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Show IDAHO GOVERNOR TALKS. Governor Steunenberg Tells of. Conditions Con-ditions In the Coeur d'Alenes. Governor Steunenberg, chiaf executive execu-tive of Idaho, was a visitor in Salt Lake the other day. "The conditions in the Coeur d'Alenes are most encouraging," said he, in response re-sponse to an inquiry. "The whole of Shoshone county is still under martial law, and the country was never in a more quiet and peaceful ate than now. All of the mines have resumed business, most of them on even a larger scale thai before. The conditions condi-tions up in that region were such, before be-fore the present troubles, as existed in other parts of the United States. In real truth, that part of the state of Idaho was not a part of the United States, for it was under a government that was .unique. It was ruled by the so-called miners' unions. It was really a state of anarchy that obtained, for the miners ruled everything." They had possession of the public offices and then put at defiance all law and order. I am a union man myself, and a hearty believer in unionism, but not the kind that ruled up there. They stuck at nothing, those, fellows, and by reason of the control they had over the officers offi-cers they could do what they pleased wSth impunity, for they could not be punished. "But now all is changed; most of the old miners have left the country and new men have taken their places a bettre class of men the new-comers are, too. I do not know how long we shall have to keep Shoshone county under martial law, but it will be just as long as we are uncertain of the outcome out-come of the difficulties, and that will be some time yet." It would be interesting to hear the opinions of the union miners about the governor of Idaho. |