The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-11
SENT TO KANSAS.
Train Load of Exiled Miners
Started Eastward.
Arrest and Deportation Con-
tinues Without Abatement.
ON SLIGHT PRETEXT.
Some Men Are Expelled to Rid
District of Their Wives.
WOmen's Tongues Are Found
Hard to Fight Against.
Gov. Bailey Defines His Position
on Colorado Invasion.
ON SLIGHT PRETEXT.

Cripple Creek, Colo, June IL
Peace is coming to Cripple Creek II
Gen. Sherman NJ. Bell, military COM
mander of Teller county, can accom-
plish all that he has planned to do.
1t will come through the forcible eX-
LpulsiOn of all persons who owe ale
glance to the Western Federation Of
Miners or who express sympathy with
the miners unions. With the excep-
ton Of the Portland Gold Mining
company, all the large companies and
nearly all the operators, who are or
ganized as the Cripple Creek District
Mine Owners association, require
miners to surrender their cards as
members of the Western Federation
of Miners and take out cards from the
mine owners association before Civ
ing them employment Union miners
who renounce their federation Will be
permitted to remain in the camp if
they have satisfactory records Sew
eral hundred men applied at the mine
owners headquarters for cards yes
sued. as the rule to Investigate thor
Oughly the record of each applicant
will be enforced The mines are rap
idly resuming work, and by next Mon
/ day all except the Portland will be in
full operation, employing only nom
union men.
No radical steps have yet been
taken to enforce the agreement of
the bushes men in general to employ
no members of unions connected with
the local trades assem- bly,, the Ameri-
can Labor union, or kindred organi-
zations Order having been restored,
Sheriff Edward Bell today largely re-
duced his force of special deputies
Since the recent deportations follow
ing the hegira of many strikers to
avoid arrest and Incarceration. there
r-ear 1rTr
and 125 prisoners against whom Grim
fnal charges will be fled 1t is said
| there are about 100 in the Victor
arTnory and Cripple Creek mining ex-
change hall, many of whom are
marked for deportation.
The woman side of the situation
mas been one of the most troublesome e
to the military authorities and the
citizens committee Non-union work
ingmen have become accustomed to
receiving insults and jibes from wo-
men in sympathy with the strikers.
but none of these have been arrested
or driven out. However. the sl1rest
ticket a man can have for deportation
Is wife with a loose and virulent
tongue Some men are sent away
only that their wives may follow
them.
District Attorney Trowbridre has
appointed S p. Crump as his deputy
IN place Of j. G. Cole, who was forced
out of office. AS attorney for the
mine owners associatio Mr. Crur1,
has to a large extent directed affairs
through the strike and reorganization
periods.
The citizens committee has modi-
fed its plans in reference to securine-
designations from county officials
some OF whom fled from the district
to avoid an interview with the co1,9
mittee- County Treasurer Duncan
McNeaI, whose name was included i'm
a pu ublished list Of exfles. is in the cftv
ana ana IS dlscharging the duties of his
Office without interference.