Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-06-16
'MOREMEy DEPORTED
Seventy-Six Union Miners Sent Out
Of Victor, Col, Yesterday.
SIXTY MEN CHARGED WITH MURDER.
The w0man's Auxiliary Forbidden TO Hold
AEsstings-The Mine Ownsss' Side Of
this Trouble GIven-An Appesi to
President Roosevelt.


Colorado Springs. Col, June H.
Acting under the orders of Adjt Gen
Sherman Bell, Of the state nationa
guard, q special train was made W
shortly after noon yesterday in thu
Short Line yards at Victor for the
deportation of rs union miners. The
men were marched to the train be.
tween heavy lines Of military and
deputies. A crowd Of fully 1000 PEG
pie had collected to see the men placed
on board. Among the spectators were
wives and sisters, fathers and mothers
Of the deported men. and the scenes
were very affecting. Mothers. sisters
and sweethearts cried good-by and
tried to push through the lines for a
parting handshake. Most of the
women had been allowed to see their
relatives at Armory hall before the
men were marched out. Another
party Of exiled men will be sent out
Of the district to-day.
Arrangements were previously made
to send the men to the Kansas state
line over the Santa Fe because Of pro-
tests made against taking them to
Pueblo or Denver and leaving them
there. e:. ..'..
Sixty men confined in the Cripple
Creek bull pen were taken to the
county jail yesterday and charges of
murder were placed against them.
The Woman's auxiliary of the
Miners union has been forbidden by
the military authorities to hold
meetings.
Joseph Hamilton, chairman of the
democratic central committee, was
called before the citizens deportation
committee yesterday and asked con-
corning his sympathy with unionism.
Mr.. Hamilton acknowledged that he
believed in unions and he was told
that he must leave the camp within
the next four days.
The committee having In charge the
petition being circulated among the
merchants and business men pledging
themselves not to employ union labor
ordered the expunging Of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor from the list
of Objectionable unions because the
printers. pressmen, stereotypers and
newspaper writer's are AFFILIATED with
that body and to place the federation
under the ban would necessarily in
volve the suspension of the Cripple
Creek Times and the Evening Star,
which employ union forces
Mime Owners Side ~ the Trouble Given.
Cripple Creek, Col, June 11.-Clar-
ence c. Hamlin, secretary Of the Grip
pie Creek District Mine Owners as
ISOLATION, gave out statement yes
terday in reply to telegram from a
New York newspaper asking him as
head of the vigilantes" to present his
side of the labor troubles here. He
says in part
There Is no vigilantes committee
in this community. The only move
ment that might be considered of that
character occurred after the Independ-
ence outrage of Monday, when deter
mined citizens took steps to bring
about the resignation of several Off
GERS who were either incompetent or
in sympathy and collision with those
responsible for the murders and dyna-
hitting which have taken place here
since the strike. There is now no le-
gal question involved in this contro-
versy other than that Of right Of
community to purge itself of Grim
inal organization whose very exist
ence is standing menace to the lives
and property Of those whose only Of |
tense is that they claim the right to
work. Our fight has not been against
unionism as such, but against crm-
inal organization and It will not be |
until no member Of this
is left in Teller county"
An Appeal to President Roosevelt
Denver, Col, June 1.-THE execu-
tive board of the Western Federation
Of Miners decided yesterday to appeal
10 President Roosevelt to investigate
the conditions in Colorado, Secretary
W. D. Haywood was instructed to send
the following telegram: "A duty de-
wolves upon you as president Of the
United States to investigate the terri
bic crimes that are being perpetrated
IN Colorado in the name of law and
order. We will render every possible
assistance to the proper authorities
n such investigation, to the end that
he people of the country may realize
he outrages that are being inflicted
IN innocent persons by those in tenn
,orary Official power"
1t was further decided that a his
DRY Of the labor troubles in Colo
ado shall be taken to Washington by
IN emissary and placed in the presi-
Ient's hands. 1t was also voted to APP
cal President Meyers haDeas corpus
ase to the United States supreme
curt.