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SHOOT EACH OTHER STRIKING MINERS IN COLORADO FIGHT MINE GUARDS MARTIAL LAW DECLARED Governor Amnions Calls Out State Troops to Restore Peace?Mine Guards Use Machine Guns and High Power Kllles on Strikers Refore the Arrival of Troops. State troops have been ordered into the coal Holds of Colorado to put an end to the brutal fighting between mine guards in the employ of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company and 8,000 striking miners. Gov. Ammons has declared martial law in the region, has ordered all mine guards and strikers disarmed and all saloons closed during the continuance of the strike. At the same time he has served an ultimatum on the operators that no striko breakers may bo imported, but that the troops may bo used 10 protect striKora wisning to return to work. The presence of the troops It Is believed will put an end to the bloody fighting that has characterized the latter stages of the strike and may bring about an early settlement. Three troops of cavalry, two batteries of artillery and a troop of ijifantry from Denver were joined by five companies of infantry from Southern Colorado and 500 men from other sections of the state in the mining district, where fierce fighting was in progress for 2 4 hours previous to the arrival of the troops. In battles at Ludlow, Berwlnd and Tabasco two miners were killed and a number wounded. The men and deputies fought in a driving snow. In a pitched battle at Walsenburg two miners were killed, four wounded and a number seriously bruised in a fight with mine guards. The guards were ejecting a miner from a company house when the fight started. High power rifles were used at close range in driving back the mob. One guard was injured. In another fight in the same city seven men were killed and a score wounded, including three mine guards. At Ludlow one mine guard was killed and one striker reported killed in a fight that lasted 12 hours, during which bullets fairly rained on the tents in which the wives and children of miners were sheltered from the weather. The miners of the region have all left the comnanv hmtsos and are living In tents. Strikers captured seven guards at Chlcosa Junction and, after half an hour of hard fighting, took a machine gun from the steel cars In which mine guards were being hurried to the trouble zone. Tho train was forced to back down out of the region. Detectives were immediately put on trail of the gun for fear the miners would turn it on the mine guards. Miners declare that on several occasions at Ludlow and other trouble centers guards have turned machine tuns on defenceless tents. They asy rt also that saft-nose or dum-dum bullets' are being used in the guns. Tho typo is not permitted in international warfare. While the ordering of troops to the coal fields followed the failure of Gov. Amnions' efforts to arrange a settlement, an additional reason for the action was found in the list of casualties and property damage that L ,,/x r - * * * iki.?c> iuni nnu iue o i> uuyn Ol me strike. These strike Incidents were summarized as follows: Battles and skirmishes, 18; killed, 28; wounded 41; personal assaults, 6; buildings and bridges wrecked or damaged by dvnamlte, 11; property loss estimated, $50,000; loss in wages estimated, $2,500,000. WORK ON ROADS. One Hundred Thousand Tarheels Labor on Good Roads Day. The observance of Governor Locke Craig's "good roads d*.y" bj Ashevllle people closed Thursday *lth a mammoth old-fashioned barbecue about two miles north of Asheville on a high plateau overlooking the city, on the route of a scenic highway that was built durtng the day across Gold View Rldee. All the fnrr?e? nf Anhe vilie workers were concentrated during the day on this section of highway, and it is estimated that oyer lOO.fton men took an active part in the work. A large number of Ashevlllo women were present for the barbecue and the festivities following in celebration of the completion of the work. Reports from over the State indicate a wide Interest in the movement. { Ammunition is Stolen. Ten thousand cartridges, taken from army stores, have been stolen and smuggled across the Mexican border. They were abstracted from cases belonging to the Ninth (negro) cavalry. Federal agents, who have been investigating Jointly with army officers, Monday declared the bullets could not have been sent over the International line without the connivance of soldiers on patrol duty, NOT IN SENATE FIGHT LEVER HAS DECIDED NOT TO ENTEH THE HACK. Popular Congressman Will Remain in the House as Chairman of Committee on Agriculture. That Congressman A. F. Lever will announce that ho will not bo in the Senatorial race, thus leaving