The Red Cloud chief., 1897-08-06
MINES r CLOSING.
STRIKERS ARE BESIECINC
DE ARMlTT'S PROPERTY
Sandy Creek and Oak HW Mines Prac.
ticaily losed-Thc Plum Creek Men
Beginning to Come Out-stiI Marching
from Mine to Mine.

PITTsBURs, Pa, Aug. 4.-Sherif
Lowrey telegraphed to Governor Has
tings last night the condition Of tn,
miners strike in the vicinity Of the ID,
Armitt mines and received a reply tina,
the governor had instructed the adiu.
tsnt general to prepare for any requis'
ition for troops. SO far, however,
there has been no necessity for sol
diers, the marching and encamped
strikers having been extraordinarily
quiet
The strikers have already practi-
cally closed the Sandy creek and Oak
Hill mines and the Plum creek men
are beginning TO come out There are
$50 watchers near the Plum creek
shaft. They have a brass band and
this morning their lardcr was in
creased by a wagon Dad of provisions.
The success of the campers in bring
ing out the Coalport miners bright
ened the spirits OF the men and made
them more positive OF victory. At 4
o'clock this morning they left camp
and went TO the main entrance Of the
mine, leaving the center pit mouth
unguarded, through which most OF the
diggers ut work passed. 1t being i'm
possible to induce the men to come TO
the meetings. the campers sent a COM
mittee to call at the homes of the
miners to talk over the situation with
the families. GOOD results are ex.
pected and n prediction was made that
10 three days Plum creek mine would
be idle.
The miners In camp near Sandy
creek began the march at $50 o'clock
this morning and took position neal
the pit mouth. They were elated by
seeing only three men go In.
The Turtle creek campers, number
ing 1000, divided into two bodies at 4
o'clock. One party stopped at New
town and the other continued up the
road till II came TO the pit mouth. IL
remained until o o'clock. when, being
satisfied that but n few men entered
the mine, II returned to camp, where
, breakfast was waiting.
Turtle creek merchants are doing
oil they car TO feed the men, but TO
satisfy the hunger Of 1000 men is not
an easy task, and the leaders are con.
sidering the question of thinning out
the camp so II will not be Il burden TO
the sympathisers. About 0 o'clock "a
dozen women, half of them with their
children, appeared ana said they had
come to stay us long rs their husbands
and brothers were there, and world
cook.
Two of the miners wives took meals
this morning to their hus bands, who
are in the mines and afraid to leave,
preferring to sleep in the pit to run
ding the gauntlet of the strikers.
The drst signatures to the uniform
ity ~s~oemeat,n which had been in
preparation for q week, were appended
to-day by those members of the com.
mission who are coal producers. Then
all started to visit the owners or man.
ayers OF the i4l mines which must be
included in the compact to secure nd.
ditional signatures. They are conf
dent the compact will be acceptable
and will be signed by the required ej
per cent OF the owners or of
mines.
AN INJUNCTION DEFIED.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Aug. 4.-Ata
meeting Of delegates from twenty
mines at Montgomery, w. d. Mahon
OF Detroit, chief OF the miners organ.
lzers, referring to the injunction issued
by Judge Mason, said that he would
pay no attention to IL. He had been
iccustomed to being enjoined in va
|'ious strikes for the last Ave wears.
DE had never paid any attention to
,njnnctions, and had never been mr.
fested. He knew his rights as an
american citizen, and he proposed TO
maintain them. He was teaching his
men their rights, and was urging them
70 fight for them. lie had two grand.
fathers In the revolutionary a and
The only legacy they had left him was
The liberty Of speech and action. No
BETTY judge should deprive him of the
liberty purchased for him by the blood
sf his fathers.
F, WIRELESS TEL Ecpnon