the WESTERN FEDERATION 
 
 TO THE 
 
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 “RED BOOK" 
 
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 MINE OPERATORS’ASSOCIATION 
 
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 “I HAVE ADVOCATED THE SAME POLICY ADOPTED 
 BY THE CITIZENS' ALLIANCE IN IDAHO SPRINGS. 
 IF WE HAD DRIVEN THE UNION MEN OUT OF 
 THE CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT, AS THEY DID 
 IN IDAHO SPRINGS, WE WOULD NOT NOW BE 
 UNDER THE EXPENSE OF PAYING FOR THE 
 STATE MILITIA, AND THE RESULTS WOULD 
 HAVE BEEN BETTER. WHILE SOME OF THE MEN 
 WHO WERE DRIVEN OUT OF IDAHO SPRINGS 
 HAVE RETURNED, THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN 
 HEARD OF SINCE. YOU MIGHT POSSIBLY FIND 
 THEIR BONES BLEACHING IN AN ABANDONED 
 SHAFT.”—From a conversation of the president of the 
 mine operators' association with Mr. Walling on board of 
 train between Denver and Colorado Springs, January, 1904. 
 
 ; DURING THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER, 1903, 
 CAPT. H. M. BURGE, A SENIOR COMMANDER IN 
 THE UNITED STATES NAVY, VISITED THE CRIP¬ 
 PLE CREEK DISTRICT, AND AFTER CONVERSING 
 WITH THE STRIKING MINERS, DONATED $500 TO 
 THE CAUSE OF THE FEDERATION. 
 
ASSOCIATION 
 
 A PARTIAL LIST, SHOWING 
 851 MEN MURDERED IN 
 LESS THAN FOUR YEARS 
 
 COMPILED BY 
 
 THE WESTERN FEDERATION OF M NERS 
 DENVER, COLORADO. 
 
 1904 . 
 
 Miners Magazine Print, 
 Denver, Colo. 
 

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 CATEGORY OF CRIME OF THE 
 
 Co^> 
 
 OF MURDERS 
 
 COMMITTED BY THE MINE OPERATORS’ ASSO¬ 
 CIATION' THROUGH THE EMPLOYMENT OF 
 INCOMPETENT ENGINEERS AND A WILLFUL 
 DISREGARD OF THE STATE LAWS CONCERN¬ 
 ING SAFETY APPLIANCES: 
 
 Killed on the Stratton’s 
 
 Independence Mine, 
 
 January 26th, 1 904: 
 
 C. C. STATEN 
 
 JOHN SEBECK 
 
 W. R. FRAZIER 
 
 JOE SMITHERUM 
 
 EDWARD TWIGS 
 
 L. A. WAGGONER 
 
 HARRY A. YEOMAN 
 
 EDWARD SMITH 
 
 JOE OYEHY 
 
 H. F. BROWN 
 
 W. B. COLLINS 
 
 J. L. SEWALD 
 
 L. P. JACKSON 
 
 FRANK COCHRANE 
 
 HARRY COGENE. 
 
 Murdered and Robbed at Dunville: 
 JOHN CARLEY. 
 
 Killed in the Victor Riot: 
 
 JNO. M. DAVIS. ROXY McGEE. 
 
 Murdered in Denver: 
 MICHAEL O’CONNELL. 
 
 Injured in Victor Riot, 
 
 Which was Incited by C. C. Hamlin, Secretary of the 
 Mine Operators’ Association: 
 
 ARTHUR PARKER. THOS. McMANUS. 
 
 FIRE CHIEF MURPHY. EDW’D McKELVEY. 
 
 PETER CALDERWOOI). 
 
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 MINE OPERATORS' ASSOCIATION,,’ 
 
 POSITION OF THE PEOPLE OF 
 
 COLORADO. 
 
 Speaking* for 72,000 citizens of the State, we charge 
 organized capital with being responsible for the most 
 horrible crimes that have ever been perpetrated in 
 this nation. 
 
 We charge organized capital with bribery, and 
 brazenly purchasing* legislative bodies. 
 
 W e charge organized capital with the responsibil¬ 
 ity for defeating the eight hour law, and every measure 
 that has for its object the betterment Of the condi¬ 
 tions of the masses of the people. 
 
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 We condemn organized capital in its attempt to 
 
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 fasten upon the taxpayers of the state Peabody’s war 
 debt, created in an effort to crush organized labor. 
 
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 CATEGORY OF CRIME OF THE 
 
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 COLORADO MIN$ OPERATORS’ 
 ASSOCIATION 
 
 WESTERN FEDERATION OF 
 MINERS 
 
 vs. 
 
 WESTERN FEDERATION OF 
 MINERS. 
 
 vs, 
 
 The CITIZENS’ ALLIANCE AND THE 
 COLORADO MINE OPERATORS’ 
 ASSOCIATION. 
 
 (1.) That a large number of crim¬ 
 inals and lawless men have been wel¬ 
 comed, supported and sheltered by the 
 Western Federation of Miners. 
 
 (2.) That the officers of that orga¬ 
 nization and a large number of the 
 members, while perhaps not commit¬ 
 ting crimes themselves for which they 
 can be prosecuted, do directly and in¬ 
 directly advise or encourage the law¬ 
 less among them to commit crimes. 
 
 (3.) That these officers and this ele¬ 
 ment preach disrespect for the law 
 and contempt for the lawful author¬ 
 ities and openly and publicly, as indi¬ 
 viduals, approve of and gloat over the 
 slugging, dynamiting and murdering 
 of non-union men by their criminal as¬ 
 sociates. 
 
 (4.) That where this organization 
 has had its members in local public 
 offices, or where it has had the power 
 to influence peace officers and courts 
 in this state, it has paralyzed the hand 
 of justice and made it next to impos¬ 
 sible to convict members of the fed¬ 
 eration caught in the act of commit¬ 
 ting crimes. 
 
 (1.) That a large number of ex-con¬ 
 victs, gamblers, desperadoes and other 
 criminals have been and now are, 
 knowingly employed and paid by the 
 Colorado Mine Operators’ Association 
 and the citizens’ alliance in Cripple 
 Creek, Telluride and elsewhere in the 
 state as deputy sheriffs, guards, de¬ 
 tectives, etc. 
 
 (2) That the officers of these or¬ 
 ganizations and a large number of 
 their members have not only commit¬ 
 ted crimes themselves, for which they 
 could and should be prosecuted and 
 punished, but the organizations as 
 such, have directly and openly aided 
 and abetted the same, and their mem¬ 
 bers have boasted and approved of 
 such crimes. 
 
 (3.) That the association and alli¬ 
 ance, while shouting hypocritically for 
 “law and order,” have openly defied 
 the courts, destroyed the liberty of 
 the press, invaded the sanctity of the 
 home, caused arrests without warrant, 
 ^imprisoned men without charges of 
 crime, driven men from the county 
 after first robbing them, and while de¬ 
 claring such men to be criminals of 
 the deepest dye, have, without com¬ 
 punction, dumped them on neighbor¬ 
 ing communities. They have tortured 
 men and intimidated women and chil¬ 
 dren in order to obtain confessions, 
 and openly and publicly boasted and 
 approved such crimes, as organiza¬ 
 tions, by adopting and publishing reso¬ 
 lutions commendatory of them. 
 
 (4.) That wherever the association 
 or alliance have not had their mem¬ 
 bers in public office, they have, when¬ 
 ever deemed necessary, compelled by 
 violence and intimidation, the resig¬ 
 nation of duly elected public officials 
 and the appointment of their own cre¬ 
 atures to the so-called vacancies. 
 Wherever their members or tools are 
 in office, or where they have had the 
 power to influence peace officers and 
 
MINE OPERATORS’ ASSOCIATION. 
 
 5 
 
 courts in this state, the law, as estab¬ 
 lished since Magna Charta, has been 
 subverted by decisions which have 
 made the state subject of derision to 
 the entire country, the hand of justice 
 has been paralyzed, and it has been fu¬ 
 tile to attempt conviction of their 
 members, although caught in the act 
 of committing crime and openly con¬ 
 fessing and boasting of it. 
 
 This charge is supported and proven 
 by the decisions themselves and by 
 the following facts: The informations 
 for riot and conspiracy which a court 
 compelled an unwilling district attor¬ 
 ney to file at Idaho Springs against 
 some eighty members of those organi¬ 
 zations, charging them as participants 
 in a mob which had driven miners 
 from their homes, were at the earliest 
 possible moment dismissed by the 
 same district attorney, and the crim¬ 
 inals allowed to escape trial and pun¬ 
 ishment, though the whole community 
 could have testified to their identity. 
 At the same time, the same district 
 attorney, aided by the attorneys of 
 those organizations and backed by all 
 the money needed, made two attempts 
 by two separate trials, to convict min¬ 
 ers of the crimes of arson and con¬ 
 spiracy for which the same mob had 
 pretended to expel them. They were 
 each and all triumphantly acquitted 
 without introducing evidence in their 
 defense. 
 
