The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-06-14

Cripple Creek, Colo, June s.
Death to unionism in the Cripple
Creek district is the new slogan Of
the citizens.I Tyson S. Dyne, a Den
yer attorney and one of the executors
Of the Stratton estate, is here in con-
ference with citizens alliance, and
it is announced that he is preparing
a form which will be presented to
every merchant and business man
and all employers of labor in the en-
tire district, pledging them not to
employ any person who is affiliated
with a labor union. This is consid-
cred the most drastic step taken by
the alliance men yet, and its enforce
ment will affect three thousand men
and women that are members of labor
unions.
The mining exchange hall is being
used as a bull pen in addition to the
Victor armory. Armed deputies are
placed in the galleries of the ex-
change, the prisoners occupying the
Dit of the call room. Several guards
are at the door. each carrying repeat
llS Iii that COilNlI
Families and wives of the prisoners
constantly endeavOr to see and talk
with the husbands and fathers in
c~arcerated, in most cases permission
being refused.
Five of the six members of the
Gsldfeld county council are in the
bull pen, so that the town is Without
an executive body.
The committee on safety has made
d demand upon District Attorney
Henry Trowbridge that he remove
his deputy, J. c. Cole, and also re-
quested that s. d. Crump be appoint
ed to fill the vacancy Crump is the
attorney for the mine wner asso-
citation.
Sheriff Edward Bell to-day appoint
ed L. F. Parsons. of Cripple Creek,
under sheriff of the county, and the
appointment was confirmed by the
county commissioners at once Mr..
Parsons is secretary of the Cripple
Greek Mining Exchange.
Coroner George Hall, who succeed
ed Coroner James Doran. who re-
signed under cOmpulsiOn, to-day en-
paneled a new jury, which will hold
an inquest over the men murdered at
Independence with an Internal ma
chine
Marshal Naylor and his squad cap
tured George Greedy rear Canon City
and carried him to Victor. He is
charged with having killed RoXie
McGee and with having attempted to
shoot c. c. Hamlin. secretary of the
Mine Owners Association, when he
was addressing the meeting in Victor
last Monday.
Victor, Colo, June 9.-Adjutant
General Sherman NJ. Bell, commander
of the Teller county military district,
to-day ordered the Portland mine,
which employs union men, closed
down. The order asserts that the
mine has been harboring dangerous
and lawless men, who I'VE aided
and encouraged those guilty of re-
cent crimes and outrages in the dis
trict.
General Bell also is calling on all
persons to refrain from violence and
to resume their usual occupations.
The commission appointed by General
Bell to inquire into the records of
the miners under arrest reported him
a list of 80 miners, with the recon-
mendatiOn hat they De deported.
General Bell accepted their report
and announced that the men would
be sent out of the county as soon as
a special train could be arranged for.
Victor. Colo, June "A squad of
mounted infantry left to-day in pur-
suit of fifty-five union miners, said
to be camped in the Beaver Greek
region, east of this place. The troops
have orders to shoot the men when
found. if they resist arrest.