The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-08-06
STRIKERS BES|EGlNG De.
ARMITTS PROPERTY.
FEEL SURE OF VICTORY.
Sandy Creek and Oak Hill Mines Prac.
tically ClOsed-The Plum Creek Men
Beginning to Come Out-Still
Marching From Mine to
Mine-No Serious Trouble
Has Occurred So Far.

PITTsBURG, Pa, Aug. 4.-SheriH
Lowrey telegraphed to Governor Has
tings last night the condition of the
miners strike in the vicinity of the De
Armitt mines and received reply That
the govern or had instructed the ad ju-
tant 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 extraordiE arily
quiet
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 larder was in
creased by wagon load 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
ard went to the main entrance of the
mine, leaving the center pit mouth
unguarded, through which most of the
diggers at work passed 1t being i'm
possible to induce the men to come to
the meetings, the campers sent COM
mittee to call at the homes of the
miners to talk over the situation with
the families Good results are ex-
pected and a prediction was made that
in three days Plum creek mine would
be idle
The miners in camp near Sandy
creek began the march at 80 o'clock
this morning and took position near
the pit mouth. They we're elated by
seeing only three men go in.
The Turtle creek campers, number
ing 1000, divided into two bodies at
o'clock. One party stopped at New
town and the other continued up the
road till it came to the pit mouth 1t
remained until o'clock, when, being
satisfied that but a few men entered
the mine, it returned to camp, where
breakfast was waiting.
Turtle creek merchants are doing
all they can 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 it will not be burden to
the sympathizers. About o'clock a
dozen women, half of them with their
children, appeared and said they had
come to stay as long as their husbands
and brothers were there, and would
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
ming the gauntlet of the strikers.
The first sigma atures to the uniform
ity agreement" which had been in
preparation for a week. were appended
to-day by those membe of the COM
mission who are coal producers. Then
all started to visit the owners or man
ayers of the l41 mines which must be
Included in the compact to secure ad-
ditional signatures. They are conf
dent the compact will be acceptable
and will be signed by the required 95
per cent of the owners or managers of
mines
AN INJUNCTION DEFIED.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Aug. AT
meeting of delegates from twenty
mines at Montgomery, w. D. Mahon
of Detroit, chief of the miners organ
tzers, referring to the injunction issued
by Judge Mason, said that he would
pay no attention to it. He had been
accustomed to beng enjoined in va
:ious strikes for the last five wears.
He had never paid any attention to
injunctions, and had never been ar
:ested. 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
to fight for them. He had two grand
fathers in the revolutionary war, and
the only legacy they had left him was