 Not one of the mob of “best citizens” 
 who exiled miners from Telluride has 
 been prosecuted. When Judge Ste¬ 
 vens issued his injunction to aid the 
 exiles in returning home, the mob ap¬ 
 pealed to the governor of the state for 
 force to defy the courts, and he or¬ 
 dered out the militia, placed the lead¬ 
 er of the mob in command, and the 
 court stands defied and helpless to 
 this day. 
 
 At Cripple Creek, a mob in brass 
 and blue, under orders from a puppet 
 governor controlled by the association 
 ;fnd alliance, filled the court room with 
 armed men, and defied the court in 
 open session. While this mob of sol¬ 
 diers was in the district, it aided and 
 abetted the members of the alliance 
 and association, in compelling, by 
 force and threats, the resignations of 
 the duly elected sheriff and coroner 
 and other civil officers of Teller coun¬ 
 ty, and the appointment of their own 
 creatures to the so-called vacancies. 
 
 Ever since this lawless governor re¬ 
 called his mob of soldiers from Crip- 
 
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 CATEGORY OF CRIME OF THE 
 
 (5.) That this organization, having 
 formally and officially espoused the 
 cause of the so-called Socialist party, 
 is opposed to our present form of gov¬ 
 ernment and is aiming at its over¬ 
 throw, together with the abrogation of 
 the present constitution. 
 
 (6.) That this organization teaches 
 its members to regard the wealth they 
 produce from the property of others 
 as their~own, thus encouraging~theft 
 (of ore, for instance) and also inflam¬ 
 ing the minds of its members against 
 their employers, against the law, 
 against organized society and against 
 
 pie Creek the reign of terror contin¬ 
 ues. Stores belonging to a foreign 
 corporation have been looted in broad 
 daylight by mobs led by A. E. Carlton, 
 president First National Bank; Nelson 
 Franklin, former mayor, and Cliff New¬ 
 comb, cashier First National Bank, 
 and other “law-abiding citizens.” Not 
 one of these criminals fears arrest or 
 punishment, and daily outrages are 
 committed with impunity, by mob.s 
 composed of members of the alliance 
 and association, or acting under or¬ 
 ders from them, and acting with the 
 approval of the peace officers of the 
 county, who they forcibly installed in 
 office. These crimes are committed 
 with the consent and approval of the 
 governor, who refuses to enforce the 
 law and restore order on the pitiful 
 pretense that he has “not been offi¬ 
 cially notified.” 
 
 (5.) That these organizations have 
 formally and officially espoused the 
 cause of the so-called Republican 
 narty, which they pretend to be still 
 the party of Lincoln. That each of 
 them is opposed to our present form 
 of government, and aiming at its over¬ 
 throw. To this end they have de¬ 
 stroyed and confiscated property, de¬ 
 stroyed the freedom of the press, de¬ 
 fied the courts, nullified the writ of 
 habeas corpus, exercised the right of 
 search without warrant, denied the 
 right of trial by jury, exercised the 
 power of banishment, denied the right 
 of citizens to keep and bear arms, and 
 trampled upon every other guarantee 
 of personal liberty made by the con¬ 
 stitution of the state and of the Unit¬ 
 ed States. Besides these and other 
 violations of the constitutional rights 
 of citizens, they are seeking to abro¬ 
 gate the constitution and install a 
 plutocracy, and to that end, have 
 adopted as their rallying cry a phrase, 
 classic in its terseness, and aptly de¬ 
 scriptive of the men and their pur¬ 
 pose, to wit: “To hell with the con¬ 
 stitution.” 
 
 (6.) That the organizations men¬ 
 tioned teach their members that the 
 sole aim and end of existence is to 
 acquire wealth without producing it. 
 and that therefore the methods of 
 trusts, stock watering, stealing ore 
 from neighbors under the guise of 
 trespass, buying the interests of wid* 
 
MINE OPERATORS’ ASSOCIATION. 
 
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 the peace and safety of the public.— 
 From Recent Fiction Published by 
 Mine Operators’ Association. 
 
 WHERE IS THE PROOF? 
 
 ows and orphans in adjoining proper¬ 
 ty, without informing them of its 
 value, and other similar methods used 
 by predatory wealth, are respectable, 
 when compared to the economic the¬ 
 ory that wealth should belong to him 
 who produces it, or to Lincoln’s as¬ 
 sertions in his message to Congress in 
 1864, that “to secure to each laborer 
 the whole product of his labor is a 
 worthy object of any government,” 
 and that “labor is superior to capital 
 and deserves much the higher consid¬ 
 eration.” 
 
 The facts which support and prove 
 these charges made by the federation 
 are within the knowledge of every cit¬ 
 izen of Colorado. 
 
 ARGUMENT OF THE FEDERATION. 
 
 A SHORT TIME AGO the Mine Owners’ Association issued what 
 is known as a “red book,” branding the Western Federation of 
 Miners with nearly every crime that has been committed in the metal¬ 
 liferous regions of the West since the year 1892, even before the fed¬ 
 eration was launched as a national organization in the city of Butte, 
 Montana, in the year 1893. This “red book,” purporting to give the 
 criminal record of the Western Federation of Miners, has been scat¬ 
 tered broadcast from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from British Co¬ 
 lumbia to the Gulf of Mexico. It is a notorious fact that gentlemen 
 holding federal jobs in the postal department have become active in 
 the distribution of this document, entertaining the opinion that if the 
 crimes alleged against the Western Federation of Miners are given 
 credence by the reading public, that arguments of extenuation can be 
 used in the coming political campaign, to justify the lawless and un¬ 
 constitutional methods utilized by Governor Peabody and his uni¬ 
 formed hired assassins in their relentless efforts to destroy the Western 
 Federation of Miners. The very fact that this “red book” has been 
 scattered throughout the eastern states, and the fact that postmasters 
 
 are acting as distributing agents, is strong conclusive proof that the 
 
 administration at Washington is interested in its circulation, to condone 
 the inactivity of the Roosevelt administration in making an investiga¬ 
 tion of the industrial troubles, that have made Colorado a bastile for 
 the enslavement of men who rebelled against the oppression of corpo¬ 
 rate tyranny. 
 
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 CATEGORY OF CRIME OF THE 
 
 W. F. M. APPEALS FOR INVESTIGATION. 
 
 It will no doubt be remembered that the Western Federation of 
 Miners during the last session of the House of Representatives and the 
 Senate of the United States, sent forth to Washington telegrams and 
 petitions to the respective senators from the state of Colorado, impor¬ 
 tuning them to bring about a congressional investigation of the labor 
 troubles in Colorado. It will likewise be remembered that the executive 
 board of the Western Federation of Miners forwarded telegrams to 
 President Roosevelt calling upon him to investigate conditions in Colo¬ 
 rado. Will any sane, reasonable or honest man entertain the opinion 
 for one moment that criminals court investigation! To charge the 
 Western Federation of Miners as being a criminal organization, is to 
 charge every fraternal society and every church with harboring crim¬ 
 inals, as the membership of churches and fraternal organization* 
 throughout the mining camps of the West are largely made up of mem 
 bers of the Western Federation of Miners. 
 
 THE CITIZENS’ ALLIANCE OPPOSES INVESTI- 
 
 GrATION. 
 
 It will be remembered that the Mine Owners’ Association in con¬ 
 junction with the Citizens’ Alliance of the state of Colorado, used ail 
 .their influence and power to prevent a congressional investigation, and 
 even went so far as to denounce in the most vehement and vigorous 
 language Senator Patterson, for daring to introduce resolutions asking 
 that the Senate should take cognizance of the Colorado industrial trou¬ 
 bles. The real reason that the Mine Owners’ Association raised barriers 
 against a congressional investigation was owing to the fact that the 
 mine operators were afraid of the record that would be exposed by the 
 scrutiny of an unbiased tribunal. 
 
 The Mine Owners’ Association in the “red book,’’ in charging the 
 membership of the Western Federation of Miners with various crimes, 
 use frequently the words “no arrests”'and “no convictions.” 
 
 The reason that “no arrests” were made was owing to the fact 
 that upon many occasions the mine operators were directly responsible. 
 The reason that there were “no convictions” was owing to the fact 
 that the Mine Owners' Association and the element which it controlled, 
 were so anxious to criminate the Western Federation of Miners that the 
 real criminals escaped. 
 
 It will be remembered that all the Cripple Creek mining district 
 was in El Paso county, until the year 1899, when the county was di¬ 
 vided by an act of the Legislature. , 
 
MINE OPERATORS’ ASSOCIATION. 
 
