The age-herald., 1901-11-25
TVenty-tWO Men Are Taken ths Others Having Made
 Good Their Escape
CAPTIVES REFUSE TO BUOGE
Deputy Sheriff Picks Up One Like Bao of Flour and Marches Off With Him on His
 Shoulder.

Madisonville, Ky. November 24 = The famous camp of the striking union min CTS that has been located about quar- ter of a mile south of Nortonville, in the southern part of this county, Is a thing of the past.
 Tonight there is nothing left to mark the rendezvous of those who defied the officers and even the courts and gave the State and county authorities so much trouble for the past two months.save ash heaps, straw that was used for beds, holes in the ground made by the tent stakes and other marks of debris inci- dent to camp life. All of the campers on whom the sun rose this morning with the exception of a very few who escaped the officers are prisoners behind the bars of the county jail charged by County Judge Hall with breach of the peace, unlawfully assembling and banding to- gether thereby making the camp men ace and terror to the public peace
 The four large tents with all their par aphernalia were captured today by the county authorities and brought in with the prisoners.
  order issued last Wednesday by County Judge John G. B. Hall, commanding that the union camp at Nortonville be disbanded before Saturday morning at daybreak and that the campers shall not assemble again in the county.
 Camp Was Menace.
 Judge Hall issued the disbanding order after receiving sworn statements from more than one hundred reliable men re- siding in the southern part of this coun- ty, who swore that armed men went forth from these camps and were re vpoasible for the nightly attacks on the mines and property and homes of those who were peaceable, law-abiding and hard-working citizens; that the union camp is an unlawful assembly of men banded together for the purpose of de- stroying property and intimidating men who persist in working independent of the United Mine Workers of America, who has had representatives in Hopkins county for more than a year trying to persuade and force the miners employed In the mines to join their organization.
 All of these things Judge Hall investi-
 
 when he did act he was endorsed and supported by the Governor of the state and the entire military force. The plan by which the removal of the camp was accomplished was very simple, though effective. After President Wood, of the United Mine Workers, and Judge Yost. chief counsel for the union, demonstrated their intention not to heed the orders of the court and hurled defiance in the face of officers, declaring that they did not intend to obey the command, and that they would not move until they were moved Judge Hall called on AdIutant- General Murray and the two companies of state guards from Madsonville and Hopkinsville, who were here to help him to execute the order and disband the camp
 Military Reaches Camp.
 A special train left Madisonville at 6:3o a. m today carrying County Judge Hall. Sheriff John H. Hank. Deputies James Thomas and Samuel Jennings. also Gen eral Murray, his aides, Cartain Ellis of Owensboro, Captain Gordon of Frankfort and Captains Flowers and Strange, with the Madsonville and Hopkinsville com- panies The train took the siding at Nor tonville. Judge Hall. the sheriff ana his deputies got in a conveyance previously ordered for the trip and drove to the camp, a quarter of a mile distant. On arriving at the camp 1t was found that ell the men save twenty five or thirty had left, taking with them all the arms ana ammunition. All who were present Judge Hall ordered at once arrested. The four large tents were soon torn down, loaded on wagons and hauled to Norton vile. wherS they were packed in a boxcar that was brought along for that purpose.
 When the time came to remove the prisoners to the train they refused tc budge, saying that the officers wouIc have to move them, which one of the deputies proceeded promptly to do Stopping down he picked one of the men up and shouldered him as thouqr 1t was a sack of flour. The officer was not very particular about the way he parried the prisoner, and just as he was in the act of throwing him owe, Into the wagon the man begged to bs allowed to walk. The others seeInc that here was to be no fooIishness or the part of the officers agreed te walk also.
 Arriving at the camp early this morn ing the first thing that attracted the at- tention was piece of canvas about a yard square on which was printed the following notice, in lines to represent poetry:
 "U. M. W. of A.
 .'we have come to stay with Hopkins County people until we get a check weighman on the ripple to weigh our coal and pay us in gold and eight hours day and payments every two weeks will be the order of the U. M. W. of Al
 Twenty-two Men Captured.
 When the officers arrived the camp was in charge of Arlie Oates. first lieutenant of the Greeneville company of Kentucky, State Guards. and the same man who