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Show THE WESTERN MOLLY M'GUIRES. In Cripple Creek, but a few months ago, a proposition to join the Federation was defeated by the local unions by a vote of 90 to 10. But miners do not attend their meetings regularly and one night when but a few were present, the proposition proposi-tion was renewed and carried. Then the demand was made that none but those who belonged to the Federation should have employment In the mines. This Avas resisted by the mine owners and the strike followed. At last two carloads of miners were imported from Wyoming. A double cage of them was lowered into the mine. The superintendent went down with the men to the seventh or eighth level. As he returned he evidently evi-dently saw something on the sixth level that aroused his suspicions, for on reacning the surface he went to the engineer and told him to lower him to the sixth level. He was answered that the indicator would not show the sixth level. The superintendent then said: "When you pass the fifth level, slow down and I will notify you where to stop by the bell." He told the other men who .were waiting to be lowered to remain whore they were, then after a few whispered words with the foreman, the two men stepped on the cage and disappeared. That was the last seen of them. At the sixth level the bell rang. Then a moment later there was an explosion. The two men were blown to. atoms. Investigation showed that at the sixth level in the soft earth behind the lagging a auantity of black powder and a keg or box of dynamite had been hidden. With them was a revolver. Some one by a wire had fired the revolver, which was doubtless covered with the block powder; the concussion fired the dynamite, dyna-mite, and the murders were accomplished. The Hfl design was doubtless to blow up the first double- ' flflfl deck cage with eighteen imported miners, but the J HH cage did not stop at that level. Then it was BIH fixed for the second load, but only the superin- i ' HH tondent and foreman were sacrificed. This is the J flnfl same crowd that was organized in Butte years $, flH ago, with Ed Boyce as the controlling spirit. Af- fll ter the murders and incendiarism In the Coeur . IH d'Aleno region caused the Governor of Idaho 1 and the soldiers sent at his request to break up ' HI the gang there, they had to have a new field. H Boyce had already been here, but did not like his H reception, and two years later went to Colorado. ( B The Rocky Mountain News gave him a most B complimentary notice as a great labor organizer , ' B some time in the summer of 1902, if we remem- H bor correctly. The agents of the same band of H assassins are tho men who precipitated the trou- 5 fl bles in the Utah coal mines. H In considering what should be done with them flj we can all suspend our ideas of the rights of em- j B ployers and employees. It is simply how to deal , B With a band of assassins. The mines of Cripple I ) H Creek are one by one resuming work. There is I ' H no scarcity of men, but there is perpetual dan- f B ger. The mines have many openings; they can- B not all be guarded; then some of these men can I H obtain employment by saying . they are from an I H outside state, that they belong to no union, etc. ! M Colorado is in the same position that Penn- ' M sylvania was in the seventies, until one man j M took his life In his hands, joined the Molly Mc- , t CH Gulres,, found who the directing assassins were ' and caused them to be run down and hanged. j j M And Colorado will have to adopt some measures M to run them out of the state. We believe that B the purpose was to get a foothold in Utah and B the first attempt was at the coal mines among M the passionate Italians. j M We believe the Governor made a mistake ' when he recommended Demolli to leave Utah We B believe he should have been arraigned as a con- B splrator against the peace and order of the state; 'B we believe he might have been convicted and B placed where he would have been quiet for some B months or years, and the knowledge of his speedy' B arrest and conviction would have been a notice ( B to his brother conspirators that tho climate of B Utah Is bad for men who .carry in their souls B the microbe of murder. B The managers of all mines fn this state should B be on tho alert to protect themselves against B these assassins. They have lost their hold in B Idaho; they are fast losing it in Colorado and B they will be looking for a new field. Every pre- B caution should be exercised to prevent their B forming a nucleus for their deviltry in Utah. ; B i B |