 9 
 
 MINE OWNERS ARM THUGS. 
 
 Up to the year 1899 El Paso county, as well as the Cripple Creek 
 district, was under the control of Republican officials, who were not 
 members of organized labor and who obeyed implicitly without ques¬ 
 tion the instruction of the mine operators. As proof of this assertion, 
 the records will show that the county commissioners of El Paso county 
 appropriated $50,000 to arm 1,200 deputized thugs and desperate char¬ 
 acters, who were known as Sheriff Bower’s brigade, to invade the Crip¬ 
 ple Creek district in the year 1894. 
 
 The Mine Owners’ Association charge the Western Federation of 
 Miners with purchasing rifles and ammunition to arm their member¬ 
 ship “to kill and destroy and attack the officers of the law,” but the 
 mine operators seemed to have forgotten the time when they used their 
 infltience with the commissioners of El Paso county to make an appro¬ 
 priation of $50,000 for the purpose of arming a hired mob to meet the 
 state militia under the administration of Davis H. Waite, when he as 
 governor used the armed power of the state to uphold the law and 
 prevent bloodshed. 
 
 OFFICIALS NOT MEMBERS OF W. F. M. 
 
 Since 1899 nearly all the prominent public offices have been filled 
 by men who were never members of organized labor. Mayor Shockey 
 of Cripple Creek, Mayor French and ex-Mayor Franklin of Victor, Dis¬ 
 trict Judges Seeds, Cunningham and Lewis, District Attorney Trow¬ 
 bridge and County Judge Frost were never members of organized 
 labor. Commissioners Saunders and Pfiefer were never identified with 
 organized labor, and yet the Mine Owners’ Association publishes a de¬ 
 liberate falsehood in attempting to show that the entire county was 
 under the control of the Western Federation of Miners. 
 
 DOMINATED BY CORPORATIONS. 
 
 The state of Colorado is absolutely under the control of the mine 
 operators’ association, the railroad corporations, the Colorado Fuel and 
 Iron Company and the smelting trust. The greatest crime that has 
 been committed in Colorado was when the above named corporations 
 purchased the legislative and executive departments of state, and de¬ 
 feated the sovereign will of the people in the enactment of an eight- 
 hour law. It is not our purpose to go beyond the boundaries of the 
 state of Colorado, to refresh the memory of the people concerning the 
 crimes that have been perpetrated by mine operators who place no value 
 upon the lives of their employes. 
 
10 
 
 CATEGORY OF CRIME OF THE 
 
 MURDERS AND OUTRAGES. 
 
 It is unnecessary even at this opportune time to recite again the 
 history of the Hanna, Wyoming, disaster, which resulted in the murder 
 of 338 men through the culpable negligence and criminal greed of mine 
 owners. In Scofield, Utah, some four years ago, nearly 300 miners were 
 murdered on account of the failure of the mine owners in complying 
 with the law governing ventilation. 
 
 In May, 1901, 137 men were murdered by an explosion at Ferine, 
 British Columbia, and the coroner’s jury brought in a verdict of cul¬ 
 pable negligence on the part of the company. 
 
 In Park City, Utah, at the Daly-West mine, thirty-five miners were 
 murdered by an explosion of giant powder that was stored in the mine, 
 contrary to law and every safeguard which common sense should sug¬ 
 gest. 
 
 At Dutch Flat, California, less than a year ago, three members of 
 the Western Federation of Miners were tarred and feathered at the in¬ 
 stigation of the mine owners. 
 
 The miners of Morenci and Clifton, Arizona, were compelled to 
 violate the territorial law, providing for eight hours, by the mine 
 owners. 
 
 In Ely, Nevada, in 1902, a mine owner, with his hired Pinkerton, 
 fired upon an unarmed committee of the union, murdering three men. 
 
 The murder of F. D. Whitney of Coeur d’Alenes, Idaho, on De¬ 
 cember 23rd, 1897, charged to the Western Federation of Miners, is 
 well remembered by residents of Gem, Idaho—that Whitney as fore¬ 
 man of the Ilelena-Frisco mill, was in possession of information detri¬ 
 mental to the mine operators who were robbing the Black Bear Mining 
 Company. 
 
 CRIMES IN COLORADO. 
 
 • 
 
 To return to the scene where the mine owners have committed their 
 greatest crimes, the state of Colorado, where the mines, the smelters, 
 the steel works and the mills have populated the grave yards—these are 
 crimes that are reported every day in the newspapers without any ar¬ 
 rests or convictions of those who are responsible. 
 
 The military was not called out when twenty-two miners lost their 
 lives by being smothered to death on account of a fire which destroyed a 
 boarding house connected with the tunnel of the Smuggler-Union mine. 
 The law had not been complied with as to the proper adjustment of 
 doors. 
 
 The militia did not “bullpen” the mine operators when fifteen men 
 
MINE OPERATORS' ASSOCIATION. 
 
 11 
 
 were killed fit the Stratton-Independence mine on the 26th of January, 
 1904, when a coroner’s jury brought in the following verdict, which 
 shows conclusively that these men were murdered: 
 
 ‘‘We, the jury, find that the above named men came to their deaths 
 at Stratton’s Independence mine on January 26, 1904, by the engineer, 
 Francis T. Gellese, losing control of the engine there in use and pulling 
 the cage into the sheave, thereby parting the cable and precipitating the 
 cage, loaded with the above named men, down the shaft to their deaths. 
 And we further find that if the management had not neglected the usual 
 necessary precautions the said casualties might have been reduced, if not 
 avoided. 
 
 “The usual precautions referred to, which were not taken, are as 
 
 follows: 
 
 “First—No man is required to preside at the collar of the shaft 
 
 while hoisting men. 
 
 “Second—No safety device was in use on the cable to prevent the 
 over-winding of the same. 
 
 “Third—Men were loaded and unloaded without placing the cage 
 
 upon the chairs. 
 
 “Fourth—The disk brakes of the hoisting engine were detached 
 
 from their usual positions and were useless. 
 
 » 
 
 “We, the jury, would recommend that all safety appliances and 
 the precautions herein named and recommended be adopted and used, 
 not only by the Stratton’s Independence mine, but by all mines in the 
 district not now using the same, thereby reducing to a minimum the 
 damage to life and limb that men working in mines are subjected to. 
 
 “We further recommend that a competent extra man should stand 
 near the engineer while he is hoisting or lowering men, whose duty 
 should be to render any assistance needed. Thomas M. Hamill, fore¬ 
 man ; Frank Atkins, clerk; John Horgan, T. S. Leland, R. W. Reed, 
 J. L. Topping.” 
 
 The following are the names of the miners who were murdered on 
 the Stratton-Independence: C. C. Staten, John Sebeck, W. R. Frazier, 
 Joe Smitherum, Edward Twigs, Harry A. Yeoman, Joe Overy, W. B. 
 Collins, Frank Cochrane, Harry Cogene, L. A. Waggoner, Edward 
 Smith, IT. F. Brown, J. L. Sewald, L. P. Jackson. 
 
 Some Other Crimes and Outrages That Have Been Committed— 
 Marshal James Clarke, murdered in Telluride. No arrest. 
 
 Oscar Thiesel, murdered at the Tomboy mine by Bob Meldrum, the 
 hired thug of the mine operators’ association. Out on bonds of $10,000. 
 
 Henry Maki, chained to a telegraph pole by militia men and dep¬ 
 uties. 
 
12 
 
 CATEGORY OF CRIME OF THE 
 
 Before any trouble took place at Telluride the mine operators ini' 
 ported desperadoes to intimidate union men and made armories out 
 of their mines. 
 
 The assaults and intimidations of the hired desperadoes are too 
 numerous to chronicle. 
 
 On July 29th, 1903, fourteen miners of Idaho Spring’s were ban¬ 
 ished from their homes by the citizens’ alliance and the mine operat¬ 
 ors’ association. Their appeal to the governor for protection was in 
 vain. 
 
 Eighty-nine members of the mob were arrested and the cases were 
 nolle prossed by a citizens’ alliance district attorney. 
 
 In the month of September, 1896, during the Leadville strike, live 
 men were murdered by the armed guards of the mine owners. No ar¬ 
 rests. 
 
 In June, 1894, Adjutant General Tarsney was tarred and feath¬ 
 ered near Colorado Springs, by the hired deputies of the Mine Owners’ 
 Association. No arrests. 
 
 Before continuing further with a recital of the crimes perpetrated 
 by the mine operators’ association, we desire to call the attention of the 
 public to the fact that many of the charges made against the federation 
 were committed by the mine operators themselves, or by parties who 
 were acting under their instructions. 
 
