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v " 'rMw n1 JMjMWPiipn appif f 4iw jWMly NOON EDITION ,NOON EDITION MEDIATORS IN MEXICAN DEAL MUM ON PLANS FEAR PUBLICITY MIGHT SPOIL ALI-BRYAN PREDICTS NO MORE DANGER TO AMERICANS j Eny as Second-Class Matter Applied For. THE DAY BOOK An Adless Daily Newspaper r Daily Except Sunday. N. D. Cochran, gjgf5 Tel. Monroe 353. Editor and Publisher 11P ' Automatic 51-422. 500 South Peoria St 398 By Mail, $6 a Year. VOL.3, NO. 179 Chicago, Tuesday, April 28, 1914 ONE CENT UMBO'S GUNMEN SOLDIERS LOOT TAKERS' TENT COLONY Commander of Armed Thugs Curses Preachers Who. i . . Visit Scene of Horror on Errand of Humanity Day Book Correspondent Tells the Truth About Colorado. f BY EDWARD A.EVANS Trinidad, Col., April 28. Scores of murderous mine guards, gunmen, dressed in corduroys, overalls or ragged civilian's clothing, are with Gen. John Chase's Colorado state militia at Ludlow where the strikers' tent colony was burned and women and children were ruthlessly slain by Rockefeller's militiamen., , These gunmen are not members of the militia. They are simply Tiired thugs-of-John-D. Rockefeller's' Color ado Fuel and Iron Company, paid bj the company, but serving under Chase. They have banded together and have christened their organization "Company Q." Many of them ars better shots than, the regular militia men and if Chase gets more -orders from the coal mine operators to mas sacre women and children of th striking miners these thugs wi5 bf very useful! They were finedup in the militia m&A&to&&&& ,tibwitaiejwJbjiJ.Jjitf(ggAj