The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-29
READY FOR TROUBLE.
Arbitration Was Declined by
Cripple Creek Miners,
And a Clash May Come at
Any Time
THEY TOOK COURAGE.
Strikers Given Confidence by
Gov. Waite's Sympathy.

CRIPPLE CREEK, Col, May 29.-If
trou BILE 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 from 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 holder 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 confiscated and re-
ceipts given for them. No one about
the camp, except strikers, are per-
mitted to crrry arms, and the strikers,
who reign supreme, have issued the
order that every able bodied 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
1y 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
yI1Ear-e %Iar- h0
deputies and conduct them through
the best routes to the strongest points
about the scene of trou BILE. A large
party of strikers has also gone toward
Midland to meet the deputies and re-
tard their progress as much as posi-
BILE. The country about Bull hill, the
strikers stronghold, for eight miles
square, is held and patrolled 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
ficulties between the Cripple Creek
miners union and mine owners, had a
meeting in Cripple Creek yesterday.
The miners agreed to hold a meet
ing and determine whether or not
they would appoint a committee to
meet a committee of mine owners to
Dno ulHcr00cOS. A1UST GHO
meeting was held, Calderwood, presi-
deut of the miners union, called j. j.
Hagerman up on the telephone at
$3.50 p. m, May 27, and informed him
that the miners union had appointed
committee to confer with the mine
owners, and wanted to know when
and where conference could be held.
He was asked where he preferred to
have it and he said in Cripple Creek.
Mr.. Hagerman replied that he pre-
ferred Divide, to which Calderwood
consented.
In a converse ton which then took
place over the telephone between Mr..
Hagerman and President CalderwOOd,
the latter insisted that none but union
men should be employed, to which
Mr.. Hagerman replied:
1--WE will never consent to any ar
rangement which deprives an Ameri-
can citizen from earning his living
without joining the union"
President Calderwood then
swered: There is no use talking;
these are our conditions and it is that
or nothing"
And SO the conference ended