Show LABOR TROUBLES 1 The labor troubles of the Cocur Aleno country the past year effected not only mining operations In that din I trlct but It became one of limO principal princi-pal mmmat Lees of public Interest to the onlirp State Since It was the culmination culmina-tion of the crimes which have been or furring and were only partly held In j I check since 1801 it Is hoped that the I State and general I government havr forever crushed out the lawlessness and that peace will reign In lint mug nlflcom mining country for all tlmej Time lead mining district of the 1 tneur dAlene Is not of largo territory I It is drained by the Sfltim omit of the I Coeur dAlene river whose waters are used over and oer again to dress the ores and propel machinery The hlllK are pecJpltous the valleys narrow leaving but little room for the big I concentrators and miners cabins Two I railways furnish shipping facilities At f Wnrdner arc the junker Illll Sulli I van and the Last Chance mine Twelve miles up the I river Is Wallaf the etnter of the mining Industry and 4 most populous town Canyon creek I I joins the South Fork at Wallace from I he north Gem IB four miles up this I creek and here the Gem HelenaFrisco I and Black Hear mines are located while three miles further up the canyon can-yon Is the town of Uurku with us TlgerPoorman Mammoth Standard Union and llecln mines From Wallace seven miles south up the South Fork Is Mullen to which the Morning You I 1 Like and Hunter mines are tributary i The reader will see that this district In I stretched out twenty miles from I Wardner to Mullan with a seven mile t Hide spur to Gem and Burke in which I i small space there ire live towns and a population of probably 10000 people who have been kept In turmoil most ot S I the time the post nine years The I troubles came from the Miners union making demands and attempting to I force them out in a lawless way Nonunion I Non-union men were driven out and suffered I suf-fered almost death In seeking recurlty from the mob others were killed the J mines shut down and the whole district I prwHlrated in July 1892 the Governor i > f the State was forced lo call out the troops and declare martial law and 100 i rioters were arrested while COO men were compelled to lIce for their lives I From that time up lo In 1dS there was more or less trouble and the courts were kept busy in attempts to bring peace and to punish the rioters A history his-tory jt these long years of trouble In the Loeur dAlenes would require too much space to recount and besides this our readers were made familiar willS will-S thorn at the time and then the events of the past year is of most Importance Just now With comparative quiet in the camp there was issued the following notice VVardner Ida April in 1SSO At a rcKlar meeting of the Wardner I Miners union No IS W F M held on the above dite It was decided to request all men employed In and about tho Bun her inn and Sullivan mines to make np Pllcatlpii for admission Into the Wardner Miners union at once Signed M A FLYNN Cornmlttcemuil Tim occasional presence of EcUvajil Boyco Iji Wardner was regarded as an omen of trouble The union men began to gather In largo numbers and hold meetings rcgulariy A few days later the union demanded their scale of wages 350 per day and recognition of the union They then went to Bunker Hill bumvan mines and made speeches at the hour of changing shifts and in reply thereto Superintendent Burch elated that he was authorized by the Hunker Illll company to state that all of Its employees would In future be paid S3 and 350 a day as before timo strike of 1SJ2 but that the company 5 would never consent to recognize tin union even if they had to shut down for twenty years and that all the men who had Joined the union ould tlnd then Umo for them at the ofllce njlhc following Monday several imiiiorl uniori meetings were held or rather It was a protracted meeting lasting near ly l all dy Manger Charles Sweeny of the Last Chance mine tame In from itaJc amid lh leaders waited on him with their ut > unl demands He stated that he would give W a diy for earrmn and shovelcrs amid 350 for miners but no more and would hire union or nonunion non-union men as they cam Then they called a strike and on Monday afternoon after-noon the Last Chance mlm > and mill were nailed up The union men meanwhile mean-while were working on the Bunker Hill employees for further recruits and n cHved a few accessions to their ranks On Tuesday evening about 210 men