The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1904-06-08
MARTIAL Law IN COLORADO.
No Serious Outbreak at Cripple
Creek Yesterday---The Tension
Remains Severe.
Assassin Responsible for Explosion has
so Far EIuded capture---Military
Companies and Deputies Control. /,

Companies and Deputies Control.
Cripple Creek, Col, June Apart
from few small fights in connection
with the rounding up and arresting
of union miners no outbreak has oc-
Cured in this district today. Two
local military companies and small
army of armed deputies under Sher-
if Edward Bell are in full control of
the camp. Though there has been no
turbulence today there is an undercur-
rent of feeling which BODIES i'll
Secretary Clarence Hamlin of the
Mineowners' association declared to-
day that 200 prisoners now held in the
armory in Victor would be taken
over the hills and warned never to re-
turn. There is minority element
that wants to hang N. W. O'Connell,
former marshal of Victor, who is sus-
pended and also under arrest, and also
Alfred Miller, charged with having
started the riot which resulted in the
killing of Roxie MCGEE and several
Others at the mass meeting in Victor
yesterday. No hanging will take place,
however. in all probability, unless
resistance is offered by word or action
| of the prisoners. 1t would require
but little to have a wholesale hang
| ing.
Virgil King,a union leader, and Is
others arrested in Cripple Creek today
have been taken to Victor for deport-
atiou. A well grounded rumor is to
the effect that large number of union
miners working in Portland will be
arrested. The building owned and
occupied by Miners union. No. 40. in
Cripple Creek, is in charge of the
| militia. The front windows have
been demolished and the big sign Of
the W. F. o. NJ. torn down.
City Marshal ". j. Graham was
forced to resign by the citizens CON-
mittee headed by E. G. Newcomb,
cashier Of the First National bank,
and Charles N. Crowder was appoint
ed as his successor by the city council
| which convened at once to confirm
him. Justice OF the Peace G. N.
Harrington, said to be union SYM
pathizer, heard that the committee
was to wait >on him and he rendered
his resignation before the committee
could ask him. County Judge Albert
| S. Frost is cut of the city but it is
said he will be asked to resign as
soon as he arrives here and so will
Frank P Marniy, county clerk and
recorder. Both are attending the
Democratic convention at Pueblo.
| Il Isl further reported that Assistant
| District Attorney j. G. Cole will be
compelled to relinquish his Office.
All Office holders whose designations
have been demanded have furnished
them when threatened with hanging.
Photographs Of Charles Mccormack
and Melvin Beck, who were killed by
| an Internal machine in the Vindicator
| mine November 81, 1903, and of other
| Vindicator miners were found in pcs
session of Frank Cochrane, secretary
| of one Of the miners unions of Victor.
This discovery greatly agitated Off
cials of the Mineowners' association,
who declared that Cochrane shall be
strung up until he discloses all tha
he knows concerning the outrage.
They believe be has information that
will lead to the arrest of the perpe-
traitors of the crime.
ONE THOUSAND DEPUTIES.
It was estimated this afternoon that
| 1000 deputies had been sworn in by
Sheriff Bell. The Victor Record was
censored by a special committee ap.
pointed by the sheriff before publica-
tion was permitted today.
Boys playing in the, neighborhood OF
tie hole made by the explosion in In
dependence today found a portion of
cheaply made British Bulldog revolv-
er. The weapon contained one shell
and was taken to the Office of the Git
izers' alliance as it was conclusive
proof that the dynamite was set off
in the fashion similar to the explo-
sion of giant powder i'll tie Vindi-
Gator mine.
The bloodhounds, in charge Of Hugo
P.lmer of Trinidad, today trailed the
assassin who killed the Findlay
miners to a mile beyond Clyde sta
tion, distance of three miles. There
~ ,oo,+ roe oornlota1v lost TT is