The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1904-06-11
CRIPPLE CREEK AGAIN aUIR1
union Men and hympsthIzers Quieted
with shoaauns Held ~ oentIsmen.

Bnion Men ana Nympsthixers Qufeted
with slaotauns Held ~ oentlsmsn.
Cripple Greek. Col. june Binder
the regime Of hundreds Of deputy
shsrifs and abOns $50 mflstiamen. re-
ceiying their orders from Edward Bell,
wealthy mine owner. who succeeded
Sheriff Robertson when he Fasignedssun-
dsr threats Of iynching, this gold min
ing district passed q. comparatively
peaceful day Tuesday.
Throughout the day Deputies and
soldiers aearched the hills for union
miners and the sum total Of the days
arrests was 10. This swelled tire mill
tafy prison % considerably over 200
and tonight ~ OF them were placed ~
borad . train and AepoFted from The
district a guard Of deputies rods
out OF the district with them. They
were all acfiye nni0nists and served as
leadesr 10 the strike now pending.
Three additional city officials hare
been forced 20 resigned their offices.
namely Chief Of Police William Gra-
ham, Night Marshal Fred Hardy and
Justice Of the Peace Charles barring
BON. Their reputed sympathy for nm
ionism led 70 this action. In each case
a committee Of the citizens alliance
waited anon them and compelled them
70 act Immediately under pain o. vio-
lenee.
Sixteen deputies armed with sawed
on shot guns visited the union store
and made a thorough search for wea-
pOna. They were rewarded BY finding
= rife and shotgun concealed behind a
large icebox. subsequently they went
% union headquarters and overturned
Everything in an effort to find the IN
ion records. Their efforts were una
vAilibg. All Of the injured in the ac-
cident n Independence and the riotinR
in Victor are reported 70 be doing well
No definite clue. il Is understood. has
been obtained through the biOodhounds
which were started on the trail Of the
persons who placed the internal ma.
chine under the station az IDdepeD-
denee. While the tension is tightly
drawn. and the whole district has "a.
ken sides In the bitter feeling existing
between the mineowners' association
and the unionists it Is thought that .
clash viii be avoided for the reason
that most IL not all Of the union Lead.
erS are ia durance. The streets Of thii
city are being constantly patroled By
deputies and soldiers.
Two Thousand people congregRted
this afternoon at Second and Bennett
avenues, Citizens Alliance headquar
ters. for tine mass meetings 10 be ad
dressed by the minsowneEs and business
men. and armed squadrons are seaSch
ing for several men. Lynching il
freely talked Of, and almost every MAJ
Is walking arsnRL
The union stores are IN charge 81
deputy sheriffs- Wholesale arrests d
union minersa are 20 be made as fast a
they are found. Mounted armed mel
the extreme northern and southern end
Of the district 10 guard all avenues o
escape Of union miners marked TO b
aITetsed.
All mines except the Portland which
employ union men are still closed ans
, viii Be until after the inquest and fun
erals Of the victims Of the dynamite
outrage.
: Photographs of Charles McCormacl
Q and Melvin Beck, who were killed b,
r an infel nal machine in the Indicate
J. mine November 81, 1908, and othe
working in ,Es and some Of owner
were foui a possession Of Frank Coch
ran, secretary Of ore of the miners
unions Of Victor. This discovery great
~ aEitated officials Of the mineowners
association. VINO declared that Coch
ran shall be hanged unless he disclose
all that he knows concerning the out
= rage. They believe be has information
!. that viii lead 70 tile arrest Of the per
J petrators Of that crime.
Il is estimated that 1000 deuptie
/ have been sworn in by Sheriff Bell.