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Show 1 Bloodshed Follows Killing of Nonunion Miners in Colorado logical Outcome of Lon 1 and Bitter Fihl Hundred;. I of Union Men Under Arrest Gov Peabody's Actions i Upheld by Supreme Court. j Th tprlmlml rmiM. of th Mttrr- ; In CtlorKflo hct worn rmpliiyprn of liihnr and union InlxirttiK nun. tM- bftrk tn an Uht bmir law pan-M pan-M by tlii i'Kl!ntiir of rl, pro-' pro-' O'MincM tinruiihtltiiilnnnl hy th Hu- proinfl cmirt. mill llu-n tlic.nrril for I Ulfr rlcrtlin aft an ainnlitii'nt tn th conliiitl.in, but tint nctc., upon hjr th i'Kilttir nf l'.to.T. Thfl blow HmH At tin furrcii Hint h hovit mont Blrontily lnlrcnrlit-d ralnt Ihn litht hour lt-lli ur mtttr pmprlnlom ill) nut fll ZxriffOffCO MYJT tnu military forces to suppress In-stirroctlon. In-stirroctlon. 4. That he hsd the power lo detain de-tain military prisoners fur o long n he in nt. l. That the stnto courts could not Interfere wllh military ptlioncrs. Hence, tint they had no power to discharge dis-charge military prlsoncra. A font ram was made when Charles II. Mover, president of tho Western Federation of Mlncm. wee arrested at Tollurlde hy tho military authorities. The Jtnljro of a district court ordered hu release. No attention waa pl't lo the order. Application to Hip "' Huprcine rourt fur a writ of habeas corpus wan mado. Th" Supreme roiirt has Juki doolnrod that Ihn gov-rnor gov-rnor liaa aiitliorlty to suspend the writ of hslicas corpus. OIIiit contentions conten-tions of tho governor also are upheld. In other words. untliT tlm conditions In Colorado, IiIn Hwcr la supreme. Hy thla di-cllon. ih ninln ronton-tlon ronton-tlon sgslnst (lov. Pcalrody a action In placing oollnln InlnltiK districts under j military control, and In giving mine , wncrs protection for their worker, la legnlly swept audio. He la actlnn entirely within lila powore. :-- smbx a - 1 I . i.A "aiai SCENE OF EXPLOSION WHICH KILLED MINERS. The akatch ahowa the Indeptndance depot, location of the dynamite mine md eourae of the wire from the mine to the Delmonlco mine, eev-enty-f. e yarda away. hro directed. 11 Ml. Innload. upon Uiouaanda of union worktni-n In the hllla, who. altlmiiKh mikusci! for tlui elKht hour day, wure ordorrd to r.i-eae work In thine mtnita Dial attppllcd the oOtinilliiii aumlinra UU or. Tho roault In many rauipe waa a walkout. walk-out. The succeeding rflnult waa an attempt at-tempt on the part of the owniirs to roopon their mlnoa with nonunion labor. In the part that labor and poll-tlca poll-tlca play In Colorado, the adtnlnla-tratlon adtnlnla-tratlon of civil dutlca fain, In many mining ollloa and towna. upon au-thorltlee au-thorltlee who are out of ayinpathy wllh nonunion imthode. Thua the owners of mlnoa were haraaaod In eiany waya. There wore myatorloua Maappearancaa. People unaynipa-thetlo unaynipa-thetlo with the canae of the atrlkora were rtrlvoo from communltloa. Final-, Final-, tjr, mine bulldlnKa were blown up wllh dynamite, and mine worklnge flettroyed. In this trials the mine ownors ap-poalod ap-poalod to the xov4rnor of Colorado ' for protection. The altuatlon waa i strained at throe polnla In Teller County, whom are llio mlnlnn camps nf Victor and Cripple Creek; at Tollu- ; ride In 8an Mu:-I comity, and at 1 Idaho 8rlim-a In Clenr Crook ctmnty. I In tho lent place union workmen aua- poctod of blowiui up the Bun and I stoon mlno proporty wore driven i from town hy the rltlrons of the ) place. Thla draillc action la worth t notluR. for, aa a rcttult of the tilth ) state or feollng In Colorado, It was it upheld In tho populur opinion. At 1 all events, troopa woro not iiecdod j at Idaho Hprtt)-"- I lor. Foahody declnred mnrtlal law In Teller and San Miguel counties 1 early In Decoiiher. Botne of the mll- 1 Itary procoeflhiKa In each of theie countlea appear to have been extreme but Oov. IVabody lia declared that no defense of his actlona la needed. Union leaderc were arretted, and In sotnt canon thoso lenders were deiKirt-ctl. deiKirt-ctl. State courts were nnppealed to by members of tho union who felt tho power of tho mllltnry law. but the ruling of thesn courts bad no ! effect on tho roprom-nlntlves of the ; stato government. Injunctions were merely Ignored. Tho govurnor con-tnnded con-tnnded for these points: 1. That ho had sole power to deter- j mlno when a state of .ntmrrcctton ei- 1 IMed In any cuunty In the aiulo. i 8 That tho ciu:tn had no power to j Interfere with hla oxen Ue of thla pre- rokutlve. j 1. That ho had the rlyht to uto the i |