The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-07-20
SHERIFF'S STORY
SAYS oEPoRrED MEN OWNED
THEIR OWN HOMES.
BUlkElEY WELLS MANAGER
Six Witnesses Were Put On Stand in
Closing Stages Of the Hay
wood Trial.

sumed the stand he said he found some
forty per cent. powder where Beck and
Mccormick were killed
The only powder regularly used in
the mine was thirty-fve per cent
On cross examination Ramsey said
there was water barrel on the ninth
level but not on the eighth
Isn't it a common thing to have wa
ter barrels in mines?' asked Attorney
Richardson.
Yes, they have water barrels for
drift work.
How did you happen to think OF this
llatter OF water barrels in the Nindica
tori
when l saw Woods testimony in
the papers l called up Mr.. Arnold OF
The mine and told him that some Of
Woods testimony was false, and that
was ready, If need be, to go to Idaho
end say So
Ramsey said that both Mccormick
and BecI had pistols in their Offices or
at home, but never carried them in the
II inc.
Attorney Richardson read exten
sively from the testimony given by the
witness at the coroner's S inquest follow
iIg the explosion. In that testimony
Ramsey told of finding but one bundle
o, powder in the Vindicator coal bins.
He said there were two bundles as T.
matter Of fact.
rs your recollection better today
than it was them" queried the attor
ney.
Il was not altogether responsible at
that time and don't think you woul1
have been either il you had been
there"
Maybe not" commented Richard
son.
Ramsey said that Mccormick, who
was killed, was his step-father and he
was greatly excited at the time.
But think l have improved since
then" said Ramsey.
One Of the jurors, Samuel D. Gilman.
ut No 9. wanted to know the witness
age. He said he was twenty-five. At
the time of the explosion he was
eighteen.
Sheriff Routan of San Miguel county,
Colorado. of which Telluride is the
county seat, succeeded young Ramsey
In the witness chair, and told of riot
IN the Telluride district prior to the
calling out of troops The riot he
declared. was led by Vincent st. John
Of the Western Federation OF Miners.
end he recognized many of the men il
tie mob as members OF the federation.
The witness also told of the murder
OF Arthur Collins, superintendent OF
the Smuggler-Union mine. as one o:
the incidents which led up to declara-
ton Of martial law.
What other crimes led up to the
calling out of the troops?"
well, Wesley Smith and another
IL. l. w11 ,tr,v,
mine mysteriously disappeared-'
The witness was interrupted by At
torney Richardson, who declared the
Western Federation of Miners could
not be held responsible for every man
who disappeared from the district.
"The evidence will be admitted as
showine the conditions which led to
artiai law" ruled Judge Wood.
Sheriff Routan told of a Mexican be-
ing killed and James Phillips being
shot through the arm and beat up. The
sheriff signed the request for the
troops. Martial law was not declared
Tor more than month after the ar
rival of the militia.
In cross-examining Sheriff Routan
ATTORNEY Richardson said he wanted to
show who it was that combined to
fEht the Miners union.
asked the witness, isn't it fact that
the miners boycotted all the gambling
places. all the stores except Flotan 8,
and ali the banks?"
Sheriff Routan said he didn't know
that this was true. A. S. Flotan did
not belong to the Citizens Alliance. He
was afterward deported.
And he was beaten up, too?"
Il don't know as to that"
"Aud when I went down there to try
case one of your deputies beat me
up, didn't he?"
Il didn't see that"
"You appointed Bulkeley Wells, man
sger of the Smuggler-Union mines, as
one of your deputies, didn't your
Yes"
"And the managers Of the Tom Boy
and the Liberty Bell mines also?"
YES"
"And all Of the bankers and some OF
the gamblers"
~ dent remember as to the bank.
ers.''
"It was the policy Of the interests
opposed to the union to beat up and
drive out everybody connected or
ir sympathy with the union, WASH.
it?"
81 never heard it put that way, no.
MANY of the men who were de-
rcrted owned their own homes, didn't
they?"
Some OF them did"
"And you, as sheriff, did nothing to
protect them?"
They were deported by the citizens
and the militia"
DO you remember a petition signed
for you by deputy in charge OF the
ONCE saying that when you went 10
Ouray to bring Charles H. Meyer to
Telluride that you were being resisted
by large body of men and needed
Military assistance?"