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MINERS ARE TURNED BACK
Kansas Won't Accept Colorado's
Deported Strikers.
HOMELESS BECOME TRAMPS

Dumped in n Desolate Place Across the
State Line, They Are Forced by sher-
ifs Men to Tramp Back Into Colo
rado-,roney Being Raised to Aid tn.
Unfortunate Laborars.
Syracuse, Kan.-A special train car.
rying n~inety-one deported miners from
Victor. Col, in charge Of ffty-six mill
tianen, reached a place on the main
line of the Santa Fee Railroad a few
rods over the Colorado State line. The
men were then deserted on the prairie.
At the place where they were set
down there is no eating house or rail-
say station, and the men were virtu-
ally destitute.
The Lieutenant-C Colonel in command
Of the guard told the miners that they
were not wanted in Colorado and that
they had better go East. Half a dozen
bf the soldiers fired q volley into the
air to intimidate the men and the train
started west with the militiamen, leav-
Ing the miners to make their way to
some habitation as best they might.
While the miners were deciding upon
what they would do, Sheriff Jack
Brady, of Hamilton County, Kan, and
forty armed deputies arrived on the
scene and ordered the men back to
Colorado. Three of the miners had
started East afoot.
The others retraced their steps, at
the command of the Kansas officers,
along the railroad track westward.
After q long. weary tramp they stray
gled into Holly, Col. a small town near
the Colorado-Kansas boundary, where
they got food 40 the Salvation Army
station. Despite the emphatic COM
mand of Colonel Kennedy, the men;
after a rest, again took up their jour-
ney west and started overland for La.
mar, Col.
Denver.-"God help the miners from
Colorado and Kansas who are sent
back by the Kansas authorities" said
Governor Peabody, when asked what
steps he would take in such a contin-
gency. kansas cannot prevent peo-
pie from entering her borders, but If
she finds they do not make good citi-
zens she can pass them on, as Colorado
has done. She has the right to throw
them out.
""The military are in control and are
holding things in a normal way there.
The trouble will blow over and things
will be normal within a short time.
The military campaign at Trinidad will
soon become a matter of history. Ev-
erything is quiet in that district"
Secretary Haywood, of the Western
Federation says money will be sent to
the deported miners at Holly and they
will come to Denver.
Topeka, Kan.-If the deported Colo
RADIO miners will come to Kansas as
quiet, p%eaceable citizens and are will
ing to work, Governor Bailey will well
come them and throw about them the
protection they seem to need. 1t is be-
lieved here that all the deported miners
can find employment in the wheat har-
vest in Western and Central Kansas.
Victor, Col.-General Bell heard that
a band Of fugitive agitators was in
trerched at Clyde, eight miles east Of
here, and that their number was in
creasing hourly. He at once sent out
Major McClelland and sixteen troopers
with orders to bring them in.
The squad sent out under command
of Colonel John Sharpe returned after
having taken a gallop of thirty-fve
miles over Bull Hill. But three miners
were found.
The largest deportation Of union men
ever recorded will soon be an accom-
plished fact. Over 900 and perhaps 400
union miners will have been taken
from t State by the military and
deputies. and in all cases the men have
been warned not to return on peril Of
their lives.