The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-06-17

ADJT. GEN. BELL.
military Commander of Teller County.)
charge of well-armed militiamen start
ed for the east late Friday. At La
Junta, Col, where the first stop was
made, the cars were closely guarded
The miners were not permitted to
leave the cars, nor were any Of the
hundred or SO men who gathered at
the station allowed to communicate
with them.
Landed on Deserted Prairie.
When a point in Kansas half mile
east of the Colorado state line was
reached early Saturday halt was
made. 1t was a deserted spot Oh
the wild prairie. with no railway
station, eating house nor farmers
house within several miles.
Without delay the men were disem-
parked, the engine was reversed, and
the militiamen reboarded the train.
Lieut. Cole, the officer in COM
mand of the guard, instructed the
miners plainly that they were not
wanted in Colorado. and told them
lucy udu UcLtcI 80 cast.
Half a dozen of the soldiers fired
volley into the air to intimidate the
men, and the train started west with
the militiamen, leaving the miners to
make their way to some habitation as
best they might.
While the miners were deciding upon
what they were to do, Sheriff Jack
Brady, of Hamilton county, Kan, and
40 armed deputies arrived on the
scene and ordered the unhappy men
back to Colorado. Three of the
miners had already started east afoot.
The others retraced their steps at the
command of the Kansas officers along
the railroad track westward. After a
long, weary tramp, they struggled into
Holly, Col, a small town near the
Colorado-Kansas boundary, where
they were furnished food at the big
Salvation Army station located there.
Despite the emphatic command of
Lieut.. Cole, the men, after rest again
took up their journey west and start
ed overland for Lamar, Col.
Miners Charged with Murder.
Victor, Col, June 13.-Charges of
murder were drawn up Friday against
80 Of the men confined in the bull
pen here, and they were taken to the
county Jail.
This move was made shortly after
| the coroner's jury had handed down
verdict holding the Western Fedora
ton of Miners responsible for the
| dynamite outrage at independence.
The verdict says that the crime was
committed by persons unknown for
and feloniously killing and numbering;
that said crime is one of similar
crimes designed and committed in the
Cripple Creek district during the last
few months, and perpetrated for the
purpose of intimidating nonunion
miners, and thereby preventing them
from working, and are the result Of
conspiracy entered into by certain
members of the Western Federation of
Miners, and known, melted, and fur
thered by certain officers Of that or
| ganiZation."
Must Quit Union.
Cripple Creek, Col, June 13.-Peace is
coming to Cripple Creek If Gen. Sher-
nina M. Bell, military commander of
Teller county, can accomplish all that
he has planned to do. 1t will come
through the forcible expulsion of all
persons who owe allegiance to the
Western Federation of Miners or who
express sympathy with the miners
unions. With the exception of the Port
land Gold Mining company all the large
companies and nearly all the operators
who are organized as the Cripple Creek
District Mine-Owners' association, re-
quire miners to surrender their cards
as members of the Western Federation
Of Miners and take out cards from the
Mine Owners association before giving
them employment. Union miners who
renounce their federation will be per-
mitted to remain in the camp if they
have satisfactory records.