The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-14
PEACE REIGNS.
Teller County Appears to Have
Settled Down to Quiet.
People Generally Have Laid
Aside Their Rifles.
DAILY EXPEDITIONS
Are Sent Out by Gen. Bell to
ScOur the Country.
Another Arrest for Blowing Up
the independence Depot.
DAILY EXPEDITIONS


mines the streets of all the cities and
towns in Teller county, which is un-
der military rule, have taken on their
/ normal appearance. A man with a
rife is now rarely seen, although
many are wearing holster guns. On
the surface there is no longer the
least reminder of the stirring times
of last week. The district apparently
is as safe today to the visitor or the
resident as ever it has been.
Two posses secured the country
west of Cripple Greek without en-
countering the armed bodies of men
reported to be entrenched on West
Four Mile and North Four Mile
creeks. General Bell says he will
send out military expeditions daily
until he rounds up all refugees in the
surrounding mountains.
Arrested and Beaten.
! Denver, June 14.-C. C. Kennison,
president of miners union No. 40 of
Cripple Creek, was arrested by City
/ Marshal Moore of Goldfield as he was
going to the headquarters of the de-
/ ported miners in this city. The charge.
against him is murder, for alleged
participation in the blowing up of
mite.
/ Kennison did not resist arrest. but
after his arrest he got into an alter
cation with Moore, and the marshal
slruck MS prisoner on the head with
a gun making a scalp wound
kennlson declared he knew moth
ing about the explosion, and sent for
/ William D. Haywood, secretary of the
1 Western Federation of Miners, An
attempt Will be made to secure a writ
OF habeas corpus for Kennison and
| ton of Adjutant General Bell
Ihe Sher1ffS S office here has a nur,o-
Der of warrants for other men who
are wanted at Cripple Creek
Peabody Thinks It's Over.
Denver. June414.-'I think the war
is nearly over" said Governor Pea
body today. Il have news from CEN
eral Bell that the Cripple Creek mines
are open and running today and there
! is comparatively little dissa tfsfa ction
among the men. There is no news of
any further trouble or any likelihood
of any.
II don't know how many more men
/ viii be deported, or whether anv will
! be. 1 have heard nothing on that
| point
I learn from Captain BuIkley Wells
OF Telluride that the union men there
| concede that their cause is lost and
| that those of them who are acceptable
! to the mine owners are already at
| work again. One hundred and fifty
| capable men, whether union or non
union. have been invited to go to work
and the invitation will be speedily
accepted.
I'm SiIverton and Ouray peace
| reigns. The troops have all been or
| dered from Las Animas county and
| only Major Hill remains to look after
! the closing up of the details of the
! campaign"
| Governor Peabody sent the follow
1 ing reply to a message he received
from the Industrial council of Kansas
| City condemning his action:
| Denver, June 13.-J.- J. Huckett
/ CO afsaT-v = -sr,T
! City, Mo: The fact that your council
/ indorses the assassinations. train
wrecking and dynamiting by the law
/ less element in the Cripple Creek dis
/ Grict but proves the necessity for my
/ present action in suppressing all such
/ from the soil of Colorado. Become
/ wise before you attempt to teach
| James II. Peabody, governor
Governor Peabody also sent the fol-
/ lowing dispatch in reply to a request
/ from an eastern newspaper for a
statement of his reasons for permit
/ ting Colorado troops to dump ninety
leaving them destitute on the prairfe.,
| miles from habitation:
1.-The reason for deporting strikers
and agitators from Cripple Creek was
the dynamite outrage of June g.
whereby IA non-uniOn miners were
instantly killed and the subsequent
street riots and killing of two non
union miners by the same element
I
same train with the agitators. No
cases of hunger or suffering reported
The constitution of Colorado com
mandS the suppression of inSurrection
by such means as may be necessary
The statement published from head
quarters of the Western Federation
of Miners to the effect that the present
strike was called by referendum vote
and for the purpose of establishing
an eight hour day is erroneous and
false. The strike was arbitrarily
called by the executive committee of
the Western Federation of Miners and
protested against by three-fourths Of
the miners in the Cripple Creek dis
trict. The eight hour day had been
established and recognized for ten
years past and employer and employ
ed were satisfied and working in har-
mony. Rioting, dynamiting and an
archy has had its day in Colorado"
Utah Won't Have Them.
Salt Lake Utah, June IA special
to the Deseret News from Price Utah,
the center of the Carbon county coal
fields, says that if any of the union
miners of Victor and Cripple Creek,
Col, are brought into Utah, Sheriff
Wilcox will run a special train to meet
them and take them back into Color
ado.
Paroles Recalled.
Cripple Creek. Col, June 14-Sherif
Bell has requested the warden of the
state prison at Canon City to recall ALI
parOled prisoners because some of them
are supposed to be in the district in
league with the so-called laWless eIe-
ment. Five of the councilnen of the
town of Anaconda, resigned today un-
der pressure. Two of them have been
confined in the bull pen for several