 Miners were arrested at shift change and deported.The owner of the Portland mine filed lawsuits to challenge the mine closing, but he was stopped by stockholders who preferred a non-union mine.p.220

General Bell then ordered that all aid to families left behind by the deported miners had to be channeled through the National Guard.By such means he hoped to starve them out, insuring that the miners would have no reason to return to the district.