The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-08
MARTIAL LAW is DECLARED
Non Union Miners Marked for Muir
der in Suspected Plot

Victor, Col, June 8.-Martial law
was declared In the Cripple Creek dis
triot early to-day by the posting Of
acting Governor Hagot's proclamation
The posting was done under the di-
rectton Of Adjutant General Bell.
Conditions, In the camp are quiet ac-
cording to all accounts.
General Bell has assumed COM
) .mand of the military and control OF
the district, and has called q council
Of the, officers Of the local military
companies. He also has ordered
Colonel Verdeokberg, who had charge
Of affairs in the district when mar
tial law ended there several months
ago. to the district. -
Two hemp ropes knotted with a
moose for hanging were lying on a
table in the room where the Cripple
Creek District Mine Owners associa-
ton held a heated discussion late last
night. @ VA 49,. Il, 81. . +.
The members were greatly incensed
, by the discovery Of what they re-
gard as evidence OF the existence of
plot In the Victor Miners union for
wholesale assassination Of mine own
ers and miners.
This evidence was a bundle Of forty
marked photographs found by Lieu
tenant Keegan In the union hall. On
the back of some OF the photographs
rotary Of the union.
The photographs were Of groups Of
men employed in various mines. The
= most important one was group OF
the night shift Of the Vtndicator. The
photograph contains about twenty
portraits, Ave Of which were mum.
bered from one to five.
On the back were written the
names of the persons numbered. Oh
the five names, those Of Charles Nc.
Cormick and Mel Beck had beer
crossed out. These two men were
killed in the Vindicator explosion last
November. .r ..
On other photographs, similarly ar.
ranged, 1t Is asserted there are crossed
out the names Of some of the mer
who have disappeared and whose
+ whereabouts are unknown.
n James Cochran was arrested ant
taken into the mine owners head
quarters for hearing.
II do not know anything abou
these pictures," he said, Except tina
they were taken to show the scabs
The marks by the names Of the mel
who have~been killed are mysteriou
to me. I was not present when tn
pictures were taken and cannot tel
you any more about it."
Three more Victor city official
have been forced to resign. They ar
Justice of the Peace J. D. Thoma
and Aldermen J. w. Murphy and J
J. Tobin. Police Magistrate Michae
Gibbons, who refused to resign, wa
made a prisoner.
Frank j. Bangs. leading attorney o
the Western Federation of Miner
here, has been warned to leave tn
district,
About two hundred union member
and sympathizers have been arrested
Twenty-eight of these have alread
been deported. The remainder ar
imprisoned in the jails, Victor Al
Exchange hall under military guart
The dragnet Is still out and tn
"house cleaning" as the authorize
term their proceedings. continue:
Records Of the unions have bee
seized whenever found and are undo
examination to secure evidence the
the unions or some of their officer
have participated in or approved
crimes.
In addition to the unearthing
about thirty group photographs
nonunion workingmen at vario,
mines which were concealed In hea
of rubbish in the Victor union offic
1t is alleged that in the office of I'll
Altman union were found electric
fuses and batteries to produce expl,
sions.
ri Talk of lynching or violence h;
" subsidized, tho If the man who expl
ded the Internal machine at Ind
pendence should be captured 1T
doubtful whether any military for
could protect him from the fury
friends of the murdered men.
The man who killed Roxie Meg
at the mass meeting here Monday HI
been positively identified by an e.
witness of the shooting, and altho
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