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Huddled under twin mountain peaks that the Indians called Wah-Hah-Toyas (Breasts of the World), the Colorado town of Walsenburg is a battered relic of the Old West, scarred by deserted downtown stores, unpainted houses, potholed streets. Once a thriving coal town, Walsenburg sank into slow decline when its customers started switching to oil and gas in the 1920s. The population gradually shrank by one-third, to 5,500, and the town's prime source of income became federal and state welfare handouts. Then, last year, the exasperated women of Walsenburg rebelled...
...Overhead ' is a familiar technical term in newspaper work. It describes a report flashed to a newspaper directly by commercial telegraph instead of through the regular channels of a wire service. For instance: on Decoration Day in the town of Walsenburg, Colo., 50 mi. south of Pueblo, Editor John B. Kirkpatrick of the World & Independent wired Associated Press in Denver that he wanted coverage of the Indianapolis automobile races. Presently AP wired its reply: WILL OVERHEAD WINNER OF INDIANAPOLIS RACES. Editor Kirkpatrick jumped with excitement. An hour later the World & Independent's 1,750 readers puzzled over...
...fomenters of the strike in Colorado, sued State police officers and Mayor John J. Pritchard of Walsenburg, Colo., for raiding the I. W. W. hall and State headquarters in Walsenburg. Damages of $100,500 were asked-$100,000 "exemplary," $500 actual damage. While this litigation pended, unlikely to succeed, a Walsenburg court fined Emil Rozansky. a Wobbly leader, $400 for disorderly conduct, fighting, disturbing the peace, resisting arrest...
...Walsenburg is Colorado's "Wobbly" (I. W. W.) capital. The Industrial Commission, from the "Wobbly" point of view, was certain to whitewash the mine operators for refusing to honor "Wobbly" demands or to admit "Wobblies" to a pay-raise lately given to company-union men. A horrid scene ensued...
...hall in Walsenburg is at the foot of Main Street. There they gathered, there they got excited, there they talked bigger than their strength. They started marching up Main Street. The State Police fell in beside. At Seventh and Main, the policemen diverted the march from passing the court house, where sat the Commission. Out of the "Wobbly" ranks stepped a ragged man and shot a trooper in the groin...