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Show HION MEN" ACQUITTED. fcEk Accused of Dynamiting Sun id Moon Property Freed. flown. Co:o . Jan. 1C After delib- incarly forty-eight hours tho jury j case of members of the Western jb'ji Ion of Miners who wero tried In reJfi; trlct court here on Informations "hlchl S' them with conspiracy to dc-'X.m dc-'X.m lulldlags on tho Sun nnd Moon i o'perty at Idaho Springs, returned ct acquitting all the defendants. Jy sixteen men wero placed on ""jj jut District Attorney Thurman t-m ,lio cases against three of thorn, 1 cod (or the conviction of tho re-j3 re-j3 'thirteen defendants. The defense ''ffj the case to the Jury without ttffc anv evidence. The trial con-JS con-JS tmonth and nioro than SCO tales- re examined before the jury was "WW .1 . r t-s n (.THh lerobcr of tho executive board of iufVu !ern Federation of Miners, and irTiiT iandler. financial secretary of the i ? PTH Miners' union. Tho others JJlJ W&oMSc. of tho Idaho Springs Irmi It Av!Mhc'KffN5lmt tnp explosion S atroiTrWSuiTViwl Moon trnns-'jyl trnns-'jyl Iigusp on July 23th last was the rmiitti -0' n nlpt fo'med by an "Inner Df the union In -consequence of J5 Aoyinehl of non-union miners by Johii 1 a'd Moon company after tho le'Afli len ,,ad Bne on Etrlke. Philip mfl'tt Wember of tho union, was killed Kploslon, ami It was asserted that l nui pne 0f (n0 three men asslgndd to ew.W uhe hulldlpg. co Ing the explosion the union ml-h ml-h fr f forcibly expelled from Tdaho , !by( members of tho citizens' nl- A. larco number of these will bo . ito trial next month on Informa-iinra Informa-iinra a against them on account of Wbiti: Jons., |