headed by Ed Boyce marched up to the Bunker Hill mine and harangued their employees as they changed shlfu telling them that this was the last opportunity that they would have to Join the union It vas on Wednesday morning however that matters camb to a climax and thc Miners union became be-came aggressors of the law The mem bees stayed up all night and at 1 clock about 125 of them lined up at the Lust Chance mill and awaited tin coming of the Bunker Illll miners As lUP latter arrived In groups they weii told that they could go no farther they waited a few mimics until about forty Bunker Hill miners had collected timere At tllls tIme I remaji Roundy I m the bunker Illll appeared on tho scene and was Informed by the leader Kd Bovee that they had given the men four mlnups to get down HIP hill At this juncture one of the union men drew a revolver and said Two minutes min-utes of the time are gone if there Is a man left here at the end of two mimi Jtes he dies The drawing of this gumi was a signal for the others and In a twinkling several union men in the rent line had drawn revolvers and stood toying with them signlllcontly As the Bunker Hill men were armed mly with their dinner pails they itarted down tin road followed by Limo trikers The union men then pro evded to Blacks boardinghouse Micro they ran six or seven men out isiug vile language and threats and ragging two men from their beds Uimmm shot was fired terrifying the wo iien greatly But time climax came hun on April 29 ISiiy about V > 00 men elonglng to the Gem Burke and Mul inn unions stole a train of ten freight 8111 one passenger ears at Wallace and wemmt lo Wardner shot three men two Of wholn were killed blew up with dy amlte the companys due boarding ouse and residence of Manager Bur ridge all of which buildings were timed and thon completed their work i3 blowing up the concoutralor For thus work Ihcy had a ton and a half 01 dynamic The full details of this lurder arson and use of dynamite aro too appalling to repeat here Tt startled the entire country and caused tho con nlnulon of troops at Wardner In a nrry and HIP work of arresting and Inging to Justice was most vigorous 4 I begun The Governor issued an ap I oprlalu message Besides the I loss of life the Bunker Hill and Sullivan pco Plc were damaged fully 250000 In cost of property besides probably 30000 mimore through loss of time In mining and milling Gen Merrlam who had charge of the military reports the ar rests as exceeding seven hundred but many of these were released almost In slanlly on Investigation but there were u2S held for trial Of these Gen Mcr ium in his excellent report publishes the following Interesting table S Nativity r r Americans Iiajl32 CGiiw Swedes I M 51 15 28 7tJ Italians m 31 Ill 2l A2 Fhrns 17 J2 B3I Jtf 3L IHwht I 13 2S ih I 57 other forelBii ilti s > O i as i Tolals l5s3O1tls1 i9 From the above It will be further noted that of the 396 foreignborn only half or 10S had taken out citizenship I papers Gen Merrlam further tar The following figures are taken Irom tolowlng liSure tho book of the mines not blown up J and In which union miners were employed em-ployed exclusively The number not at work In he mines during the day oC riot corresponds very closely with the number engaged in the riot I Total number of miners employed April I ± Hh 1118 1 c rl 2 at work April Total I number miners Aprl I 20th V Iff Total number of miners not at work April Mill 9D t prl I One of the prisoners Corcoran was IJ charged with murder and is serving a term of seenteen years In the peniten I i tiary The following on conviction I were sent to San QuonUn fU twenty two Cre months with a fine of S1000 each except ORourke whose sentence was made two months less and the same fine Dennis ORourke Arthur Wallace Wal-lace Henry Maroni John Luclnetll C R Burros Francla Butler Ed Ablnola R F McDonnell Mike Malvey Louis Salla No one can compute the loss to the State in property together with the scandal of having such people within but of course a heavy debt its borders bu eourC u ls an 1 Incurred in maintaining has been In Ured malntalnlng armed force to arrest the rioters guard them and to prevent any more outbreaks thcm out-breaks Then there Is another long I column oC figures In the way of court costs which the people will have to pay ito i-to Kay nothing of the insecurity mine owners and Investors are forced to feel ns long as that class of people responsible respon-sible fR for all this trouble arc permitted S to go unpunished |