Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-06-10
Teller County, Colorado, to Be
Rid of Them.
GENERAL BELL ACTS
"ORDER WILL BE MAINTAINED,
WHATEVER THE COST
Excitement Gradually Subsiding-Ban
Lifted Against A. F. Of L.-Strikes
Have Cost $23, o36, 600.

H$vS OSSs Y~OtSCO1SSO.
CRIPPLE CREEK, Col, June 1O.-Depor-
tations are the order of the day. Gen.
Sherman M. Bell. military commander. has
ordered that ninety-seven members of the
miners unions shall be taken outside of
Teller county on special train, in accord
ance with the recommendations Of the cit
liens committee which examined them.
This committee was in session nearly all
night investigating the cases of 100 other
union men who are confined in the Victor
armory and submitted another report to
Gen. Bell today. recommending further de-
portations
Within forty-eight hours this district
will be rid of all agitators and other OBJ
jectionable men, said Gen. Bell today.
"O1e deportation after another will be
made until none of the men who have ter
rorized tha- district so long will be left here.
We intend to continue arresting men who
are not wanted here and they will be run
out as fast as possible.
The unionists are scared and many are
leaving the country of their own yolftion to
avoid arrest and Incarceration. There are
still some desperate characters among the
hills, however whom we intend getting. no
matter what the cost. In running them
down there may occur some fights, but do
iIOt lOOh lOE any StFICuS tTOuDlc
Squads are out securing the hills In
search of certain men who are wanted in
connection with the Independence assassi-
nations. kilograms have been sent to
points asking them to watch for these
persons. whose names are not made pub
lie.
Sheriff Edward Bell has issued an or
der that all saloons IN the district must
remain closed until Monday. June Ii.
Manu Mines Ra.0pan
The excitement throughout this district
is gradually subsiding. Work was resumed
to day at mines employing non-union men,
which had been closed since Monday, the
Stratton Independence being the first to re-
open. The Portland mine remains closed
by order of General Bell and its 500 en-
ployes viii be compelled to abandon the
union or leave the district
Employers in all branches Of business in
this city. without an exception so far as
known. have signed the agreement pro-
posed by the Citizens Alliance, mot to
employ help Of any kind that is in any way
connected with the District Trades Assem-
bly, or the State Federation of Labor. the
American Labor Union or the Western
Fedora ton Of Miners or any kindred or
ganiza tion.'
This agreement of the proprietors has
caused CONSERVATION among the clerks and
members Of the retail clerks, BARRIERS, car
penters', bartenders', cooks and other trade
unions, as all will have to resign to hold
their positions.
The present scale Of wages will prevail
and individual unions will be tolerated, it
is conceded, If they are conducted on con-
sentative lines and do not give aid. g.
rectly or indirectly, to the Western Fedora
ton Of Miners.
This war against unions is to be extended
the organizers of the movement say to
every city and town in the district.
No Quarrel With A. F. of L.
An amendment has been made to the
agreement being circulated by committees
from the Citizens Alliance pledging It's
members not to employ members of unions
affiliated with certain labor organizations.
The name of the American Federation of
Labor. has been stricken out and that Of
the American Labor Union will be sub
stituted AS 1t now stands the agreement
applies to the local trades assembly. the
American Labor Union. the State Fedora
ton OF Labor and the Western Federation
of Miners.
In an interview concerning the closing OF
the Portland mine at Victor by order OF
Gen. Bell. James E. Burns, president of the
Portland Company, said that nearly one
half of the Portland force were not MEM
bers of the miners union.
There were as good miners as ever
ndnuleu d PICK working tnefe, SAID Mr..
Burns. 'rhey are, most Of them. men with
families and they are neither law breakers
nor agitators / would not refuse a man
work because he did not belong to the
union, nor because he did. / wanted the
best men there, and kept wedding out the
poorer ones, without reference to unions.
II a firm believer in what they call
the open shop If other mine owners had
adopted my plan. there would not be an
idle miner in the camp today, and there
would not be disturbance worthy OF the
name
Investigating the Explosion.
VICTOR, Col, June 1o.-In the investiga-
ton by the jury empaneled by Coroner
Hall into the explosion at the Independence
station on Monday, when more than TWEEN
ty men were killed crippled, the first
witness today was James Dooner. engin-
eer of the train that was pulling into the
station at the time Of the explosion.
Dooner said that he had stopped about
seventy-hve feet from the depot. when some
men ran up and informed him that the
depot had been blown up. He told how he
and his crew had lighted torches and made
an, investigation of the scene, and how they
had assisted the wounded. He had. he
said, made second trip to the depot plat
form with the conductor. They tried to
find wire by which some one had said the
explosion had been caused, but they did not
see any wire.
Other members of the train crew corrob-
Grated the testimony given by Dooner.
Miner Retaiates.
DENVER, Colo, June 10.-Thomas II.
Psrfet. one of the twenty-six miners de-
ported from Victor Tuesday night, has sued
Out q warrant in Justice Riee's court for
the arrest of Deputy Sheriff Harry d. BEN
ton and seven unknown assistant deputies
who stood guard over the trainload Of BAN
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