The Canadian Valley News. (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1914 Page: 3 of 8
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REAL WARFARE IN COLORADO
STRIKERS AND STATE MILITIA
SHOOT TO KILL.
Two Dead At McNally Mine, and Four
at Walsenurg, In Latest En-
counter With the Troops
—
Denver, Colo.—Two dead and two
known to have been wounded are the
results of a battle between strikers
and mine guards when strikers at-
tacked the McNally coal mine of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Co., three-
quarters of a mile west of Walsen-
burg.
It was reported by Jeff Farr, sheriff
of Huerfano county, that four men
had been killed in a battle between
seventy-five mine, guards and an un-
known number of the strikers at the
Walsenburg mine, two miles south
of Walsensburg.
The dead, unidentified, are lying on
' the field.
It was also reported that the towns
of Louisville, Lafayette and Marshall
in the northern Colorado coal fields,
had been attacked by striking miners
with machine guns and that Louis-
ville was burned.
Sheriff J. B. Farr has notified Gov-
ernor Ammons that he is powerless
to cope with the siutation and that
he feared further attacks by strikers
on other mines and on the town ow
Walsenburg.
General Chase has established a
camp at Williamsburg in Freemont
county, near Flqrence, under instruc-
tions to take no action except in case
of actual attack.
"Frightfully, critically cruel,” was
the manner in which Horace N. Haw-
kins, chief counsel for the mine work-
ers, summarized the situation.
"The situation has resolved into one
of securing the federal troops,” he
said. "This offers the only complete
solution. The miners will never sub-
mit to the Colorado national guard, re-
cruited as it is in part at least, from
the ranks of the mine guards. There
Is no possibility of securing enough
militiamen to settle it.”
WALTERS GUILTY OF KIDNAPPING
Verdict Can Mean Imprisonment For
Life; Counsel Will Appeal.
Opelousas, La.—"Guilty with cap-
ital punishment" was the verdict re-
turned by the jury here in district
court in the trial of W. C. Walters,
itinerant tinker, charged with kid-
napping 5-year-old Robert Dunbar.
Under the laws of Louisiana, the ver-
dict is equivalent to life Imprison-
ment.
The verdict legally determines tne
Identity of the boy taken from Walt-
ers at the time of his arrest and legal-
ly clears a mystbry that presented
many unusual phases, including the
ability of a mother to Identify her
own son. It means that the child
claimed as their don will remain in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Dun-
bar here, where he has been since the
arrest of Walters more than a year
ago, and that Julia Anderson, now ill
in a New Orleans hospital, was mis-
taken when she testified that the boy
was her own.
Counsel for Walters have announced
that if the usual motion for a new
trial is overruled, they will appeal to
the supreme court of the state.
Walters was arrested April 20, 1913,
nearly eight months after Robert Dun-
bar disappeared from a fishing camp
on the banks of Lake Swayze. At the
time of his arrest he was accompanied
by a boy who Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Dun-
bar had identified as their lost child
but who Walters claimed was Bruce
Anderson illegitimate son of Julia An-
derson. He claimed the woman had
entrusted the boy to his care and she
later identified him as her son.
So much doubt existed as to the
identity of the boy taken from the
tinker that Governor Brewer of Mis-
sissippi refused to honor the requisi-
tion of the govenor of Louisiana for
the return of Walters to that state un-
til he had held a test.
Governor Brewer later honored the
requisition but attorneys for Walters
appealed to the supreme court of Mis-
sissippi which on January 12, 1914, or-
dered the extradition of Walters to
Opelousas for trial.
Three of the Four Shafts De-
molished.—No Exit For the
Imprisoned Men.
Eccles, W. Va.—All hope for the
rescue of 203 miners entombed by an
explosion in mines Nos 5 and 6 of the
New River Colleries Co. here, w-as
abandoned. Rescuers are unable to
force their way into the burning
shafts.
