, 1896-12-07
AFTER %THE.CR|N|NALS.
A NUMBER OF ARRESTS WILL.
SHORTLY BE MADE AT
THE CLOUD CITY.
1t is Believed That the Men Who Were
the Leading Spirits in the Trouble
at Leadville Came From Montana
for the Express Purpose of Kick
ing Up a Row.

from unon1cial u perfectly trust
worthy sources, says the Republican
that the Lake county grand jury ha
returned indictments against at leas
30 members Of Cloud City Miners un
ion, in connection with the outrage
perpetrated at the Emmett and Coro
nado mines on the morning Of Septem
Der 81. Among the men indicted ar
said to be all the officers of the strik
ers' organization and the 20 member,
of the executive committee. TIL,
charges made are principally murde
and arson.
When the indicted men are put upoI
trial revelations as sensational as thos.
which ame out in the famous Molli.
Mcguire trials In Pennsylvania, or tn,
later trials of the Occur D'Alene strik
ers, may be expected. Reports say tina
during its Investigations the CRANE
jury, which made its final report IL
Leadville last Saturday, succeeded il
unearthing all the r~amifcations of tn,
murderous coterie of strikers who plan.
ned and carried out the destruction O
the Cornado mine works, and made 6
futile essay at wrecking the shat
houses Of all the other mines in the
Leadville Basin area
AS there were at least 200 men &C.
lively implicated in the wrecking of the
Coronado and the assassination o.
Fireman O'Keefe. the secret workings
of this dynamite and shotgun clique Of
strikers we're bound to leak out. Thu
arrest of James R. Auburn, EVEN ]
Dewar and George Handy is only the
skirmish demonstration OF the Lake
county peace authorities against the
lawbreakers among the striking min.
ers. Others are to follow. and in the
end the whole conspiracy which has
done SO much to blacken the social
reputation and retard the industrial
progress of Leadville will be laid bare
In the courts.
1t will be proven, so it is claimed,
that the wild midnight outburst OF
September 81 vas no mere unordered
affair, undertaken by hotheads in an
hour of anger; but the carefully con
cocted job of men trained to the use OF
dynamite bomb and the assastns' rifle,
From what can be gathered, the testi-
mony given before the grand jury
showed that these apostles of riot and
anarchy were not native to Colorado.
They were imports. hailing directly OF
remotely from Montana, and shipped
into Leadville to corrupt the minds and
inflame the passions of the industrious,
~law-abiding miners of that district. II
is also stated that only a small section
Of the strikers whose permanent homes
are in Leadville were taken into the
councils of the Montana men when the
attack on the downtown mines was be-
ing planned.
All the inside information obtainable,
In fact, goes to show that the Leadville
strike was at no time n Is history CON
tyolled by the Leadville miners. Every
move maze was lei and directed
Wy d caoai Oh saharleo asrtators whose
n~eauquafHers are IN Butte Mon. Ihese
gentlemen were present IN force at the
convention OF the western Federation
OF MINERS heid In Denver last spring.
an's eoiVenolon o a meeting OF
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s~. me
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e qur'n
RloTlNG ITALIAN MINERS.
scranton, Pa, Dec. 6.-Several hun,
ire striking Italian miners are u
ing odb at the Forest Coal COM
pany's min at Archibald. a few miles
north OF this city, and excitement there
Is Intense. Bloodshed was narrowly
averted iast night by the employment
OF armed detectives to preserve order.
The Italians objected to the deduction
from their pay OF the cost OF employ
ment Of expert overseers. who were to
keep watch over the miners to prevent
the robbing OF pillars In the mines.
ihey ALSO opposed the removal OF coal