River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-06-16
EX|LED MINERS
LEFT ON PRAIRIE
TRAIN DUMPS DEPoPTED MEN
AT DESERTED SPOT.
MILES FROM ANY HABITATloN
Kansas Sheriff Appears and Drives
Them Back Into Colorado-Deso-
late and Hungry They Are
Fed by Salvationists.

SSul out from lnelT state on Il special
train in charge of half hundred Col
orado militiamen, were literally
dumped into Kansas Saturday, and left
destitute upon the prairie. q
The miners had been placed on the
train, which was a special made up
by the authorities in control in the
disturbed Colorado town, and in
charge of well-armed militiamen start
ed for the east late Friday. At La
Junta, Col, where the first stop was
made, the cars were closely guarded
The miners were not permitted to
leave the cars, nor were any of the
hundred or so men who gathered at
the station allowed to communicate
with them.
Landed on Deserted Prairie.
When a point in Kansas half mile
east of the Colorado state line was
reached early Saturday a halt was
made. 1t was deserted spot on
the wild prairie, with no railway
station, eating house nor farmers
house within several miles
Without delay the men were disem-
barked, the engine was reversed, and
the militiamen reboarded the train.
Lieut.. Cole, the officer in COM
mand of the guard, instructed the
miners plainly that they were not
wanted in Colorado, and told them
they had better go east.
Half dozen of the soldiers fired a
volley into the air to intimidate the
men, and the train started west with
the militiamen, leaving the miners to
make their way to some habitation rs
best they might.
While the miners were deciding upon
what they were to do, Sheriff Jack
Brady, of Hamilton county, Kan, and
40 armed deputies arrived on the
scene and ordered the unhappy men
back to Colorado. Three of the
miners had already started east afoot
The others retraced their steps at the
command of the Kansas officers along
the railroad track westward After a
long, weary tramp, they struggled into
Holly, Col, small town near the
Colorado-Kansas boundary, where
they were furnished food at the big
Salvation Army station located there.
Guests of Mayor.
The deported miners were the guests
of the mayor of Holly at dinner late
In the day. They were notified during
the afternoon that special train
would would be sent to take them all
to Denver. The miners held meet
ing and discussed the situation with
officials of the Western Federation OF
Miners. They decided to await in
structions from the officers of the Fed
GRAFTON in Denver as to their future
movements. They are considering the
advisability of returning to Cripple
Creek, and have not decided about re-
turning in a body.
Sheriff Brady, Notwithstanding the
instructions he received from Topeka,
kept his force of deputies at the state
line until late in the afternoon to pre-
vent any of the miners from coming
across. He returned at night, being sat
isfied that the men would not come
into Kansas. The Colorado authorities
will not be allowed to dump their de-
ported men into Hamilton.
Miners Charged with Murder.
Victor, Col, June 13.-Charges of
murder were drawn up Friday against
so of the men confined in the bull
pen here, and they were taken to the
county Jail.
This move was made shortly after
the coroners jury had handed down
a verdict holding the Western Fedora
ton of Miners responsible for the
dynamite outrage at Independence.
The verdict says that the crime was
committed by persons unknown "for
the purpose of willfully maliciously
and feloniously killing and numbering;
that said crime is one of similar
crimes designed and committed in the
Cripple Creek district during the last
few months, and perpetrated for the
purpose of intimidating nonunion
miners, and thereby preventing them
from working, land are the result OF
a conspiracy entered into by certain
members of the Western Federation of
Miners and known, melted, and fur
thered by certain officers of that or
ganization. :"
Thinks Ten Executions Sure.
"A
said: I'VE have evidence that will le-
gally hang five and possibly double that
number, and enough to fill the peni-
Tertiary. We have unearthed state of
things that the public will be slow to be-
lieve; that we ourselves are appalled, at,
even knowing, as we have, that they
were bad. We would be doing the pub
lie wrong to turn these people loose
upon it, They must be punished, and
will be, now the laws are enforced"
Must Quit Union.
Cripple Creek, Col, June 13.-Peace is
coming to Cripple Creek If Gen. Sher-
nina M Bell, military commander Of
Teller county, can accomplish all that
he has planned to do 1t will come
through the forcible expulsion Of all
persons who owe allegiance to the
Western Federation Of Miners or who
express sympathy with the miners
unions. With the exception of the Port
land Gold Mining company all the large
companies and nearly all the operators
VINO are organized as the Cripple Green
District Mine-Owners' association, re-
quire miners to surrender their cards
as members of the Western Federation
OF Miners and take out cards from the
Mine Owners association before giving
them employment. Union miners who
renounce their federation will be per-
mitted to remain in the camp If they
have satisfactory records.