 The blowing up of the Strong mine has been charged against the 
 federation and members of the organization were convicted through pur¬ 
 chased perjurers, and it was afterwards shown beyond a reasonable 
 doubt that the blowing up of the Strong was nothing more nor less 
 
 than a conspiracy upon the part of the owners. Strong himself was 
 afterwards arrested for the crime and the stockholders of the property 
 used every effort to send Strong to the penitentiary. 
 
 The assault on February 4th, 1902, on E. E. Bradway and T. S. 
 Ferris, members of law and order league in Cripple Creek, was com¬ 
 mitted by the gamblers because the law and order league was insti¬ 
 tuted for the purpose of enforcing the law against gambling and the 
 law and order league had the sympathy and support of the Western 
 Federation of Miners. This assault has been charged against the fed¬ 
 eration. 
 
 February 24th, 1902, eight assay offices were dynamited in the 
 various towns of the Cripple Creek district at about the same hour, 
 showing concerted action. The public press at the time charged the 
 mine operators with the crime, gving as the reason that these assay of¬ 
 fices were ‘ 1 fences ’ ’ for stolen ore. 
 
 December 27, 1901, Martin Gleason, manager of the Wild Horse 
 mine, was murdered, not because he had offended a walking delegate 
 
MINE OPERATORS’ ASSOCIATION. 
 
 13 
 
 as asserted, but because lie was in possession of valuable information 
 and papers, in connection with mines that were then in litigation: 
 
 July 23, 1901, arson, El Paso reduction works at Florence, set on 
 fire and destroyed, loss approximately $250,000. Crime committed for 
 the purpose of probably securing insurance. No arrests. 
 
 The foregoing shows the animus of the mine operators’ association 
 towards the Western Federation of Miners, when they charge their em¬ 
 ployes with crimes, for which they, the mine operators, are more than 
 likely responsible. 
 
 THE BEST CLASS OF MEN ON EARTH. 
 
 If the members of the Western Federation of Miners are criminals, 
 is it not strange and singular that the mine operators harbored these 
 criminals for ten long years, and who in the beginning of the strike, 
 declared that the members of the federation were the best class of 
 men on the face of the earth ? Is it not strange and in explainable that 
 in the early months of the strike in the Cripple Creek district that the 
 mine operators exhausted every effort to have their former employes, 
 whom they now charge as criminals, to return to work ? 
 
 Is it not true that the mine operators met these men as brothers in 
 the various fraternal societies ? 
 
 Is it not true that every man who has been banished would have 
 been permitted to remain in the Cripple Creek district and would have 
 been given employment, providing that he would surrender his prin¬ 
 ciples and take out a card in the citizens’ alliance? 
 
 Do the mine operators entertain the opinion that a reading and 
 thinking public will believe that the federation was in any way con¬ 
 nected with the crimes that they have compiled ? 
 
 MINE OWNERS EMPLOY CRIMINALS. 
 
 They have taken the criminal record of the richest mining district 
 of the world, whose mountains of gold have lured the criminals and 
 desperate characters of every state of the Union, many of whom are now 
 in the employ of the mine operators’ association, and the crimes of 
 these men—namely, Frank Yannick, Charles Ladd, Roger Wilkes, D. 
 C. Scott, K. C. Sterling, Charles McKinney, L. S. Moore, Jack Bauman 
 (deceased), and many others paroled and ex-convicts, are now charged 
 against the men, who for long years have delved in the bowels of the 
 earth. Con there be any connection between the federation and the 
 following crimes? 
 
14 
 
 CATEGORY OF CRIME OF THE 
 
 UNWARRANTED CHARGES. 
 
 May 1, 1899. Shooting and dynamiting. Phillip Shuck, assayer, 
 shot. His assay office was dynamited later. No one punished. 
 
 January 6, 1900. Assault and robbery. B. G. Shell dragged from 
 his home and badly beaten and robbed. No arrests. 
 
 January 7, 1900. Attempted murder. J. W. Tarpy assaulted and 
 nearly killed. 
 
 January 17, 1900. Attempted murder. Attempt made to kill Tom 
 Scott. 
 
 March 2, 1900. Assault. Walter Ross sandbagged. No arrests. 
 
 March 28, 1901. Dynamite. Grand View shaft house on Gold hill 
 dynamited. Buildings partly burned. No arrests. 
 
 April 21, 1901. Dynamite. Rittenhouse shaft, Gold hill, dyna¬ 
 mited. No arrests. 
 
 June 14, 1901. Arson. U. S. Fish arrested for setting tire to a 
 hotel. Released and prosecution dropped. Fish closely connected with 
 the union. 
 
 June 15, 1901. Agent Niles of the Short Line waylaid and badly 
 beaten by masked men, who mistook him for a mine owner whom they 
 had trouble with about hiring non-union men. 
 
 July 23, 1901. Arson. El Paso reduction works at Florence set 
 on fire and destroyed. Loss, approximately $250,000. No arrests. 
 
 July 2, 1901. Assault. Mark Moran assaulted Thomas Maher, a 
 non-union man, at Independence. Arrested but released. 
 
 August 14, 1901. Street tight. Vicious fight near Ed Doyle’s sa¬ 
 loon at Midway between union and non-union men. No arrests. 
 
 August 15, 1901. Robbery. John Reardon sandbagged and robbed, 
 across the street from sheriff’s office. No arrests. 
 
 August 21, 1901. Assault and ore stealing. Robert Dunlap, night 
 watchman, and Engineer Lynch of Vindicator mine beaten badly, bound 
 and gagged. Seven sacks of high grade ore stolen. No arrests. 
 
 September 5, 1901. Free fight. Free fight between union and non¬ 
 union men at Independence. Twenty engaged. Matter dropped. 
 
 September 27, 1901. Attempted arson and murder. Fred Tag¬ 
 gart struck down and beaten at Anaconda and house set on fire. No 
 arrests. 
 
 November 10, 1901. Dynamited. John Tyler (colored), non-union 
 barber, died as a result of the dynamiting of his shop on September 
 10th. Perpetrators of the crime escaped. 
 
 February 4, 1902. Assault. E. E. Bradway and T. S. Ferris, mem¬ 
 bers of law and order league, assaulted and beaten in Cripple OTeek. 
 Matter dropped by authorities. 
 
MINE OPERATORS’ ASSOCIATION. 
 
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 February 24, 1902. Dynamiting. Eight assay offices were dyna- 
 mited between the- hours of 3 and 5 a. m. .. Donoln Ore thieves. No 
 
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 arrests. " ■>’ ; 
 
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 March 7,7 1902. Dynamiting. Zoe shaft house dynamited and dc- 
 stroyed. No arrests. • - ’ 
 
 ]\larch 7, 1902. Dynamiting. Cabin of “ Scotty v MeThtosh dyna- 
 
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 mited. No arrests. * 
 
 April 11, 1902. Assault. Masked men assaulted Watchman Par¬ 
 ker at Damon shaft house, locked him in a room. No arrests. 
 
 May 30, 1902. Fights. Morning paper reports seven disgraceful 
 and bloody fights during the preceding night. No arrests. 
 
 October 28, 1902. Federation publicly denounces Democratic 
 nominee for state auditor as unfair to organized labor because he acted 
 as deputy sheriff in the Cripple Creek strike of 1894. 
 
 October 30, 1902. Sam Brown, non-union railway agent, driven 
 out of district by armed men; had received many threatening letters 
 and had been twice burned out of house and home. No arrests. 
 
 September 1, 1903. Attempted murder. Late at night a crowd of 
 federation of miners dragged from his bed an old man named Stewart, 
 a non-union carpenter engaged in building a fence around the Golden 
 Cycle mine; took him out into the dark, beat him into insensibility and 
 then shot him through the back, leaving him for dead. Stewart had 
 refused to join the union. He recovered after long suffering, but is 
 crippled for life. 
 
 “Slim” Campbell, one of these federation desperadoes, brutally 
 murdered a woman of the half world the night following his release. 
 He was also allowed to make his escape by the sheriff. 
 
 September 14, 1903. Attempted train wrecking. Spikes pulled 
 from rails in attempt to throw electric car down 400-foot embankment. 
 No arrests. 
 
 October 21, 1903. Attempted murder. Attempt to kill the eager on 
 the Vindicator was discovered. Would-be murderer caught in shaft. 
 
 November 11, 1903. Attempted train wrecking. Attempt was 
 made to Avreck Florence and Cripple Creek train carrying non-union 
 Avorkmen at 2 o’clock a. m. Wrench broke, so that sufficient damage 
 was not committed to ditch train. 
 
 November 14, 1903. Second attempt made to wreck Florence and 
 Cripple Creek train. Information of purpose became known and 
 Charles McKifinev Avas apprehended Avhile in the act. He turned 
 state’s evidence, stating that he was hired by Sherman Parker of the 
 executive committee of the local federation and implicating one Foster. 
 Parker and Foster Avere brought to trial and a strong case Avas made 
 against them, but they produced the usual alibi with the usual result. 
 
