Show I STR S SEIZE RAILROADS Take Possession of Northern Pacific andORN Portland Ore April 29The agent of the Oregon Railroad Navigation I company at 330 oclock thIs aftrncon telegraphed the officials in this city from Vardner Ida that the striking miners had fred the Bunker Hill and i Sullivan m1 and that it was burnIng I is claImed that the mine is loaded with dynamite and if this proves to be true the entire property will be a loss I The striking miners are also reported to be in possessIon of the Northern Pacific and Oregon Railway Navi gaton trains and in complete control of the situation There are about 1000 masked men r heavilY armed at and about the mill i and there have been several skIrmIshes with the authorities durIng one of which one man is reported to have i t 1 I bee shot There are fully Sod miner at Vardncr They are formIng to go I to the mine in a body and drive out the 270 nonunion men employed there The railroad agent has notfed the governor of Idaho of the situation and the secretary of state has been d patched to the scene of the trouble The governor has promIsed to do everything in his power to preserve or der and prevent bloodshed but I iii believed that unless prompt steps are taken there wm be great loss of life and destruction of property Since the telegram from the agent was received the strikers harm cut the nr 5 and telegraphic communIcation cmmuncaton with Wardner is now cut off The present strike in the Cor dAlene milling district in northern Idaho was inaugurated about ten tiaya ago and is directed principally against the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine at rardne where nonunion men are employed The demands or the mIners mIn-ers for increased wages were met by mlnewners but the miners demanded that the union be recognized and that nonunIon men be discharged ThIs the minewnes refused to do and the Last Chance mIne closed down The Bunker Em and Sullivan however how-ever continued to run with nonunion men until today when they were driven driv-en out by an armed mob of union men |