People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-06-01
GOVERNOR WAITE WITH THE
STRIKERS.
THE ATTORNEY GENERALS OPINION.
Holds That the Mer Enrolled in Denver
TO Guard Cripple Creek Mines Are
MOb-Sensational Report About
Eleven Miners Being Blown
Up Denied-TrOOps Out
at Various Places.

DENVER, Col, May Ex-Governor
Waite who does not hesitate to de-
clare that his sympathies are with
the striking miners at Cripple Creek,
asked Attorney General Engley for
an opinion as to the right of sheriff
to obtain an armed force from another
county than that in which he is an
officer.
The attorney general returned a
written opinion as follows:
That the organization Of an armed force Of
men IN Arapahoe county TO march 10 or enter
FL PasO county fer the purpose ALLEGED, is
conspiracy 10 do or aid TO do an unlawful act
and all persons members of sHch armed force
or cooperating 10 OrganiZe or 10 send or trans
port the same INTO one county from another,
are guilty OF conspiracy to do an unlawful
act and the depu1iZing Of such men 10 act as
deputy sheriffs by the sheriff of E. PasO coun-
~ is violation Of Law.
In case FL PasO uses the armed force as
Ceputy sherifs or as posse cOmitatuS and a
riot or insurrectiOn is precipitated by reason
thereof, and said armed force acts indie.
pendently Of said sheriff, and a riot or insur-
rectio1 ensues by reason Of an armed conflict
with others, the chief executive OF the state
should preserve the peace of the common
wealth, even if it should become necessary 10
call out the entire military force Of the state.
If the peace cannot be preserved otherwise,
martial law should be declared in the particu-
lar district and all violators Of public order,
including the said armed forces should be
Summarlly dealt with, that the dignitytCf the
state may be maintained inTiOate
All commandments of military pests
throughout the state have been noti-
fed to hold themselves in readiness
for an active service call.
WAITE TO ISSUE A PROCLAMATION.
Governor Waite said: Tits my duty
to stop this row. l shall probably
issue a proclamation calling on all
armed citizens to resume their daily
avocations, and upon all lawless
bodies to disperse. 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 take eognizance of the warning
just as must any and all other bodies"
At the sheriff's Office in this county
the governors proclamation is re-
garded with more dread than the pos
sibility of conflict with the miners.
Sheriff Bowers will not disperse his
men, if he is the man l think he is"
said Sheriff Burchinell, "at least
would not do it. The governor may
entertain an anarchistic view of the
laws of Colorado, but as a sheriff, |
believe l can deputize men regardless
of where they come from or belong"
1t has been learned that large
quantities of arms and ammunition
have been shipped from Denver to the
Cripple Creek strikers during the past
week. Two consignments consisted
each of 500 guns and $4,000 rounds of
ball cartridges.
The Cripple Creek mine owners,
who have determined to reopen their
mines under the protection of armed
guards, are engaging men in this city
and elsewhere to work at the rate of
So per day of nine hours. About
thirty commonwealers hired in this
city left for Florence on the morning
train under charge of ex-Adiutant
General Kennedy. It is said that
several hundred quarrymen and coal
miners have been engaged at Pueblo,
Colorado Springs and other places
who will be shipped to the mines to-
day.