The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-14

/ gave IL up a. 4 b@I jon ana since Lnen mas
been contented 10 take tine place of
| spectator. Misrule and Winchesleys had
| taken the place of law and ORDER
| AS events simmer down and the trouble
| seems over, some of the plans Of the union
| have come to light. They had intended to
/ attack the Sullivan & Bunker Hill mines,
but were prevented from SO doing
the report that the mine was
strongly fortified. The capture of the
concentrator was the next best thing, and
that was effected without much trouble.
There We're only ten men in the mill at
the time, and they were taken prisoners
by force. The magazine was then entered
and the powder was placed in all places
with great ingenuity. In addition to this
barrels of Kerosene were located and in
ana around the place fire was to complete
the destruction If the powder did not.
The headquarters of the camp were estab-
hshed IN the cook house of the concen-
traitor and here the orders were issued.
1he password was changed every twelve
hours. Last night, had the troops arrived
IL mad been decided to allow them To pass
the mil peaceably, and then the tele-
phone and telegraph wires were TO have
been cut so the outside world would not
know what was going on. Once in there,
the troops would have been in danger.
They would have been totally st
the mercy of the strikers. All
positions of advantage on the mountain
sides were occupied by sharpshooters. In
all, 1t is now said, 500 men were avail
able for such an emergency. The rail-
road was to have been blown
up by dynamite, thus shutting
OF the supply. In the case OF final defeat
the match was to be applied to the fuse
and the mills blown up anyhow. This
was the campaign as cleaned from one of
the strikers serving for the union men.
WALLACE, July 13.--5 ,. m.-The sheriff
has just arrived here from Ward
ner. lie accompanied the Bunker
Hill d Sullivan. mine force to
Cataldo, on the Union Pacific.
At this point the sheriff met General Car
lin and his troops and General Curtis.
Curtis read the governors proclamation
declaring Shoshone county under mar
tial law. The sheriff sent the following
communication at this hour:
General Curlia, CdtaIdo, ID: The miners hava
disbanded and gone to their respective homea
There is no trouble in Wallace wariner
r. 4. CUNNINGHAM. sheriff
7:30 y. m.-The crisis has passed, and
peace once more reigns in Co1ur d. 'Aene,
and martial law prevails in COM
munity as quiet as church.
yard, but the past twenty-four
hours has been the most trying Cnur
d Alene has ever experienced. Had the
colored troops arrived at Wallace last
night there would have been a bat
tie in the darkness among the
clouds and in the valley, as the mountains
about Wallace were full of armed miners
thorougly concealed.
They did not want to fire on the troops
unless in case of the utmost extremity TO
prevent the troops going to Wardner The
train with the colored troops was
delayed three hours in reaching Mu-
Ian. arriving there at o'clock
this morning, when it was found
necessary to lay over until daybreak, for
what reason is not known. but probably
because two bridges were burned this side
of Mulian. When this became known
the miners withdrew from the hills
and proceeded to Wardner. The col
ored troops which had started forW allace,
were suddenly recalled and returned to
Missoula. Had these troops today passed
Wallace il is hard TO tell what would have
happened The Gem mill was magazined
ready tor the match, and the Bunker
hill and Sullivan mill contained
nearly half ton of powder with fuse at
tached. Both mills were under strict
guard. and only as an extreme last resort,
the miners claim, would the match have
been applied. Fortunately for all, the
trouble did not need such ex-
treme measures. The miners kept
close watch of the Bunker Hill
and Sullivan mill, but when the scabs sur
rendered this forenoon the mill was turned
over to the company uninjured. The scabs
were sent out westward on Union Pacific
special as soon as they could be got to the
depot. and all the miners not belonging To
Wardner returned to Wallace and thence
to their homes.
The body of A. T. Mcdonald was found
in the debris of the Frisco mill this after
noon. lie was employed in the mill at
the time of the explosion. Abbott, u
wounded man, was brought up from the
Mission this afternoon, and il is reported
that twelve bodies We're found at the
mouth of Fourth of July canyon, but this
lacks confirmation.
Nearly all the miners have returned
home. The troops are at Wardner
and will probably come to WAL
lace during the night The scabs
from the Frisco and Gem mines left here
by the lake route on Tuesday morning
with a guard. The boat not arriving,
the guards, at p. m, ordered tho
scabs to walk through Fourth of July
canyon. 1t is stated that the guards fol-
lowed to the mouth of the canyon, when
the scabs refused TO walk any further, and
the guards shot them down. The report,
however, needs verification.
PROCLAMATIOS OF MARTIAL Law.
Adyices Received by Governor WILEY
Which Prompted Him tn This step.
BOISE, Idaho, July 1S.-The excitemcn
over the situation in Cmur d'Alene con-
tinues at high pitch, and the news being
received tends TO increase 1t. The COVER
nor today declared state of martial law
in Shoshone county, acting upon the fol-
lowing dispatch:
WALLACE, July $40 GOvcraor " D. Fi7es
Purtuant 20 section oi tne revised statutes
We urgently make application - yaax exeelen-
ey for tie enforcement OF this provisions OF Sec
ti0ns 100 to 7,8sj OF the revised statutes.
C. ~. OsNEiLL,
District Attorney, Shosnone county.
III. :. GEEEqHY. FrgSasg TtI1ve