the field to Senator E. D. Smith and Governor Bleaso, is the information sent to The News and Courier from its correspondent in Columbia Saturday night from a high and authoritative source. It has been felt that Congressman Lever had made up his mind not to enter the Senatorial race, and the confirmation of this came Saturday according to the correspondent, from a source reliable and authoritatlvo. The announcement from Congressman Lever has been awaited for several weeks. It is known that strong pressure was brought to bear on him to enter the race for the Senate and it was also reported from reliable quarters that Senator Tillman was trying to induce Mr. Lever to run for the upper house. It is known that Congressman Lever consulted his friends from all parts of the State and ho has promised to make a public statement before returning to Washington. It is believed that Congressman Lever will seek re-election in his district to Congress for he is very popular, and being chairman of the committoo on agriculturo is a power in tllO House. Tt '<=? nlan hollovo.1 t)m(l ho will stand for election to the seat now held by Senator Tillman when the next election for that seat comes off. There has been some tallc of Congressman Lever as a possible candidate for Governor, but it is not thought that he has given this latter suggestion any serious consideration. In fact, when approached about this suggestion, Congressman Lever asked where the talk was coming from and apparently hadn't heard the matter mentioned before. All of the members of Congress from this State were visltora at the Fair aa was Senator Smith. The next Senatorial fight ia said to have been talked considerably. That Congressman Lever would have made the race for the Senate against Governor Blease if Senator Smith would have retired is also believed. but Senator Smith is going to make the fight. His friends think he can win, they say so in large numbers. Friends of Congressman Lever, some of them at least, told him that if he entered the Senatorial race with Senator Smith and Governor Blease he would stand a good chance of being sacrificed and would endanger his whole political future. Some of his most staunch supporters vigorously opposed him entering the Senatorial fight and then, too, they pointed out the general impression which in their opinion is State-wide that Mr. Lever is tho natural and logical man to take the place of Senator Tillman when bo retires from the Senate. Mr. Lover is strong all over the CtnU .1 - ---J * uiaio <111 vi tuuiu Uliltte H ROOn 8IJOWing in a race for the Senate even against Senator Smith and Governor Rlease that every one admits. Rut some of the most prominent of his supporters think it would he political suicide for his to go into the fight. When Mr. Lever was subsequently shown the article printed above, he stated that as yet he had not definitely determined whether ho would enter the senatorial race or not. HITERTA ASKS MEDIATION ? French Government Will Do Nothing Until Advised by U. S. The French foreign office has been asked informally by the Mexican foreign office If it was disposed to mediate between the United States and Mexico. The French government has taken the position that it will do nothing until further advised as to the policy of the United States, and then nothing which might bo unwelcome. Stato department officials at Washington take the position that the action of the French office In refraining rrora indicating wnetner it was disposed to mediate between Mexico and the United States is another evidencec of the intention of France to defer to the policy of the United Staes in the Mexican situation. Secretary Bryan said of the Paris dispatch: "In the absence of official advices from the French foreign office I am unwilling to make any comment." Franco was among the first of the European nations to accode to the request of the United Staes to defer action in the Mexican situation until the Washington government had formulated and announsd 'is policy. * Two Killed In Hallway Crash. Two men wore killed and 100 passengers badly shaken up when a Qrtnlhorn rnilivav froin tuna il?i>nllArt M v>? VI mm t*?? ?f u; VI Mill t?UO UUI ni IUW on a curvo near Griffin, Ga. The dead aro Engineer Thomas H. Gray and Fireman E. C. Pearson, of At, lanta. Warships Near Mexico, i The American naval force on the > west coast of Mexico now Includes . the California, Pittsburg and Mary land, all armored cruisers: the guni boat Annapolis, and the supply ship , Glacier. STRIKERS STOP CARS I ?* ONE MAN KILLED IN INDIANAPOLIS STREET EIGHT. 