Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-09
WORST BELIEVED OVER
Quiet This Afternoon at Grip
pie Greek, Col.
BELLS A UTHORITY
RIGHT TO SEND TROOPS TO DUNN
VILE DISPUTED.
Newspaper Office Wrecked-Gen. Bell
in Great Danger From Bullets
One Man Killed.

CHlPPLE CREEK, COL, June 0.-A1ter q
night of intense excitement, due to the bat
tie between troops and strikers at Dunn
Vile, small skirmish ON Big Bull hill and
the wrecking of the Victor Record office,
matters have quieted DOWN in this military
worst is now over.
A question Of jurisdiction may arise over
the Dunneville battle. The fight took place
IL, Fremont county and John Carley, who
was killed was brought to Teller Dunn
vile is located fourteen miles south of Vic
tor, short distance beyond the border Of
Teller county, which alone has been decid-
ed by the governor to be in a state of in
surrection and rebellion.
Adju,ant General Sherman M. Bells right
tc send troops out of the territory which is
under martial law is disputed, but he claims
authority to do this ur6er a paragraph Of
the orders calling out troops
It is considered remarkable that only one
man was killed in the Dunnville battle. The
conteSIng forces were about 200 soldiers
and deruties under personal command Of
Gen. Bell and IS miners who were secreted
behind &c cks and trees in the hills surround
ing the new mining camp. The attacking
party left it's train and walked through a
narrow canyon into the open gulch where
the town of Dunnville is located, and was
subjected to q hail of bullets from the rocks
high above. Probably two thousand shots
were fred by both sides, yet the only man
hit so far as known was John Carley, who
was in the timber and was slain by steel
bullet from the rifle of a man in the firing
squad OF Sergt. Balding. The dirt and rocks
around the feet of the invaders and the
newspaper men who accompanied them
were knl cked up as If a heavy hail storm
were N progress.
Gen. Bell in Danger.
Bullets struck about Gen. Bell and liter
ally srrinkled his boots with earth and
broken rock, but he coolly continued to
give orders. He turned to a newspaper man
who was standing a few feet away and
shouted: "Cover up that white vest and
take off that Panama"
After several minutes OF hot work, desul-
tory firing was kept up for an hour. About
twenty men were captured. and fourteen OF
these, who are members of miners unions,
were brought to camp and imprisoned, the
others being released.
Gen. Bell will not call for more troops,
believing that the two companies now on
duty, assisted by the sheriff's deputies, can
cope with the small parties of miners scat
tered among the mountains. To queries on
this point Gen. Bell answers: See how
those men fought without cover, and death
singing about their ears"
Gen. Bell was informed that men wanted
for participation in the rioting at Victor
were at Dunnville, and he made the raid
1Of the purpose II tnem. In the
party that went to Dunnville was Charles
M. MacNeill of the United States Reduction
and Refining Company. The companyS re-
fusal to grant it's mill men eight-hour
day caused the Cripple Creek miners to
strike. MacNeill was armed with a mag
azine revolver. which he fired frequently,
but apparently without hitting anybody.
After Friedley Brothers.
One of the chases in the general man
hrlp ic lad in
the capture of C. C. Friedley, at the
Thompson ranch. The three Friedley
brothers, miners, had gone southwark and
as one of them was suspected of having
fired the shot that killed Roxie MCGEE in
the riot Monday, the military gave chase.
c. c. Frfedley at first refused to talk, but
the soldiers placed rope>about his neck
and he then told which way his brothers
and another man had gone. Marshal II. A.
Naylor then continued the pursuit to Canon
City. C. c. Friedley was brought to Victor
and placed in the bull pen
Chris Miller, a union leader and member
of the Goldfield city council. has been cap
tured at Canon City and will be brought
back to the camp. He is charged with hav-
ing done some shooting In the Victor riot.
The military commissioners appointed by
General Bell to investigate the records OF
the prisoners will separate the prisoners
into two classes, those to be held on GRIM
inal charges and those to be deported.
George X. kyner, pFOpFlStoT VI tHS SiCeoi
Record whose Office and machinery were
wrecked last night by mob, said that he
will establish a new plant as soon as pos
sible and resume publication of his news
naner. He established his loss at 5000.
Though the Record has been the official
organ of the miners union since the strike
began last August, 1t has vigorously de-
nonnced the assassinations which took
place at Independence on Monday. and has
been outspoken in support of law, order
and justice.
At Victor today joint funeral services
were held over the remains of five victims
of the independence explosion.
Clash With Posse.
GLENwOOD SPRINGS. Colo. June g.
A sherifrs posse has had an encounter nine
miles southwest of Newcastle, with three
men. supposed to have been the train rob-
bers who held up a Denver and Rio Grande
westbound passenger train near Parachute
Tuesday night. One of the three. 1t Is re-
norted has been killed and the other two