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 The jury selected bv the federation sheriff promptly brought a verdict 
 of “not guilty.? • 
 
 1 *• * 4 , 
 
 June 6, 1904. Wholesale murder. Attempt made at 2 a. m. with 
 an infern ah machine to kill fifty or sixty non-union men at Independ- 
 
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 ence depot’. Thirteen Were killed and several others horribly mutilated 
 and maimed. Wire, used to cause the explosion was found. 
 
 Same day. Eiot and murder. A large force of armed federation 
 men stationed in their headquarters building in Victor fired upon a 
 crowd of people, who were listening to a speech on the opposite side 
 of the street, killing two non-union men—Davis and M’Gee,—and 
 wounding many more. 
 
 REPUBLICAN PARTY PAYS THE FREIGHT. 
 
 We have reproduced a partial list of the crimes that are charged 
 in the ‘red book” against the Western Federation of Miners, and we 
 desire to state that Mr. Rittenhouse, the author and compiler of the 
 “red book” recently admitted that he could not hope to fasten these 
 crimes upon the Western Federation of Miners, but that the “red book” 
 was a campaign document issued by the Republican party . This ac¬ 
 counts for the absurd and preposterous charges that are indiscrim¬ 
 inately made to blacken the character of the federation. 
 
 PROOF OF UNWARRANTED CHARGES. 
 
 “Slim” Campbell was never a member of the Western Federation 
 of Miners. What benefit could accrue to the Western Federation of 
 Miners through the murder of an unfortunate woman of the half world. 
 
 Phillip Shuck publicly denies the “red book” statement that mem¬ 
 bers of the W. F. M. committed assault upon him. 
 
 No one could have a stronger incentive to dynamite assay offices 
 than the mine operators, who looked,upon these offices as “fences” for 
 stolen ore. 
 
 The charge that Stewart, who was beaten and shot in the back by 
 federation men, is rebutted by the stories of his neighbors, who claim 
 that the assault grew out of a family quarrel, and that his wife was 
 the principal aggressor. 
 
 When the explosion occurred at the Vindicator mine the property 
 was guarded by the state militia, and it was not possible for**any union 
 men to have entered the mine. It is evident that McCormick and Beck 
 planned to bring off an explosion, as it was currently reported that the 
 state militia was about to be ordered home and the mine owners’ asso¬ 
 ciation was against this removal. McCormick and Beck, in planting 
 this infernal machine, made some mistake, which resulted in their death. 
 
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 MINE OPERATORS’ ASSOCIATION. 
 
 If the Vindicator cases had come to trial and were not nolle prossed 
 by the district attorney, who is completely controlled by the mine own¬ 
 ers’ association, indisputable evidence would have been produced to 
 prove that Beck attempted to dynamite a cabin in Lake City that was 
 occupied by five men, against one of whom he had a personal grudge, 
 and also that the same Beck dynamited a mine in order to prevent a 
 successful competitor from obtaining a lease. 
 
 In the train wrecking cases the court records will show that Mc¬ 
 Kinney was a self-confessed criminal, that he was a hired detective of 
 the mine owners’ association, and that he was employed for the sole 
 purpose of attempting to wreck a train, and then place the blame on 
 the Western Federation of Miners. By his own confession it was shown 
 that he was promised $1,000 from the mine owners’ association and 
 transportation for himself and wife to any part of the world. It was 
 further promised that in case he was convicted of the crime of train 
 wrecking, he was to receive an immediate pardon from Governor Pea- 
 
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 body. District Attorney Trowbridge, in his statement to the jury, said 
 that there was no possibility of McKinney being saved from the peni¬ 
 tentiary, yet regardless of the statement of the district attorney, re¬ 
 gardless of the confession of McKinney convicting himself ns the crim- 
 inal, members of the mine owners’ association became his bondsmen 
 to secure his release. McKinney was at liberty when the explosion oc¬ 
 curred at the Independence depot, and was seen passing Simm’s ranch 
 at 8 o’clock that morning. Who could have had the strongest motive for 
 bringing about the explosion at the Independence depot? The military 
 had been withdrawn at the time of the explosion, and everything looked 
 promising that the federation would win the strike. It was openly ad¬ 
 mitted that the output from the mines was far from being satisfactory. 
 A decision was pending in the Supreme Court and the federation was 
 expecting results from that decision. The convention of the federation 
 was then in session and the convention appointed a committee to in¬ 
 vestigate conditions in the Cripple Creek district. The report of that 
 committee left no room in the minds of the delegates in the conven¬ 
 tion that the federation would eventually win the strike; that but few 
 of the mines were paying expenses and the four co-operative stores 
 established by the federation were virtually doing the business of the 
 district. Under these circumstances, the federation could possibly have 
 no motive to use dynamite or to destroy human life. Tt is a well remem¬ 
 bered fact that bloodhounds were brought to the district, that they 
 
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 followed a trail leading to the home of Detective Bemore, who was in 
 the employ of the mine owners * association. They were then taken 
 back to the scene of the disaster and again followed the trail to Be¬ 
 more ’s home. A third attempt was made with the hounds and they 
 followed a trail to the powder magazine of the Vindicator mine. 
 
 ANARCHY. 
 
 The civil authorities then in office were discovering a clew that 
 would lead to the detection of the perpetrator or perpetrators of the 
 crime, and it was then that steps were taken for the calling of a meet¬ 
 ing of the mob at Victor, by Avhich the civil authorities might be deposed 
 in order that the hand of the mine owners’ association might not be 
 exposed in the explosion. The civil authorities were deposed by the 
 mob, acting under the influence of the incendiary utterances of C. C. 
 Hamlin, the secretary of the mine owners’ association, who declared 
 that “for every one man who lost his life at the Independence depot, 
 fifty federation men should be hanged and the rest driven out of the 
 state. ’ ’ 
 
 W. F. M. OFFERS REWARD. 
 
 The Western Federation of Miners, in convention assembled, upon 
 hearing of the explosion and the loss of life, immediately offered $5,000 
 reward for the detection and conviction of the criminal or criminals. 
 The governor of the state offered no reward. Neither did the mine 
 owners’ association, the citizens’ alliance or the commissioners of Tel¬ 
 ler county. But the commissioners of Teller county, under the influ¬ 
 ence of the mine owners’ association, appropriated $10,000 to Samuel 
 D. Crump (the attorney of the mine owners’ association who took an 
 active part in inciting the riot at Victor) to fasten the guilt of rioting 
 and murder against the Western Federation of Miners. 
 
 What have the mine owners’ association, citizens’ alliance and 
 the usurpers of civil authority done towards discovering or bringing 
 the perpetrators of the Independence explosion to justice? Is the public 
 aware that when the citizens’ alliance held a meeting at 10 o’clock a. 
 m. on June 6tli, that every act from that hour points to the fact that pre¬ 
 concerted action had been taken to depose the civil authorities; the suc¬ 
 cessors of the regularly elected sheriff of the county and marshal of 
 Victor had been selected, the bonds of the usurpers having been ar- 
 
MINE OPERATORS’ ASSOCIATION. 
 
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 ranged. The dastardly crimes that quickly followed was the work of 
 men made drunk in a citizens’ alliance store, where two barrels of 
 whisky was used to inflame the mob which was armed by the citizens’ 
 alliance for the carnival of lawlessness. The instigators of this mob 
 did not direct their efforts towards the detection or capture of the crim¬ 
 inals, who caused the explosion, but the fury and the vengeance of the 
 drunken mob were directed to the destruction of the union stores, which 
 had been thorns in the side of the citizens’ alliance. 
 
 ARE THESE LAW ABIDING CITIZENS? 
 
 This mob was led by such “law abiding” citizens as A. E. Carl¬ 
 ton, a banker; H. G. Moore, a grocer and likewise captain of a mili¬ 
 tary company. Mr. Moore, previous to the establishment of the union 
 stores, had eight delivery wagons in distributing merchandise to his 
 customers. On the day upon which he took such an active part in de¬ 
 stroying, robbing and looting the stores of his successful competitors, 
 one delivery wagon was all that was needed to deliver goods to his cus¬ 
 tomers, and Mr. Moore was so nearly out of business that he was forced 
 as a matter of economy to act as driver himself. 
 
 Drs. Hays and Driscoll, physicians of Goldfield, took advantage of 
 the occasion and replenished their larders by stealing goods from the 
 union stores. 
 
 Mr. Berryman, a prominent real estate dealer, and L. S. Moore, 
 the rape fiend and mob marshal of Goldfield, who is a paroled convict, 
 also stole large quantities of provisions, committing their “law and or¬ 
 der” depredations in company with the hired soldiers. 
 
