The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-17

VI 4CllSi 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 a mile
east of the Colorado state line was
reached early Saturday a halt was
made. 1t was a deserted spot on
the wild prairie, with no railway
station, eating house ner farmers
house within several miles.
Without delay the men were disem-
barked, 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
they had better go east,
Half a dozen of the soldiers fired a
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 We're furnished food at the big
Salvation Army station located there,
Despite the emphatic command OF
Lieut. Cole, the men, after a 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 we're drawn up Friday against
80 OF he men confined in the bull
pen here, and they were taken to the
county Jail.
This move a made shortly after
the coroner's jury had handed down
a 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
the purpose of willfully, maliciously
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 pe~rpetrated for the
purpose of illuminating ~nonunion
miners, and thereby preventing them
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.-Peaceis
coming to Cripple Creek If Gen. Sher-
mna M Bell, military commander Of
Teller county, can accomplish all that
ne has planned to do. 1t will come
the forcible expulsion Of all
persons b owe allegiance to the
Western Federation OF Miners or who
express sympathy with the miners
unions. With the exception of the Port
Ian Gold Mining company all the large
companies and nearly all b eoperators,
who are organized as the Cripple Creek
District Mfne-OWnerss assnciafion "a
quire miners to surrender their cards
as amembers Of sheWestsrn Federation
cf Miners and take out cards from the
Mine Owners assoeiati6n before giving
them employment Union miners who
renounce their federation will be per
nltted TO remain In thecarnp If they
baye satisfactory records.