The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-05-30
ARBITRATION IS DECLINED.
REIGN OF TERROR IN CRIPPLE
CREEK DISTRICT.
ANOTHER OUTBREAK IS IMMINENT.
The Armistice Declared Sunday Made
Use OF by the sherins to Increase
Their Torces-The Coming Clash
Promises to IIe Far More
Terrible Than Those
Already Witnessed.

CRIPPLE CREEK, Col, May 9o.-Ii
trouble breaks out again, and it is inn
possible to see how it can be avoided,
the results bid fair TO be far more ter.
rible than those already witnessed.
The armistice declared Sunday was
made use of by the sheriffs to in
crease their forces. Nearly 400 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
courage froE the action of Governor
Waite and affect to believe that the
militia would aid them in carrying
out their purposes. BE this as it may.
the entire district is terrorized, and
the strikers. being encouraged by the
temporary withdrawal of the depu-
ties, are becoming bolder and more
imperative and intolerant
All day strikers have been search
ing for the arms and ammunition in
the mining camps, and wherever
arms, ammunition or provisions were
found they were coniiscateI and re-
ceipts given for them. No one about
thr camp, except strikers, are per
mitted to crrry arms. and the strikers,
who reign supreme, have issued the
order that every able boiled man
found in camp when the real contest
comes Will be forced to carry arms in
their ranks The result is that many
people are moving away from the
camps to the city of Cripple Creek and
elsewhere.
Town and county officials are utter
ly unable to do anything in the face
of such an overwhelming number of
desperate men.
Parties of men who are in sympathy
with the mine owners have gone to
Midland, where they will meet the
deputies and conduct them through
the best routes to the stron ;est points
about the scene of trouble. 4 largs
party of str,k rs has also gons toward
Midland to meet the deputie an / re-
tard their progress as muQa as pDSsi-
Bile. The country about Bull HILL the
strikers stronghold, for eight miles
square, is held and patrolleI by the
strikers.
The following was handed out for
publication yesterday By mine own
ers:
President Slocum of Colorado col
lege and some other gentlemen inter.
ested in a peaceful solution of the diff
ticulties between the Cripple Creek
miners union AMI mine owners. had u
meeting in Cripple Creek yesterday.
The miners agreed to hold meet
Ing and determine whether or not
they would appoint committee to
meet committee of mine owners to
nrbitrate the differences. After the
meet ny was held, Callcrwood prcsi-
deut of the miners union, cllled j. j.
Ilagerman up on the telephone at
$3.50 p. IN May %, and informed him
that the miners union had appointed
q committee to confer witt the mine
owners and wanted to know when
and where a conference could be held.
lie was asked where he preferred to
have it and he said in Cripple Creek.
Mr.. lIagerman replied that he pre-
ferred Divide, to which Calderwood
consented.
In conversation which then took
place over the telephone between Mr..
lIagerman and President Calderwood,
the latter insisted that none but union
men should be employed, u which
Mr., lIagerman replied:
nWe will never consent TO any ar
rangement which deprives an Ameri-
can citizen from earning his living
without joining the union"
President Calderwood then an
swered: There is no use talking;
these are our conditions and it is that
or nothing"
And SO the conference ended.