The free lance. (Fredericksburg, Va.) 1885-1926, 1904-06-11
Armed Guards Patrol Cripple Cree

Armed Guards Patrol Cripple Creek
Cripple Creek. Colo, June S.-Apart
from n few small fights in connection
with the rounding mp and arrestlng OF
union miners. no further outbreak has
occurred in this district. Two local
militia companies and a small army
of armed deputies under Sheriff Ed
ward Bell are in full control OF the
camp. Though there has been no
turbulence. there is an undercurrent
of feeling which BODIES i'll.
Secretary Clarence Hamlin, OF the
Mine Owners Association. declared
that 200 prisoners now held in the ar.
mory I'm Victor would be taken over
the hills and warned never to return.
There is a minority element that wants
to hang n. w. O'Connell former mar
shall of Victor. who is suspended and
under arrest. and also Alfred Miller,
charged with having started the riot
which resulted In the killing OF RoXle
McGee and several others at the mass
meeting in Victoria. No hanging Will
take place. however. in all probability
unless resistance Is offered by word or
action Of the prisoners. II would re-
quire but little TO start wholesale
hanging.
Virgil King. a union leader, and 10
others arrested in Cripple Creek. have
been taken 10 Victor for deportation
A well.founded rumor is to the effect
that large number Of union miners
working in the Portland mine will be
arrested The building owned and oc
cupled by Miners Union, No. As. In
Cripple Creek is in charge of the mill
tia. The front windows have been de-
molished and the big sign Of the w
i. o. VI. torn down.
City Marshal w. J. Graham was
forced 70 resign by the citizens com
mittee. headed by f. c. Newcomb
cashier of the First National Bank
and Charles \. Crowder. was appoint
ed as his successor by the city coun
ell. which convened at once to con
firm him. Justice OF the Peace c. VI
Harrington. said to be union sympa
thizer. heard that the committee was
To wait on him. and rendered his
resignation before the committee could
ask him. County Judge Albert s
Frost is out of the city. but ii Is said
he will be asked 10 resign as soon as
he arrives here. and so will Frank p
Manniclis. county clerk and recorder
Both are attending the Democratic
convention in Pueblo.
Photographs of Charles Mccormick
and Melvin Beck. who were killed by
an Internal machine in the indicator
mine November q. 1903. and of other
Vindicator miners were found In the
possession of Frank Cochrane, secre-
tary of one of the miners unions or
Victor. This discovery greatly agitated
officials of the Mine Owners Associa-
ton. who declared that COchrane shall
be strung mp until he disclOses all that
he knows concerning the outrage.
They believe he has information that
will lead to the arrest of the perpe-
traitors Of that crime.
II was estimated that 1000 deputies
had been sworn in by Sheriff Bell The
Victor Record was censored by spe-
cial committee appointed by the sher'
IN before publication was permitted.
The bLodhounds in charge of Hugo
Palmer. of Trinidad, trailed the as
sassin who killed the Findlay miners
to a mile beyond Clyde station, a dis
lance Of three miles. There the scent
was completely lost It is believed by
the detectives working on the case
that the assassin took a buggy at the
place whore the scent was lost and
proceeded along the old stage road TO
Colorado Springs.