1 ? Traction Company Gives 1'p Running of Cars When Chief of Police Stutes . That Situation is Rcyouil Control. Tho Indiana Traction and Terminal company, of Indianapolis, lnd., T whose men went on strike Friday night, Saturday attempted to run its cars, but gave up when notitled by Superintendent of Police Hyland that the police would be unable to prevent bloodshed unless tho cars wero withdrawn. Joseph Johnson, a striking motorman, was shot and wounded by a . policeman who fired into the crowd j that surged around tho first car sent ? out. Two cars were taken from tho ( barns, each tilled with policemen, but r the crowds packed around thorn so tightly they could not be moved. ( Soon after tho shooting of Johnson , the cars were ordered back to the barns. Governor Ralston in a statement Saturday night charged that the city . authorities are not doing their duty in failing to provide police protection. Ho refused to call out tho State militia at Mayor Shank's request and declared that the mayor has full authority and power to provide protec- t tion to run the cars. Superintendent cf Police Hyland notified Robert I. Todd, president of the Traction Com- f pany, that he would supply as many . men as possible, and Todd declared ho would start the cars as soon as tho police wero ready to go with them. . The down-town streets remained packed with people all day, though . most of the disturbances ended when the attempt to move the cars ceased. f Policemen mingled with the crowds, but made little effort to disperse them. Four policemen turned in their badges and resigned when ordered to accompany the cars. Super- . intendent Hyland gave orders to arrest patrol wagon-loads in order to disperse the crowds, but not more than a dozen men were taken to the police station during the day. Bicycle Policemen Golnisch and Baston were struck by bricks and hurt while trying to disperse a crowd of men and boys at Illinois and Washington streets. Ueut. Barmfuhrer, in charge of the police guarding the Louisiana street car bars, was struck by a missile and had to be taken home. The streets around the car barns, where most of the imported strike-breakers are held, wore crowded most of the day, but the strike sympathizers made no attack on the barns. Late Saturday night, however, bricks wero thrown through all tho windows in tho barns. In an attempt to rush the car barns on Louisiana street, whore the imported strike-breakers are quartered, Isaac Fleischer, aged 2 4, a nonurion motorman from Philadelphia, was fatally shot in the nock and died on tho way to tho City Hospital. Fleischer, it is said, was shot by one ( of the men in the barn, who was tiring into the crowd from a secondstory window. The police had the streets around tho barns roped and when they let down the ropes for an automobile to pass the crowd rushed through. The } crowd DUShed nast the nnllep nnrl nu i they approached the barns they were ' met with a volley of shots from the ' second story windows of the barns. Fleischer fell almost at the feet of Police Sergt. Sanders, when ho was 1 helping to hold back the crowd. < About a dozen shots were fired, but Fleischer wan the only person hit. The mob then started for tho West 1 Washington street barns, but was met at the Labor Temple by Milton L. < Clawson, an attorney, prominent in labor circles, who pleaded with the crowd to abstain from violence. Tho ; trip was abandoned. ' i AMATEUR HOMIER CAUGHT. Clerk Takes $100 to Pay Hot and Locks Himself in Trunk. 7 After losing an election bet of $100 and finding himself unable to pay it, Joseph Cohen, a fur importer's clerk, of New York, pilfered the amount from his firm's safe, according to his alleged confession to tho police Thursday, and then locked himself in a trunk in an effort to stage a robbery in which he was to play the role of victim. A member of the firm, who rescued Cohen from the trunk after the supposed robbery, thought it strange that the "thieves" left behind $75,000 worth of furs, and had Cohen arrested. ? ? ? Sometimes It la aaid that aucceaa in life depends upon one's ability to hold on. It all depends upon circumstances. Oftentimes success depends upon letting go. Certainly people ought not to hold on to and carry In'o the next day the worries of today, nor to drag the present tank into the next piece of labor they undertake. The New York World says the belief gains ground in Wall street that there can be no currency legislation at this sosalon of Congress, and is said to cause much satisfaction in certain influential quarters there. The World thinks that Wall Street hopes yet to pull ofT the panic President Wilson nipped in the bud. Mil \A 11 Lt IICK mt PtST MUST Bt DRIVLN UUT UF TBF STATt m HELP THE FARMER rhe Legislature Will ho Asked to Appropriate Forty Thousand Dollars to Kid the State of the Destructive Dost That Causes a lli? I/oss