The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-06-08
WITH IRON HAND
CITIZENS RULE.
LAW AND ORDER ON TOP
But DESPERATE MEN OF CRIPPLE
CREEK ARE TO BE HANDLED.

One Thousand Deputies Have Been
sworn in to Preserve the Peace.
200 Prisoners Are to Be Ordered
Away, Never to Return-Citizens
Gave Officials Unsatisfactory to
Them the Alternative of Hanging
or Resfgning.
Cripple Creek. Col. June 7.-Apart
from a few small fights in connection
with the rounding up and arresting of
union miners, no break has occurred
in this district 1, 81. Two local mi
utia companies and small army of
armed deputies under Sheriff Edward
Bell are in full control of the camp.
Though there has been no turbulence
to-day, there is an. under current of
feeling which BODIES ill.
Secretary Clarence Hamlin of the
Mine owners Association declared to-
day that 200 prisoners now held in the
ornoory of 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
marshal of Victor, who is suspended
and under arrest, and also Alfred Mil
Ier. 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 pris-
oners. It would require but little to
have a wholesale hanging.
Virgil King, a union leader, and f1f-
teen others arrested in Cripple Creek
to-day have been taken to Victor for
deportation. we'll grounded rumor
is to the effect that large number of
union miners working in the Portland
will be arrested. The building owned
and occupied by Miners Union No. 40 in
Cripple Creek is in charge of the mill
tia. The front windows have been de-
molished and the big sign of the w.
F. o. NJ torn down.
Vigilance Committee Rules.
CITY Marshal w. j. Graham was
forced to resign by the citizens COM
mittee, headed by E. C. Newcomb, cash
ier of the First National Bank, and
Charles H. Crowder was appointed as
his successor by the City Council,
which convened at once to confirm
him. Justice of the Peace c. NJ. 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 ar
rives here, and so will Frank P. Man
nix, county clerk and Recorder. Both
are attending the Democratic Conven-
tion at Pueblo.
1t is further reported that Assistant
District Attorney ]. c. 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 Nov. 81, 1908, and of other Vim
dicator miners, were found in possess
sion of Frank COchrane, secretary Of
one of the miners union of Victor.
This discovery greatly agitated Off
cials of the Mine Owners Association,
who declared that Cochrane sk1ll be
strung up until he discloses all that
he knows concerning the outrage. They
believe he has information that will
lead to the arrest of the perpetrators
of that crime
1t 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-
ton was permitted to-day.
Revolver That Fired the Mine.
DoHr -. e
the hole made by the explosion in In
dependence to-day, found portion of a
cheaply made British bulldog revolver.
The weapon contained one shell, and
When taken to the office of the Citi-
zens' Alliance it was regarded as con-
elusive proof that the dynamite was set
OFF in the fashion similar to the ex-
pfosion of giant powder in the Vindica-
tor mine.
The bloodhounds, in charge of Hugo
Palmer Of Trinidad, to-day trailed the
assassin who killed the Findlay miners
to mile beyond Clyde station, a dis
tance of three miles. There the scent .
was completely 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 proceeded
along the old stage road to Colorado
Springs.
The coroner's jury visited the scene
OF the explosion to-day, after which an
adjournment was taken until tomorrow
afternoon, when the taking of evidence
will begin.
Two more names were added to-day
TO the list of those killed by the Inde
pendence dynamiting making the to-
tai fifteen. They are George S. Hen
derson and Fred Beckley.
1t is believed that the bodies of sew
eral others We're blown to atoms and
the remains are in the mass of flesh
and bones at the bottom of the hole
made by the tremendous explosion.