The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-02

ator Borah.
Just south of the military club
How far were you from him?"
| "About $50 feet
/ Wallace said Sterling came out of
| the crowd and fired one shot point
blank into billboard fence. He fired
but one shot
Working Card System.
"How soon did the riot firing be-
| gin after this?"
II didn't hear any at all. was
| summoned for duty. and was hurried
away to the Ell Paso mine. When we
got back the Victor riot was over.
you heard no shots Immediately
| following the one fired by Sterling 2"
mo, SIR s
And it was ten or fifteen minutes
| before you left the scene 2"
Yes, sir"
The witness said he was then sum-
moned to the armory for military
duty. He described the method en-
union miners to take out working
cards from the mine owners assocfa-
| ton before they were allowed TO WORK
| in any of the 'sfair'' mines. Wallace
lawyers and friends of the Western
Federation of Miners from Cripple
, Creek. and the footing of the union
store and union hall by the military,
| Senator Borah cross-examlned w al
| lace, who said that prior to the call
ing out of the militia several train
loads of nonunion miners were
| brought in, and that as the owners
with nonunion labor there was some
| evidence of feeling. and threats were
made. Wallace said the cltizens al
| lance was composed of mercnanls;;
! a majority of the nonunion miners.
what proportion of the alliance
| did the mine owners form
LESS than one-fourth.
Life in the Bull Pen.
On redirect examination Attorney
isn't the business of the whole
Cripple Creek district dependent upon
the mines?"
Yes, sir" -
There's nothing else there?"
mo, SIR
The last witness of the day was M.
E. White, an organizer for the Western
Federation of Miners among the coal
experience he had in Cripple Creek
when he went there in December,
1903 in the interest of the American
Labor Union. When he rea ched Grip
pie Creek he was Immediately taken
in charge by the militia and marcheo
off to a bull pen-a plank building.
White fairly convulsed the court by
his description OF conditions In the
pen He declared there were ten or
fifteen soldiers in the place when he
arrived They were in for drunken
ness, petty larceny and other crimes.
White said the place was alive with
verrnfn. The soldier prisoners held
kangaroo court over him, and at one
| time during the night bullets whisued
| through the top of the building.
1.-The next morning l was taken out
and introduced to the day shift, de-
cIared White. ''They were calling new
orders just like it was war time. One
was take the prisoners to breakfast
No. 1874"
You were the only prisoner besides
the soldiers?''
Eyes, sir, and a cripple at that.
The same day White was taken be-
fore a jor and released.
1.-The major was fellow Woodman
of the World" said White, land no
| one can enter that unless he is a de-
sirable and good citizen The major
told me 1 could do no good there. and
had better take the 4 o'clock Short
Line train. 1 did it, too"
White said he complained of condi-
tions at. the bull pen. and the major
ordered the military doctor to take the
military prisoners out, boil 'em and
burn their clothes, to burn the pen
and build a new one
Was it built % asked Senator
Borah.
ct think it was
That's ALL
Court adjourned until today at $3.50
o'clock a.. m.