Show FHfW NORTH IDAHO TROUBLES It Is to be hoped that all laboring mien have been keeping track of the investigation of the Coeur dAlene troubles trou-bles V as the proceedings have been wired dally from Washington That published In yesterdays news Is especially espe-cially Interesting It Is a wonder that a civil war was not inaugurated years before the last outbreak for that reign of terror had been existing seven years before the culminating atrocity was precipitated t V There Is a gentleman In this city Mr Clough who was in that region for weeks after the arrests were made He tells of the condition of things thereIn there-In a very stralghtforwaid way Ho visited the socalled bull pen daily saw tho treatment given the prisoners pris-oners and the food supplied them He says there were never better behaved men than the colored V soldiersthe Twentyfourth Infantry so long at Fort Douglas As to the food he says It was good enough for any one and In such abundance abund-ance that more was thrown away than was eaten He visited the various camps Mullen Burke Gem ctcand says that he never met tougher men or more brutalized women than some of thofte miners and their wives Ho declares that the decent people peo-ple In that region did not dare discuss the situation lest the troops should be withdrawn and the region once more turned over to the tender mercies of the devils who hud so long held a carnival of crime there I We do not think that Messrs Leniz and Suler will be able to secure very much political capital out of the Investigation Inves-tigation for the Democratic party The testimony of the DemocraticPopulist Governor is surely a wet blanket to wrap around the Democracy just as the campaign Is coming on |