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Show ORDERED TO HIKE ! Ifl EASTWARD AT ONCE II HOLLY. Colo.. Juno 11. With a part- wH Ing volley of rifle bullets fired over their &:flbl heads by the militia to warn them lo Rl "hlko" eastward as fast as their legs could carry them and never again set IhH foot on Colorado soil, ninety-one union , WiH miners from the Cripple Creek district o, were unloaded from a special Santa Fe Hffl train on the pralrlo this morning, one-, - 11 half mile from the Colorado-Kansas 11 Stat line, and left to shift for them- VbH selves. 81 The exiles wore disembarked in hn.Mte i and without ceremony. The- guards and jl - deputies were tired out and In 111 humor HfH from their long, tedious trip from the Hkfl Teller county gold camp, and wore In Bl no mood to extend any special courte- fll si?9 or kindness to their unfortunate charge.". flH "Hurry up there you fellows," cried KH Lieut. Cole, when the train etopped 4a Hl I d fl'U! 1 ;lv j I Pj j jj V the midst of the alkali sand dunes that V Ut'fly i dot the prairie In the vicinity of the i " 1 1 H eastern part of Powers county, near the i t' U 1' W ) Knneas line, i ft SnM "We haven't got time to Avaste out r iV' I ; here." and no time was wasted. The I) ' ' special, which consisted of an engine, a I 11,; i . combination baggage car nnd smoker , Ar- fi and two day coaches, had no sooner T i ,t come to a standstill than the car doors 1. j! tl IB were unlocked and thrown open and the fl Up E order given by Lieut. Cole for the exiles 1J ! Jffc 1$ to leave the train, i f ;! Alone on Prairies. . : 'I "Step lively, you fellows, step lively," ( CJH admonished Deputy Benton, who was , !J In command of the civil force of the : jl ' ?Mi expedition, and in less time than it I ! rU takes to tell It, the three cars were l , i emptied of their unfortunate and un- 'II I willing passcngerB and was started on 1 (I ' h -8i Its way back to La Junta. 1 'V INM j The men -were dumped on the checr- u ,1' S less prairie without food or water, for , . V.'J i the ix)ldlers and deputies, In their haste t,' y to get home, had forgotten to unload Jj 4 rf. the small stock of commissary supplies , M 1 j the train carried when It left Victor j m II yesterday afternoon. ! 1 j H jl Exiles a Choerless Lot. . i h 1 The exiles were a cheerless lot ln- !. deed. Without even a light and mllea .i i"'N : from the nearest habitation, they hud- ,. ,. died together in groups on cither side of '; ' hri A the Santa Fe track and discussed their I ' plight Warned to move eastward on 1 , a 1 ' pain of being rearrested and severely i ii'.-Q - handled, and notllled by the Kansas au- i 'I thorltlcs that they would not be allowed f I to seek refuge In that State, the spirit j I " ' of the . men broke, Many of them J , ,-i walked back westward on the railroad , 1 1' lo Holly, the Salvation Army settle- f I - jl ment In Cplorado, where the charitable I . I , ' Inhabitants provided breakfast for H , , . j them. Some of them later started to I i i i . walk to Lamar Colo. I ' ' Stopped by Kansas Sheriff, l-'i 1 j A special from 'Coolklgc Kan., the i ! M . first station east of the State lino, says: j1 i , Ninety-one ' miners were unloaded ' ' , l c aboui three rollca .west of.Coolidge at 4:30 this morning. They were accom- , . j panled by fifty-five militiamen. Sheriff j , i Jack Brady and "forty deputies of Ham- i,i j', , i?( llton county were at the State line to j 4 u ' prevent the deported men from cntcr- . , ' , Ing Kansas, fc , , "When the train slopped the militia 1 , i ,! lined up on each side, ordered the ml- 1 I 1 i i ncra t0 keeP walking up the track and i. , 3 "red their guns off. The miners say , . ' ' that they were driven Into the cars like ! ' i i cattle. I Ijj " "Want to Go to Denver. I ,, ' i ' ijj They are expecting transportation ,V . ! i ,i) from Denver, so that they may return I 'II tonight. They seemed to bo well sup- ' . jl ' plied with money and peaceable. Most i I ! . . of the men have families. They say ( 1 ' I i, that their wives and children wished to X -I ifJ " - come with them, but the militia beat ' ijjjl " them off with their guns. The miners Ij ( S - ' here say that there arc to be more ml- l ; I ners deported from Colorado to Cool- V I'll : Idge. The Sheriff has called on the K ' j! , Governor of Kansas for protection. |