The Grit-advocate., 1904-06-10
MARTIAL LAW
FOR CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT.

Out Officers Allied With Miners
Federation.-Union Record Seized.
Strikers in the sweatbox-Many
Men Oeported.
Denver. June S.-The Republican
correspondent at Victor last night
gives the following summary of events
of the day and the situation in the
Cripple Greek district:
The drac-net after agitators was con.
tinued all day and took in Gillet, Alt
man. Cripple Creek Independence,
Goldfield. Elkton. Cameron and Victor.
Special arrests were made by special
squads and old and new offenders
were taken into custody for specific Of
fenses against the law.
The work of securing designations of
officials plant to the dictates of the
Western Federation of Miners, con-
tinued throughout the day. the mar
shals of Cripple Creek, Independence
and Altman resigning and enough of
the aldermen on the Victor board to Sc
cure a safe administration. A Justice
of the peace in Cripple Creek, who has
often offended the law by turning
loose union law breakers. resigned on
request of citizens committee.
Records of the union in every camp
were taken into possession of the sher-
if and will be examined for evidence
of union approval for participation in
crimes.
In the office of the Altman union
were found quantities of electrical
fuses and batteries to produce explos-
ions.
In the Victor union Office were found
about thirty group photographs of the
shifts of workmen in various mines
and in many cases non-union men had
been marked. The Vindicator shift
photograph. in which Charles McCor.
mick and Mel Beck appeared, had these
men marked and in the list on the
back their names had been marked out,
as though checked off after these men
were murdered in an explosion pro
duced in the same manner as that at
the independence depot.
The gun with which the powder un-
der the depot was exploded was found
and delivered to the sheriff.
Twenty-eight of the less vicious Of
tenders drawn in by the drag-net were
deported by special train to Denver. In
all between ITS and 200 union sympa-
thizers have been taken in by the sher-
If. waiting investigation and on spe-
eitic charges. They are held in the
jails and in the armory at Victor and
the Mining Exchange hall in Cripple
Greek. under military guard.
On request of Sheriff Bell, Acting
Governor Haggott declared martial
law and under it the twenty-eight men
were depCrted.
Frank Cochran. secretary of the Vic
J,,. Nj ~, tad
with the thirty-third degree to force a
confession of the crime committed un.
der approval of the union.
There was no talk of lynching or
violence toward anybody to-day.
though if the man who pulled the infer.
nal machine could be found, it is
question whether any military force
could protect him from the fury Of the
friends of the murdered men.
The man who shot Roxie McGee has
been identified and will not escape. 1t
is not believed that he will be lynched.
There has been no evidence of mob
to-day. 1t has been a day of hard
work. Of close study of ways and
means-a deliberately spent day.
Armed men'are everywhere on mis-
sions of arrest, but they carry author
ity as officers The order to keep sa-
looms closed is being strictly observed.
Only one offender in the whole district
was found to-day, and his doors were
quickly closed.
Only one drunken man was seen on
the streets of Victor and when Sheriff
Bell went to him. shook his hand and
courteously told him to get off the
streets until sober, he promptly COM
Piled.
What will be done about the Port
land case is not clear. 1t may be the
company will be disciplined in some
way for. it's attitude against the clean
ing-up movement.
The real leaders of the strike have
nearly all flown the district.
Now that the legal machinery is
clear up to the courts, at least, some
of these known criminals will be
brought back.
Practically every mine and every
lease in the district is closed down. the
Portland excepted, to remain SO until
the situation is made clear.