Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-13
Striking CGur d'Alene Min
ers Win Another, but a
Bloodless Victory.
o. S. TROOPS CALLED OUT.
One More Striking Resemblance to
the Homestead Riot, as the
SHERIFF CAN'T RAISE A FORCE.
Not q Guard Who Gave Himself Up Is
Hurt by the Wild Idaho Mob.
THE LIST OF DEAD is PLACED AT SIX

WASHINGTON, July 12.-Tbe President
has ordered that Federal troops be sent to
the scene of the miners troubles in Idaho,
and General Schofeld has ordered Generals
Ruger and Merritt to send troops there.
Senators Shoup and Dubois, of Idaho,
have received number of dispatches in re-
gard to the mining troubles in the Ceur
d'Alene region. The first was from Marshal
Pinkham, who transmitted q message from
a man named John Pinch, at Wallace, re-
porting fighting in the Gem and Frisco
mines, and saying, "We are powerless to
stop the conflict and fear many Will be
killed and the mills burned" With the
telegram containing this information the
Senators went to call on the President and
Secretary of War, but were not able to see
either, the President being out of the city
and the Secretary away from the Depart
ment They then called on the Attorney
General, and after a consultation with him
teleg graphed the Governor as to the condi-
lions under which the President could act
in the matter of calling out the Federal
troops to aid in maintaining order.
Six Men Are Known to Be Dead.
At midnight the Senators received the
following dispatch from Attorney General
George II. Roberts, at Boise City: ''The
Governor is preparing call on the President
for troops. If possible, have matters ar
ranged SO that orders will be issued from
the W ar Department to the commandant at
Fort Sherman to move troops by boat via
Miss ion and Wardner. Many lives are al
ready lost and much valuable property des-
troyed. Mobs are moving on Wardner.
Everything now depends on promptness."
The latest dispatches received by the
Senators (and which are signed by Cover
nor Willey) report the casualties so far at
six killed and seven wounded, and the fear
is expressed that the scene of the violence
may extend to other parts of the State, ne
cessitating the proclamation of martial law.
The union miners are desc cribed as an undis-
ciplined mob of from 400 to 500 men armed
with Winchesters and rev divers They are
elated with their successes and will not be
satisfied until every new man is driven
from the mines The loss by the explosion
will be S125, 200.
A Press dispatch from Wallace, Idaho
says: The Sheriff last night made another
effort to collect posse and go to Wardner
on 8 special train. He called on all citi-
zens known to be in active sympathy with
the miners to report at 10 o'clock, but when
the Sheriff started only one citizen re-
sponded.
The Mob Marching on Wardner.
Armed bodies of miners went into Ward
ner all the evening. The crowd proceeded
to the Union Pacific yards below town,
took fiat car, put it on the main track and
started for Wardner. Being all down grade,
no trouble was experienced. The mill OF
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Company is
located on the Union Pacific tracks two
miles from Wardner, and the strikers ses-
sicn during the night sent word up to the
mines that unless the ''scabs" surrendered
the mill would be blown up.
Large bodies of armed miners went up to
Wardner proper and toward the mine to
await developments. Before 9 o'clock this
morning all the Bunker Hill forces walked
out OF the mine and surrendered The
Sierra Nevada, forces also surrendered.
Not shot was fired. What will be done
with the non-union men is not known. The
Frisco companies began paying their men
off to-day.
At o'clock in the afternoon about 300
with rifles, marched down to Wallace They
brought with them their prisoners, consist
ing of about ITO non-union men, and also
five dead bodies, another dead man, james
Hennessey, lately of Butte, Mont, being in
a house at Gem, shot through the breast
Upon arrival here the ''scabs" were turned
loose and the union men began a search for
A. NJ. Ester, manager of the Frisco mine,
against whom the union men have a special
grudge.
The Terms of Yesterdays Surrender.
The terms On which the Gem miners and
guards surrendered were that q Win
chesters and q number of revolvers and
1000 rounds of ammunition should be
placed in the hands of disinterested parties,
two citizens and two conservative union
men, and that the 'scabs" should be shipped
out of the country.
arms was entered into the union men got
possession of all the rifles and ammunition,
and last evening large bodies of armed |
miners went down to Wardner, IL miles |
distant, in wagons and bv rail. The mines |
employing non-union men there are the |
Sierra Nevada and Bunker Hill and Sulli- |
van. The Bunker Hill and Sullivan has a |
force of 260 men, and about 100 are armed |
with Winchesters. There is only one way |
TO reach the mine, and that is directly up |
the gulch, and the road is steep. If an at |
tempt is made there against the men in the |
mine there must be more bloodshed. The |
Sierra Nevada is exposed.
A dispatch from Minneapolis says: James |
Clark, of New York, who spends considera- |
BILE of each year in the Cpur d'Alene re-
gion, was there last night. Speaking of |
the troubles in that region, he said:
The History of the Present Dispute,
Gas a property owner there, am sorry |
to hear that matters have reached climax. |
Some 5000 men were employed In the |
mines about Wallace, wardner, Burke. |
Gem. Mullan and other camps until about |
eight months ago, when the mine owners |
claimed that they could not pay the high |
freight rates, and accordingly shut down |
until some compromise could be arranged. |
the Mine Owners Association went to St. |
Paul and Omaha to consult with the gen.
eral freight agents of both the Northern
and Union Pacific Railroads TO secure q re-
duction of rates
''The workmen in the mines had been re-
ceiving s. 90 per day, while those who
Along in March the committee reached a |
with the railroads and were
ready to start the mines. Many of the
union miners had left the camp during the
and the mine owners concluded
that when the mine resumed work it would
be on another schedule of wages. They de-
cided that they would pay their skilled un-
derground miners s. so a day but make the
$3 per day.
''The union men refused to go back unless
the old wages were paid. This was in
April, and since the mines have been partly
worked by what non-union men could be
secured, although but little has been done.