Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-31
Leading Citizens of Idaho
Springs Drive Labor Agita-
tors From the Place
wREcklNG OF MINE STARTS WAR
Business Men Organize to Clear the
Town of Members of the Miners
observation-disclosures Under Suspicion
Taken From Jail and Warned to
Leave the State.

Denver, Col, July S1.-A war of eN-
termination is likely to ensue as the
result of the expulsion OF tile miners
from Idaho Springs Wednesday by the
leading citizens of that place. AT the
Western Federation of Miners head
quarters it is declared that If war is
wanted they are prepared to give it and
take no quarter.
The Citizens alliance, which led the
action exciting the miners, is pow
egful organization that claims to have
a membership of $4,000 business men,
representing every branch Of trade in
the state, while the miners say they
can control three times that number
with better and more effective organ
ization, which is backed by treasury
Of ST50,000 ready cash
AS the first outcome of the Idaho
Springs trouble the miners have or
dered their state branches to boycott
every Denver house and not to handle
supplies Of any character that origin
ates from this city. In addition, the
miners, thru their counsel, are prepar-
ing to follow their action thru legal
channels by instituting damage suits
against the leaders of the mob, COM
prising the best and wealihiest bust
ness men Of Idaho Springs many Of
whom are rated at from 100000 to
$1,000.000 In the books of the mercan-
tile agencies There was no conceal
ment Of the identity of these men, ana
they will be called upon to compensate
the miners for their action.
Secretary Haywood said that the
miners would not alone refuse to leave
the state, as decreed by the business
men. but that they will return TO Id1ho
Springs under the protection of the
United States courts
The western federation in retaliation
also proposes to call out all the miners
of Cripple Creak, and force a COM
plete shut down in Colorado of all min
ing operations. They have succeeded
in closing two smelters for three weeks
on the shipping mines that they can
not care for any more ore, as it Is
impossible to get men to take the places
of the strikers. The latter have gone
to the harvest fields of Kansas, feel
ing secure that no common labor would
apply for their places at the pay of
$l.75 for day OF twelve hours.
Altogether Colorado seems on the
brink Of an interneetne war that
threatens TO be disastrous
The war is the result of the action
OF the business men of Idaho Springs
when the Business Mems alliance met
at the town hall and resolved them
selves into a vigilance committee to
clear the towa of all members of the
Western Fede ration of Miners. whom
they accuse OF blowing UP the Sun and
Moon mine buildings.
After hearing the addresses the citi-
zens, under TIE leadership of President
Hanchett, Of the local national bank,
marched to the county jail, and ordered
the fourteen miners held there under
suspicion to march out.
They were ordered 10 leave the town
instantly. and not to appear again I'M
der penalty of more drastic treatment.
The prisoners We're then ordered into
line and with lock step marched down
the canon. Some Of them pleaded that
they We're without funds and u sub
scription was taken up oy the mob and
handed to the miners. There was no
evidence against the men, but the COM
mittee decided that the explosion could
be traced to the agitation that had been
maintained since the strike last fall.
AT the meeting Mayor Dick said that
it had come TO a question as to whether
the people of Idaho Springs should run
the town or few agitators be permit
ted to dictat. the policy and urged that
it was time for the citizens to be awake
to their own.
He was followed By L. Hanchett,
manager of the Lamartine mine, and
Newhouse tunnel, president OF the First
National bank, and vice president of
the Cascade Electric Company. Mr..
Hanchett began with the statement
that he, and H. N. Sims, manager of
the Sun and Moon, had been for
of months marked men, and
were to be assassinated like Collins at
Telluride.
He stated that for month his prop
erty was in danger and the electric
power plant at Georgetown had been
with destruction because it
furnlSneu power TO lte sun ana MOOIl
He urged that no violence should be
done, but that the inmates of the Jail
should be taken therefrom and quietly
escorted to the city limits and told
never to return.
In closing he novel that the gather
ing proceed to take such action, which
motion was seconded by dozen peo-
Pile Before the motion was put j. w.
b. Smith, assistant states attorney,
took the floor and made a speech
against mob violence.
He said that he recognized in the
gathering the bone and sinew
of the town, representing the social,
moral, and business interests of the
but urged that they take
no steps that were rot within the limit
of the law.
The men driven out include Howard
Tressdell, president of the local union;
A. d. Alcott, vice president; George
Becker, secretary T'eter Bender, treas
urer. and two or three members of the
executive committee. All the others are
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