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THE OLDEST ANARCHISM 305
were commanded to resign from office; hundreds of unoffending
citizens were arrested and thrown into "bull
pens" the whole working force of a newspaper was
;
apprehended and taken to the "bull pen";
all the news
that went out concerning the strike was censored, the
manager of one of the mines acting as official censor.
At the same time this man, together with other mine
managers and friends, organized mobs to terrorize union
miners and to force out of town anyone whom they
thought to be in sympathy with the strikers.
In the effort to determine whether the courts or the
military powers were supreme, a writ of habeas corpus
was obtained for four men who had been sent by the
military authorities to the "bull pen." The court sent
an order to produce the men. Ninety cavalrymen were
then sent to the court house. They surrounded it, permitting
no person to pass through the lines unless he was
an officer of the court, a member of the bar, a county
official, or a press representative. A company of infantrymen
then escorted the four prisoners to the court,
while fourteen soldiers with loaded guns and fixed bayonets
guarded the prisoners until the court was called to
order. When the court was adjourned, after an argument
upon the motion to quash the return of the writ,
the soldiers took the prisoners back to the "bull pen."
The next day Judge Seeds was forced to adjourn the
court, because the prisoners were not present. An officer
of the militia was ordered to have them in court at two
o'clock in the afternoon, but, as they did not appear at
that time, a continuance was granted until the following
day. On September 23 a large number of soldiers, cavalry
and infantry, surrounded the court house. A Gatling
gun was placed in position nearby, and a detail of sharpshooters
was stationed where thev could command the