The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-06-10
MINERS FIGHT BE-
COMING SERIOUS
A Newspaper Office Looted,
Plant Destroyed, Editor Or
dered to Leave


meeting yesterday that unionism must
be banishad f ON the Cripple Creek
District forever Attorneys a. e prepar-
ing document to be presented To all
merchants. business men and other EN-
ployes of labor for their signatures
pied ging them to not in the future en-
ploy any one connected with a labor
union. Three thousand men and
women win be effected.
Cripple Creek, Colo. June 9.-"Death
to un.onism in the c. ipple Creek Dis
trict.' Is the new slogan of the Citi-
zens' Alliance, which has sent a dee. ee
broadcast that every person connected
with any union here must either sever
his or her connection with such or
ganization or leave the dis .rict.
This latest stand of the anti-union-
lists was vaguely h,nted at two days
ago. but the movement on the part of
the alliance seemed too absu d TO the
5000 or 1900 unionists in the camp and
its enforcement fraught with so many
difficulties that 1t was rot taken Sc
riously.
Tyson s. Dimes. Denver attorney
and one of the executors of the Strait
ton estate. Is here in conference with
Citizens Alliance leaders and II IL
announced that he is preparing form
which viii be presented to every mer-
chant and business man and other
employers of labor in the entire dis
triet. pledging them not TO employ any
pc son who is affll. with a labor
union.
No person who wo he ror living IS
exempt. ana the absolute annihilation
OF union SIN in this county IS predicted
by members of the Citizens Alliance
and the Mine Owners Association.
This is considered the most drast. {
step yet taken by the alliance since IL
secured the upper hand in the district
and its enforcement W II affect S00O
men and women now affiliated with the
various unions. Among the unions
that win be affected by the new move
ment are the Clerks. Cooks and Wait
ers. Bartenders, Carpenters, Elect C
ians. Trainmen and Stone and Brick
Masons
The unionists assert they will dght
the movement to a fin sh.
Cripple Creek. Colo. June 9--After
a night OF intense excitement due TO
the battle between troops and strikers
at Dunnile. a small skirmish on B &
Bun Hin and the wrecking OF the Vic
tor Record office matters have quieted
down in this military district and IL
is generally believed the worst Is now
over
A question may arise over the Dunn
vile battle between the authorities. as
II was fought In Fremont county and
John Carey, who was killed. was
brought 10 Teller. Dunnville is located
fourteen niles south OF Victor. a short
distance beyond the border of Teller
county. which alone has been decia ed
by the governor TO be IN state OF
insufrection and rebellion Adjutant
General Sherman NJ. Behs right to
send troops out OF the territory, which
is under martial law is disputed. but
he claims authority to do this under
a paragraph of the ders calling out
troops WnlCn leadS as tOlloWS.
"lt having been made to appear to
me by the she. liz of Teller county. and
by other officers of said county and
citizens of said county. that there is
within the county OF Teller and adja-
cent thereto large number OF PEI sons
working together ana threatening 10
JOIN TO css IN said Teller county, tor
the pui pose of resisting the STATE OF
Colorado" etc.
IL is considered remarkable that
only one man was killed IN the Dunn
VILE battle. The contesting forces
We're about two hund. ed soldiets and
deputies under PEI lsonal command OF
General Bell and sixty-fve miners,
who were secieled behind rocks and
trees in the hills su round ng the new
mining camp. The attacking party
left Its train and walked through a
narrow canon into the open guleh
where the town Of Dunnv.lle Is To-
Gated and was sub. .ected to hail OF
bullets from the rocks high above.
Probably 1000 shots were hred by
both sides. yet only one man was hit
so far as known. John Carley was
In the timber and was slain by a steel
bullet from the KragJ JoIgensen rifle
OF a man IN the firing squad OF Ser
geant Baldwin. The dirt and rocks
around the feet of the invaders ana
the newspaper men who accompanied
them were spitted up as If a heavy hail
siolm was in progress. but not a man
was touched.
Bullets struck about General Bell
and literally sprnklsd his bouts with
earth and bioken ROCK, but lie was