The Bessemer indicator., 1894-06-16
THE WAR Is OVER.
CRIPPLE CREEK At PEACE.
The Minsrs Surrender Buii Hill to the Nj
litiA aad the Dep Aslss Withdraw.-
Militia VIII Guard Glnss
Rnd MAka AFrSStA

agreement for themselves alone bu
will try to induce the others to accept
it. There seems to be little doub
that the provisions Of the compromis.
will be endorsed by the mine owners
bu; as condition precedent to thi,
they demand that their properties be
restored to them and that they be al
lowed to work them in their own way.
Some of them were rather indiguau,
to-day when the story got abroad that
they had settled the matter withou,
first having had their mines restored
to them by due process Of law. lrv
ing Howbert and others said: "At frs,
the insurrectiou must be suppressed
ond the law breakers arrested and then
compromise can be discussed.
In fact there was considerable talk
of this kind at Colorado Springs dur
ing the day. Sheriff Bowers continued
to swear in deputies and took $50 up
to Divide in the afternoon 1t was
understood tina Sheriff Bowers iuten-
tion was to retain his big force of dep
uties until the mines were in the pos
session of their owners and until he
had served warrants upon large num-
ber of the leading miners. The num-
Der of arrests was put as high as 200.
When the news of the compromise
was received at Cripple Creek there
was great satisfaction, and it was ap-
parent at first that it would be ratified
The warlike conditions were relaxed
and pickets drawn in. A meeting Of
the miners was arranged for 7:30 in
the evening. But in the afternoon
reports were spread that many of the
mine owners would not endorse the
agreement. The miners also began to
be apprchensive of wholesale arrests,
which would permit the employment
of great numbers Of nou-union men,
and later quiet boycott of union
men.
1t was also reported that deputies
were moving from Divide toward the
camp. These reports and rumors
caused distrust to take the place of
joy The pickets were again posted
and the meeting declared off tempora
rily.
A special dispatch to the Denver
Netcs early wednesday morning was
in substance as follows:
At 10 o'clock Monday night all the
newspaper correspondents at Divide
were invited to the headquarters of the
deputies and then kept locked up for
several hours to prevent news getting
out. Then the ] 200 deputies we're or
dered to advance. At 1890 midnight
the deputies were ready to leave for
Midland. Fifteen box cars had been
pressed into service, and all the men
and ammunition loaded into them. At
2 o'clock this morning Camp Divide
was deserted At o'clock firing was
heard in the direction of Midland. At
dawn the scouts and artillcrymen will
be in possession of Beaver Park. After
hat a committee composed of United
States Marshal Brown and Detective
Loomis will go to Bull Hill and de-
mand that certain strikers be turned
over Neither Bowers or Neatch was
at the camp and it was not known who
was in command.
The reported departure Of deputies
from Divide was found to be correct.
At noon they had reached Gillette
where they encamped at distance Of
four miles from Bull Hill. They had
pitched their tents in regular camp
fashion and run up the American flag.
This ad vance angered the miners and
Governor Waite The latter declared
that Bowers and his force had violated
an armistice. A dispatch was received
by the governor at p. m. Wednesday,
saying that his force would not ad-
vance farther until the militia reached
it and then the deputies would folio W
the troops.
1t was stated that early Thursday
morning Deputy United States Mar
shal Brown and Deputy Sheriff Warren
would go up Bull Hill under flag of
truce and ask 200 miners for whom
they held warrants to surrender.
1t was reported that most of the
men for whom warrants are out have
left the district and that not more
| thar n jo,on suspo,t. would l,o nm tb a
hill Thursday. The end Of the strike,
as far as convictions are concerned,
may be the same as that in the Ceur
d Alene mining district.
1t appeared later that the advance
Of the deputies was due to the lack Of
u military head. Who it was gave the
instructions to open fire could not be
learned, but about 200 shots were eI-
changed between the advance guard OF
the deputies and the retreating pickets
of the miners.
The deputies appeared to be anxious
for fight. 1t is thought that real
hostilities might have commenced if q
courier from Sheriff Bowers had no,
reached camp with orders to wait for
the militia.
The troops from Denver, Boulder
and Colorado Springs, after long wait
at the latter point, were finally trans
ferred to the Midland trains as there
was no prospect Of getting to Cripple
Creek by way Of Florence. They left
the Springs at 6p. m. and were ex-
pected to be with the deputies early
Thursday morning. The companies