New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-06-15
Punishment FOR
COLORADO miners
as RESULT OF STRIKES IN GRIP
PIE CREEK REGION, MILL
TARY DEPoRTS UNIoNIsTS.

PIE CREEK REGION, MILL
TARY DEPoRTs UNIoNIsTS.
Taken by Train to Kansas State Line
and Dumped on Open Prairie
Sheriff Appears and Drives Them
Back Into Colorado.
Syracuse, Kan, June 11-Ninety-
eight deported Victor (Col.) minersi
sent out from their state on a speclI
train in charge of half a hundred Col
orado militiamen, were literally
dumped into Kansas Saturday and left
destitute upon the prairie.
The miners had been placed on the
train, which special made up by the
authorities in control in the disturbed
Colorado town, and in charged of we'll
armed militiamen started 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 COM
municate with them.
Landed on Deserted Prairie.
When point in Kansas half a mile
east of the Colorado state line was
reached early Saturday halt was
made 1t was deserted spot on the
wild prairie, with no railway station,
eating houses nor farmers house with
in several miles,
Without delay the men were disem-
parked, the engine was reversed, and
the militiamen reboarded the train.
Lieut.. Cole, the officer in command Of
the guard, instructed the miners plain
ly that they were not wanted in Colo
RADIO, and told them they had better go
east.
Half 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.
: Driven Out by Sheriff.
t. While the miners we're deciding upon
e what they were to do, Sheriff Jack
s Brady, of Hamilton county, Kan, and
8 40 armed deputies arrived on the scene
IT and ordered the unhappy men back to
O Colorado. Three Of the miners had al
It ready started east afoot. The others
q retraced their steps at the command OF
: the Kansas officers along the railroad
it track westward. After long, weary
a tramp, they struggled into Holly, Col.
= small town near the Colorado-Kansas
b boundary, where they were furnished
,e food at the big Salvation Army station
l. located there.
h Sheriff Brady, Notwithstanding tn
e. instructions ne received from Topeka
is kept his force of deputies at the stat
o. line until late in the afternoon to pre-
vent any of the miners from comin'
across. He returned at night, bein
satisfied that the men would not com
IF into Kansas The Colorado authorize
will not be allowed to dump their de
ported men into Hamilton.
Charged with Murder.
- Victor, Col, June 13.-Charges c
~ murder were drawn up Friday agains
=, 60 of the men confined in the bull pc
here, and they were taken TO the cour
ty Jail. This move was made shortl
ri after the coroner's jury had handle
j67 down a verdict holding the Wester
90 Federation of Miners responsible fc
1888 the dynamite outrage at independence
5g5 A member of the court of inquir
EOS said: 1--WE have evidence that will Il
gally hang five and possibly doubl
667 that number, and enough to fill tt
5S5 penitentiary. We have unearthed
SCI state Of things that the public will /
S19 slow to believe; that we ourselves al
S72 appalled, at, even knowing, as we hav
lso that they were bad We would be d.
ing the public wrong to turn thes
people loose upon it. They must /
:, punished and will be, now the laws al
enforced"
Determined to Kill Unionism.
Cripple Creek Col, June 1O.-"Deat
to unionism in the Cripple Creek di
ne trict,'' is the new slogan of the Citizen
M alliance which has sent a decree broa
>m cast that every person connected wi
IL any union must either sever his or b
US connection with such organization
DIV leave the district A form is being pr
tes pared for presentation to every me
m. chant and business man and other Ell
ere ployers of labor in the entire distri
i've pledging them not to employ any perst
3D. who is aff1liating with labor uniC
hi This is considered the most drastic st
at yet taken by the alliance since it s
nd cured the upper hold in the district, a.
la; its enforcement will affect 5000 m
and women now affiliated with the va
Gus unions. Among the unions that W
be affected with the new movement &
-ba the clerks, cooks and walters, barter
od- ers, carpenters, electricians, trainm
,ra and stone and brick masons. The unil