The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-07
OFFICERS ARRESTED.
The Sheriff and County Attorney Taken
Into Custody.

Wardner, Idaho, May 6-The first
step toward removing the county Off
Gals who are accused of being in symp-
athy with the rioters was taken to-day
by the state, assisted by United States
troops, when Sheriff James D. Young
and County Commissioner William
Boyle We're arrested by order of State
Auditor Sinclair, who represents Cover
nor Steunenberg in Shoshone county.
Sheriff. Young and Commissioner Boyle
were placed in the stockade with the 800
other prisoners. Proceedings for the
removal of these officials from office
will be commenced on the ground that
they aided and abetted the riot last
Saturday. Coroner France, by statu-
tory regulation, becomes acting sheriff.
The trial of those accused of murder
and riot will, in all probability, be held
at Wallace, the county seat of Sho-
shone county. The United States troops
have taken charge of the office and
safe of the Burke Miners union and
when the safe is opened the federal Of
ticials expect to find eliminating evil
dence against some of the leaders, who
are absent from the state
The business men here are almost
unanimous in favor of the establish
ment of military post in the Coeur
q 'Alenes district as means of protec-
tiCn against the riotous element, but
cials should provide protection for mine
owners General Merriam said there
were grave difficulties in the way of es-
tablishing a permanent military post
here. The constitution of the United
States does not contemplate that the
federal government shall govern state
affairs, until the state has exhausted
every resource of self protection. In
deed, were the post here, the situation
would not be materially changed, for
the soldiers would be poWerless to move
against the rioters until authorized by
the president on request of the COVER
nor. With garrisons at Spokane, Hell
ena, Fort Sherman and, perhaps, Mis-
soula, troops can be crowded in here
almost as rapidly as if they We're ON the
ground, and the time gained by hav-
ing the post here would be slight. When
the request came for troops this time,
the soldiers We're rushed in here at
once. That they were not here in time
to avoid loss of life and property is the
fault of the governor, who failed to call
for troops until the damage had been
done. The same condition would exist
were a permanent post here. Until the
governor called for aid. the soldiers
would be powerleSs. 1T is the fault Of
the state that she was not ready to
give protection TO her citizens against
such outrages as these. She should
nave i1iiptld enough TO cope with SuCh
outbreaks When the national guard
from Idaho went to the war the
militia should have been reorgan-
lied so that it would still be ready
for such trouble. The laxity which has
prevailed in the prosecution of murder
ers who have infested this district
would soon be remedied should the state
pass law for indemnity from the state
funds of $4,000 ito the family of every
man killed in a riot. The law might
also provide that owners of property
destroyed by mobs be reimbursed to the
amount of its full value by the state.
Payment of a few such awards would
soon bring the people to sense of the
crimes being perpetrated here. At the
same time since the trouble largely or
iginated in hostile organizations of men
known as labor unions. he would sug-
gest a. law making the formation of
such unions or kindred societies
crime