The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1904-06-16
THE MINING DISTRICT At COLO.
RADIO UNDER STATE TROOPS
TRIP sts-s ''td Fs ~ 4 -Ttgir =
UNION, MINERS BEING SENT OUT Of STATE

Into kansas-Mors May be Sent Out
This Week-The Mining Trouble
May Last For Some Time
DENVER: A week or riot and
bloOdshed unparalleled in the Cripple
Creek mining district ended Sunday
with the district still under martial
law, the Citizens alliance at Victor de-
manding the resignation Of city and
county officials, who are in sympathy
with the union, and the miners them
selves being forcibly deported out of
the state, with orders not to return.
President Meyer of the striking fed
GRAFTON of miners Is yet held a prison
er at the military bull pen at Victor on
the charge of melting riot. the su-
preme court of the state having hand
ed down decision on his application
for writ of habeas corpus, holding
tina. the constitution cOnfers power
Oh the governor to hold any insurrec-
zionist without right 20 civil proceed
ing. - .. -e '.-S ~. e
The closing of the Portland mine at
Victor by Adjutant General Bell after
the rioting, was important in that 1T
was accomplished peaceably. and will
doubtless result In judicial notice be-
ing taken of the situation by the fed
eral courts, since the Portland COM
pany is organized under Iowa laws.
The most serious disaster Of the
week was the event at the Independ-
enceE depot, when thirteen non-union
miners We're killed and many others
injured by dynamite, exploded under
the depot platform. The old trouble
Of years standing was opened afresh,
and never since the four thousand
union miners went on a strike nearly
a year ago has the situation been SO
serious. hi ---''- 80
The mine owners and citizens alli-
ance were not only incensed toward
the union. which they believe respon-
sible for the dhstardly dynamiting at
Independence, but the militia was
rushed into the district and at once
began arresting union miners by the
wholesale. Before night IT'S of them
were rounded up In the bull pen. Dur
ing the afternoon two riots had dem
onstrated the intensity OF public feel
ing. seven men had been fatally shot
during an open air meteing and twenty
union miners had been shot at their
hall by militiamen. That night the Of
flee of the Victor Record was wrecked,
presumably by union miners. for adj
vising editorials that the strike end.
Adjutant General Bell hurried to
Crippls Creek, and the Citizens alli-
ance at Victor forced the resignation
Of Sheriff Robertson, Marshal ConnelI
and other public officers, who were led
into meeting hall. the most conspic,I-
GUS articles in which were two ropes
with hangman's nooses ominously ad-
justed.
Feeling against union men was still
further increased by the finding of a
bundle of marked photographs of non
union miners, whom, II was presumed.
had been marked for assassination.
The deportation OF union miners con-
tinued during the rest of the week,
and It was announced that the district
would be rid of every semblance of
unionism.
Later In the week this spirit spread
to other trades and professions till a
general boycott was declared against
all forms of union labor in the Cripple
Greek district.
Governor Peabody and General Bell
still hold the reins and the wisdom of
martial control is being demonstrated
in the gradual pacification of the dis.
turbed elements and the cessation of
rioting with deportation Of miners.