Show I APPEAL TO THP PRESIDENT Will Send No Tops Till Martial Law Is Declared Special to The Herald I Boise Ida April 29At 630 p m Governor Steunenberg sent to President McKinley a formal demand for 500 regular reg-ular soldiers asking that they be dispatched dis-patched at once to the scene of the miners strike McKinley replied no troops could be sent until martial law was declared TonIghts wC5tboulc train carried to the scene of the disturbances in the Coeur dAlenes Auditor Sinclair who goes as the representative of Governor Steunenberg He carries written au thoJ from the chIef executive to act for hIm In all matters relative to the iners union troubles Th dIspatch of Auditor SinclaIr tb the scene was hastened by dispatches received this morning by th governor from Frederick Burbri assistant manager of the Bunker Hill and Sul van mIne stating the situation waver wa-ver critical the union men having agaIn taken the offensive When the news of the higbhandtd proceedIngs of the union men was re cehcd Adjutant General Weaver set to work at once taking an invoice of the arms and ammunItion in the state arsenal ar-senal and ascertaIning how many of the militiamen were available for service ser-vice The work of boxing the arms and making arrangements for shippIng them in case the necessity should arIse proceeded pro-ceeded briskly The news contained in the telegrams receIved by the governor was of a most alarmIng nature coming as it did within twent > four hours after the receipt of information that everything was quiet in the north and that the backbone of the disturbance had been broken The first message received about 10 oclock was from Mr BurbIdge stating stat-ing in effect that the trouble was as acute as before On its heels came another an-other from President 1ohler of the Oregon Railway Navigation company stating that union miners from Germ and Burke had taken possession of on of the compan engine and had gone with it to Wardner Replies were sent stating that the state would do every thIng possIble for the protection of life and property and that the states resources re-sources would be exhausted if neces sar to accomplish that purpose |