Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-01
TROUBLE In VIEW.
The Situation in LeadviIle Stiu
Regarded as Critical.
Strikers Determined as Fer Citizens
Joining Militia Companies - Wise
Counsel Necessary TO Prevent
Further BIoOdshed.

AeadFlile, COL, sept. 26.-Ihere is
danger ahead in the situation unless
cool counsel prevails. Mine managers
and citizens in general are determined
TO wipe OFT the Tough element.
The strikers realize now that thew
are outlaws and have yetreated from
the city and banded together to fight to
the bitter end.
innocent sufferers from the strike are
likely to become desperate also, since
they realize their jobs re likely to go
to outside men.
Nearly every business man in the city
has Joined one of three militia COM
panies organized Thursday night.
Guns and arms for 300 men arrived
Friday. The governor has so arranged
things that after militia leave, in event
OF a riot recurring, martial law can
Immediately be declared and home
troops will take care of the situation.
The mines will open up Immediately
with imported labor. So far the strik-
ers have no thought of surrender.
Nonunion Men Arrive.
The $50 miners from Joplin. Mo-, ar
rived safely in Leadyille at five o'clock
p. M. Friday and were escorted by
squads Ct militia to quarters prepared
for them at the Emmett mine, Marion
mine, and others adjoining in the down.
town district. Though there was some
Jeering by men and women in the great
crowd assembled at the depot to wit
ness the arrival of this first installment
OF nonunion miners, no acts of violence
were committed.
WIN Shoot to Kill.
The camp remains at peace and as
quiet as it has been throughout the three
months strike. The militia are entirely
capable Of maintaining order and they
are prepared to act promptly and with
out hesitation. 1t viii shoot to kill if
the slightest demonstration indicating
a riot occurs. The court of inquiry has
accomplished nothing and it will prob
ably cease its sittings shortly.
Suspects Admitted TO Bail
The legal phase of the strike occurred
Friday upon a hearing before Judge
Overs, of the district court, as to bail
for the % prisoners charged with the
murder of Fireman o'Keefe at the Coro-
nado affair of Monday morning. The
sheriff and marshal testified that the ar
rests hadnot been made upon complaints
and they personally had no knowledge
of evidence sufficient to hold any of the
prisoners. District Attorney Thomas
wanted all these cases dismissed, but
this the court declined to do. The at
torneys for the defendants also re-
quested hearing of the merits of the
cases before dismissal or finding. The
district attorney in the afternoon
created scene and was ordered out of
the courtroom by the judge, the sheriff
escorting the disgraced officer of the
court from the hall. Judge Overs de-
cided that in view of the state of affairs
existing here and for the reason that the
defendants and he himself, desired a
thorough investigation to be made, the
prisoners should be released on bail in
sums of $500, and the sheriff was di-
rected to accompany the miners who de-
sired to go out and obtain securities.
Although interest centered about the
courthouse and great crowd gathered
during the hearing, no trouble occurred,
the militia preventing a crush of specta-
tors in the courtroom