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Show Americans Only are Wanted. Cripple Creek. Colo. Henceforth the Cripple Creek mining district will be reserved for American labor. This is the effect of the action taken by the county officials in the matter of the employment of foreign labor by some of the largest mines in the district. dis-trict. Several days ago Sheriff von Phul issued an ultimatum that foreign workmen employed at some of the mines must leave. Immediately the foreigners armed themselves, but when deputy sheriffs were sent out to disarm them, the officers found their quarry had dispersed to the valley towns. |