The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-12
BUTTE News.
SOVEREIGN DIDN'T FLEE
He Is Going Back to Give Him
self Up.
A WARRANT OUT FOR HIM
He Will Face the Music at Wardner.
Says They Sweated Him Good
and Plenty at the Coro-
ner's Inquest.
A WARRANT OUT FOR HIM

The appearance in Butte a few days
ago of j. r. Sovereign, ex-grand mas
ter workman of the Knights of Labor
gave the impression that he was fleeing
from the scenes of the Wardner trou-
bles, but he has told a Salt Lake Her
aid reporter that such is not the case.
He has learned that there is a warrant
out for his arrest, and he declares that
he is going back to give himself up. L
was ticketed through to Kansas City"
he said, for l was going down to see
my family, who are living on my fruit
farm in Arkansas. But I've got to go
back and face the music at Wardner.
never run away from that sort of
thing
They had me up before the coroner's
jury up there" continued Mr.. Sover-
eign, ito see what 1 knew about the
killing, and they sweated me good and
plenty, too, but they got precious little
out of me, for I didn't know anything
about it except what l saw. l was there
to get the news, not to take part in. II.
They wanted me to identify sJme of the
men who did the shooting, but l didn't
know any of them. Most of them were
masked, and they were all from camps
up Canyon creek and from Mullan-
men / never met.
You see l was at Wallace when the
train came down the canyon going to
Wardner 1t was loaded to the guards
with men, and it looked as though they
meant mischief, for they were all
armed. l went down to Wardner on
the passenger train soon after, ana
when | got to Wardner the explosions
were going on and Winchesters were
popping in the crowd so that you could
hardly hear. l climbed up on the tank
of the engine of the train and watched
the explosions, and when the miners
went back to Wallace l went on the
engine with the engineer, whom l knew
quite well.
80 when the coroner's jury called me
up l hadn't much to tell them, and they
finally had to let me go after While
without getting much out of me.
THE whole trouble is deporable. The
Bunker Hill people are all to blame.
When lead was at $3.50 they started
up under q schedule of $3.50 a day for
all inside men. Then lead went to $3.50,
and they insist on keeping the same
scale Of wages as when lead was way
down. That brought on the strike, for
all the other mines were paying 81. 81
and then the Bunker Hill people got SO
arrogant that trouble came as the nat
ural result. It's too bad it happened and
things up there now are in a terrible
way, but the way matters stood it could
hardly have been avoided"
What is going to be the outcome of
the dificulty?" was asked.
Don't ask me that" Mr., Sovereign
replied, that's something the best of
us can't tell. They've got martial law
in force now, have rounded up 700 or
more miners in the bull-pen down at
Wardner Junction, and they're arrast-
ing by the dozens every day.
why, they've even got warrant
out for me, and I've got to go right back
there a soon a. I can. l was ticketed
through to Kansas City, for ! was go
ing down to see my family, who are
living on my fruit farm in Arkansas.
But I've got to go back and face the
music at Wardner. I never run away
from that sort of thing"
Concerning the reasons why the West
ern Labor union threw Mr.. Sover-
eign and his credentials out, the Herald
says:
There is mystery and silence about
the action. None of the delegates to
the convention nor officials of the Or
ganization will discuss their action.
President Dan Mcdonald of Butte re-
fused last night to say anything about
the matter David C. Coates of Pueblo,
editor of the Courier the official organ
of the Miners federation, would not
discuss it.
II have nothing to say about the
matter said both Mcdonald and
Coates, when they were asked concern
ing the action of the union, nor would
Mr.. Sovereign discuss it.
These are the reasons for the action
of the union:
Last winter, when the Idaho legisla-