRESIDENT WILL ENDEAVOR-STOP ENDEAVOR-STOP RIOTING IN SOUTHER , COLORADO COAL FIELDS. Government Troops Will m,; Order Until the State Can Reass!. Its Authority and Control Contending Forces. Washington. The protecting 4. of the federal government is to ij tended to the state of Colorado, pr. dent Wilson having decided to s, federal troops to stop rioting lD , Colorado coal fields. Torn asm,, by riots and battles between the i, tary mine guards and striking mjEi.. Governor Amnions found the state; litia unable to cope with the sit tion, and asked for help. The f. rado delegation in congress, the m owners and the miners themsth joined in the request. It was one of the rare occurrn, in American history when a ss. found itself impotent to assert its . thority, but the president, in a , gram to the Colorado governor, . pressly stipulated that the fed, troops would confine theinsehps maintaining order only "until i state can reassert its authority i resume the enforcement thereof." The president issued a proclaniar ordering all persons engaged in , mestic violence to disperse and tire peaceably to their abodes" V; April 30. Secretary Garrison, after F,-,,Y-na n-itVl rtlO riT-Ocilant . ed three troops of the Fifth can from Fort Leavenworth and i troops of the Twelfth cavalry ir Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, to T idad and Canon City, respectively, Colorado members of congress the mere presence of federal tr, will restore normal conditions : ! prevent rioting. I |