Show THE I IDAHO HO WAR I Tr Troops ops Advancing AU Upon tho Union 11 Mia Mm erg ls with frith Ith a a Good Prospect for fora forIt a It Fights As I A result estil oi ol f the hc fight hi In th the Cmur d' d en district t Idaho dabo five men inca are dead daad and several severely wounded The union miners are au making a a strong effort efort to drive dive the union non union lon men Inca men from Irom the state and more trouble will wi probably follow lolow The he governor has ha ordered a part of the state tate militia mita to the scene and federal tro troops will troops will also be sent A dispatch dated the says The strikers have ha-c possession of the telegraph raph and telephone offices at W. W Wardner and other Crul d' d AlaM points bey They The have blown iown up railroad bridges and add ard prepared to t fight the tho United States troops troP who should be near n soY now Last tast ast night a gang of strikers overtook seventy unarmed union non-union me men at Old Od Mis slon si about two miles mies from Wardner robbed them of their wages and flied fired fred on then them unon unton met mes mel were wele killed ked others escaped to the woods an and ano swamps Several caught the steamer and ana n arrived In Spokane to A relief party i 1 If going after ater the others A telephone message e from Wol Wolf Lodge near Old OIl Mission states that a relief pait t has found the dead bodies bodies' of ot twelve nonunion nonunion non non- union men in the te bushes and swamps ThE party Is I looking for more Governor has ba issued S I proclamation placing Sh ShOshone shone co county nty under martial martal law Word has been received that three companies of federal troops from have arrived at The other troops have hot knot been heard froth from Adjutant General Genera Curtis Curts who S li Js in com corn command mand ol ot the state stat troops and went in advance ol t the outbreak outbreak has not been heard of ot to to day day s mid and d It was S feared he had fallen int into the hands hand hand ot of the ibe strikers Superintendent DIckenson of ol the Norther Pacific telegraphs from Tacoma that the roads road's tracks track and bridges have been destroyed ed ec edin in the vicinity of and Walace Wallace and anc that the wires have been cut The road wll wil wi hold the cOunty responsible Another message mes mee mes message sage says that several non union non men have ha-c been blown up The Tho union men propose tc U fight the troops to the death The entire entre force forced of strikers 1000 strong Ii it I congregated at Wardner WaI Warder All Al women an j children were ere sent sent- from Irons the town and th the miners are now nOI building fortifications aloun around the tM place Wand and nd na making preparations to t give the th a warns warm wan receptions The troops nile are now at Cataldo and com corn panics of ol infantry representing about 40 40 men have been ordered to move to and engage the strikers In front front while three companies of ot colored troops of ot the Twenty Twenty- filth fifth Infantry who are now at were Instructed to march down the gulch and at attack at tack them in the rear rear the object being t te t overwhelm and capture most of ol them General Curtis Curts saw the strength of ol the enem enemy he immediately wired the he governor that there was no use of ol making a a fight against the miners min mm- ers era ers with wit his present force lorce The then ordered Into Int the field feld five l-e l companie from Irom Fort Vancouver Washington WahIngton Nc doubt the to miners will 11 snake male a 0 fierce fight 11 ii 1 attacked as a they ate are all al armed with Winches ten ten-s and ald will take desperate chances chanres In addition to t the tho troops already mentone mentioned two companies have havo been ordered out front frog troD F t Spokane and will wIl reach Cataldo to mon ow row The Te strikers have placed large quantities quant ties of giant powder under the Bunker Dunker Hill It Gem and Sullivan Sulvan mines and will wi blow up al al' althe al the She property at the te first advance of the te trop troops troop They Tey have a network of wires laid and will wi ignite the powder by electricity |