The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-13
THE TROOPS CALLED OUT.
By Order of the President the Army Il
Placed at Gov. Willey's Service.

Placed at Gov. Willey's Service.
BOISE CITY, Idaho, July 12.-Federal troops
are now moving toward the scene OF the trouble
In Northern Idaho. Early this morning Cover
nor Wiley received the following dispatch:
WAsHINGToN CITY, July l.. 1892
To Hon. ~ B. Wiley, Governor Of Idaho: In
respon>e to your call, aud by order OF the presi-
dent, orders have been telegraphed to Fort Sher-
man. Idaho, and Fort Missouia, Mont, to send
troops Immediately 70 the scene ot the disturb
ance ia Northern Idaho to assist the civil au-
thorities in preserving peace ana protecting life
and property. Please communicate direct to
the commanding officers at Fort Saerman and
Fort Missouia all information necessary for
their guidance Also communicate with Briga-
C!er-fieneral Rugcr, of that department. and he
Will give all necessary orders for your support.
j. NJ. SCHoFIELD,
Major General Commanding and Acting Sec
retary OF War. -
Governor Wiley then wired General Ruger,
asking him TO order the troops OF Forts Sherman
and Missoula to move at onca to the scene of
OF the difficulty. The general replied as follows:
" B. Wiley, G0uernOr of Idaho: Your dis
patch Of this date is received. An order had al
ready been sent to tho commanding officer at
Fort Sherman to move at with an avail
able force to the scene OF the disturbance in
Northern Idaho and report to the governor OF
that state to aid the civil authorities in presery-
ing peace and preventing destruction of life and
pgofL oa G3Pg o in has Ssen
the orders before sent by me. have also com
municated with the commanding officer at Fort
Nissoula. THOMAS Il. RCGER,
Brigadier General Commanding the Department
OF the Columbia.
The governor then wired to the commanding
officers OF each post in question marching
orders. Tho Missouia troops were ordered to
proceed at once to Muilan, ard the troops from
Fort Sherman were ordered 10 move at once to
Wardner, where they will be reinforced by the
militia Shortly after sending out these orders
word receiyet from Inspector General
Curtis that the Bunker H.Il & Sullivan Com
panys property al Wardner being attacked
10y 1000 armed men and that a full regiment of
federal troops were needed Immediately. Gov
ernor Wiley then wired to General Schoheld
follows:
BOISE CITY. Idaho. July T. ls92-To GeneralJ
M. Scbofed, Major General Commencing. H'dsh
tRg:0n city: | would suggest tnat The available
troops at Walla Walla, Wash. and Fort Spokane
be ADDED 10 hose already in motion.
In reply to the foregoing the governor this
evening received a message from Schofeld, say
ing General Ruger had full authority to order
all the necessary troops INFO the field The fol-
lowing dispatch, purpoTtng to be from V. NJ.
Clement, manager OF the Bunker Hill Il Sulli-
van mine, the feature OF the day:
WARDNER, Idaho, July l2.-To Goreraor " b.
Hdey: BY all means delay troops of the army
class lGom coming 70 this section .or the next two
days. The union miners have full possession
At present every piece of machinery is TIED down
with powder, ready TO be blown up The union
is now pacitied. rs l have closed the works and
discharged all the men, In two days more the
union will have LETT our works, and then mat
tiers may take their usual course. DO not by any
clauCe iall 10 stop the troops from comm. here
for the next two or three days. Such move
meut would result in n wholesale massacre of
unarmed men who are here prepared to depart.
Nothing is to DC feared and everything To be
gained by delay. Remedy is too late Ior any
active service.
1t is inexplcable to the authorities that
Clements should send such message. The
conclusion was that he must have done it un-
der coercion The following was received at
9p through the leading attorneys oi the
mine-owners. which bears out the assumption:
SPOKANE, July L, 1sqo-GoperR0r H'Iley:
Pretended kilograms from Clements are bogus
HAGAN Il HEYBURN.
Company A, Idaho National Guard, Captain
C. c. Stevenson commanding, left here this
morning for the scene. company from
HALEY on the same train, also company
from Weiser Ii the morning they will be
joined by companies from Moscow, Vollmer
and Weiser. Governor Wiley will place Sho-
shone county under martial Law "a soon as the
legal requirements can BE- completed, the
proper officers having 50 far failed 20 give the
governor notice as required by the constitution.
WASHINGTON CITY, Juy l2-The president
teegraphed from Ssratago Today TO the secretary
OF war 10 send troops to cooperate with the
civil authorities To preserve lIie and property in
Idaho General Schofeld ihereupoa teiegraphed
10 the governor of Idaho that troops would be
sent at once. He also telegraphed General Mer-
ritt, a. st. Paul. to send three companies of in
fantry from MissouIa, and telegraphed General
kuger, at san Francisco, to send all the infantry
that conld he spared from Fort Sherman. In
case other troops are necessary ,hay will be
sent.
4 man who went over - the Gem mine with a
party o. uou-unioa men from this city saws that
one great cause OF the trOubls was that the
surcrlateu9ents and bosses OF the mines though
osteusibly working for the owners, were really
standing in" with the strikers ana stopred the
eC2dIu. in OF men, one gang of twenty I've
men on the way there being sent back This
man was uoIated ont by the conductor OF the
train al Gem as the man VINO had taken in .