The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-29
THE GREAT MINING STRIKE
Colorado on the Verge of
Anarchy.
Cripple Greek Still a Scene Of
Conflict.
Both Sides Sparring for Positions Of
Vantage.
An Arbitration Proposed Which VIII
Probably Amount to Nothing.
Ths Situation in Other
Localities.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated PresA
CRIPPLE CREEK, May 2S.-If trouble
breaks out, and it is impossible to see
how it can be avoided, the results bid
fair to be far more terrible than those
already witnessed The srmistice de-
clared yesterday was made use of by the
sheriff to increase his forces. Nearly
1000 men have been recruited in Denver,
and only await the slightest outbreak to
be forwarded to Cripple Creek and be
sworn in as deputies.
The strikers seem to have taken cour-
age from the action of Governor Waite
and affect to believe that the militia
would tend to aid them in carrying out
their purpose. Be this as it may, the
entire district Is terrorized and the
strikers, being encouraged by the tenn
porary withdrawal OF the deputies. are
becoming bolder and belligerent. There
is no danger OF q non partisan being
fred upon without first being warned,
but an order to stop means that he
must stoo Just where his feet are resting.
1t ia but step from this attitude to
one of most reckless bearing, and peo-
Pile living in the camp fear the OUT
come.
All day strikers have been searching
for arms and ammunition in mining
camps, and wherever arms, ammunition
or provisions were found they we're con-
fiscated and receipts given for them. No
one about the camps except strikers is
permitted to carry arms, and the
strikers, who reign supreme, have
issued the order that every able
bodied men found in camp when the
real contest comes will be forced to carry
arms iu their ranks. The result is that
many people are moving away from the
camps to the cities of Cripple Greek and
elsewhere. Town and county officials
are utterly unable to do anything in the
face of such an overwhelming force OF
men.
Parties OF men who are in sympathy
with the mine owners have gone
TO Midland, where they will NEE!
the deputies and conduct them
through the best routes to the
strongest points about the scene of
trouble A large party of strikers have
also gone toward Midland to meet the
deputies and retard their progress "a
much az possible. The country about
Bull hill, the strikers stronghold, eight
miles square, is held and patrolled by
strikers.
THE MINES LOADED.
DENVER, May 28.-Information has
been received from Cripple Greek that
even had the strikers been driven from
the camp, the men who took their places
in the mines would be in imminent
- in tha
which there has been trouble ia
''loaded."
Large quantities of dynamite have
been stored in the shafts back of the
timbering by the strikers, and hidden
wires attached to these charges in such
a manner that they could be exploded
and every person in the mines instantly
killed, while the men who start the bat-
terry remain out of sight.
ARBITRATION PROPOSED.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, May 28.-
The following was handed out for pubh-
cation today by the miners:
President Slocum of Colorado Col
lege and some other gentlemen inter-
ested in q peaceful solution of the diff
culties between the Cripple Creek
Miners union and mine owners, had
meeting in Cripple Greek yes
terday. The miners agreed to hold q
meeting and determine whether or not
they would appoint com mmittee to
meet with a committee of mine owners
to arbitrate the differences. After the
meeting was held, Calderwood, presi.
dent of the Miners union, called ]. j.
Haggerman up on the tslaph one at 8 10
p. m. May 27. and informed him
that the Miners union had
| APPOINTED committee to
| confer with the mine owners and want
ed to know when and where confer
ence could be had. He was asked
| where he preferred to have it, and he
| said in Cripple Greek. Mr.. Haggerman
replied that ne preferred the divide, to
which Calderwood consented. Wanting
| to know at what hour it could be held.
Mr.. Hsggerman replied:
81 think we can go up tomorrow
morning and be there about 10 o'clock"
The following conversation then took
place over the telephone, and was re-
ported by stenographer on the spot:
Mr.. Hsggerman-How many of your
men will be there?
Answer-Fwo.
Haggsrman-Have you full power to
act?
That will depend on certain things
that must be settled before the confer
ence.
Mr. Haggerman- Would whatever is
done have to be submitted to the union
! for confirmation?
Answer-Yes.
Mr.. Haggerman-W What are your prin-
cipai conditions?
Answer-rhe fret condition is that all
union men must be first employed.
Mr.. Haggerman-Must all the men
employed be union men?
Answer Yes, if there is enough to go
! around.
| Mr.. Haggerman- That practically
means that no non-union man should
De employed?
Answer-rhe men that are employed
must agree to join the uaon within one
mouth after they commence trk.
| Mr.. Haggerman Il we must agree ia