ation of Miners in the town of South Range. Here Driscoll was shot and several of the arrests were made. Henry Oski, a striker, was specifically charged with wounding the officer, and he is said to have implicated by a confession two other members of the union. the work of destruction below had been completed the mob rushed upstairs and began with rifles to beat down the door to Koski's rooms. He warned the rioters that if they did not desist he would fire. They continued to batter the door, whereupon he fired two shots, one of which passed through the belly of one of the rioters. As I have said, the principal occupation of the armed guards was to pursue, pester, and terrify the miners that ventured upon the highway. On December 10th, Emil Jirakoski and Leonard Arvola, miners, of the village of Trimountain, started along the road to South Range, where they intended to make some purchases at a store. A body of guards saw them and gave chase, shouting threats to kill them. Badly terrified, they ran for protection to the hall of the union. They found it locked and unoccupied. Then they dashed upstairs to the rooms of Secretary Koski and begged him for protection. They were in hiding in his house until the next morning and were witnesses of the chapter of truly guerilla warfare that ensued. The Citizens' Alliance held a meeting at Houghton that night and it appears that at the close a cry was raised that those present should go to South Range, eight miles away, and break up the nest of strikers there. The thing must have been all pre-arranged, for the railroad company (controlled by the Calumet and Hecla) had two special trains ready at the station. The rioters, armed with rifles, it is said, from the neighboring state armory, boarded these trains and went to South Range,. arriving a half hour after midnight. The hall of the union was the ground floor of a small building on a street corner. No one was in it. The rioters beat down the door with the butt ends of their rifles. After they had wrecked the place, as above described, some of the guards must have directed attention to the secretary upstairs, who, that morning, had sheltered the two fugitives, for the mob immediately tramped upstairs and began to batter at Koski's door. From the other side he explained that his wife and his baby were very sick and he was caring for them, but if his visitors would return at 7 o'clock in the morning he would admit them or go with them, as they might prefer. Meantime, he courteously begged them to go away. They went down stairs and, presently re turning in greater numbers, renewed their assault upon the door, which they were battering to pieces when Koski once more raised his voice to warn them that they were trespassers and if they persisted in their attack he would fire. They paid no heed to this warning and he fired, wounding Driscoll, one of the armed guards. The mob retreated to the street, whence it emptied its rifles into the house where two persons lay ill, so that the inmates were obliged to crouch upon the floor to escape the bullets. At 7 o'clock that morning Koski and the two men he had sheltered were arrested and taken to Houghton, where they were thrust into jail. Subsequently Koski was held in $10,000 bail on the charge of assault with intent to commit murder in the first degree, and the other two, if you will believe me, were held in $1,000 each on the charge of "inciting to riot." There was no confession by anybody and no chance of a confession. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. CALUMET, Mich., Dec. 26. - Charles H. Moyer, presiIdent of the Western Federation of Miners, was put on a train and sent out of the copper strike district to-night. The deportation THE FACTS. A mob broke into the room in Scott's Hotel, Hancock, occupied by Mr. Moyer and Charles Tanner, General Auditor of the Western Federation of Miners, seized them both was the direct result of a refusal of families stricken by the Christmas Eve disaster here to accept relief from a committee, the majority of whose members belonged to the Citizens' Alliance, an organization combating the five months' strike of the Federation. At the local federation headquarters Moyer's departure was called a "kidnapping by the Citizens' Alliance." The action was said to have caused no great surprise, as it was said that threats of such a possibility had been received two weeks ago. The relief committee, which had collected $25,000, found itself unable to give away one cent when it started to-day to deliver the fund. Every bereaved household that was approached told the men and women in charge of the distribution that they had been promised adequate aid by the Western Federation of Miners, and nowhere was there any assistance wanted. beat and kicked them, shot Moyer in the back and dragged them, both wounded, from the hotel into the street. The two prisoners were held so that they could not defend nor protect themselves, and in this position were dragged through the streets and across the bridge to Houghton, being incessantly kicked and beaten. Mr. Moyer was bleeding and weak from a revolver shot, and Mr. Tanner was bleeding from a wound just below his right eye. In this condition they were placed upon a train and under armed guard taken out of the State, being threatened with lynching if they should return. Nobody has been indicted nor arrested for these assaults, although the persons that committed them are perfectly well known in Hancock. But Mr. Moyer has been indicted for conspiracy. At the center of the bridge it was proposed to throw the prisoners into Portage Lake, and Moyer was carried to the side railing for that purpose. But part of the mob insisted that the prisoners should be taken to the railroad 882 78 DOING US GOOD AND PLENTY station, reminding the others that "Jim" was to meet them there. This plan prevailed, and the prisoners, still beaten and kicked, were dragged to the station, where a large, athletic, well-dressed man in a powerful automobile awaited them. According to Moyer's story, he descended from his machine, shook his fist in Moyer's face, denounced him, and said: "If you ever come back to this country, I'l have you lynched!” When Mr. Moyer was able to make a statement he said that he thought that the "Jim" that supervised this lynching party was Mr. James MacNaughton, vice-president and general manager of the Calumet and Hecla. Mr. MacNaughton is a large, athletic gentleman, drives a powerful automobile and is known to his acquaintances as "Jim." As soon as Mr. Moyer's statement appeared Mr. MacNaughton entered a vigorous denial and the Associated Press reported that Mr. MacNaughton could not possibly have been "Jim," because the train on which Moyer and Tanner were kidnapped left at 9:27 and at 9:45, 18 minutes later, Mr. MacNaughton walked into the Miscowaubic Club at Calumet, nine miles away. On January 8th three reporters in a hired |