The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-06-08
Rioters Are Being Rapid
ly Deported.
OFFICIALS QUIT JOBS
Threatened With Hanging,
They Gracefully Resign.
No Outbreak Yesterday, But There Is
an Undercurrent of Feeling which
Bodes Ill to the Towns
Peace and Quiet.

Cripple Creek, Colo, June APART
from few small fights in connection
with the rounding UP and arresting OF
union miners no outbreak has occurred
IN this district today. Two local
militia companies and small army OF
armed deputies under Sheriff Edward
Bell are in full control of the camp.
Though there has been no turbulence
today, there is an undercurrent of feel
ing which BODIES Ill
Secretary Clarence Hamlin of the
Mine Owners. Association declared to-
cay that two prisoners now held in the
armory in Victor would be run over
the hill and warned never to return.
There Is a minority element that wants
to hang N. w. O'Connell, former mar
shal of Victor, suspended and under
arrest, and also Alfred Miller, charged
with having started the riot which re-
suited in the killing of Roxie MCGEE
at the mass meeting in Victoria yes
terfday and several other leaders. No
hanging will take place, however, in
all probability unless resistance Is Of
fered by word or action of the prison.
ers. 1t would require but little to
have a wholesale hanging.
DepOrting the Rioters.
Virgil King, a union leader and fif-
teen others arrested in Cripple Creek
today have been taken to Victor for
deportation we'll grounded rumor
is to the effect that a large number
of union miners working in the Port
land will be arrested.
The building owned and occupied by
Miners Union No. 40 in Cripple Creek
is in charge of the militia, The front
windows have been demolished and the
big sign of the w. F. M. torn down.
City Marshal w. J. Graham was
forced to resign by the Citizens Com
mittee headed by Z. G. Newcomb.i
cashier of the First National Bank, and
Charles N Browder was appointed by
his successor by the city Council which
convened at oncs TO confirm him.
Justice of the Peace c. M. Harring-
ton, said to be union sympathiser
heard that the committee was to walt
on him and rendered his resignation be-
fore the committee could see him.
County Judge Albert B. Frost is out
of the city, but it is said he will be
asked to resign as soon as he arrives
here and so will Frank P. Mannix,
county clerk and recorder. Both are
attending the Democratic convention
in Pueblo.
Attorney in DIsfavOr.
1t is further reported that Assis-
tant District Attorney J. c. Cole. who
Is very much disliked by mine owners
and members of the Citizens Alliance,
will be compelled to relinquish his Of
fee.
All Office holders whose designations
have been demanded. have furnished
them when threatened with hanging.
Photographs of Charles Mccormack
and Melvin Beck, who were killed by
nm Internal machine in the Vindicator
mine. November 81, 1908, and of other
Vindieator miners were found In
possession of Frank Cochrane, secre-
tary of one of the miners unions of
Victor. This discovery greatly agitat-
ed the oficers of the mine owners as
socfation who declared that Cochrane
will be hanged unless he discloses all
that he knows concerning the outrage.
They believe that he has information
that will lead to the arrest of the per-
petrators of that crime.
1t was estimated at 4 o'clock this at
ternoon that 1000 deputies had been
sworn in by Sheriff Bell. The Victor
Record was censored by a special com
mittee appointed by the Sheriff before
publication was permitted today.
How Machine Was Exploded.
Boys playing in the neighborhood of
the hole made by the explosion at the
Independence, today found a portion of
a cheaply made British bulldog revolv-
e. The weapon contained one she'll,
and when taken to the ONCE of the Cit
izens' Alliance 1t was regarded as con-
elusive proof that the dynamite was set
off in the fashion similar to the explo-
sion of giant powder in the Vindicator
mine.
The bloodhounds. in charge of Hugo
Palmer, of Trinidad. today trailed the
assassin who killed the Findley miners.
to a mile beyond Clyde Station. a dist
ance of three miles. There the scent
Il
the detectives working on the case that
the assassin took a buggy at the place
where the scent was lost and proceeded
along the old stage road to Colorado
Springs.
The coroner's jury visited the scene
of the explosion today, after which an
adjournment was taken until tomor-
row afternoon, when the taking of evil
dence will begin.