The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-12

eanno. be convened promptly The civil author
lily OF the county aud state is wholly inadequate
To maintain peace. The immediate available
military force of the Idaho National Guard num-
bers only log men. which is, in my opinion, far
TOO few to successfully cope with the mob.
though viii order il st once into the field. In
thls emergency deem 1t necessary TO call for
the assistance of federal troops therefore re-
quest thar sufficient force be detailed from
Fort sherman or elsewhere to act in concert
with the state authorities in maintaining public
order n II. WILEY C;overnor
News of the outbreak in the Ceur
q Alene mines created intense excitement
here today. The governor and United
states marshal have been receiving dis
patches all day from the seat of the trou-
bic, and have kept thoroughly posted ON
the situation. Marshal Pinkham stated
that it would be utterly impossible for
MN to raise a posse in North Idaho
to force the decree OF the court, and SO
wired the department of justice. Special
Agent Crossthwait, of that department.,
sent similar report and he expresses the
opinion that the president will be obliged
TO send troops. as he does not see any force
available here equal to the emergency.
The governor this afternoon notified the
militia companies here, at Weiser,
Moscow and HALEY, to hold themselves
ready to march. These companies are
mere Skeletons and cannot muster a suf-
hclent force TO cope with any determined
mob. The governor will start the militia
by special train tomorrow morning, as
soon as the Union Pacific can get cars here
Tor their transportation.
PORTLAND, July I'M. c. Sullivan, local
manager of Thiels detective agency, said:
We have had a few in nearly every mine
In the C0ur d Alene district since the strike
began, but they are there merely rs laborers,
and have no arms. We have been expecting
trouble, but the mine owners thought the union
men were not prepared Tor u long struggle and
would soon return to work. / received a dis
patch from Wallace this afternoon stating that
Henry Bean, OF Boston. one of our men, was
shot and killed
lAli the mine-owners in the Ceur d'Aiene sil-
ver-Iead mining district belong 10 the Nine
Owners' Union. while the worSmen are also or
Canized. Last fall when the price of silver
dropped so low all the mines were shut down.
In the spring the owners announced their in
tention of resuming operation of the mines
paying reduced wages, So per day To unskiled
men. To this reduction tha miners refused to
agree, demanding So 50 per day, and the owners
announced their intention of employing nom
union men. great number OF guards" re-
cruited by the notorious Joe Warren, ex-chief
OF police of Spokane, were employed by the
mine-owners and were sworn in as deputy sher-
Ills. At the same time the federal court issued
an injunction restraining tho miners from
interfering with the operation OF the mines.
The mine-owners brought train loads of nom
union men TO Coeur dAlene, but most of the
men deserted. Others went TO work. Two of
the mines the Tiger and Poorman, employed
union men at the reduced scale, but recognized
the union. In the other mines the non-union
men were gradually increasing. This made the
strikers desperate, and their threats were SO
violent that Governor Wiley, of Idaho, called
on the president for federal troops. President
Harrison conferred with the Idaho delegation
and decided that the state of affairs did not
warrant sending United States soldiers. This
decision of the president, together with the bat
tie at Homestead and the torrents of abuse
heapci on Governor Wiley by politicians, has
emboidened the men, who were still further en-
courage3 by the decision OF the federal court at
Boise saturday, setting aside the injunction
against them.l