 What these vandals were unable to appropriate to themselves, they 
 wantonly destroyed. 
 
 The bullpen became the prison, not only of the strikers, but of par¬ 
 ties who were neutral in their position. 
 
 THE VIGILANTE COMMITTEE. 
 
 ♦ 
 
 The mine owners and the members of the citizens’ alliance dele¬ 
 gated to themselves the authority of appointing a vigilante committee, 
 and this committee assumed the power to imprison and deport and even 
 went so far as to force resignations from public office by the gun and the 
 noose. And these are the men who now want the commissioners of Tel- 
 
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 ler county to appropriate $200 to distribute their slanderous pamphlet, 
 purporting to be the “Criminal Record of the Western Federation of 
 Miners.” Were all the charges contained in the “red book” true, the 
 criminal record of Peabody as governor of the state, controlled by the 
 mine owners’ association and the citizens’ alliance, is so odious that 
 the record as charged in the “red book” against the Federation is clean 
 when compared with the monstrous outrages perpetrated by the self- 
 emulated “law and order” combination. 
 
 Two hundred and twenty-seven honest, upright citizens, the ma¬ 
 jority of whom were taxpayers, were convicted by a vigilance commit¬ 
 tee prejudiced to unionism and sentenced to deportation. ( This com¬ 
 mittee was working under the supervision of the state militia and was 
 composed of the following prominent citizens: Mayor F. D. French of 
 Victor, Nelson Franklin, J. B. Cunningham, F. M. Reardon, postmaster 
 of Victor; Judge H. McGarry, D. E. Copeland and T. J. Daltzdell. 
 
 ADMIT THEIR GUILT. 
 
 In order that the public may see that they gloat over their infamous 
 work, we extract the following from the Cripple Creek Times, one of 
 the official organs of the union wrecking mob: 
 
 There have been many exaggerated reports sent throughout the country 
 about the number of persons deported from the Cripple Creek district in order 
 that law and order might prevail. Some of the reports have even placed the 
 number up in the thousands. The truth is that only 227 men were deported 
 in any manner whatsover. Some of these were taken out on trains and others 
 went out upon receiving notice that such action on their part would save 
 them going with those on special trains. A complete list of those deported 
 has been prepared and is published herewith. It is the first complete list 
 published. The names of those taken out on the trains have before been 
 printed, but this is the first time that a list has appeared of those deported 
 in every way. 
 
 “There is being prepared another list, but it will not be ready for publica¬ 
 tion for a week or two. It is what is known as the “Can’t Come Back” list. 
 Upon it appears not only the names published now, but also the names of 
 those who skipped the district without receiving any kind of a notice. 
 
 “The complete list is as follows: 
 
 LIST OF THE DEPORTED. 
 
 A 
 
 “Allen, H. A., Goldfield; Aspgrain, Fred, Goldfield; Andrews, George. 
 Cameron; Allen, Ernest, Victor; Anderson, George, Goldfield. 
 
MINE OPERATORS' ASSOCIATION. 
 
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 B 
 
 “Brewer, Frank, Independence; Brown, James, Independence; Brothers, 
 J. J., Goldfield; Bolson, A. L., Victor; Brick, Tom, Victor; Benton, W. F., 
 Goldfield; Bean, J. R., Victor; Beck, James, Independence; Bubolo, John, 
 Pueblo; Basinger, M. P., Cripple Creek; Burns, John, Victor; Boaz, Harry, 
 Goldfield; Beatty, Benjamin Irwin, Cripple Creek; Briggs, G. C., Cripple 
 Creek; Bradley, W. G., Cripple Creek. 
 
 C 
 
 “Carter, W. J., Goldfield; Carlson, Gus, Anaconda; Curwen, H., Goldfield; 
 Curwen, Walter, Goldfield; Cooper, George E., Victor; Gastello, John, Victor; 
 Carter, William J., Victor; Campbell, Joseph T., Goldfield; Cooper, Joseph 
 W., Altman; Campbell, Peter, Cripple Creek; Coughlin, Robert, Hollywood; 
 Callahan, Patrick, Victor; Cloud, M., Cripple Creek; Comstock, M., Victor; 
 Campbell, Angus, Cripple Creek; Corbett, Ed, Victor; Carey, Patrick, Victor; 
 Costello, Walter, Cripple Creek; Cox, Eugene B., Florence; Conway, C. H., 
 Victor. 
 
 D 
 
 “Devenney, T. J., Anaconda; Dickey, S. M., Victor; Davis, Henry, Gold¬ 
 field; Dennis, James, Cripple Creek; Dunn, Richard, Cripple Creek. 
 
 E 
 
 “Edwards, Thomas W., Victor; Edwards, John, Elkton; Evans, Arthur, 
 Victor; Erwin, Charles E., Victor; Eigle, John, Victor; Egger, Joe, alias Joe 
 
 Krauz. 
 
 F 
 
 “Frey, N. D., Cripple Creek; Fish, J. E., Elkton; Fayhan, Frank, Victor; 
 Force, Garfield, Cripple Creek; Flees, John, Victor; Fuller, Bert, Victor. 
 
 G 
 
 “Given, Alf, Goldfield; Green, Joe, Independence; Gilhooly, Joe, Victor; 
 Grant, James, Victor; Gonzales, Delfido, Springer, New Mexico; Gallagher, 
 John, Cripple Creek; Gilfillan, Eugene C., Victor; Gorman, William E., Victor; 
 Gardner, Frank, Denver; Gilfillan, Eugene C., Victor (redeported); Giradot, 
 Gus F., Cripple Creek. 
 
 H 
 
 “Hoover, W. H., Independence; Howard, George, Altman; Hart, Ed, Vic¬ 
 tor; Hansen, Hans, Arequa; Hansen, Chris, Arequa; Hebner, L. F., \ictor; 
 Hamilton, Joe, Goldfield; Hess, E. A., Victor; Hackward, John, Victor; Hani- 
 fan, John, Victor; Hennessey, James, Victor; Henderson, J. K., Independence; 
 Harrington, Mike, Victor; Hard, Gilen C., Cripple Creek; Herz, Seligman, 
 Goldfield. Holtzolaw, Higby, Elkton; Harper, John, Victor. 
 
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 J 
 
 “Jensen, J. C., Victor; James, Charles, Altman; Johnson, Emil, Altman; 
 Jones, F. E., Cripple Creek; Johnson, Henry Clay, Cripple Creek; Johnson, 
 Charles, Altman; Johnson, Gaudy E., Victor; Jordon, A. F., Victor. 
 
 “Ketchum, William D., Victor; Kean, H. P., Goldfield; Kelly, Jerry, Vic¬ 
 tor; Krieg, Joe, Independence; Kearns, Thomas, Goldfield; Kuhlman, Thomas, 
 Gillett; Kelly, John S., Goldfield; Kane, H. L., Victor; Kilker, Thomas, Vic¬ 
 tor; Keagy, Chris, Altman; Kennedy, Pat, Victor; Keating, Martin, Victor; 
 Kohn, Buron, Goldfield; King, Henry, Victor; Kirkpatrick, Thomas, Inde¬ 
 pendence; Krotz, L. E., Victor; King, Virgil, Victor; Krautz, Joe, alias Joe 
 Egger. 
 
 “Logan, John E., Victor; Lutz, S. E., Victor; Lynch, W. T. Goldfield; Lup- 
 low, W. C., Victor; Lanterman, Arthur, Cripple Creek; Lemeraux, Joe, Gold¬ 
 field; Lee, Hugh, Victor; Liss, Otto, Cripple Creek; Lally, W. F., Cripple 
 Creek; Lampson, J. H., Goldfield; Labitsky, Edward J., Victor; Lavden. 
 Thomas, Cripple Creek. 
 
 “McCall, William, Victor; McParland, E. L., Victor; McBride, Dennis, 
 Anaconda; McChesney, T. L., Cameron; McAvoy, Sylvester, Victor; McGuire, 
 Mike, Victor; McCaughney, Phi, Victor; McCarty, R. C., Goldfield; McCarty, 
 Tim, Goldfield; McNulty, P. J., Victor; McLean, Albert, (Dynamite Shorty), 
 Victor; McDonald, Peter, Victor; McMann, R. H., Cripple Creek; Mclsaac, 
 Alex, Victor; McLeod, Dan, Denver; McLeod, D. B., Victor; McCarvill, Pat¬ 
 rick, Victor; McGuire, J. F., Victor; McArdle, B. J., Elkton; McIntyre, J. B., 
 
 Victor. 
 
