Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-06-14
rHE MINERS STRIKE.
, arp1kD OF THE sEINBRs WILL
" NOT BE COMPROMISED.


u. CouferenceN Bstween Illinois
' nn.rators and A. Miners Comes to
yaurht and thfstruEgle Will BE
Continued Indefinitely.
n,nville, ILL.,, June MATTERS are get
49, desnerate with the striking miners
u; .'t eha Danville field. Many of the fami-
,as are starving. Relief committees can
Ies the farmers for fifteen miles for
''a an to eat. st. Elizabeth hospital
~ this city is out of coal ard its patients
oro suffering for want of food and
~ormth. The miners refuse to allow the
s;sters coal. They propose to stop all
trains carrying coal and are stopping
frs;cht trains and examining the box cars
IN spe if they contain coal.
stotdale, Pa, June 1.-The situation
in the coke region is quiet and peat cable.
The strike leaders say the governors
reclamation was not intended to sup
nress meetings and marchings any more
than it was to do away with the deputies
and their Winchesters. Meetings of the
strikers will continue as usual. Two car
loads of negroes were imported last night
for the Prick Standard plant, and forty
two Austrians have been run into the
Meyer works of the Rainey company.
Birmingham, Ala, June 1.-The COM
mittee appointed by the citizens mass
meeting to confer with the operators and
miners committee, with view of adjust
ing the strike, if possible, met the opera
tors. After prolonged conference moth
Ing was accomplished, the operators de-
clining to recede from their original prop
osition of 20 per cent reduction. The
operators believe they have about won
the fight, but the strikers are firm yet.
Cripple Greek, Col, June 1.-The war
clouds that hover over Bull Hill and
Bottle Mountain look very threatening.
A rumor has reached the camp that the
deputies are preparing to advance toward
Bull Hill, and the miners are preparing
to give them a warm reception. There is
no truth in the rumor that the miners
have lot of deputies prisoners. The
strikers are making prisoners of men
whom they consider dangerous to their
safety, and it. is stated that fifty persons
are thus held in custody.
Oskaloosa, Iowa, June 1.-The presence
of the military companies at Evans yes
terday seemed to dishearten the strikers
for time, but they rallied from their
surprise and marched to this city in q
body, where q great mass meeting was
held in the public square. The speakers
disclained any intention to do violence,
and scored the calling out of the troops.
1t was asserted that it was not strike,
but merely suspension of labor, and
that they proposed to stand firm until
the demands were satisfied in other
fields.
Keokuk, Iowa, June IA delegation
of strikers marched from Centerville to
Deania and forced the miners in pri-
vate mine operated for the keokuk &
Western railroad to stop work. The rail-
road is hard pressed for fuel and has
taken off local freight trains two days
each week.
Charleston, w. Va, June ga tele-
grs m from Montgomery states that as
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the mines last night several shots were
fred at them from the surrounding tim
Der, resulting in four men being killed.
None of the men who did the shooting
were discovered. The proprietor of tie
Powellton mines telegraphed tn. fact of
the shooting to the governor, stating that
he had asked the sheriff for protection,
and asked if nothing could be done to
protest his men.
Cripple Creek, Colo, June 5. - The
strikers have spent the day in perfecting
their differences. Their forces were in
creased to-day by 300 men who came
from the district of Pueblo. Women
and children have been stree ming toward
this place from Victor and Altman. The
miners have loaded beer kegs with dyna-
mite, scrap iron, railroad iron, and have
placed them on the crests of Globe Hill
and Battle mountain.
Denver, June 5.-Gov. Waite has re-
quested Assistant States Attorney Soils
and Solicitor Stephen A. Prett to give
him an opinion of the Cripple Greek
situation and his duty as governor. They
have replied in effect that the governor
should grant Sheriff Bowers demand for
troops to aid him in disarming the strik-
ers. What action the governor will take
has not been announced. 1t is under
stood Gov. Waite has been given power
by the strikers to agree upon terms OF
arbitration.
Springfield, ILL.,, June 5.-Gov. Altgeld
to-day received the following telegram
from the sheriff of Williamson county,
at Marion, Ill.,:
II am powerless in the hands Of LOCO
men and women, armed with dynamite
and guns. I am compelled to withdraw
my forces at Carterville."
The governor has replied, asking how
many deputies the sheriff had and what
acts of violence. if any, had occurred req
warded
Newton, Iowa, June 5.-Two hundred
striking miners from the Oswald mines
marched to-day to the only two mines
in which the men remained at work and
ordered the men to quit work after to-
day. The men will not go to work IN
the morning. The strikers will march to
Otley tomorrow and endeavor to drive