Each Year to the Farmers. The State says definite steps wore aken Saturday at a conforouee In Coumbia of farmers, stock raisers, legslators, representatives of Clemson College, experts from the federal bueau of animal industry and others, sailed together by the Columbia Chamber of Commerce, with a view o eradicating the cattle tick in those ouuties In South Carolina which are itill under the federal quarantine. The conference bids fair to give nipetus to the neglected industry of attlo raising in South Carolina, as veil as to sot the State and federal governments working together to vipo out the tick pest In the shortest )osslble time. Briefly summarized, he ends towards which the conference decided to work were: Securing a $4 0,000 appropriation rom the State of South Carolina for he maintenance of a largo State organization under the direction of Memson Collego to eradicate tlie catlo tick. Securing the co-operation of the ederal bureau of animal Industry villi the Stato organization for tho ight against ticks. Toward tho attainment of these mds, the conference decided to aploint a committee of five to wait on ho ways and means committee of the louse and finance committee of the innate to urge tho appropriation of i40,000 for cattle tick eradication in hose counties still quarantined. The lommltteo will appoint a local comnittee of flvo members in each county o awaken the farmers and live stock uen to the importance of wiping out he cattle tick. The conference decided to request ?very bank in South Carolina to get ip a petition signed by its customers o the members of the general assein)ly from tho county in which it is located, asking them to vote for the apiropriation of $4 0,000 for tick erad ik r. rayior, or Columbia, ?ecretary of tho South Carolina Colon Soc<l Crushers' Associhtion, anlounced that Bimilar petitions would >e at every cotton oil mill in tho state where they could ho conveniently dgned hy tho farmers. Ono of tlie most important feat urea )f the conference was the announcenent hy A. P. Lever, congressman 'rom the Seventh South Carolina disrict and chairman of the house comnittee on agriculture, that federal aid 'or tho fight against the cattlo tick would certainly ho forthcoming aa loon aa the State undertook the f'.ght >n a large acale with a well organized 'orce in the field. B. H. Rawl, chief of the dairy division of the federal bureau of animal industry, made the key-note speech >f the conference. Dr. M. Hay Powers, of Clemson college, explained the work which has already been accomplished toward relegating the tick to tho scrap heap. They were followed hy several other speakers. The live-] ly interest among tho auditors was Indicated hy the number of questions asked tho experts who spoke. An interesting phase of the conference was tho fact that it went on record aa favoring the passage of a law for the operation of plants by the State to grind limestone and oyster shells for use in liming the land. A resolution to this effect was introduced by W. W. Long, State farm demonstration agent and seconded by Richard I. Manning, of Sumter. The conference realized that the use of lime on tho lands in this State was necessary to make the best pasturage for cattlo and to grow tho best forago crops. Mr. Rawl spoke of the certain coming of tho boll weevil and the conditions which follow it. "How aro we going to meet the conditions the weevil brings about unless we broaden explained that Clemson had asked Mr. Rawl. Mr. Rawl urged tho building of pasture land and putting waste land to work to raiso beef. Dr. Powers of Clemson Collego, Stato veterinarian, told of tho work which has been done in tick eradication already in South Carolina. Ho explained tho Clemson had ask-ed aid from citizens in various counties last yoar to supplement county appropriations and that made by tho collego. "Wo need a State appropriation for tliA u'rjrl/ " t-v? v..v .. ?, uov/iuieti m~. rowers. " ino present method of county to county work Is not economic. We will need about $40,000 from the State and a like amount from the government to rid South Carolina of the tick. The eladication of the cattle tick in itself is not a problem. It Is no troublo to kill Mr. Tick. The real problem is to get tho men In the Stato aroused to tho Importance of doing so. E. N. Nlghbert, United State officer In charge of tick eradication in South Carolna and Georgia told the conferenco that the (lipping vat was the business liko way of ridding cattle of ticks, and that the spray pump was merely an accessory to it. Dr. Nighbort Baid he believed the time had como for extensive tick eradication work in South Carolina. "If we had an appropriation of $40,000 from tho State and a liko amount from