The record-union., 1894-05-29
Special to the REcoRD-UNrox.

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and some other gentlemen interested in
peaceful solution Of the difficulties be-
tween the Cripple Creek Miners Union
and mine owners had a meeting yester-
day. The miners agreed to hold meet
! ing TO determine whether or not they
would appoint d committee to meet the
mine owners TO arbitrate the differences.
The following conversation took place
over the telephone and was reported by
stenographer on the spot:
Mr.. Hagerman-Row many of your
men will be there?
AnsWer-Two.
Hagernan-Have you full power to
act?
Answer-That will depend on certain
things that must be settled before the
Hagerman-Wh is done, will it
have to be submitted to the union tor
confirmation?
! AnSWer-Y es.
Hagerrnan-What are your principal
conditions?
! Answer-The first condition is that all
union men must be first employed.
! Hagerman-Must all the men EMPLOYED
! be union men?
Answer-Yes. if there are enough to go
| around.
Hagerman-That viii practically mean
that no non-union men shall be en-
ployed?
| Answer = The men employed must
agree to join the union within one month
after going to work.
Hagerman-1f we must agree in adj
| vance to accept the proposition, what is
the use OF having conference?
| AnSwer-These are the conditions we
insist upon.
| Hagerman-We will never consent to
any arrangement which deprives an
American citizen from earning his living
without joining a union.
| AnsWer-There is no use talking. These
are our conditions, and it is these or moth
| ing.
Eben Smith and Percy Hagerman
were present and heard the conversation
and the other side as repeated at the time
by Hagerman.
If trouble breaks out again, and it
is impossible TO see how it can be avoided,
the results bid fair to be more terrible
than those already witnessed. The armi-
stice declared yesterday was made use of
! by the Sheriff to increase his forces
! Nearly 400 men Rave been recruited n
! Denver, and only await the slightest out
! break to go forward and be sworn il as
deputies. The strikers seem to have
taken courage at the action OF Governor
Waite.
PREPARATIONS FOR WARFARE.
CRIPPLE CREEK Coli, May 2S.-De-
| spite the efforts at arbitration the strikers
i have not abated their preparations for
warfare, defensive or aggressive.
Three new 1orts have sprung up on
| Bull Hill. The four forts are said to be
occupied by 1000 men. They are amply
provisioned and prepared for a siege in
| every way. except that they have not
large supply of water.
| \ troop of cavalry has been organized.
and thirty hDrsemen are constantly scout
ing.
Three hundred deputies are camped at
/ Divide, where the Midland Terminal
Railroad begins, and are likely to be kept
there pending the efforts to secure arbi-
| tration.
Should they attempt to proceed to the
mines q desperate battle will surely re-
suit.
Governor Waite's decision not to send
troops to Cripple Creek in the absence of
a request from the Sheriff, was reached at
the midnight conference of lawyers, who
! reached the conclusion that with the first
shot fired at deputy by the militiamen
civil war would have been instituted,
! and the Governor, not having declared
martial law, would have been In re-
| bellion.
The Governor says that if fighting be-
! gins he will send tpe troops. He says the
mine-owners should 90 to the courts for
redress if the miners are preventing the
opening of the mines. He favors arbitra-
| ton.
The deputies have moved up to Mid
! land, the present terminus Of the Mid
land, where they have gone into camp.
The union has appointed a committee
to go to Colorado Springs TO confer with
the mine owners in regard to arbitra-
ton.
Mrs. Mays lodginghouse, where sew
eral OF the mine owners made their head
! quarters, was searched last night by the
strikers and every weapon carried away.
The coach from Midland was stopped at
| the top of the big hill above town to- day.
On board were the union miners who
| were captured by the deputies in the
fight Friday night.
Word was quickly carried to the fort
on Bull Hill. and Superintendent Nc
Donald and the other two prisoners were
released.
Five miners, members of the union,
but who would not leave work in the Abe
Lincoln mine and join in the warfare,
were driven off Bull Hill to-day.
The Victor Miners Union has ap-
pointed President John Caldewood aud
Sheppard Maryson as its Arbitration
| Committee. They will meet the mine
owners committee at Altman.
MINES LOADED WITH DYNAMITE.
DENVER, May Is. = Information has
been received from Cripple Creek that
even had the strikers been driven from
the camp, the men who took their places
| in the mines would be in imminent peril.
Every mine in the camp over which there
has been trouble is .'loaded.' Large
| quantities ofdynamite have been stored in
the shafts back of the tImberiBg by the
strikers, and hidden wires attached to
these charges in such manner that they
could be exploded and every person in
the mines instantly killed, while the men
who start the battery remain out of sight.
SHOT BY A HUNGARIAN.
ScoTTDALE tPa.1, May 2S.-Th-ee Hun
garian strikers succeeded in getting
through the lines of deputies at the
Meyer Coke Works at IL O'Clock last
night and George b. Keffer, the chief
Waterman, attempted to arrest them.
One or them shot keffer III the breast,
inflicting probably fatal wound. The
Hungarians fled and as they ran Keffer
raised himself from the ground and fired
six shots. Blood later found along the
road indicated that some of the shot took
effect.
! The body. of an unknown man, .sup-