The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-06-16
Punishment FOR
COLORADO Miners
AS RESULT OF STRIKES IN GRIP
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) miners.
sent out from their state on a special
train In charge of half hundred Col
orado miitiamen, were literally
dumped into Kansas Saturday and left
destitute upon the prairie.
The miners had been placed on the
train. which a special made up by the
authorities in control in the disturbed
Colorado town, and In charged of we'll
armed mltiamen 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
mun!cate with them
Landed on Deserted Prairie.
When point in Kansas half mile
east of the Colorado state line was
reached early Saturday a halt was
made II was a deserted spot on the
wild prairie, with no railway station,
eating houses nor farmers house with
in several mixes.
Without delay the men were disem-
barkrd, the engine was reversed, and
the mihtamen 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 a dozen Of the soldiers fired
volley into the air to intimidate the
men, and the train started west with
tho miitiamen leaving the miners to
make their way to some habtation as
best they might
Driven Out by Sheriff.
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 al
ready started east afoot The others
retraccd their steps at the command of
the Kansas officers along the railroad
track westward After a long, weary
tramp they struggled into Holly, Col.
o small town near the Colorado
boundary, where they were furnished
tood at the big Salvation Army station
located there
Sheriff Brady, Notwithstanding the
Instructions ne received from Topeka,
Kept his force Of deputies at the state
Tine until late in the afternoon to pre-
vent any OF the miners from coming
across. He returned at night, being
satisfied that the men would not come
into Kansas The Colorado authorities
will not be allowed to dump their de-
ported men into Hamilton
Charged with Murder.
Victor. Col, June 13.-Charges Of
murder were drawn up Friday against
60 Of the men confined in the bull pen
here and they were taken to the coun-
" Jail This move was made shortly
after the coroners jury had handed
down a verdict holding the Western
Federation Of Miners responsible for
the dynamite outrage at Independence.
a member of the court of inquiry
said. We have evidence that will le-
gally hang five and possibly double
that number, and enough to fill the
ponitcntiary We have unoarthcd a
state Of things that the public will be
slow to believe; that we ourselves arc
appalled, at, even knowing, as we have,
that they were bad We would be do
inc the public a wrong to turn these
people loose upon il. They must be
punished ana will be, now the laws are
enforced
Heavy Cost of Strike.
The cost Of the various strikes In Col
oroGo during the past 16 months is esti-
mated at $23 036 900 OF this amount the
state has had to pay 100000 for main
tanning troops in the field and the loss
10 strikers and others directly affected
IN wages, etc. and to the employers in
loss Of business is placed at $22 400 900.
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