Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-07-31
GREAT IL HUMBUG.

IA
from shoshone county were appalling !,
and il seemed that ii they were TO con.
tinue for any very great length OF !,
time there would scarce be left enough !,
OF the living TO bury the dead. Since
the arrival of the military il has been =
Difficult, TO locate any killings at oil.
The fourteen alleged to have persisted
from the shots OF the union miners
at the mouth OF Fourth of July gulci :
have all turned up alive and in excel. !,
lent health. Men killed under the
circumstances represented are gener-
ally regarded as martyrs by their
friends and associates, and their fun-
e.al services are attended with an I'M
usual amount of glamour. The Sho-
shone county papers may be scanned
in vain to find any such accounts.
Every circumstance tends to show that
the narratives of murders were manu-
featured by the mine owners with the
intention OF humbugging the Gov
ernor and inducing him to declare
martial law, q contamination they
have been aiming to accomplish for
the past two months. They have at
last succeeded in placing him in
very humiliating position.
The mine owners having employed
non-uuion men they regarded the
presence OF their old employees as
constant menace. Al their request
Governor Wiley. himself a mine and
mill owner, visited the north part OF
the State and took view OF the stu
alton. He saw nothing to warrant
him in calling out the militia and dc
claring martial law, and upon his re.
turn SO stated, but threatened to do SO
II any disturbance occurred. As IL
determined TO goad the miners to dcs-
peration and induce them to commit
scme overt acts, the mine owners pro-
cured IN organ named "The Barba'
rian," edited by Hon. J $, Langrish
which used the most vilupcrnnve Ian
cuage against the union and It's mem
hers, with the idea no doubt, that III,
Office would he Destroyed. Even in TIM
they were unsuccessful, and not until
an unarmed and deicnseless union
man was fired upon while peaceabi,
passing by the Gem mill on publ,
highway, ON his way to Burke, did tn,
mill owners and their satraPs succeed
in getting up q riot which was fol
lowed up with dispatches the inten
and purpose OF which were to induce
the Governor TO proclaim martial la~
Now that martial law has been dc
clared the mine owners, restaurant am
saloon keepers and gamblers are dc
termined that IL shall continue as lon
as possible. In this they are asslste'
by the military commaudant who pei
mits no dispatch to pass over the wire
until il has passed through his hands
Numerous reporters for the pres
were sent Il the scat Of war, and thos
who have returned TO their homes al
telling that there are bands OF hundred
of men in the hills ready to swoo
down and cut the throats Of the MIN
owners and their supcrintcndents III
moment the military shall have bee
called away--that an armed inVaslo
of Union men from Montana Is e
oected-that the bodies OF the lou
teen mon murdered Mt the mouth
Fourth OF July salch were puncture
with knives and thrown into the flVel
the object being that they would ne
rise 10 the surface, while others assei
that the bodies were burned. Fac
DAY regularly new mass OF inis'
hoods are coined IN which imasInaf
camps Of desperadocs are located, hr'
in one place and then IN anot..es', a
Of whom are represented az oloo'
thirsty villains intent upon taklng III
lives OF all who do not agree Wit
them in thought and action. In ID
meantime one may read between u
lines that ii is all humbug. The irnt
will soon come out entire AZ IT has T
Gently in circumstances, and the Pm
cipal actors will cut most ridieulo'
figure before the public. In the mea
time the people oi the state Will ha'
heavy bills to foot on account OF q
haste and credulty OF the Goyorne
There j. but one way the gentiem'
connected with this affair can "a
their regulations, and that Is to resi-
rect some OF the newly buried in Z
cemeteries Of the State and scati
them in tie timber lands and thick'
of shoahono county. where they M
DO found again TO answer Tor The
that aayo been reported a. Ella
Great ID humbugl
Senator Stewart of Nevada, in
ssnato a short time ago condemned
,,nYnaas,,aa3 terms he anlDl0y meuf