The Meeker herald., 1894-06-16

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1t was also reported that the deputies were
moving from Divide towards the camp. These
reports and rumors caused dlstrust to take
the place of JOY. The picke,s were again
posted and the meeting declared of tempo
rarily.
A special dispatch to the Denver Ne.es early
Wednesday morning WAS In substance as ioI-
lows:
At 10 O'Clock Tuesday night all the news
paper correspondents at Divide were invited
TO the headquarters Of the deputies and then
kept locked up for severa! hours TO prevent
news getting out. Then the 200 deputies
were ordered to advance. AT II 80 midnight
the deputies we're ready to leave for Midland
| Fifteen box cars had been pressed into ser
vice and all the men and ammunition loaded
| into them. At2 o'clock this morning camp
Divide was deserted. at 6 O'Clock firing was
heard In the direction Of Midland. AT dawn
the scouts and artillerymen will be in pos
session of Beaver Park. After that com
mittee composed OF United States Marshal
Brown aud Detective Loomls will go 10 Bull
Hin and demand that certain strikers be
turned over Neither Bowers or Veatch was
at the camp and 1t was not known who was In
/ command.
The reported departure of the deputies
| from Divide was found to be correct. AT
noon they had reached Gillette where they
| encamped at a distance of four miles from
Bull Hill. They had pitched their tents In
regular camp fashion and run up the Ameri-
can flag.
This advance angered the miners and Gov
ernor " aite The latter declared that Bow
er, and his force had violated an armlstice.
A Dispatch was received by the governor at
p. m Wednesday, saying that Bowers force
would not advance farther until the militia
reached It, and then the deputies would fol-
low the troops.
1t was stated that early Thursday morning
Deputy United States Marshal Brown and
Deputy Sheriff Warren would go up Bull Hill
under a flag of truce and ask 200 miners for
whom they held warrants TO surrender II
was reported that must Of the men for whom
warrants are out have left the district and
thit not more than a dozen suspects would
be on the hill Thursday. The end of the
strike, as far as convictions are concerned,
may be the same as that In the Occur d'Alene
mining district.
| II appeared later that the advance of the
deputies was due to the lack OF n military
head. Who It who gave Instructions to
open fire could not be learned, but about 200
shots were exchanged between the advance
| guard Of the deputies and retreatlns pckets
Of the guard
l The deputies appeared to be anxious for a
/ fight. It is thought that real host.litles
might have commenced II a courier from
Sheriff Bowers had not reached camp with
! orders to wait for the militia.
1 The troops from Denyer Boulder and Colo
rado Springs, after long wait at the latter
point, were finally transferred to the Midland
trains as there was no prospect of getting to
Cripple Creel, by way of Florence. They left
the Springs at g p. IN. and were expected to
be with the deputies early Thursday morning.
| The companies from western points were also
nearing the scene of war. The Lake City
company promised that they would not fight
! the strikers.
] Governor Waite sent to General Brooks the
following order: when you arrive, the
miners must be protected from the deputies.
Allow Sheriff Bowers to pass through your
/ lines as an individual, but not with armed
deputies.n
/ In explanation he said: "The militia has
gone there to restore the peace. If the sher-
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time, with armed deputies, he will pEecipitate
trouble. Iwill never allow that and that is
why | sent that dispatch TO General Brooks ~
The miners had telegraphed the governor
that they would surrender TO the militia bu,
not to the deputies.
Some of the horses in the deputies camp
got away during Wednesday night and the
scouts under Captain Bramlett went after
them about Q o'clock the next morning.
| When near to the eud OF Grassy valley, in
the midst of which the camp is pitched, the
pickets of the miners, camped on the ridge OF
the foothills below Bull Mountain, opened
fire on the moLAted scouts. They were about
700 yards apart. A lively sklrmlsh ensued
but the only casually was the shooting of OF
a miners thumb. The deputies were getting
closer 10 the miners aud they state that they
would have d!slodged them from their shelter
but Commander Neatch ordered a retreat on
the partof the deputies. About 100 shot.
were exchanged. One shot was fred frou
the cannon. The rank and tile of the depu
ties were extremely eager for fight and II
was all that their leaders could do TO restrain
them during the day. The miners seemed
equally ready for brush
1t was about three o'clock in the afternoon
when the first detachment OF the state troop
left the Midland stage road and marched
over the soddon prairie by Gllett and through
the camp of the deputies The troops pitched
their tents on Beaver park, between the two
belllgcrent camps. with guns unlimbered and
rifles ready TO open fire on either deputies oil
miners II one attempted n hostile move
against the other. The guards were grateful
in military way that their hard journey wa
over.
The leaders of the deputies, by request oi
General Brooks, called in such of their scout:
as faced the miners pickcts and they wer'
replaced by guardsmen. This was done tc
prevent any desultory shooting during the
night.
Just what was to be done Friday was no
known. 1t is probable that Brooks ant
Tarsney will call on the miners to surrender
Bull Hill in the morning.
Sheriff Bowers stated that he would 60 4
Bull Hill In the morning to serve thirty ode
warrants he has for the arrest Of the miner