tho United States bureau of animal industry," said Dr. Nighbert. "tho entire State of South Carolina would bo free from the quarantine against the ticks in a year or two." Kiehard I. Manning of Sumter was called on to explain w'hv the present source of revenue for tick eradication was inadequate. He pointed out that public work already made a big hole In tho income of Clemson college and said that it could not bo expected to make tho $40,000 appropriation tinless it wore to drop some of tho work it is doing at present. Mr. Manning declared that in his opinion the appropriation for tick eradication should come directly from tho State treasury. Dr. Ramsay, chief of field inspection work for tho bureau, doscrlbed the various stages through which tick eradication work progressed in tho various States with which tho bureau cooperates. "We are ready to put up the money any time that you can show us that you are organized and ready to begin working with definite ideas In view of freeing South Carolina from tho tick," declared Dr. Ramsay. He exnlained Hint in \n?oiaiMn?ii Georgia thoro wore good organizations and the State departments of agriculture there were working hand in hand with the bureau of animal indust ry. Dr. Ham say was asked a number of questions about the conditions which will have to be fulfilled before the bureau of animal industry would begin active work in South Carolina. \V. W. Dong, State agent in charge of farm demonstration work said that the use of land lime was important work in connection with the cattle Industry as it was necessary to build up pastures and grow forage crops in South Carolina. Mr. Raw! introduced to the conference A. F. Lover, congressman from the house committee on agriculture. Mr. Lever declared that the meeting was a most important one, illustrating the fact that agriculture was in a stato of transition and that the people of South Carolina were fully awake to the possibilities in farming. "When I was first elected to congress the cattle tick proposition was put before the committee on agriculture, of which I was a member." said Mr. Lever. "The government is spending through the bureau of animal industry the sum of $1175,000 each year now to fight tlie cattlo tick. "The question which most concerns this conference is whether South Carolina will put herself in readiness to receive the cooperation of the federal government in the flirht. ae.iinst tlw> tick," continued Mr. Lever. "I do not believe that there has been any lack of organization in the cattle tick work which has resulted in wiping out the pest and raising the federal quarantine in a number of counties, but I do think that there is a decided need that the scope of the work be enlarged. "The State is getting now $1 1,000 from the federal government Tor cattle tick eradication and about $0,000 [from Clemson college. Experts estimated that the tick is costing the State from $1,000,000 to $3,000,000 each year. If wo hasten the process of eradication, we will save the State enormous sums. "I do not believe that there will he any difficulty about getting an appropriation from the State fOr the tight on the cattle tick If the legislators will prove to the people that the tax money for this purpose is being wisely expended. The federal department of agriculture is beginning tc demand that the people should show a disposition to help themselves before it helps them. If I go to Secretary Houston of the department, whe is one of the very biggest men in the cabinet, and tell him that the South Carolina legislature has appropriated $40,000 for tick eradication, you car bet your bottom dollar that the State will get $40,000 from the federal department of agrleultudo to aid In win. Ing out tho tick. "I bellevo that this is an opportunity for your general assembly tc do something fundamentally big foi tho farmers of South Carolina," declared Mr. Lever. "With tho invasion of tho boll weevil only a few years off South Carolina must break awaj irum mo inraiKiom or King Cottor and branch out in other lines of agriculture. The boll weevil is coming and it will work havoc with out onelegged system of agriculture. Wc might as well, therefore, prepare foi the coming storm and give the farm ers more logs to stand on by oncour j aging the live stock, poultry and oth cr industries which can be carried or upon tho farms of South Carolina." In closing his speech, Mr. I^evei moved that a committee bo appointee j to urge the appropriation of $40,00( for cattle tick eradication in Soutl Carolina before the goneral assombly The conferees on cattle tick oradl cation In South Carolina were th< guests of the Columbia Chamber o Commerce at a luncheon at tho Jof ferson hotel after tho meeting. 