 They searched union member's homes and they put the union hall under surveillance.p.77

Governor Peabody worked in close association with Craig to form an employer-based citizens' alliance for his home town of Canon City, which the governor later joined.p.80 He appointed an anti-union mine manager and former sheriff's deputyp.80 from the Cripple Creek District, Sherman Bell, to the office of adjutant general,p.80 

For secretary of Colorado's state military board, Peabody appointed John Q. MacDonald, manager of the Union smelter at Florence, part of the USRRC, the company in the middle of a Western Federation of Miners strike.Peabody appointed two aides-de-camp, Spencer Penrose and Charles M. MacNeill, who were, respectively, treasurer and vice-president/general manager of the USRRC.p.82-83 Peabody described MacNeill and Penrose as his two "Colorado Springs Colonels.