first fatal outbreak of the strike. The fight took place at Seeberville, and the miner was killed while resisting arrest. When the deputies went to Seeberville to get two strikers who had forced the line of guards at the Champion mine of the Copper Range Consolidated Company, strikers gathered and attacked the officers with revolvers and bottles. CALUMET, Mich., August 15, 1913. To the Associated Press, Chicago, Ill.* Following last night's clash between strikers and deputies at the Champion mine, in which one striker was shot dead, three others seriously injured and one deputy hurt, the guards about all the mining properties in the copper miners' strike zone have been drawn tighter. Although the strikers have increased the number of their pickets, no trouble has OCcurred in any other part of the district as a result of the Champion mine fight. CALUMET, Mich., August 15, 1913. To the Associated Press, Chicago, Ill.* The death list as the result of the battle between At Seeberville, a mining village adjoining the railroad station of Painesville, John Putrich kept a boarding house, in which dwelt sixteen miners. Seeberville is on a main traveled road that makes a long détour from the railroad station. Many years ago the people of Seeberville made a path about 300 feet long by the side of the railroad track from the station to the main road, and thus cut off about one-half mile of the road's détour. They universally used this path to and from the station. On August 14 two of the boarders at Putrich's house went to a neighboring town to visit friends, and returned by railroad train, alighting at the Painesdale station at about 5:30 p. m. They started to walk down the path they had always used. An armed guard yelled at them to keep off that path. They had always used it, and knew no reason why they should not continue to do so, and therefore they pursued their way to Putrich's house. While they waited for supper they were engaged in playing in Putrich's yard at the side of the house a game resembling tenpins. Of a sudden they heard men calling to them, and looked up to find Press correspondent. ⭑ Despatches from the Associated strikers and deputy sheriffs at the Champion mine at Painesdale last night was increased to two by the death at noon to-day of Stephen Putrich, who was shot through the abdomen. Three independent investigations of the shooting were established this morning by Judge Murphy, representing Governor Ferris, Prosecuting Attorney Lucas and Sheriff Cruse. on the other side of the fence seven armed men with revolvers drawn. The terrified boarders fled into the house. The weather was warm and the doors and windows were open. Without explanation and without summons the seven armed men surrounded the house, and began to fire into the open doors and windows, killing one man instantly, fatally wounding another and severely wounding two oth ers. How valuable were the "three independent investigations" may be gathered from the fact that on January 7, 1914, Sheriff Cruse admitted that four of the men that had committed these murders were still on guard as "deputy sheriffs," carrying the weapons and the authority of the state of Michigan. But later, when general attention had been called to this sinister fact, the men were tried and sentenced to prison terms for this deed, though the Associated Press had reported that "the miner was killed while resisting arrest." THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.* CALUMET, Mich., Sept. 1.- The copper strike situation took a serious aspect to-day as a result of the fatal shooting of Mar From the Washington Post. THE FACTS. Her name was Margaret Fazekes. She was not the daughter of a striker, and had no connection with the strike. There was no clash garet Fazakas, aged 15, daughter of a striker at the North Kearsarge mine, when a picket of strikers and women clashed with deputy sheriffs guarding a mine. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.† September 15, 1913. The flag incident of Sat- with any picket. A Labor Day procession was being held at Kearsarge. It had nothing to do with the strike. A band of armed guards without excuse or occasion attacked the procession and broke it up, firing about 100 shots. This girl was not in the procession. She was walking along the sidewalk, and a bullet from a gunman's revolver pierced her skull. THE AFFIDAVITS. The strikers were accustomed to march in little processions from one village to another for the purpose of visiting and encouraging their striking fellows. One of the favorite means by which the armed guards sought to "start something 99 was to attack and disperse these processions on the public highway. At the head of each procession always went a man or a woman carrying the United States flag. On this occasion a captain of militia undertook to wrench the flag from the hands of the man that carried it. Meeting with resistance the captain drew his sabre, and after cutting the hands of the bearer slashed the flag from the staff and threw it into the mud, where militiamen of the State of Michigan trampled upon it. Despatches from the Associated Press correspondent. On more than one occasion the bearer and defender of the American flag was Anna Clemenc, the remarkable young woman who was long the inspiration of the strikers. Her activities and influence were so great that she seems to have been an object of especial hatred to the armed guards. She was arrested so many times that the police court lost track of the count and when she asked derisively, "Well, which charge is it now?" the chop-fallen clerk could not tell her. Many times she has been dragged through the streets and thrust into a jail cell, beaten, ridden down with the horses of the gunmen and trampled upon, but every morning found her early abroad upon her regular employment, which was to talk to the miners and encourage them to keep their lines unbroken. She was accustomed to incessant insult from the gunmen and the uniformed soldiers of the state of Michigan, but once when a member of the militia proceeded to an unmentionable liberty she suddenly wrenched his rifle from his hands and beat him over the head with it — an act promptly recorded as an outbreak of violence on the part of the strikers. The attacks made upon her never seemed to daunt her spirit, but they broke her physical strength. Early in January she suffered a nervous collapse, and for some weeks she lay in her mother's house, unconscious part of the time and part of the time shaken with nervous convulsions. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. CALUMET, To the Associated Press, The stable at Centennial Heights used by the mine guards employed by the Centennial Mining Company burned to-night, and the authorities believe the blaze was of incendiary origin. A large number of strikers gathered at the scene and hooted the fire fighters. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. CALUMET, Mich. October 22, 1913. To the Associated Press, Chicago, Ill. "... As a measure of precaution against possible disorder, the troops have kept on the move bodies of strikers who collect while men are going to work in the morning, but this is not construed as interference with any of the rights of the strikers." THE AFFIDAVITS. The fire was started from the cigarette of a drunken guard. Most of the guards were drunk most of the time. Some persons of the neighborhood gathered and tried to help to extinguish the fire, and were driven off by drunken guards. Nobody jeered the fire fighters. THE AFFIDAVITS. For instance, Victor Ozonick swears that on July 31 he was walking quietly along the public road when he was arrested, taken to Houghton and thrust into jail. After a time he was taken into the sheriff's office and searched. A deputy sheriff struck him in the face with his clenched fist and then kicked him. He was then asked if he was a member of the miners' union. When he said "Yes," he was dragged back to a cell and locked up for twenty-four hours. After that he was |