The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-06-09
Leaders of Miners Unions
Driven From Mines.
HANGING THREAT led
The Citizens Committee Demand the
Resignation Of Officials Believed to
be Friendly to the Union Men,
and Under Menace Get
Them.
hem.
(By the Associated Press.)

Cripple Greek, Colo, 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 militia companies and a 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 under
current of feeling which BODIES i'll.
Secretary Clarence Hamlin, of the
day that all prisoners now held in the
armory in Victor would be taken over
the hills and warned never to return.
There is minority element that
wants to hang n. w. O'Connell, form
er marshal of Victor, who is sus-
pended and under arrest, and also AL
fred 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 re-
Sistance is offered by word or action
of the prisoners. 1t would require but
little to have a wholesale hanging.
Virgil King, a union leader, and fiji
teen others arrested in Cripple Greek
today have been taken to Victor for
deportation. A well-grounded rumor
is to the effect that q large number
of union miners working in the Port
land 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. M. torn down.
City Marshal w j. Graham was
forced to resign by the citizens COM
mittee headed by e. c. 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. M. Har-
rington said to be a union Sympa-
thizer, heard that the committee was
to wait on him and rendered his resig-
nation before the committee could
ask him. County Judge Albert S.
Frost is out of the city. but it is said
he will be asked to resign as soon as
he arrives here and so will Frank p.
Mann, county clerk, and recorder.
Both are attending the Democratic
convention in Pueblo.
1t is further reported that Assist
ant District Attorney j. c. Cole will
be compelled TO relinquish his office.
All officeholders whose designations
have been demanded have furnished
them, when threatened with hanging.
Photographs of Charles Mccormack
and Melvin Beck, who were killed ~
an Internal machine in the indicator
mine November 81. 1903, and of other
Vindicator miners were found in pos
session of Frank Cochrane, secretary
of one of the miners union of Victor.
This discovery greatly agitated officials
of the mine owners association, who
declared that Cochrane shall be strung
up until he dicloses all that he knows
concerning the outrage. They believe
he had information that will lead TO
the arrest of the perpetrators of that
crime.
1t was estimated this afternoon that
one thousand deputies had been sworn
in by Sheriff Bell. The Victor Record
was censored by special committee
appointed by the sheriff before pub
lication was permitted today.
Boys playing in the neighborhood of
the hole made by the explosion at In
dependence today found a portion of
a cheaply made British bulldog re-
volver. The weapon contained one
shell and when taken to the office of
the citizens alliance it was regarded as
conclusive proof that the dynamite
was set off in the fashion similar to
the explosion of giant powder in the
Vindicator mine.
The bloodhounds in charge of Hugo
Palmer, of Trinidad today trailed the
assassin who killed the Findlay min
ers to a mile beyond Clyde station. a
distance of three miles. There the
scent was lost. 1t is believed by the
detectives working on the case that
the assassin took a buggy at the place
where the scent was lost and proceed
ed along the old stage road to Colo
RADIO Springs.
The coroner's jury visited the scene
of the explosion today after which an
adjournment was taken until tomor-
row afternoon. when the taking of evil
dence will begin.