The evening world., 1894-05-26
The Governor Says the Mon Col
leoted by the Sheriff
Are Rioters.
GUARDS DlSARMED BY WOMEN.
Strikers Say No Men We're Killed
by the Strong Shaft
Explosion.
(By Associated Press.)

DENVER, COL, May 26.-Gov. Waite
does not hesitate to declare his sympa-
thies are with the striking miners at
Cripple Creek He asked Attorney-Gen-
eral Englely for an opinion al to the
right of a Sheriff to obtain an armed
force from another county h that in
which hi is an officer. The Attorney
General has returned a written opinion,
that the organization Of an armed force
OF men H. Arapahoe County to march to
or enter FL Paso County for the purpose
alleged is conspiracy to do or aid in an
upla awful act, n all persons members
of such armed force, or cooperating to
6fssnfse or to 9 or to transport same
into one county from another, are guilty
of a conspiracy to do an unlawful act,
and the deputizing Of u C men to act as
deputy sheriffs by the Sheriff Of Ell Paso
County is a violation Of law"
The Acknowledgement adds: I'm case
Ell Paso uses the armed force as deputy
sheriffs, or as a posse comitatus. and a
riot or insurrection is precipitated by
reason thereof, and said armed force
acts independently of said Sheriff, and
a riot or insurrection ensues by reason
of an armed conflict with others. the
Chief Executive of the State should pre-
serve the peace of the Commonwealth.
ever II 1t should become necessary to
call out the entire military force Of
the State.
"If the peace cannot be preserved
otherwise, martial law should be de-
clared in the particular ditrict, and
all vlolators of public order, including
the saiu armed force. should be sum-
martly dealt with. that the dignity OF
the State may be maintained inviolate."
All commandments Of military posts
throughout the State have been notified
to hold themselves in readiness for an
active service call.
Gov. Waite said to-day: 1T Is my
duty to stop this row. / shall probably
to-day issue a proclamation calling on
all armed citizens to resume their daily
avocations and upon all lawless bodies
to dispense. Those men from Denver
who are under arms at Cripple Creek
are, to my mind, rioters and an illegal
body. In directing all illegal bodies to
disperse, those deputies must tage cog
nizance of the warning, just as must
any and all others
At the Sterin's office In this county
the Governors proclamation is regarded
with more dread than the possibility OF
a conflict with the miners.
..Sheriff Bowers will not dispense his
men, II he Is the man think he is,' be-
gan Sheriff Burchinell. AT least. ]
would not do It. The Governor may en-
terrain Anarchistic views of the laws OF
Colorado, but as a Sheriff I believe ]
can deputize men regardless OF where
they come from or where they belong"
II has been learned that large quanti'
ties OF arms and ammunition have beer
shipped from Denver to the Cripple
Creek strikers during the past week
Two ~consignments consisted each OF SW
guns and $4,000 rounds Of bali cartridges
The Cripple Creek mine-owners, VINO
have determined to re-open their mines
under the protection of rme guards,
are engaging men in this city and else
where to work at the rate OF IS a day oil
nine hours. About thirty Commonweal'
ers, hired in this city. left for Florence
on the morning train, under charge oi
ex-Adjt. Gen. Kennedy.
II is said several hundred quarrymer
and miners have been engaged In Puen'
10. Colorado Springs n other places
who will be shipped to the mines to-
day.
CRIPPLE CREEK. May 26.-Th'
strikers, who are ready to battle will
the armed deputies II any attempt Ii
made to reopen the mines with non
union men, give the credit of disarmint
eleven miners and seven deputies 4
feat accomplished yesterday, to two wo
men. who are receiving all the homo
due to heroes.
The bunk at the Independence Min
has been occupied by non-union miner
for over a week. The Sheriff sent guard
10 protect them. n there rhey re
NAMED In the very heart of the strik'
district. All efforts to force an evacua
ton had been Intellectual.
According to the story told by tn
strikers. the women sought admission Il