Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-07-16
The Idaho Miners Entrenched and
Armed.
Colored Federal Troops Threatened nj
MuIlane- Reinforcements En- Route
All the Non-U Mines to
lie Destroyed.

Missoula have arrived at Mullane. The
other troops have not been heard from.
Adj. Gen Curtis, who is in command
for the state and who went to Ceur
d'Alene in advance of the outbreak, has
not been heard from and it is feared he
has fallen into the hands of the
strikers.
A dispatch to the governor from
Judge Hepburn at Spokane says the
union men drove 1871 non-union miners
out, firing on them and killing two
Superintendent Dickson, of the Union
Pacific, telegraphed the governor from
Tacoma this afternoon that the tracks
and bridges have been destroyed in the
vicinity of Mullan and Wallace and
that the wires have been cut. Another
message to the governor says that sew
eral non-union mines have been blown
up and that the union men propose to
fight the troops to the death.
PORTLAND, Ore, July 1.-THE Union
Pacific has just received advices from
Cpur d'Alene that the Northern Pacific
railroad bridge, together with several
hundred feet of track, were blown up
nv the strikers west of Mullane. The
company is preparing to take all nom
union men out of the mine for Tekoa.
The union men assert that the mo
ment the troops appear on the scene
they will blow up the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan and Sierra Nevada mines.
The burning of the bridge near Kel-
Ian will hold the troops back some un-
less they march to Wallace, which is
about ten miles.
1t is now reported that union men
have taken Van b. Delasshout, Of Port
land, w. A. Sweeney and other mine
owners and will hold them as hostages
until the trouble is settled.
The non-union men have gone out OF
the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines
and been shipped out of C@ur d'Alene.
The Bunker Hill and Sullivan mills
have been released by the miners and
turned over to the company. Troops
are hourly expected to arrive at Ward
ner from the west and conflict with
the miners in the valley is thought pos
sible.
At the headquarters of the union
miners at this place assurance was
piven that all trouble was over il the
non-union men came out of the Bunker
Hill and Sullivan mines and troops were
not brought in. The miners assured an
Associated press correspondent they
would welcome the troops; that no
trouble would occur, as the withdrawal
of colored troops had eased the situa-
ton.
The entire force of the strikers, 1000
strong, is congregated at Wardner. All
women and children were sent from
the town and the miners are now build
ing Notifications around the place and
making preparations to give the troops
a warm reception. The troops now at
Cataledo in companies of infantry, rep
resent about 400 men, have been order
ed to Warner and engage the strikers
in front, while three companies of col
ored troops of the Twenty-fifth in
fantry from Missoula, who are at Null
lane were instructed to march down
the gulch and attack the strikers in
the rear, the object being to overwhelm
and capture most of them. When Gen.
Curtis saw the strength of the army he
Immediately wired the governor that
there was no use making fight against
the miners with his present force. The
governor then ordered into the field five
companies from Fort Vancouver, Wash
ington. No doubt the miners will make
fierce fight when attacked as they are
all armed with Winchesters and will
take desperate chances.
WALLACE, Ida, July 14-The col
ored troops have arrived at Mullane.
It is feared if they come here every
mine of tho association will be blown up.
Efforts are now being made to hold
troops at Mullane to avoid disaster.
All mills of the mines where non.
union labor has been employed have
been charged with magazine powder
and fuse attached since yesterday.
1t is still said all will be blown up.
This, however, it is said, will be done
only in the event of troops arriving on
the scene. CONSERVATION prevails. The
bridge was blown up yesterday at Null
lane and no trains are running between
Wallace and Mullane.
The Bunker Hill and Sullivan were
to surrender at 8. o'clock yesterday az
ternoon-
A dispatch from Portland says that q
special train left there bearing 200
troops of the Fourteenth infantry from
Vancouver, WASH, for Ceur d'Alene.
A special train over the Union Pacific
arrived ut Pendlet6n bearing troops
from Idaho. Two companies have left
Fort Wherman. In all about 600 United
States troops are on the way to the
mines and were to arrive in the after
noon.
The colored troops reached a point
two miles west of Mullane when they
were ordered back to Missoula. Several
1.-fdr,ae nara burned west of Muilana