Show BARTLETT SINCLAIR HEARD CHIEF IN AUTHORITY IN COETTK DALSWES TELLS STORY I Martial Law Was Declared Ho Said on His Recommendation Merriam Solicitous as to Prisoners j J Washington April 23At the Cotfur dAlone Investigation I today hqpes were expressed that the Inquirywould be brought to a close within tho next ten days or two weeks It has now proceeded pro-ceeded nearly Lwo months Bartlett Sinclair Who as the repre sonlatfvof Coy Steunenberg warf in I chief authority In the Coeur dAlone testified today that ho did not seek the I task assigned him by the Governor as he knew the man who undertook It risked his life 1te said he had been In entire sympathy with labor movc S j meats and while in New York had supported Henry George in the cam I palgn for mayor Gov Steunenberg was In Uic hospital i i i when he received telegrams indicating I coming danger in the Occur dAlene The Governor sought Sinclair and finally I fi-nally delegated him to go to the scene of the trouble and to take charge ot matters reporting Information for the guidance of the Governor Sinclair left on the t day the mill was blown up The witness said Gov Steunenberg instructed him to be very laieful to take no action against labor organisa tions as such bur to direct his efforts lo I eventing I disorder and riot Mr Sinclair said that when he took I charge he discovered that an armed and masked mob had dynamited the Hunker Hill mill and that a reign of terror existed as though the pountry had been sacked by an army There were two distinct and recognized r le meats he said the dynamiters and I I he law and order Hcmenl and the l neutral class nutslde of these two f counted for nothing Ho saw groups of armed men one of them fifteen in number It was Impossible he said to set in operation he I courts or the local offices of-fices Accordingly on his recommendation recom-mendation Coy Steunenbsrg declared martial law State deputies were ap poi ted and ordered to arrest those suspected of participating in the disorders dis-orders fJon Merriam furnished a military mili-tary guard and an old warehouse known aa tho bull pen was temporarily tempor-arily used for the detention of the prisoners The witness said Gen Merriam was quite solicitous as 10 the welfare of the prisoners visiting them frequently and that on his request l he Slnclali mId another prison built He said the ort rnTioil States olllcers and soldiers I sol-diers showed the same kindly reeling to the prisoners so much so that there was some criticism of the fraternizing of the soldiers and the prisoners The I permanent prison h sad was as good as any in the country I |