 M 
 
 “Miller, Doy, Victor; Miller, Sherman, Goldfield; Muir, Walter, Elkton; 
 Murnane, Frank, Independence; Maher, Mike, Arequa; Milroy, Anthony, Gold¬ 
 field; Murphy, William, Victor; Martin, Norman S., Victor; Mullen, Michael 
 John, Victor; Martinez, Santiago, Antonito, Colorado; Moore, H. W., Victor; 
 Marnoch, Thomas, Victor; Murphy, Tom A., Victor; Maulsby, Jack I., Victor. 
 
 Nelson, William, Goldfield. 
 
 “O’Neill, D. C., Victor; O’Neill, James, Altman; O’Brien, Tom, Victor; 
 O’Brien, Joe, Elkton; O’Bryan, W. W., Arequa. 
 
MINE OPERATORS’ ASSOCIATION. 
 
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 P 
 
 "Paddock, N. V., Cripple Creek; Payne, A. J., Victor; Post, T. I., Cripple 
 Creek; Paxson, A. C., Victor; Peterson, Alfred, Goldfield; Parrott, E. H., 
 Goldfield; Paul, Henry, Cripple Creek; Palmer, L. L., Goldfield 
 
 R 
 
 "Reinhard, N. P., Victor; Riley, Frank, Victor; Ruet, Ed, Cripple Creek; 
 Reilly, Judge W. C., Independence; Roach, John, Cripple Creek; Retallac, 
 John, Goldfield; Retallac, John, Jr., Goldfield; Reisener, Max, Cripple Creek; 
 Renner, Sam, Victor; Rinker, Thomas J., Victor; Rocks, Tom, Victor; Riley, 
 Charles, Victor; Rigg, Joe, Arequa; Robinson, Harry, Altman; Rumney, 
 Thomas, Cripple Creek; Roberts, Peter, Victor. 
 
 S 
 
 "Simms, G. B., Victor; Schutt, D. W., Cripple Creek; Sullivan, C. A., 
 Independence; Spiker, John, Victor; Schmidt, Nick, Cripple Creek; Saun¬ 
 ders, J. T., Victor; Sixtleman, Rudolph, Cripple Creek; Stapleton, James, 
 Victor; Starbuck, Harvey, Independence; Simpson, A. T., Goldfield; Smith, 
 W. H., Goldfield; Scott, C. S., Anaconda; Shafer, W. A., Cripple Creek; 
 Sackett, D. P., Victor; Shelley, Mike, Victor; Shea, John P., Victor; Sulli¬ 
 van, Mike (M. J.), Goldfield; Sullivan, Jim, Goldfield; Shoemaker, William, 
 Independence. 
 
 T 
 
 "Trainer, W. F., Blue Bird mine; Topping, J. L., Victor; Trevette, Fred, 
 Goldfield; Tolan, Mike, Victor; Tiernan, Peter, Cripple Creek. 
 
 U 
 
 “Ullmer, Howard, Goldfield. 
 
 W 
 
 "Williams, Reese Cripple Creek; Wilkins, J. E., Cripple Creek; Wright, 
 James, Altman; Wilcox, John H., Independence; West, A. A., Lower Alt¬ 
 man; Ward, David, Anaconda; Wherry, H. H., Anaconda; Weld, Charles, 
 Altman; Warner, Walter, Altman; Wright, Fred, Independence; Warren, 
 Daniel, Lawrence; Williams, George, Arequa; Wilson, Tom, Cripple Creek. 
 
 Z 
 
 “Zuban, Joseph, Victor.’’ 
 
 The above is a roll of honor—a partial list of the names of men who 
 refused to surrender their allegiance to the Western Federation of Min¬ 
 ers_who refused to accept cards in a mine owners’ association or a citi¬ 
 
 zens’ alliance—who refused to trample under foot the principles of 
 
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 unionism. All of these men who have been branded as criminals by 
 the vigilante committee, could have secured employment in the Cripple 
 Creek district and remained as residents of Teller county, providing, 
 that they severed their connection with the Western Federation of 
 Miners and endorsed the murderous policy of the citizens' alliance. 
 
 Nearly all the men who were deported, were brutally treated. Many 
 of them were taken hundreds of miles from their homes under a mili¬ 
 tary guard, dumped upon barren prairies without food or shelter. John 
 Harper, T. II. Parfet, William Amole, James Frazier, John Higgens 
 and others bear the scars of the club, whip and gun in the hands of 
 Carlton's thugs. 
 
 RIOTERS. 
 
 On August 20, 1904, the citizens' alliance held a meeting in Victor 
 and sent out word to their “bad men” to assemble in Cripple Creek 
 The accommodating sheriff had absented himself from the county, in 
 order that the citizens’ alliance mob might have full sway in carrying 
 out the hellish work planned and directed by A. E. Carlton, ex-Mayor 
 Nelson Franklin and others. 
 
 The Under Sheriff L. F. Parsons, the secretary of the citizens' al¬ 
 liance, made no effort to resist the mob while they were destroying and 
 looting the property of the Inter State Mercantile Company and gath¬ 
 ering victims to be brutally driven from their homes. 
 
 Mr. Parson was apprised of the work that was to be done by the 
 
 mob, and notwithstanding the fact that he was given full power by the 
 county commissioners to reinforce the sheriff’s office with as many 
 
 deputies as was required, yet he failed to take any action to meet the 
 
 emergency. T. S. Leland, a Methodist minister has been classed among 
 
 the criminals and “agitators” and marked for deportation and is now 
 
 at this writing, intrenched in his home awaiting the cowardly mob. 
 
 We trust that if the mob attacks the home of the reverend gentle¬ 
 man that his aim will be as unerring as that of George Seitz, who when 
 attacked in his home in Cripple Creek surprised, the white-cappers with 
 the result that two prominent citizens are in the hospital. 
 
 If the Cripple Creek district is now a non-union camp as the “red 
 book” of the mine owners' association declares, then why did the mob 
 of August 20tli, gather? If the Western Federation of Miners has been 
 exterminated then why are the “bad men” called together from the 
 
MINE OPERATORS’ ASSOCIATION. 
 
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 various towns of the district to drive other men into exile who are not 
 identified with organized labor? 
 
 BROKEN FAITH. 
 
 The “red book" charges the federation with violating the agree¬ 
 ment of 1894. We deny this assertion, and are prepared to prove that 
 the agreement of 1894 was never lived up to by the mine operators. The 
 mine owners have continuously broken faith with the Western Federa¬ 
 tion of Miners, by open and vicious discrimination upon the Strong, 
 Ajax, Elkton, El Paso and other mines. The “red book” proclaims 
 that the minimum wage paid in the Cripple Creek district is $3.00 per 
 day for eight hours, but no mention was made of the exorbitant insur¬ 
 ance tax that was forcibly levied upon the miners, nor the hospital fees 
 that were deducted from their monthly checks. Nor does it mention 
 that a movement was started, with Judge Colburn as the leading fac¬ 
 tor, to bring about the reduction of wages. 
 
 UNION MEN VINDICATED. 
 
 The “red book” charges that a “strong case was made against 
 Parker and Foster,” and that “the jury selected by the federation 
 sheriff promptly brought a verdict of ‘not guilty.’ ” 
 
 The testimony that was introduced by the mine owners’ association 
 was of such a character as to fully prove the innocence of Parker and 
 Foster, and furthermore, the testimony showed beyond a question a 
 conspiracy on the part of the mine owners’ association to railroad feder¬ 
 ation men to the penitentiary. The jury that brought in the verdict of 
 “not guilty” was selected from the remotest part of Teller county, and 
 were made up of farmers and saw mill men, who were not in any way 
 .identified with organized labor. 
 
 THE PRETENDED “FRIEND OF LABOR ” 
 
 The governor has frequently declared, during the past year, that 
 he was not opposed to organized labor but was waging a campaign to 
 exterminate the Western Federation of Miners, because it was a so¬ 
 cialistic organization. If the governor was telling the truth, why did 
 he send the troops to Las Animas county, and declare said county under 
 martial law? The dastardly crimes perpetrated in the coal fields by the 
 mine operators, and sanctioned by the Governor, were as outrageous as 
 
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 were committed in Telluride or the Cripple Creek district. The United 
 Mine Workers, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, were 
 on strike and waging a peaceable battle to secure an eight-hour day, to 
 enforce the bi-monthly pay day and the anti-scrip law. The United Mine 
 Workers in the ‘‘red book” have been charged with no crimes, but the' 
 mine operators and the Governor were as relentless in their efforts to 
 crush the United Mine Workers as the W. F. M. 
 
 COAL MINERS SUFFER. 
 
