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-3 i WOMEN VICTIMS "CHARGE" OF BY B. F. J3URLEY Trinidad, Col., "Jan. 30. Hose Slater smiled! Her face seemed to be , made for smiling and in her 15 years she had not learned that it is a crime to smile at a soldier, when that" soldier hap pens to be the head of state militia in Colorado on the grave errand of shooting -Working men into submis sion to Rockefeller extortion. That smile sent Rose Slater, who is but 15 years old, to jail. It obliged her to dodge a kick which she says a warrior officer leveled at hbr head from his horse. It brought plose to her dodging head the saber slashes tf the Colorado Cossacks who tried to ride her down. It gave her a smashed foot Ayhen a burly soldier jammed her with the heayy, cruel butt of his gun. "I marched in the parade because I believed it was a; crime to keep an old woman like Mother Jones in jail for talking,-" says Rose. She had come from the convent school she attends, to join, the parade. "When Gen. Chase's horse stum bled, I just had to laugh," she said to me. "He looked so funny until he rode towards me and kicked me as he rode. Then Tran. I got behind a telegraph pole asa soldier rushed up and struck at me three times with his sword. Then 'Soldiers with guns came and one of them brought down the butt end of his gun on my foot. Then they grabbed me, tore my coat and carted me off to jail." Thrust into a dirty cell by the sol diers, this innocent, 15-year-old girl was held for hours until an humble plea from her father to Chase secur ed her release. Mrs. Maggie Hammond carries a huge gash across her forehead. Both of' her eyes are blacked. She was marching with the parade when the cavalry made its attack. With others she was janmed gn a narrow porch in TELL OF THE SHAMEFUL 'DAREDEVIL" SOLDIERS an effort to escape from the madden ed and brutal soldiery. The .soldiers followed, using their guns and fists. A blow from the fist of a soldier blackened her eyes and blinded her. She was dazed and doesn't remember how she got. away from that crowd of terrified, struggling women, upon whom these men in uniforms were raining blows with their fists and beating with their guns. When .she did get away, across her forehead was a huge gash. It looked, say the doctors, like a saber cut. The cavalry had sabers. The only weapons of the women marchers were banners declaring their faith that "Surely God will set us free" and the protection which civilization gives to womanhood. Neither that faith nor the womanhood carved that wound which will leaye its scar as long as she lives. Where does Colorado get men on whom it drapes the uniform of power to kick, slug and stab women and children? Some come from barrel houses in Denver; some from the Baldwin Felts "detective" gunmen who were im ported to kill before the soldiers came and who changed to the payrolls of the state; and some from railroad trains, poor, homeless creatures who have been seized as "hoboes" and given the chance of joining the "army" or of going to jail. Out at Forbes the auto of a federal investigator was held up by one of these guards. That soldier of the state had been in the state but 22 days. He had. "beat his way," he said, from Pittsburgh." At Ludlow a tenth of the men were impressed into the state service in the same way that this tramp was caught and forced into service. Many of the enlisted men of the original companies are deserting or quitting if they have pull enough to et discharge. Their places are