Four miners are knowrn to be dead,
fifty-nine were rescued, many of them
severely burned and 203 others are
entombed in two burning mines and
are believed to have small chance for
their lives as the result of an explo-
sion of gas in mines Nos. 5 and 6 of
the New River Colleries Co.. The
dead and rescued men were taken
from mine No. 6 and all but thirteeen
have been accounted for. One hun-
dred and ninety of .the entombed men
are in shaft No. 5, not a man having
escaped from this opening since the
explosion. The mine burned fiercely
with government, state and volunteer
rescuers working desperately to sub-
due the flames.
The depth of the two main shafts
is eix hundred feet and the mines are
connected under ground. There are
two other shafts into the mines, but
the explosion totally wrecked three
out of the four. The lone entrance
leads into mine No. 6 and by means
of it the rescues were made. No. 5
mine apparently is completely shut
from the surface and rescuers hold
little hope of reaching the large num-
ber of men in time to save them.
The explosion occurred in mine No.
5. The two Bhafts of this mine were
demolished. It Is believed the explo-
sion traveled through this mine into
No. 6.
Victims Badly Burned.
For a time the crowd of frightened
women and children at the tipples
waited in suspense but soon the sig-
nal came to hoist away and the cage
appeared. It bore two men badly
hurt, a few of the rescue party and
two bodies. Other trips were made
as rapidly as possible and each time
blackened and burned miners were
brought tq the surface until sixty-three
men had been brought up, four of
them dead.
Of the bodies recovered, two are
Americans, one a foreigner and the
fourth a negro. A large portion of the
miners employed are Americans.
The New River Colleries ordered
two carloads of coffins from Cincin-
nati.
The present mine disaster Is the
first of considerable extent in West
Virginia in several years. It prob-
ably is second only in fatalities to the
Monongahela explosion in December,
1907, when 366 miners lost their lives.
While the loss of life here will be
heavy, there is a relief for families
of victims that was not in force at the
time of former disasters. The new
workmen's compensation act provides
$20 a month for widows and each of
the surviving children not to exceed
three is entitled to $5 a month.
GROSS PRODUCTIONTAXSUSTAIKED
Supreme Court Decision Assures Col-
lection Back Coal Taxes.
Oklahoma City.,—Payment to the
state of approximately $500,000 in
back taxes from coal mine operators'
is practically insured through an opin-
ion handed down by the supreme
court affirming the validity of various
acts of the legislature, which impose
a gross production tax on coal.
The opinion is written by Justice F.
E. Riddle on the appeal of the McAles-
ter-Edwards Coal Co. and about a
dozen other big coal mining concerns,
operating in the segregated Indian
coal mining lands in the southeastern
part of the state. The original pro-
ceedings were started in the superior
court of Pittsburg county in 1909,
when application was made by the
coal operators for an order enjoining
the collection of the tax. The appli-
cation was denied and the case has
been pending on appeal in the su-
preme court ever since.
The principal contention of the coal
operators in their fight against the
payment of the tax was that the tax
of one-half of 1 pef cent, which was
imposed by a legislative act was a
burden on the federal government in
Its dealings with the Chickasaw and
Choctaw Indian nations, so long as the
land where the cool is mined is Indian
property.
This contention is knocked out by
the higher court on the ground that
the tax is not collected or levied un-
til after the royalties due the Indians
has been deducted, and paid to the In-
dians.
NOT SIT UP
The lattice work mast of an Ameri-
can battleship, from the top of which
the fire of the guns is controlled.
MESSAGE FROM THE BRIDGE
GIFF
in westurgihi
MINE DISASTER
1.ITTLE HOPE ENTERTAINED FOR
SAFETY OF 203 ENTOMBED
WORKERS IN NEW RIVER
COLLERIES.
Four Dead Recovered; Fifty-Nine
Badly Burned Brought to Top.—
Now Does Her Own Work.
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta-
ble Compound Helped Her.
We know some railway bridges that
seem to be dependent on Providence
and a coat of paint.