 Since the 9tli of last November, when the coal miners went on 
 strike, an appalling chapter of crime has been written. The houses 
 of union men in New Castle were dynamited. Inoffensive and unarmed 
 citizens of Las Animas county were shot down in cold blood. Eighty 
 miners were driven from Berwind to Trinidad, a distance of more than 
 twenty miles like a herd of cattle, without food or water, by the mounted 
 guards of the state militia. Families were evicted from their habita¬ 
 tions, and their former rude hovels, called homes, were destroyed. 
 
 INHUMAN OUTRAGES. 
 
 • The deportations were not confined to the metalliferous mining- 
 camps, but by the order of Major Zepli Hill, husbands and fathers were 
 torn from the bosom of their families, and among those banished was one 
 James Ritchie, a veteran soldier with two honorable discharges. The 
 deportations were not even confined to men but Major Hill, the brutal¬ 
 ized ruffian, in the employ of the mine operators, sent six of his soldiers 
 to drive “Mother” Jones, an aged, white-haired woman, from the coal 
 fields of Las Animas county, because she dared to raise her voice in be¬ 
 half of humanity. Is there any crime charged in the “red book’' against 
 the W. F. M. as dehumanized as the emasculation of an old man by the 
 hired thugs of the mine operators. 
 
 Joe Raiz was castrated and left upon the prairies to die, and finally 
 did die from the wounds inflicted. William F. Wardjon, Chris Evans, 
 D. F. Fairley and James Mooney,-—representatives of the United Mine 
 Workers—will carry to their graves the scars of the brutal assaults that 
 were made upon them by the hired assassins of the coal barons. 
 
 PREVENTED AMICABLE SETTLEMENT. 
 
 In Telluride, the Governor entered upon another campaign of ex¬ 
 termination at the request of the citizens' alliance, and the same brutal 
 
MINE OPERATORS’ ASSOCIATION. 
 
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 methods were afterwards used to blacken the pages of civilization as 
 
 was done in Teller county. 
 
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 Notwithstanding the fact that a meeting had been held in Denver 
 between the mine managers, Bulkeley Wells, John Chase and John Her¬ 
 ron and the representatives of the W. F. M., which pointed to an early, 
 amicable settlement, the managers promising to return to Telluride and 
 audit their pay rolls and expense accounts with a view of adjusting 
 wages to harmonize with the eight-hour day for the mill men; it having 
 been agreed by the federation that a reduction would be accepted so 
 that there would be no material increase in the cost of the treatment of 
 ores. 
 
 The citizens’ alliance, imbued with the spirit of vengeance, called 
 upon the governor, the pretended “friend of organized labor” for the 
 troops, regardless of the fact that not even a fist fight had taken place 
 since the strike was declared. But the persuasive influence of Bankers 
 Wrench and Wheeler, and Journalist Curry, the leaders of the citizens’ 
 alliance, had the desired effect and resulted in a reign of lawlessness, 
 such as union men could not be guilty of. Gambling was immediately 
 reopened. The toughest characters in the country were imported and 
 employed and residents were terrorized. 
 
 Men were arrested without warrant and held without charge. 
 When forced to either release or file charges against prisoners, they 
 would be charged with vagrancy by the civil authorities, who were in 
 league with the mine operators, the citizens’ alliance and the military. 
 In thirty-three such cases men were adjudged guilty and told that 
 their fines would be $25—fifteen days work on the streets—that they 
 would be compelled to leave Telluride or if they returned to work in 
 the mines at the terms dictated, their sentences would be remitted. 
 When these cases were appealed every man was acquitted by Judge 
 
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 Wardlaw, as the evidence showed a brazen conspiracy. 
 
 OUR TRUTHFUL GOVERNOR. 
 
 While the military was in command nearly 200 men were driven 
 from their homes. These men who were exiled appealed to the Governor 
 through President Moyer of the W. F. M. and the Governor gave as¬ 
 surances that the deported men could return, as shown by the following 
 telegrams; 
 
CATEGORY OF CRIME OF THE 
 
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 Ouray, Colorado, March 24, 1904. 
 
 James IT. Peabody, Governor State of Colorado. 
 
 Sir:—In line with your suggestion, we have applied for, and been 
 granted an injunction restraining the mine owners’ association and citi¬ 
 zens’ alliance of Telluride from interfering with the return of citizens 
 driven by a mob from that place on March 14th. These citizens will 
 return to their homes. Will they receive the protection of the national 
 
 guard? 
 
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 CHARLES IT. MOYER. 
 
 The governor sent the following reply: 
 
 Denver, Colorado, March 25, 1904. 
 Chas. Moyer, President of the Western Federation of Miners. 
 
 Answering your telegram of yesterday, I have no disposition to in¬ 
 terfere with, or interrupt the movements of unarmed citizens going from 
 place to place in a lawful manner, but armed bodies of men will not 
 be permitted to march in any portion of the state other than the state 
 
 ml ltia ' JAMES H. PEABODY, Governor. 
 
 Acting upon the telegram of the Governor, eleven of the deported 
 men made an attempt to return to their homes, unarmed, and were 
 met by the state militia, taken from the train and forced to walk to 
 Ridgway, a distance of thirty miles, and warned never to return. This 
 is the notorious liar whom the Republican party proposes to nominate 
 as their standard bearer in the state of Colorado. 
 
 To recount the crimes that have been committed by the mine own¬ 
 ers’ association and the citizens’ alliance, with the approval of the 
 Governor of the state, would fill volumes and exhaust the vocabulary of 
 the English language. 
 
 WHY THE DECISION. 
 
 The governor, and those whom he is serving, and their followers 
 point with evident pride to the decision of the Supreme Court which 
 upholds that the civil authority is subordinate to the military, but when 
 we remember that the chief justice of the Supreme Court, who wrote 
 the decision, is a mine owner and president of the Bank of Telluride, 
 and when Ave remember that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court did 
 drag the ermine of the judiciary so low as to accept transportation from 
 a railroad corporation, avc submit that he may not be above contami¬ 
 nation. The following letters throAv no luster upon the purity and in¬ 
 tegrity of the Supreme Court of the state of Colorado; 
 
MINE OPERATORS’ ASSOCIATION. 
 
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 Denver, August 29, 1903. 
 State of Colorado, Supreme Court Chambers. 
 
 Gentlemen:—Please accept thanks for transportation inclosed in 
 your favor of to-day. W. H. GABBETtT. 
 
 Messrs. Teller & Dorsey, City. 
 
 State of Colorado, Supreme Court Chambers. 
 
 Denver, Colorado, June 16, 1904. 
 
 My Dear Sir:—I thank you most sincerely for your favor. I asked 
 Mr. Rogers to speak to you, because he knew better than any one else 
 what I had done for the railroad attorneys, and stand ready to do when¬ 
 ever I can. I hope to be able to prove my appreciation of this favor. 
 Yours, very truly, 
 
 C. C. Dorsey, Esq. JOHN B. COOKE. 
 
 When the above letters are written by men connected with the 
 ‘‘temples of justice” what can be expected from the legislative and ex¬ 
 ecutive departments of state? 
 
 PROPHETIC WORDS OF BOYCE. 
 
 The greatest prudence should be exercised by the electors in the 
 selection of those who are to enact and administer the laws of a great 
 state. It was with a prophetic vision that Edward Boyce, for six years 
 the president of the Western Federation of Miners, foresaw the indus¬ 
 trial troubles which would necessitate workingmen being in a position 
 to protect their homes, their lives and their families, and we agree with 
 the ‘red book” when it proclaims, “The right of self-defense is older 
 than all written law. ’ ’ 
 
 No men would have been banished from their homes in Colorado, if 
 they had stood upon their constitutional rights, which clothes them with 
 the right to bear arms. 
 
 We point with lasting pride to the words of Edward Boyce, when 
 lie said: “I strongly advise you to provide every member with the latest 
 improved rifle, which can be obtained from the factory at a nominal 
 price. I entreat you to take action on this important question, so that 
 in two years we can hear the martial tread of 25,000 armed men in the 
 ranks of labor.” 
 
 May it be that this country in the near future shall be like Switzer¬ 
 land—every man a soldier with his home equipped with the weapons to 
 protect himself and family from mob violence. 
 
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 CATEGORY OF CRIME OF THE 
 
 LABOR’S PHILOSOPHY. 
 
 “LABOR PRODUCES ALL WEALTH; WEALTH BELONGS 
 TO THE PRODUCER THEREOF. ’’—Charter, Western Federation of 
 Miners. 
 
MINE OPERATORS’ ASSOCIATION. 
 
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 LINCOLN’S PHILOSOPHY. 
 
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 “AND INASMUCH AS MOST GOOD THINGS HAVE BEEN 
 PRODUCED BY LABOR, IT FOLLOWS THAT ALL SUCH 
 THINGS BELONG OF RIGHT TO THOSE WHOSE LABOR HAS 
 PRODUCED THEM.”—Lincoln’s Message to Congress, 1864. 
 

 
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