Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1885-03-26
THE Riot OF TIKI l7n.
II Is BEING INQUIRED INTO
IN THE PROBATE COUxC

Second Days Proceediaxs-The r..,,.
nlony Thus Far-Sherifr Furey. n.
hatnes, and ]. 0albraith,s Testi-
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Sheriff Furey resumed: I three
times commanded them to disperse.
They did not obey. A short time
after the speaking l saw that some
men had hold of an old man; there
appeared to be 4 scuffie. ran to-
ward them to take him away before
got there he broke loose from them
and ran to McFall's hotel. A number
of men followed them, several with
guns in their hands, aud as rot to
the door of the hotel l was pushed
back by a number of men. l came
to the conclusion that l couldn't get
in, SO | stepped back and twice com.
manded them to dispense. In a min
ute or two l saw this old man run out
OF the house and down among some
houses in the back street. Some men
followed him, but l can't swear who:
when | was at the door of the hotel /
recognized Charley Foley in the
crowd. At this time I saw tho crowd
starting up toward the mine, so ran
up to head it off. As did so saw
the old man running pretty lively, and
something thrown after him
thought it was hard Jumps of snow.
One or two men, when tried to reach
the old man, cried "Don't strike an
officer" or "Don't stop an officer" l
was either pushed or pulled around by
the crowd all this time. recollect
Mike Hennessy pulling me two or
three times. AT the same time the
crowd were running after old man
Haines, saw man named johnson
pulled out of the hotel. l came to
the conclusion, from their actions,
that they were going to put him in
front OF them to go up to the mine.
don't recollect who took him out. 1t
was the same general crowd as had
started up to the mine that went to.
ward old man Haines. When I got
to the head of the crowd that was
moving toward the works, I succeeded
in stopping some of the front men, land
the whole crowd stopped. Some of
them then told me that what they
wanted was to get out the men who
were ut work in the mine. Others
said what they wanted was to talk to
them. After arguing the case with
them for some time, finally told them
that if they would guarantee that
they would do no injury to property
Or to the men working in the mine,
and would select committee of three
or four men out of their own body, !
would go and see if the men working
in the mine would come out and talk
to them. They agreed to do SO. l
then went up to the mine with couple
of other men-one was Tim keegan-
and after a while l got the men that
were working underground to come
out and talk with the committee. Nc
Dewitt, O'Brien, James Guam and an
other man whose name l don't recol-
lect were Of the committee. Some
parties insisted, further, that the dep.
utics be taken off. When l came down
from the mine two men asked me if
the deputies were not going to be re-
moved? l said no. One man said:
"You agreed to take them off" l de.
MED this. BY deputies, l mean men
that l deputized and sent over to the
Queen of the Hills and Minnie Moore
mines, to keep the peace there and
protect the men who wanted to go to
work in those mines. Some of them
were stationed at the Queen, some at
the Minnie; they had been on the
mines since the I'd of March. At
times there were only few on; at
other times as many as 81. On the
18th and 10th some were put on-as
many as 9 or 10.
Cross-examined The distance to
the Minnie Moore from where the
crowd was is about quarter of a
mile; the distance to the Queen of the
Hills is Is or 100 yards. The distance
from the tunnel or shaft where the
Queen workmen enter to where the
crowd was, / think, is about 100 to
$50 Yards from the main part of the