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which has arrived from Vienna, says that an indictment alleging nig trea son and covering thirty-seven pages has been read to twenty-five prison 4ers charged with having been con cerned in the murder of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir-apparent to the Austrian throne, at Sarajevo. It is expected their trial will last three weeks. MAN'S DEATH REVEALS WHAT FARM HANDS ARE UP AGAINSX Arthur V. Hunt, harvest hand in Montana, sent money home and wrote a letter to his mother at 4627 Armitage av. that he was copiing along fine. That was ten days ago. Yesterday his body same back from Montana with a bullet through the head. And they buried him in Arling ton cemetery in a casket carried by Industrial Workers of the World. According to the information that has come to George H. Hunt, the father, his son was killed in a battle at Chelsea, Mont., last Saturday, when three men were killed and one wounded. Armed professional tramps, who sneer at a regular harvest hand as "a gay cat," had robbed a lot of North Dakota wheat pitchers and had come over the state linetfjtfp Montana and were operating atBpbunty fair held in Poplar, ten milelrfrom Chel sea. An I. W. W. organization was ef fected among the workers. Single handed, it is impossible for harvest hands to ride the freight "trains and save their hard-earned coin. So the trainmen can throw off one man, but not an organization. So the I. W. W. is organizing traveling local branches that defy trainmen. For some reason this organization marched afoot from Poplar to Chef sea, ten miles, last Saturday. Here armed professionals who had march ed along as pretended workersjjwere caught with guns trying to terrorize money from the workers. In an at tempt to disarm the gunmen four were shot One of the killed was a T bystander, A. J. Giantvalley, a civil engineer of the Great Northern Rail road. Vincent St. John, I. W. W. national secretary, commented: "Complete information has not yet come into us about the fight. It is well known that hundreds of professional gunmen go to the harvest fields and hold up workers every year. Many of the workers are getting guns in order to protect themselves. It is hard to de tect off-hand the hold-up man who comes among them. "For the unskilled worker who takes to the harvest fields, it is one long fight against railroads that de mand money for fares, farmers who pay low wages, town constables who are after fees for arresting vagrants, and professional hold-up men who make a specialty of sticking up the casual laborer. "When a harvest hand is robbed he has small chance of getting his money hack. The local police class him as a homeless hobo. He has neither baggage nor reputation. He is liable to be arrested for casting a blemish on the efficiency of the local police with his robbery story. Young Hunt, who was buried yes terday, was formerly driver of a U. S. mail wagon here. He left Chicago March 12. His father is a member of Local 229 of the Machinists' Inter national. DOESN'T JIBE "How's that book you were just reading?" "Oh, it's another of those publica tions in which a corking good title is spoiled by the story." Washington Star. Bochnia.. A Galician town of 10, 000 inhabitants, about 24 miles east of Cracow, on the main line to Lem berg. There are big salt mines in the neighborhood. o o Maurice Freary, 3 months, 6107 S. Sangamon St.. fmirl 'led he'1 -der pillow. Suffocated during night.