The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-18

l authorities, civil and military must protect property and persons of it's citizens from violence. Observe rules heretofore given.'
 The rules referred to as stated to the prosecuting attorney were that the government would not authorize police to protect property, the police power in case of threatened disturb ances to persons or injury to prop erty of private individuals being within the state powers.
 History of the Trouble.
 Last March, Bache-Denman Com pany withdrew from the Southwest ern Coal Operators Association, with drawing their mines, Mammoth Vein Mo- 1, Coronado, Kala Inlai. and Prai- rie Creek, No 1, all of which mines have the Ka'a lnlai are situated in the Hartford valley and only one of which, the Prairie Creek was in op- eration. These mines, as members of Ithe Operators Association, were un- der the wage contract in force until July l, 1914, with the United Mine Workers of District 12. After with drawal from the association, union miners about the middle of March were ordered to take their tools out of Prairie Creek mine and clean up, the order being in effect a lookup. The latter part of March, Bache- Denman Company, as owners of Prai- rie Creek No. and Mammoth Vein No. 1, leased those mines to the Mammoth Vein Mining Company, also BacheDenman corporation, and under that name it is understood the mine would be opened up on the open shop basis. The Prairie Creek mine was at once enclosed with wire cables and notices posted to all save employees to keep out. Armed guards were installed an dthe work of organ izing new mine force commenced. There are over two thousand union miners in the Sebastian county mines and nearly half of these miners worked in Central Coal and Coke Company mines located within the same valley and surrounding Prairie Creek on three sides.
 April 6, fully 1000 miners from the Huntington and Hartford fife d with citizens gathered with a brass band at Prairie Creek school house, 300 yards from Prairie Creek mine, in mass meeting of protest. While a committee from this meeting was coaferring with Superintendent Cam eron the crowd surged to the mine cable. Friction with mine guards caused an outbreak during which four employees were beaten up and Super | intendent Cameron withdrew his men 1 from the mine, after having been forced to put out the fire under the boilers.
 | The operators secured a temporary restraining order from the federal court, which was later made perma- nent. The operators then began a re organization of the mines on the open shop basis. Under order of the fed eral court 50 deputy marshals were put tthe mine, but at once ordered withdrawn by Attorney General Me [lReynolds, who permitted three dep- lty marshals to remain solely for ob- servatio1 but instructed to take no part In policing the property. These were withdrawn last week.
 | Upon withdrawal of the deputies. the operators again assembled a com. pany of private guards armed with high power rifles. Within the past four weeks the operators have as sem'bled force of miners and guards estimated at about 125 men.
 From the beginning of the second attempt to assemble a mine force there has been constant clashes and friction, recriminations, charges and counter charges. Out these charges grew the arrest of eight union mine officials, including P. R Stewart, president of district 21, charged with violation of the injunction. Evidence has been taken, but Judge Youmans has not given his decision.
 Evidence was developed that the Hartford Valley has been an armed camp. More than hundred high lpower rifles were at the Prairie lCreek camp, and probably more than that number of arms scattered among union miners and sympathizers.
 Deputy marshals who were at the camp for 45 days say that there was daily shooting in the woods of the Hartford valley. Mine officials on the witness stand last week admitted that the mine guards had done "prac tlce shooting in the vicinity of the camp, but that 1t had been stopped
 Last Sunday night Frogtown, union
 mine camp a mile distant, was shot up, a proceeding which was repeated
 Wednesday night. Each faction has charged the other with doing this shooting.
 ZAPATA IS OBDURATE.
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