1 number of interesting speeches wer< made after tho luncheon. Old newspapers for salo at thi office. SPIES IN GEM MINES DETECTIVES WATCH SOUTH AFRICAN DIAMOND MIXES. Trained Men Fos? an Unscrupulous Hujrers to Trap Workers After They Have Been Four Months in Mines. Four thousand detectives and spies aro employed to protect the fabulous wealth of tho DoHeers diamond mines near Klniherley, South Africa. They work within tho compounds or guard fences with the 2,000 Europeans and 1 7,000 nativo Kaffirs, or as unscrupulous diamond buyers on the outside. In spite of their vigilance and extreme care, tho DeHeers assert tho "leakage" last year was nearly $2,500,000 and that the average for a number of years has been near tho $2,000,000 mark. Illicit diamond buyers hav? made a fortune in South Africa despite the activities of detectives. They are still buying, but the penalty for having uncut and unregistered diamonds in hand hns been made extremely severe, and stolen diamonds are becoming leas. A man caught with an unregistered gem is doomed to many years in prison. The Kaffirs, or nativo blacks, are kept within tho compounds four months at a time and are not allowed to leave the holdings of the company until five days after they have left tne mines. This is to prevent tholr swollowlng diamonds in an effort to carry them to their homes. In order to prevent escapes practically 4,000 miles of barbed wire fence lias been strug about the mines. (entanglements charged with electricity are a terror to the hearts of the nativo blacks and few attempt to escapo even after stealing gems. Since the swallowing method of stealing has become futile, Kaffirs wrap diamonds in pieces of cloth or tin and throw them over the fence to a spot which the chief can keep In mind until he gets out. Guards watch these and usually foil the thief in his scheme. Every diamond mine in the Klmberley region is registered. Kiae, weight, shape, color and nppearanco are taken and with these to go by detectives havo little difficulty tracing thefts when stones are found in the possession of natives or suspicious whites. FOR TIIK PKOIMjK'H GOOD Currency Rill Was Revised in iho Interest, of the 1'iihlic. i no currency mil now Deroro CXrngross, which has the unqualified endorsement of President Wilson and his Administration involves three fundamental principles: First: The notes Issued must he issued by the government and not by the banks. Second: The issue must be controlled by public servants and not by private institutions or individuals. Third: The emergency currency Issued must bo issued through stato banks as well as through national banks. The bill as prepared observes these three requirements. The right of the government to issue money is not surrendered to the banks; the control over the money so Issued is not relinquished by the government; and national bnnkB are not given a monopoly of the benefits flowing from the issue of those emergency notes, but must share the benefits with the State banks In the several States. This is a I good feature of the measure, and will help the stato banks and distribute , ,tho emergency notes quicker than 1! their distribution had to bo made by ( the national banks alone. The regional reserve banks will prove of great advantage to business. Each reservo bank will be a commercial center and this center will bo t much nearer to the extremes than the few large cities are to the banks I which have heen compelled to reaeh ( the public through them. These re, gional reserve hanks will give to the individual banks a security for thetr reserves that is lacking under the present system?a security which will go far toward preventing panics. President Wilson has his heart set . on the passage of the currency bill, and we hope he will have his wishes . gratified, as it is to the interests of ? tho country to have it passed as soon r as possible. It will eliminate Wall Street as the manipulator of tho currency of the country and thus eliminate also ready-made panics in tho ' money market. This currency bill la framed in the interest of the whole . country and should be promptly passed by Congress. Some of tho big national banks are fighting it, but that was to be exneotnd ; Falls Through Trestle. r A Bixty-foot span in the wooden j trestle over Pamunkey River, on the ) West Point division of the Southern ^ Railway, near Richmond, Va., late Monday collapsed undor the weight of a combination freight and passenger ? train. f ? - ' Rlair Lee, a staunch progressive ^ Democrat, has been elected to the a United States Senate from Maryland by overwhelming ra&pjority over Wm Jackson, the Republican who was aps pointed by a Republican Governor 1a place of the late Senator Raynor.