Show r E 1 L A EIGHT FIGI IN IN IDAHO RESULT OF ABOR LABOR OF-LABOR TROUBLES I I Union and NO Union Non Mon Men In the C Cmur ur i dAleno dAene District Have Jave a n hattie Battle Datto In I Which Which Four Tour Are Ae Killed jt S I The Te strained situation In the d' d dAlene Atene labor trouble truble culminated Monday morning moring be between b.- b. bp- bp tween Iween 5 and C G oel ck The Te events of the tho day previous consisted of challenges from nonunion non non- anIon union men at the Frisco and Gem mines to t the te union miners at nt the town tow n of Gem and all aU seemed to t Indicate a speedy rapture Both Doth the Gem and Frisco mines were guarded behInd behind behind be be- hind barricades by by hymen n armed with Winchesters Winches WInches- lers and as the canon gaion aon Is narrow naro where the tho thomine nines mine are located the men behind barricades could sweep the two railroad tracks and the thE country countr with bullets The Gem barricade Is within 30 feet teet center of the tho town of Gem Bern Monday morning at 5 o'clock a miner miler from Gem flem started staged for Burke When opposite the tho Frisco he was wa He ran back several sev sty eral hundred yards to 10 Gem where the shot had bad been heard and anal an soon the miners In the town gathered w with h arms They marched In Ini ina i a J body toward the Frisco mill mm located directly direct direct- direct ly ty In front of the tine mine When scarcely within with with- wih- wih in rifle range a voley volley from the Frisco mill mi greeted the miners and lead whistled all al bout them T Th They scattered and a regular batt battle ensued On OnA miner and one union non-union nan man Qan were killed kled an ana six si wounded during the tho engagement The miners miers In the the meantime went around arond the hills upon th the canon caned above tho the mines loaded ft a car cr Clr with wih giant powder ponder and md sent the car ear down the the rack toward the Frisco mines Directly in hi front of the mill mm an explosion ex cx- Occurred hed the m mill and making It I a a complete wreck The union non unIon lon men then showed a flag tag and surrender surrender- surender- surender ed They were that that-ched marched down to tho the miners' miners union anion hall hail hal and guarded from any Indignities being offered surrender While the thc light fight w was going oh at Frisco the Gem Genii suddenly began firing fring volley voley after Ifer volley voley Into tl tho tid town ton town of Gem riddling the buildings wl with bullets John Ward a a I citizen was shot through the arm aria ar Jon and Gua Gus Carlson a a union miner was shot slot and slid killed No shots were returned from om dein Get until the armed miners from from Frisco half hal a a mile mie above Gem returned j j. j At 8 o'clock a a truce e was arranged and the sheriff district attorney and deputy United States Stats marshals appeared on the scene The train was stopped by armed ared guards at the be Gem mine The s sheriff e took the mall mal on his hi shoulders and passed on to Gem The guards leveled rifles riles at him hima but dropped them theta when they lel learned led his duty At Gem Gm several hundred men n were huddled in the tho street with rifles and p rd revolvers Peace were ehte were Immediately s t oil ori 01 foot mind and at 12 o'clock the force surrendered t to tho the union anion men mer v The number killed so far as ns can at present be learned leaned Is four fou killed and about ten woun wounded od though there there tere may be bodies bodes und under r the Frisco mill mm The cause of ot the strike v was as the the- the demand of the anlon miners o of the the district for tor 3 t 50 per day for lor every man mau mau working under ground gound The Te mine owners h held ld that unskilled laborers labor labor- ers s should be paid only 3 3 Wen When the miners refused d t td Ui accept ee pt tb the scale ECale the mines were closed The excessive freight rates lates were the owners cause of the reduction The Tho lockout was begun April 1 by the Mine Owners Owners' Owners Owners' Own Own- ers ers' Asso Association laUon nd and union miners were thrown out out- o of ot Since then the mine owners have been making a struggle to tor torun torun run r their mines 8 with union non non unon men and The he t te si has ba been beel great months and the opinion has prevailed that only a spark was needed to start stait the flames lame of ot riot The examples at Homestead and the decision of ot the thc United States court count at Boise mal making ng a perpetual injunction against the tho te Miners' Miners Union n brought matters to a a head bead head f |