The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-12
PREFER TO LEAVE CAMP.
Men Refuse to Take Gard From Nine
Owners Union.

Owners Union.
Cripple Creek June 11.-N0 action has
yet been ta1en towards recalling the
troops i'm this district. and none is eX-
pected before Monday or even later.
However. Adjutaut General Sherman
n. Bell has announced that the troops
viii not be needed much longer as the
civil authorities have control of the sit
uatiOn and the people are looking for
ward TO a speedy end of military rule.
All day Ions deputies searched the
hills, and there are now confined in the
bull pen about twenty-five men. Ten OF
+ these are marked for immediate QepOr-
tation. They are all Altman men and
were taken today by A. H. Rogers and
Frank Bennick, two of Sheriff Bells
most trusted men.
Among the men brought OF Bull Hill
We're the COOgen brothers, i'm whose
cabin the military found rifles last win
! ter. Earl Reed, recording secretary or
Free Coinage union No. 19, was also ar
rested. Bailey and Stewart, two of the
men arrested today, were found in a
[ seventy fve-fOOt shaft, where they
were hiding.
The committee of safety was in ses-
sion nearly all day holding eNamina-
tons A number of men have stated
they were willing to give up their un-
ion cards as there was no longer any
union, but they were not willing to
I take cut a permit to work from the
Mine Owners association, but pre-
I ferTed 10 leave town.
The committee states tonight that 1t
has extremely damaging evidence
against a number Of persons, connect
/ ing them with the Independence dyna-
mite outrage, and it is likely some very
{ damaging evidence viii be introduced
when the trial comes up.
Alliance and Bell.
! General Bell was in consultation for
+ two hours today with the citizens COM
I mittee that has been investigating the
{ records of the imprisoned union men,
and upon whose recommendation de
portatious are ordered.
we have decided upon a few who
must go" said General Bell upon leav-
/ ing the committee room at the alliance
headquarters. But / don't want TO
send them out until we have sifted
out all the candidates for release and
Imprisonment. We VIII send out al
future depOTtees on one train, probably
Sunday. This viii save the expense OF
more than one special train
The committee today made the sig
nidcant mistake Of recommending for
deportation some of the men who had
( been sworn ia as deputies. Many per
sons have changed their symp3thles
from uniOuism % the side which now
has gained the upper hand during the
week.
Nearly all the union men remaining
at alliance headquarters after yester-
days deportation, numbering forty
D were taken TO the county jail today
The mine owners say they viii be
( charged with various grave crimes.
Fifteen men remain at the old prison
Some win be deported and some re-
+ leased.
! There is also a squad at the victor
armory, variously estimated az twenty
FIVE to eighty-fve, awaiting deporta-
/ ton. But few arrests have been made
Many Getting Out.
Expressmen in this city and in Vic
I tor are doing a rushing business IA
/ hauling trunks to the various depOts
F for the depOTted people, and also OF
. people who propose to ceport them
. selves. Much furniture is being stored.
The Mine Owners and Citizens al
lance have retained Attorney John NJ
WaldrOH of Denver to prosecute the
prisoners VINO viii be tried for murder,
attempt to kin and rioting. The plan
I iuaugUrated i'm Cripple Creek Of re-
fusiug employment to all men pa
/ any branch OF trade in any way anil
/ ated with unions allied TO the Western
/ Federation of Miners has been carried
to Victor. where committees Of the
. Citizens alliance are obtaining the sig
. natures OF business men 20 the boycott
= ting agreement
Murder Charge.
4 General Sherman NJ Bell today made
the following statement for pubuca-
ton.
81 have IndisDutable evidence in my
possession which viii lead TO the con-
viction Of number of union men for
the murder of the n0u-uli0u miners
who were killed i'm the Independence
depot explosion. We have between thir-
ty-dve and forty men I'm the bun pen
who win swing far this crime. We are
only waiting to capture two or three
more men before we ter what our evil
+ Cence IS There VIII be no Geporta-
/ tiols today"