If you wish beautiful, clear, white
clothes, use Red Cross Ball Blue. At all
good grocers. Adv.
A good sense of humor can be
turned into dollars. The modern prac-
tical joker writes them and sells them.
Colonel Loughborough (left) and Colonel Perkins (right), of the Twen-
tieth United States infantry, now on the Mexican border, and some of their
troops in action.
I ronton, Ohio.—'* I am enjoying beU
ter health now than I have for twelve
years. When I be-
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Pinkham’s Vegeta-
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and was very ner-
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women, too. I cannot praise Lydia EL
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound enough
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Daughter Helped Also.
“ I gave it to my daughter when she
was thirteen years old. She was in
school and was a nervous wreck, and
could not sleep nights. Now she looks
so healthy that even the doctor speaks
of iL You can publish this letter if you
like.”—Mrs. Rena Bowman, 161S. 10th
Street, Ironton, Ohio.
Why will women continue to suffer
day in and day out and drag out a sickly,
half-hearted existence, missing three-
fourths of the joy of living, when they
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If you have the slightest doubt
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(confidential) Lynn, Mass.,for ad-
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read and answered by a womaa
and held In strict confidence.
Titta Ruffo's Important Views.
A piece of baked macaroni trying
to stand upright. This is the defini-
tion of the modern American woman
given to a Denver newspaper reporter
by Titta Rufto of the Chicago Grand
Opera company.
“It ees like a piece of cooked maca-
roni making effort to stand upright,”
he said with an air of disgust “la
Eet-aly the women are beeg. Only
beeg women are beautiful.
"The American woman is very chto
and it is good for her to be a suffrar
gette. It is nice for woman to ruls
man in America. In Eeet-aly it is not
so nice.”
The Montessorl System.
Old-FaBhloned Mother—What is this
Montessorl system of child education
that I hear so much about?
Old-Fashioned Father—I dunno, ex-
actly, but the keynote of it seems tp
be "votes for children.”
What He Wanted.
"My wife insists on having a flying
machine.”
“We have some that are perfectly
safe, sir."
"Have you one that will fly at an
altitude of about ten Inches?”
Constipation causes and seriously aggra-
vates many diseases. It is thoroughly cured
by Dr. Pierce’s Pellets. Tiny sugar-coated
granules. Adv.
Her Experience.
Ethel—Man proposes—
Marie—Yes, but he needs encour-
agement.—Boston Evening Transcript
For thrush use Hanford’s Balsam.
Get It Into the bottom of the affected
part Adv.
This is one of the two bridges on the line of the railway from Vera Cruz to Mexico City, the control of which
means much to the success of the American troops. The bridges are only a few miles from Vera Cruz, and their
destruction would seriously hamper the movement toward the capital.
FIFTH BRIGADE EMBARKS AT GALVESTON ! GENERAL FRED FUNST0N
BORDER COMMANDERS AND TRCOPS
These sailors are sending a mes-
sage from the bridge of a battleship
by what is known as the Ardols sys-
tem of signaling.
The Fifth brigade, U. S. A., under command of Brig. Gen. Fred Funston,
on its way to the transports at the Galveston docks, where It embarked for
Vera Cruz. In the brigade are about 4,700 officers and men, comprising the
Fourth, Seventh, Nineteenth and Twenty-eighth infantry, the Sixth cavalry,
one battery of the Fourth fieid artillery, a company of engineers, a company
of the signal corps and an ambulance corps.
Brig. Gen. Fred Funaton is in com-
mand of the Fifth brigade, United
States army, which went from Galves-
ton to Vera Cruz to carry on the work
begun by the men of the fleet.
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It's hard enough to keep houie if in
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Any woman in this condition has good
cause to suspect kidney trouble, especial-
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Keyes, Chester A. The Canadian Valley News. (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1914, newspaper, May 1, 1914; Jones, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc860446/m1/3/: accessed March 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.