Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1904 — PUNISHMENT OF MINERS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PUNISHMENT OF MINERS.

Hurry Maki, a union miner of Telluride, Colo., chained to a telegraph pole by militiamen and members of the Citizens’ Alliance because he refused to dig a cesspool. He bore the torture until pain and exhaustion caused his submission. He was then sent to the “bull pen.”