Show FURIOUS AT LEADVILLE ak 1 I situation Is rapidly growing jeorse W worse 4 4 S JF to police divid by a mou nud Witia lly shot at while attempting to aff irest the non union sillier mine unit Iric ply 1 ns lac lead ville colo sept 14 affairs are rapidly reaching a climax I 1 an and aa life and property are arc no longer site sate at 5 alii afternoon officers and me nichlis attempted tempted al to arrest thomas ai malancy Ma Ara loncy joncy wit will Is I 1 charged char geil with being connected with the beatin beating ot of dims barns last week Aj maloney aloney jerked away fro fran ie the officers and a lot ot of men held then them while hile maeoney made bla escape marshal Dani danieu elit officer nichols and sp c ceol policeman batted tart cd after alai maon p they found him at the head of sixth street he ran out of a saloon pursued by the he marshal lie turned suddenly and fired two shots riots at the marshal but mirbell him lie ie had got ten in between tome some buildings and none of 0 thelious theli the chott fired by the officer took effect maloney mounted a horse that was in readiness and made his escape A number of people narrowly escaped being killed in the scrimmage early this morn moral lagE ge C terry who has lleen been doing carpenter work on the emmet fence and who was the fireman that refused to walk out it at the bolin bohn was war attacked by five men and horribly kicked and beaten so 60 much so that his condition tonight is critical the strike ot of tile the Lc adville miners has reached an acute stage where wit ere the violence that has accompanied it can no longer be allowed to continue unless the rule of law Is to give way to anai chy the truth has been kept front from getting out and not III many any readers of 0 the daily papers or others outside of leadville Lc adville know what the people here have passed through in the last two months the strikers numbering soo and composed in a large part of the men who held null bull hill in 1894 are arc well ell armed each has a winchester ind and a revolver they are organized and officered and make some show of discipline they have regular ba barracks tracks where they assemble and keep keell their arms arms they are the rulers of his town against whom the town officers are powerless even if inclined to resist and when it Is further said that the he town lown and county peace of ficera are in sympathy with the strife ers I 1 their heir unrestrained sway sway may be understood inder der stood no man Js Is ste safe even on the most ire fre quentel business street casts are ot of frequent occurrence w here stringers strangers in the city whose presence here Is suspect edof ed of being inimical to the strikers linkers are arc halted on the lite streets by armed bands and searched for papers and weapons if a pistol is found tile i Is taken to police headquarter where here he is fined filled for tor carrying a arms illegally papers money and jewelry to jmj on hint are arc confiscated by by his captors it he ts Is still under su biclon pl acion lie he 1 Is given a limited time lime to leahr town A lead laig member oi of the go conors staff was held up by one oe these bands recently A pistol was found on him and he was taken laken before the police court and fined the men arresting hamall him all of whom were armed none being officers of the lite law were not molested the owners of the coronado mine started work a week ago and to protect their miners erected a eatock ade around their property where here their men lien were kept it was reported that aarie supply up ot of arms arini verc held in the blockade for use and the strikers tons tolls certain it if this were ere true they induced the sheriff to investigate tor for that gentleman went to tile lie mine manager and demanded by irttie of his office lie ile was allowed in and looked aroun around d returning to the strikers lie reported there were no arms there then by god well dynamite her to nighat was the answering cry the owners of th chernine ernine seeing they could not depend upon n the ardi nary law officers for prote protection went to lie he district judge and tile lh sheriff c anti and to then them they said we put our ty in ill your hands and we demand that ibbe protected against the s strikers erv we ahall hold lake county and leadville cespon tible sible tor for every dullar ot of damage suffered suu ered by acy us its on oil account of lawle ss act ads now do your duty the sheriff and lite judge haj bad a consultation sul tation and the result was war tile bissu ance of to the not that an attempt to dynamite tile hie anine would be punished by them but filial that it would be likely to lead to the sen sending ding of militia to the city an eventuality that is much dreaded by the linkers tile the fear of military interference had a 1 pacific effect the mine was wai let alone the sympathy of the people e 0 of clead leadville which at firs first vias with th the c strikers has by these acts of violence ben been turned against them unless relief relict Is afforded by the governor sending militia here to protect the people they will ill take steps to protect them elvas by the life form ate of vigilance committees |